Minimalist Music – Angelus Domini

Minimalist Music – Angelus Domini

The Music of Eliane Radigue – Emmanuel Holterbach at Triptych

Emmanuel Holterbach, who is Eliane Radigue’s assistant and archivist, introduces her work at the Cafe Oto during 13 June 2011 as part of Sound and Music’s Triptych festival, a major retrospective of Radigue’s work

Triptych: The Music of Eliane Radigue – Emmanuel Holterbach talk by soundandmusic

Colin Stetson

The unique sound of Colin Stetson on saxophone. He also plays clarinet, cornet, french horn and flute.

Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post-World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with this movement include Donald Judd, John McLaughlin, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella. It is rooted in the reductive aspects of Modernism, and is often interpreted as a reaction against Abstract expressionism and a bridge to Postmodern art practices.

The terms have expanded to encompass a movement in music which features repetition and iteration, as in the compositions of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams.

The term “minimalist” is often applied colloquially to designate anything which is spare or stripped to its essentials. It has also been used to describe the plays and novels of Samuel Beckett, the films of Robert Bresson, the stories of Raymond Carver, and even the automobile designs of Colin Chapman. The word was first used in English in the early twentieth century to describe the Mensheviks.  Brought to you by phoenix jazz groups.