Around the same time, similar experiments in avant-garde music were being performed in lofts in New York City, and a new genre was emerging. By the end of the 1960s, minimalism had not only ...

With the advent of Minimalism in music 50 years ago, young composers cleaned the slate with basic chords, simple melodic formulas, a beat and, most of all, a salute to repetition. All that was off ...

As centenary events celebrate Simeon ten Holt’s work, music historians have questioned his omission from histories of Minimalism, and its focus on American greats. By Hugh Morris Reporting from ...

Nearly a half-century later, he remains the toast of Minimalism—music that has as much to do with marathon riffs and repetitive patterns as it does with long, sustained melodies and slow-moving ...

Writing for The Wire in 2018, in an article entitled 'Black Minimalism,' David Toop points out that the first person to use tape loops was Richard Maxfield, in 1960. A pioneer in electro-acoustic and ...

“Through the Looking Glass”: Midori Takada When the Western concert music canon grew stale for Japanese percussionist Midori Takada, she found inspiration in minimalist composers like Reich ...

Wanna hear a minimalist music joke? Knock knock. Who’s there? Philip Glass. Philip Glass who? Knock knock. Who’s there? Philip Glass. Philip Glass who? For a long time that was the “knock ...

The version of minimalism’s history told in the UK during the late 1980s—when I came of musical age—was pegged around three pivotal figures: Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams, the last of whom ...

Nyman first coined the term “minimal music” Nyman was born in Stratford, East London in 1944. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1961 to 1964, and was a PhD student at King's ...