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Hello!
I did a little video tribute to Steve Reich and his phasing... Phase.
It's his classical piece 'Clapping Music' done on a Roland TR-626 and TR-505
Just wanted to share it here.
Is it chip music? I dunno. It has chips and low resolution samples..
And I'm going to circuit bend them after this, so there you go.
Enjoy 
i like it.. mega relaxing for some reason... and faithful to the ori.
I like those machines. I want one.
Do they make any other sounds?
Sick. Loving this recent wave of chip/electronic artists drawing from contemporary classical thinkers
I guess you have to be familiar with the original piece to enjoy this? I don't get it... Is there some kind of technical feat that is being accomplished here that I'm missing? Or is this simply just a clapping sequence mapped to drum machine and nothing more? Am I not supposed to listen with headphones?
I feel like I'd probably enjoy a live "human clapping" version better. I do think it's cool that this is a classical piece, though, and apparently an effort well appreciated, so... good job. It was just too long for me to be able to really get into just the rhythms of a single type of sound. 
Last edited by SketchMan3 (Jul 16, 2013 5:37 pm)
Ah, see now that explains why I couldn't get the proper feel from the drum machine performance. Needs music hall reverb 
. Anyhow, great job. An admirable tribute. I like all that stereoy stuff that's going on.
It's kind of like what happens when I play back my midi transcribed version of a song that has a non-rounded BPM, 
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It is quite a monotone feat indeed, I grant you that.
I really enjoy Reich's phasing pieces. Drumming being one of the best, but hard to do on a drum machine...
So I thought I'd start with an easy one
The piece does sound better with real clapping, the tiny variations in the sound and the hall reverb does add a lot to the sound.
A version like this really shows that music isn't just the sound of the music itself.
It was still fun to do tho
you might play with slaving two midi drum machines to the same clock and then make something in max or pd that can delay the clock sync x milliseconds to play with the phasing in the midi domain. Or use a delay pedal set to 100% wet
If you have 2 machines that sync without a cable, you could start them at the same time, have one running at 1 bpm faster, and at the same speed again when a phase forms for a while.
Two gameboys stay in sync quite well at the same bpm without a cable, but those Roland machines are out of sync in less then 6 bars...
Love the original, love this. Great stuff.
(By coincidence, I was thinking the other day that you could do a mean cover of Reich's drumming where all the drum hits are sliced from classic/iconic/cliched breakbeats such as the amen and programmed in Milkytracker. Happy for someone else to do the hard work though!!)