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18. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (1976)

Music for 18 Musicians features, you guessed it, 18 musicians on pianos, woodwinds, female vocals and various mallet instruments. This 1976 work features a repeated insistent staccato, subtle shifts in the cycles allowing a careful listener to discover new patterns in the matrix of sound. Inspired by the richness of African and Indonesian percussion-based music, and hearing parallels between those cycling forms and his own explorations of repetition through tape music, Reich composed many percussive pieces, most notably 1970's Drumming. 18 Musicians examines some of the same techniques, especially the motif of shifting phase between layers of repeated patterns, but the expanded instrumentation allows this to build to an intoxicating lushness. Similar repeated patterns can be heard in sequencer-based spacemusic, in fact Tangerine Dream's "Love on a Real Train" bears an alarming similarity to this work, although created on very different instruments.


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