馃帶 PHILIP GLASS [Minimalism]
- PHILIP GLASS➤Mad Rush➤Analog➤00:00:25
- PHILIP GLASS➤Candyman Suite: Return To Cabrini➤The Music Of Candyman➤00:16:40
- PHILIP GLASS➤Runaway Horses ('Poetry Written With A Splash Of Blood')➤Mishima➤00:26:27
- JOHN CAGE / BRUCE BRUBAKER➤Dream➤Glass Cage➤00:35:36
- ARVO P脛RT / GIDON KREMER➤Tabula Rasa - I. Ludus - Con Moto➤Silencio➤00:43:25
- KATE SIMKO➤Houston Skyline➤Glass Cuts (Philip Glass: Remixed)➤00:53:58
- PHILIP GLASS / DENIS RUSSELL DAVIES➤The Light➤Symphony No.3➤00:58:54
- THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE➤Music With Changing Parts➤Music With Changing Parts➤01:20:17
✚ The very mention of Philip Glass conjures the hypnotic pulse of an influential composer whose work, often branded as minimalism, has unexpectedly woven itself into the fabric of modern electronic music. Though rooted in classical training and deeply inspired by the additive rhythms he discovered working with Ravi Shankar, Glass's pivotal contribution to the electronic soundscape began with the sheer necessity of performance. Unable to find traditional musicians willing to play his repetitive, lengthy, and unconventionally structured compositions in the late 1960s, he co-founded the Philip Glass Ensemble. This group was not simply a chamber orchestra; it was an electronic entity, employing amplified woodwinds and, crucially, a bank of keyboards. These instruments—initially Farfisa organs and later evolving to include groundbreaking synthesizers like the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Oberheim OBXa, and Yamaha DX7—were essential to achieving the distinct, bright, and relentless timbre of his early works like Music in Twelve Parts and the seminal opera Einstein on the Beach. The synthesizer, in Glass’s hands, became less about avant-garde sound manipulation and more about achieving the sheer endurance and sonic clarity required for his driving, repetitive structures. He used their layered capacity to build vast, shimmering textures of sound, creating a feeling of extended time that felt both ancient and radically futuristic. This approach was a quiet revolution. By integrating electronic instrumentation into a serious compositional context, Glass helped legitimize the use of synthesizers for creating music beyond the popular rock or esoteric experimental scenes. His influence ripples through the ambient works of Brian Eno, who was deeply affected by Glass's early piece Music with Changing Parts, and extends to later electronic artists like Aphex Twin, who found a structural and aesthetic kinship with the composer’s trance-inducing repetitions. Through his iconic, synth-heavy film scores, most notably Koyaanisqatsi, Glass brought his unique blend of sonic rigor and tonal accessibility to a mass audience, proving that the minimalist aesthetic—driven by the sustained drone and arpeggiated pulse of early electronic instruments—was not just high art, but a visceral, all-encompassing experience. His mastery of repetitive structure and his pragmatic embrace of new technology set a profound, often understated, precedent for contemporary electronic production.
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