Reich, Steve

Early in his career Reich became fascinated by the technique of repetition, and by the potential of electronic music . He began to experiment with tape loops, and devised the technique of playing two tape loops at slightly different speeds, which he called “ phase shifting .” His first compositions to use this were It's Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966). Come Out was inspired by an incident during the Harlem riots in 1964, when six boys were arrested...