#minimalistmusic — Public Fediverse posts

"Minimal Velocity"
just turned 3-years-old!
If you haven't heard it, this is a great time to discover minimalist music.
#MinimalistMusic #Minimalism
https://muz4now.com/2023/minimal-velocity-nowplaying/

Today's new episode of The Tonearm Podcast features composer and multi-instrumentalist Erik Hall discussing 'Solo Three,' the concluding chapter of his trilogy of solo reinterpretations of contemporary classical works.

Hall talks about how a chance encounter with Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians in a college library set the course for his entire musical life — and how, decades later, a suggestion from his wife turned that obsession into a recording project that Reich himself called a reinvention of the piece.

Hall also walks us through the making of 'Solo Three,' which brings together works by Glenn Branca, Charlemagne Palestine, Laurie Spiegel, and Reich, and discusses what it means to perform every part live, without loops or sequencers.

Don't miss this fascinating episode of The Tonearm Podcast: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/erik-hall-multitracking-the-minimalist-aesthetic/

#Podcast #Minimalism #MinimalistMusic #SteveReich

Listening to some unique takes on Philip Glass pieces while I work.... Got me itching to get back to playing piano. But with what time??
#piano #philipGlass #classicalMusic #minimalistMusic #contemporary #contemporaryMusic #instumentalMusic #music

@Gaolaitch

Oh, that got me hooked. New to me! I will make sure to reserve time for a proper listening later this week. Thank you for connecting me to this piece and this performance.

#SimeonTenHolt #CantoOstinato #JeroenVanVeen #MinimalistMusic

I am beginning my transition away from #Spotify. I have a playlist there of "tunes to play" where I have previously saved tracks I'd like to be able to play along with on the #fiddle.
I was exploring #Bandcamp this morning, and while searching for #AlyBain (the great #Shetland Fiddler), who features on said playlist, this was the only result... a track entitled "Aly Bain" by a #Japanese trad outfit, #ParallelShells

https://parallelshells.bandcamp.com/album/okumotona-stonepit

#ScottishTrad #violin #flute #MinimalistMusic

#NowPlaying

Eva-Maria Houben, Artur Vidal, Rhodri Davies, Sasha Elina - ‘non pleurer mais rêver 5’ (2025)

A truly spectral and winter-born performance of Eva Maria-Houben’s work ‘non pleurer mais rêver 5’ from an Eternal Series concert, at the Swiss Church, London, 15 November 2025.

Performed by Eva-Maria Houben (organ), Artur Vidal (saxophone), Rhodri Davies (harp), and Sasha Elina (voice).

#MainlySlowOrganMusic #EvaMariaHouben #ArturVidal #RhodriDavies #SashaElina #Minimalism
#MinimalistMusic

https://mainlysloworganmusic.bandcamp.com/album/non-pleurer-mais-re-ver-5

In the mood for super minimalist girl group grooves? The Marine Girls was Tracy Thorn’s first band and she shines on these simple songs. https://youtu.be/3Bgpfcc7Tg8?si=XAONyKBwWNdRXpsH

#MarineGirls #TheMarineGirls #TracyThorn #MinimalistMusic

“When I wrote ‘ #InC,’ I felt it was right,” Riley later said. “It was a statement that was harmonious with my whole being, what I felt #music could be.” #TerryRiley #minimalism #minimalistmusic #MusicSky www.newyorker.com/culture/list...

When the Man Tried to Sell Min...

It is #BandcampFriday and this is yet another starving artist self-promotion. Please, convince me that I should finally make some new material and buy my older stuff!

Uneasy listening quaranteed.

#ExperimentalMusic #DarkAmbient #Soundscapes #MinimalistMusic #Ritualistic #Noise

https://someplaceelse.bandcamp.com/album/id-entities

New #review today: "#PietroZollo is a composer of #AmbientMusic / #ElectronicMusic / #DroneMusic / #MinimalistMusic from Italy with nearly a dozen albums to his credit, though the three under review here represent releases from 2023 to 2025 on the Projekt Archive label." #ExposeOnline #ProjektRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/pietro-zollo-april-fragmented-patterns-and-abstraction-3.html

Rattle - Encircle (2025)

https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/encircle

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mMXFxBS0nWrJQgKsC1OmgShkSWxZjzJ80

#music #rattle #rattleband #alternative #experimental #indie #psych #drumming #minimalistmusic #hypnoticbeats #drumandvocal #upsettherhythm #london

Rattle - Encircle (2025)

https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/encircle

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mMXFxBS0nWrJQgKsC1OmgShkSWxZjzJ80

#music #rattle #rattleband #alternative #experimental #indie #psych #drumming #minimalistmusic #hypnoticbeats #drumandvocal #upsettherhythm #london

Rattle - Encircle (2025)

https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/encircle

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mMXFxBS0nWrJQgKsC1OmgShkSWxZjzJ80

#music #rattle #rattleband #alternative #experimental #indie #psych #drumming #minimalistmusic #hypnoticbeats #drumandvocal #upsettherhythm #london

Rattle - Encircle (2025)

https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/encircle

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mMXFxBS0nWrJQgKsC1OmgShkSWxZjzJ80

#music #rattle #rattleband #alternative #experimental #indie #psych #drumming #minimalistmusic #hypnoticbeats #drumandvocal #upsettherhythm #london

Rattle - Encircle (2025)

https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/encircle

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mMXFxBS0nWrJQgKsC1OmgShkSWxZjzJ80

#music #rattle #rattleband #alternative #experimental #indie #psych #drumming #minimalistmusic #hypnoticbeats #drumandvocal #upsettherhythm #london

Hi there | salut !
A few words to introduce myself | qq mots de #presentation #presentationfr
I'm a french #sound_artist and #sound_poet | #poete et artiste sonore avec #poso_asso
Love to #radio, #writing and composing some #electroacoustic pieces | amour de la radio, écriture et composition de pièces #électroacoustique
Some new projects with acoustic instruments like violon and medieval harp to play #minimalistmusic and extended play technics | qq projets incluant #violon ou #harpe pour explorer la #musiqueminimale ou les techniques étendues de jeu.
I'd like to meet online friends and share some neerdy things | des potes geeks ici ?

I created a #Faircamp site, where I will (for now) put unreleased tracks: https://music.entropic.se/

First track "Midnight" is a hypnotic, minimalist, a bit noisy, piece, meant to represent the catastrophic changes going on around us, while we sit and watch: https://music.entropic.se/midnight/ #MinimalistMusic

More structured releases will still be at Bandcamp: https://desolationpark.bandcamp.com/ where you can buy my album "Music for Mineshafts" #DroneMusic #DarkAmbient

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

#SomeiSatoh (佐藤 聰明, Satō Sōmei), b.1947

Kyokoku (1991)

#KatsunoriKono #Baritone

#TokyoMetropolitanSymphonyOrchestra
#TetsujiHonna.

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Satoh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1hkJj1poxs

[This guest post was written by wbwolf about number 95 on The List; the album was also submitted by wbwolf.]

Minimalism was a movement started in the 1960s, using short, repetitive musical phrases to overlap and building on themselves. It also built on the musique concrete movement of the 1950s, incorporating tape loops and synthesizers into pieces. Both of these would become key to how the synthesizer developed as an instrument and use of sampling in music.

Steve Reich grew up in a divided but musical family, studying classical and romantic music from early age. In this teens, he became interested in Baroque and jazz, and in college, he studied with a number of contemporary composers. In the early 1960s, he joined the San Francisco Tape Music Center, where he collaborated with Terry Riley, whose “In C” is considered one of the first minimalist music pieces.

Live / Electric Music consists of two side-long pieces. Side A is “Violin Phase”, composed in 1967. As described on the jacket, the piece as two phases. First, the violinist Paul Zukolsky recorded three sets of ten note, twelve beat phases. Then for the second phase, Zukolsky plays a long as the loops play on three different channels, gradually slowing and speeding up to be in and out of phase. The result is, while the melody is simple, it becomes hypnotic as it’s hard to tell where one begins and another ends.

Side B is the first important Reich piece composed at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, “It’s Gonna Rain”. The basis is a recording of a Black Pentecostal street preacher, Brother Walter. The piece is divided into two parts, each using a different technique. The first part is built on a story of Noah, focusing on the phrase “It’s Gonna Rain”. The tape loops in this section break down words, phrases and sounds to form to a beat that to the contemporary ears sounds very much like the way a DJ will break down a sample while scratching. The second part is further along the Noah story, but here the phrase is cutup, looped, and then layered. Eventually, as more and more layers are added, as the loops move in and out of phase, until it becomes just a smear of sound.

Fascinating listening to see how short phrases can become complex with layering and juxtaposition.

• YouTube: Steve Reich – Live / Electric Music
• Discogs: Steve Reich – Live / Electric Music
• Website: Steve Reich

[Alt text for accompanying image: The album artwork is a watercolour and ink drawing of a white and black shoe merged with a violin. The shoe/violin is standing on its toe in green grass, with a blue sky in the background and abstract rain falling. There is a white border around the drawing, with the song titles in small black font along the top, then the artist and album name in larger font directly underneath, above the drawing.]

https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/03/22/steve-reich-live-electric-music-1968-us/

#1001OtherAlbums #1960s #experimental #minimalism #minimalist #MinimalistMusic #PaulZukolsky #SteveReich #tapeLoops #violin

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

#ArvoPärt b. 1935

'Littlemore Tractus'

#EstonianPhilharmonicChamberChoir
#TallinnChamberOrchestra
#TõnuKaljuste

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Pärt #Part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xWVCSRtoM4

Simeon ten Holt: Complete Piano Works played by Jeroen van Veen
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZbhuNmx82Bo&si=gmeJD2_hqfTzWKU0
#ClassicalMusic
#MinimalistMusic
#PianoSolo
#JeroenVanVeen
#SimeonTenHolt

Finding Bliss - contemplative music video - #musicvideo #meditationmusic

This (plus 2 other new tracks) were inspired by a few fans who have been asking me for longer pieces of minimalist music. Thanks for the inspiration, folks!

#inspiration #TaughannockFalls #meditation #minimalism #NewMusic #OriginalMusic #MinimalistMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRc3O7LabRo

@classicalmusic
@contemporarymusic

#ToshiIchiyanagi (柳 慧, #IchiyanagiToshi) 1933 – 2022

'Galaxy'

#NaomiSato - #Shō

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Ichiyanagi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euHhTE0OS18

@classicalpiano
@contemporarymusic

#ArvoPärt b. 1935

Fratres

#hrSinfonieorchester
#StanislavKochanovsky

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Pärt #Part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzqisNnFwMQ

@classicalmusic

#GiacintoScelsi 1905 –1988

Quattro Pezzi (1959)

#ViennaRadioSymphonyOrchestra
#PeterRundel

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#musik #music #musique #musica #Scelsi #modernistmusic #minimalistmusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfTjz6emd7c

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

#ArvoPärt b. 1935

'"My Heart's in the Highlands", 2000 (Text by #RobertBurns (1759-1796))

#DavidJames #Countertenor

#ChristopherBowersBroadbent #Organ

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Pärt #Part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UadEvSJMrQ

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

#ArvoPärt b. 1935

'"My Heart's in the Highlands", 2000 (Text by #RobertBurns (1759-1796))

#DavidJames #Countertenor

#ChristopherBowersBroadbent #Organ

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Pärt #Part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UadEvSJMrQ

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

#ArvoPärt b. 1935

'"My Heart's in the Highlands", 2000 (Text by #RobertBurns (1759-1796))

#DavidJames #Countertenor

#ChristopherBowersBroadbent #Organ

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Pärt #Part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UadEvSJMrQ

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

#ArvoPärt b. 1935

'"My Heart's in the Highlands", 2000 (Text by #RobertBurns (1759-1796))

#DavidJames #Countertenor

#ChristopherBowersBroadbent #Organ

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Pärt #Part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UadEvSJMrQ

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

#ArvoPärt b. 1935

'"My Heart's in the Highlands", 2000 (Text by #RobertBurns (1759-1796))

#DavidJames #Countertenor

#ChristopherBowersBroadbent #Organ

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Pärt #Part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UadEvSJMrQ

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

#SomeiSatoh (佐藤 聰明, Satō Sōmei), b.1947

' The Heavenly Spheres are Illuminated by Lights'

#LiseMessier #Soprano:
#MichaelPugliese #Percussion
#MargaretLengTan #Piano

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Satoh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9pQalDeBqQ

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

#SomeiSatoh (佐藤 聰明, Satō Sōmei), b.1947

Violin Concerto (2002)

#AnneAkikoMeyers #Violin

#TokyoMetropolitanSymphonyOrchestra
#TetsujiHonna.

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Satoh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOecmVS8Bg0

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

#SomeiSatoh (佐藤 聰明, #SatōSōmei), b.1947

Kyokoku, for baritone and orchestra (1991

#KatsunoriKono #Baritone

#TokyoMetropolitanSymphonyOrchestra
#TetsujiHonna.

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Satoh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1hkJj1poxs

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

#SomeiSatoh (佐藤 聰明, Satō Sōmei), b.1947

Kisetsu (1999)

#TokyoMetropolitanSymphonyOrchestra
#TetsujiHonna.

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Satoh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHDs0tjrVRI

The musical legacy of Moondog.

#Moondog #Minimalism #MinimalistMusic #TributeAlbums

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/26/moondog-eccentric-musician-songs-and-symphoniques

This new piece is a little... special, to me. When the idea came to me, I said to myself "Uhm, this is too simple." But there's actually nothing bad in something simple; what really matters is that that something be true. And this one is very much so.
I hope you'll like this "little heart" of mine -- questo mio piccolo cuore.

https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/piccolo-cuore

#neoclassical #MinimalistMusic

@classicalmusic
@contemporarymusic

#ToshiIchiyanagi (柳 慧, #IchiyanagiToshi) 1933 – 2022

Symphony for Chamber Orchestra No. 2, “Undercurrent” (1993)

#OrchestraEnsembleKanazawa
#HiroyukiIwaki

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Ichiyanagi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYmTyr3jC2E

@classicalmusic

#JohnCage 1912 – 1992

Sonata 5 for prepared piano

#BorisBerman #Piano

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#musik #music #musique #musica #Cage #modernistmusic #minimalistmusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmXp5A3f_SE

Starting into this BBC documentary Tones Drones and Arpeggios: The Magic Of Mnmlsm

Part 1 is about LA and so far it's actually engaging with musical ideas. 👍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJlGjSQvvGs

The intro suggests part 2 will be about NYC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0xs9UBpIw

#Minimalism #ExperimentalMusic #MinimalistMusic

...Niihama-shi... When I listen to it, it makes me think of a soundtrack for an old-timey screenplay, you know, like Inspector Maigret; but set in these days, nay, these nights. Yes, in a seaside resort, in Belgium.
There, a 'noir' with a title like 'Maigret at the Nieuwpoort baths'. Sounds good to me.

Even the title does XD 😉

https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/niihama-shi

#MinimalistMusic #Minimalism #Ambient
#GhostInTheShell #NieuwpoortBad

@classicalmusic
@contemporarymusic

#TakashiYoshimatsu b. 1953
(吉松 隆 #YoshimatsuTakashi)

#Symphony No. 3 Op.75 (1997-98)

#BBCPhilharmonicOrchestra #SachioFujioka

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Yoshimatsu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wekB1fyR8p4

@classicalmusic
@contemporarymusic

#TakashiYoshimatsu b. 1953
(吉松 隆 #YoshimatsuTakashi)

#Symphony No. 1, Op. 40
The Kamui-Chikap Symphony

#BBCPhilharmonicOrchestra #SachioFujioka

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Yoshimatsu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq-eZhdtdLE

@classicalmusic
@contemporarymusic

#TakashiYoshimatsu b. 1953
(吉松 隆 #YoshimatsuTakashi)

#Symphony No. 4, Op. 82

#BBCPhilharmonicOrchestra #SachioFujioka

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Yoshimatsu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zrJFQJhYx4

@classicalmusic
@contemporarymusic

#TakashiYoshimatsu b. 1953
(吉松 隆 #YoshimatsuTakashi)

The Age of Birds, Op. 25

#BBCPhilharmonic
#SachioFujioka

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Yoshimatsu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDSjfrqGwrY

@classicalmusic
@contemporarymusic

#TakashiYoshimatsu b. 1953
(吉松 隆 #YoshimatsuTakashi)

Cyberbird Concerto op.59

I. Bird in Colors: Allegro
II. Bird in Grief: Andante
III. Bird in the Wind: Presto

#VitalyVatulya #Saxophone
#MariaNemtsova #Piano
#AlbertoRodriguez #Percussions

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Yoshimatsu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AroHePWUPhs

@classicalmusic
@contemporarymusic

#TakashiYoshimatsu b. 1953
(吉松 隆 #YoshimatsuTakashi)

#PianoConcerto 'Memo Flora' Op.67

Movements
1. Flower
2. Petals
3. Bloom

#JapanPhilharmonicOrchestra #SachioFujioka

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Yoshimatsu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvaTn2K

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic
#ArvoPärt b. 1935

'Tabula Rasa'

#GothenburgSymphonyOrchestra
#NeemeJarvi

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Pärt #Part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcinEEnul6M

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic

#ArvoPärt b. 1935

Symphony No. 4 'Los Angeles'

#NFMWrocławPhilharmonic, #TõnuKaljuste

#classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic #minimalistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Pärt #Part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DJUN2M3D-E

@classicalmusic

#GiacintoScelsi 1905 –1988

Quattro Pezzi (1959)

#ViennaRadioSymphonyOrchestra
#PeterRundel

.
#musik #music #musique #musica #Scelsi #modernistmusic #minimalistmusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfTjz6emd7c

@classicalmusic

#GiacintoScelsi 1905 –1988

Quattro Pezzi (1959)

#ViennaRadioSymphonyOrchestra
#PeterRundel

.
#musik #music #musique #musica #Scelsi #modernistmusic #minimalistmusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfTjz6emd7c