New Sounds San Jose:
The Fourth Annual Festival: Concert Three

Recorded on May 8, 1982, the third concert of the 4th annual New Sounds San Jose Festival featured works by famed minimalist composer Steve Reich, performed by the composer and an ensemble of San Jose State University students and faculty. The concert commenced with “Clapping Music” in which two performers produce a pattern of hand claps that is reminiscent of Reich’s works for organ and percussion in which various rhythmic patterns go in and out of phase with each other. This is followed by one of Reich’s early experimentations with tape music, “Come Out,” in which two tape loops of words are played first in unison, but then slowly allowed to go out of phase and become increasingly electronically processed, until the words them selves become unintelligible. The program then concludes with “Drumming: Part I” for percussion ensemble.