Phases

Following in the footsteps of La Monte Young and Terry Riley, composer Steve Reich is widely considered the third major pioneer of minimalism; credited as the innovator behind phasing — a process whereby two tape loops lined up in unison gradually move out of phase with each other, ultimately coming back into sync — his early experiments in tape manipulation also anticipated the emergence of hip-hop sampling by well over a decade. Reich was born October 3, 1936, in New York City, and...