Unsourced

• What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City.

• I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other...

• ...in serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

Criticism

• The truth, however, is that a composer need not work in isolation; there is no reason for us to suppose that Reich's popularity and commercial success brands him as a cult figure unworthy of our attention.
  • Robert Schwarz