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Steve Reich: Electronic meditations

Mike Barnes, The Wire, November 1996

In his sixtieth year, composer Steve Reich is still looking to the future, incorporating sampling, environmental sound and video art into the fabric of recent works such as The Cave and City Life. Just don't call him a Minimalist.

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