Today in class we listened to Come Out by Steve Reich. It was composed using an audio recording of an interview with one of the youths involved in the Harlem riot of 1964. It is heavily glitch based, with the words 'come out to show them' repeated over and over, eventually overlapping with the other playbacks of it, leading to various layers of a single voice. It, like most things we hear in this class, was 'interesting'.
The song is just composed of the same line 'Come out to show them' looped over and over again, but every time it's repeated, another repeat is added a little bit later, until it all completely overlaps, to the point where it just sounds like noise at the end. This is a prime example of process music.
We have been asked to start thinking about what we want to do for our final project, but still have no idea what to do.
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