From my brief foray into Reichian minimalism…
Here are two unreleased mixes from a 2001 compositional project I call Music on Gearwheels. The concept was to create loops of slightly different beat lengths. The opening loops are synthesized harps running respectively at sixteen and seventeen beats. Naturally they immediately go out of sync and henceforth self-create a shifting musical texture. I made sure each loop was modally compatible. I lined up a dozen or so loops, including percussion and orchestral samples, and started them off. The composition was in the live mix, experimenting with juxtaposing different loops. Every mix had the potential to be a very different composition.
This is not my normal compositional technique, but merely an experiment in polyrhythm.
The master mix (#1.0):
Download the MP3 (192kbps, 5.9mb)
For purely illustrative purposes, here is another mix (#1.6) focusing exclusively on the harp loops:
Download the MP3 (192kbps, 5.9mb)
