Sur pitchfork, une excellente interview de Steve Reich:
"In the pop world, instead of saying I want to get an album by such and such a group, it's I like this particular tune and that one I like less.(...)In my field, the idea that people are going to get chopped up into little movements is discouraging. On the other hand, Chuck Berry did have it right. "Any ol' way you use it." There is some truth to that. You can go into a coffee shop in Chicago, or New York, or Europe, and hear the Brandenburg Concerto tinkling away in the background, and it works just fine while you have your espresso or latte. That's not to say, hey, Bach just sold out, man. It's a tribute to music, probably the greatest music that was ever written, that it could be used at the deepest level of concentration and musical analysis and also sitting in the background in a café. I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in."
Et pour les anciens étudiants de Berkeley une version de Four Organs en 1970.
