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  • Minimalist music
     OP - September 25, 2011, 12:31 AM
    I'm looking to expand my minimalist music collection. Does anyone have any suggestions?

    Thanks in advance. Smiley

    Looking for stuff along those lines:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imbwn6iVryQ

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dPS-EHl-FE

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTkzyyv0DuA
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #1 - September 25, 2011, 02:00 AM
    Those are all very lovely… but sound like Contemporary Classical. As opposed to Minimalist, which I would peg as something like this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko1bzpWy20Y&hd=1
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #2 - September 25, 2011, 05:34 AM
    That's more avant-garde. Contemporary classical and minimalist music are intertwined. You could say the latter is a subsect of the former. Philip Glass is one of the pioneers of minimalist music. Michael Nyman is also one of the head figures in minimalist music of Europe.

    Either way, I provided examples to make sure people know what I'm looking for. Smiley
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #3 - September 25, 2011, 05:40 AM
    Nyman -  Afro

    Love it.

    Love also philip glass - metamorphosis
    Little Fly, Thy summer's play
    My thoughtless hand has brushed away.

    I too dance and drink, and sing,
    Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

    Therefore I am a happy fly,
    If I live or if I die.
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #4 - September 25, 2011, 05:46 AM
    Schuberts impromtos
    Little Fly, Thy summer's play
    My thoughtless hand has brushed away.

    I too dance and drink, and sing,
    Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

    Therefore I am a happy fly,
    If I live or if I die.
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #5 - September 25, 2011, 08:35 AM
    Not sure how modern classical/minimalistic this is, but it's awesome anyway:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5qeuVOIbHk

    Oh, I should say it's Chopin's nocturne in C sharp minor.
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #6 - September 25, 2011, 09:14 AM
    Probably not what you're after...

    Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exvmLfH6wRA


    Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQe9eK_4U0U


    And another vote for Chopin's Nocturne's.
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #7 - September 25, 2011, 09:16 AM
    How did you even think to post Kraftwerk?

     Huh?
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #8 - September 25, 2011, 09:17 AM
    Quote from: Zebedee on September 25, 2011, 08:35 AM
    Not sure how modern classical/minimalistic this is, but it's awesome anyway:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5qeuVOIbHk

    Oh, I should say it's Chopin's nocturne in C sharp minor.

    You can never go wrong with Chopin. One of the best piano composers. Afro
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #9 - September 25, 2011, 09:37 AM
    Quote from: Abood on September 25, 2011, 09:16 AM
    How did you even think to post Kraftwerk?

     Huh?

    They're not minimalist in the reductive, nothing-much-there sense, but their music is so stripped down there's not a superfluous note.
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #10 - September 25, 2011, 10:52 AM
    Minimalist music is a specific style of classical music, not just "reductive, nothing-much-there" music. That's why I posted the songs: there's a lot in common between them. Kraftwerk obviously has nothing to do with minimal music.
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #11 - September 25, 2011, 10:59 AM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEiuEvTH_z4

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmy_uLHyl6I
    fuck you
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #12 - September 25, 2011, 11:00 AM
    Perfect, thank you.
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #13 - September 25, 2011, 11:01 AM
     grin12
    fuck you
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #14 - September 27, 2011, 07:01 AM
    Quote from: Abood on September 25, 2011, 12:31 AM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTkzyyv0DuA


    Loved this one, Abood.  Afro

    But I don't know of any suggestions.. sorry.
    Rather be forgotten than remembered for giving in.
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #15 - September 27, 2011, 08:11 AM
    Quote from: Abood on September 25, 2011, 10:52 AM
    Minimalist music is a specific style of classical music

    For life must always be codified.
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #16 - September 27, 2011, 08:46 AM
    (But it's your thread, and I'm sorry if I trespassed on it.)
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #17 - September 27, 2011, 01:39 PM
    As an anarchist, I don't believe in private property. Tongue
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #18 - September 30, 2011, 12:50 AM
    Roberto Cacciapaglia today. His stuff is quite interesting.  It can get very epic. I love the build ups. It's really nice to listen to. MORE TO COME.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf1ONrOyees

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP4uRXP-vNY&feature=related
    "If intelligence is feminine... I would want that mine would, in a resolute movement, come to resemble an impious woman."
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #19 - September 30, 2011, 01:18 AM
    Whitetree is really interesting. I see you like Einaudi--this is a collaboration between Ludovico Einaudi, Robert and Ronald Lippok.

    Whitetree--Koepenik. I don't really need to describe why this one is amazing.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_zcJeDF2CI

    Whitetree--Other nature. This one transforms in the most intriguing way.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcogmu__-Io

    Whitetree---Mercury Sands. This is just unreal. There is this undescribable essence captured here, this essence, as though waiting for something. That's what i love about a lot of contemporary classical music and minimalist music. At times they capture a mood, a feeling, and let you feel it, while letting that feeling grow and transform.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRMkMzQiTVA&feature=related
    "If intelligence is feminine... I would want that mine would, in a resolute movement, come to resemble an impious woman."
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #20 - September 30, 2011, 03:18 AM
    Quote from: Abood on September 25, 2011, 10:52 AM
    Minimalist music is a specific style of classical music, not just "reductive, nothing-much-there" music.


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  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #21 - September 30, 2011, 03:26 AM
    Ephy: <3
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #22 - September 30, 2011, 10:34 AM
    aboodle<3
    "If intelligence is feminine... I would want that mine would, in a resolute movement, come to resemble an impious woman."
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #23 - October 02, 2011, 11:34 AM
    I've always thought James Blake to be quite minimalist:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOT2-OTebx0&feature=relmfu
    "The words that oscillate between nonsense and supreme meaning are the oldest and truest." - C.G. Jung
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #24 - October 02, 2011, 12:13 PM
    This piece is full of entirely too much emotion. It's almost too good.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAptPzOLt5I&feature=related
    "If intelligence is feminine... I would want that mine would, in a resolute movement, come to resemble an impious woman."
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #25 - October 03, 2011, 09:52 AM
    I was wondering why it sounds familiar, then I realized that I have it. Beautiful nonetheless.
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #26 - October 03, 2011, 10:02 AM
    I can feel this piece pounding in my heart. Very deep. I love the melodic and droning sounds contrasting with each other.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0mfTrNwGEE
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #27 - October 03, 2011, 10:03 AM
    Quote from: Abood on October 03, 2011, 10:02 AM
    I can feel this piece pounding in my heart. Very deep.


    I feel the same way about this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwZSbj_kvIY
    fuck you
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #28 - October 03, 2011, 10:15 AM
    This piece is very simple and minimal, but still there's so much in it, a lingering feeling.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFPdBUl7XQ
  • Re: Minimalist music
     Reply #29 - October 03, 2011, 06:46 PM
    I FUCKING LOVE Arvo Part!
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