Here’s your chance to perform Reich’s minimalist work like a pro percussionist – if you’ve got an iPhone and the rhythmic chops … Here’s a brilliant – and infuriatingly addictive – way to lose a few ...

Two iconic musical claps – in one stressful, rhythmic marriage. Steve Reich’s 1972 minimalist piece Clapping Music, is one of the most influential musical works of the 20th century. Skip to just over ...

Last Friday, a fellow music-nut friend of mine sent me a link to an iPhone app based on composer Steve Reich's "Clapping Music." I've become totally obsessed with beating it. Anybody who's played ...

Legendary minimalist composer Steve Reich is likely not the first person you'd think of in the flashy world of mobile gaming, but his 1972 composition Clapping Music has now been adapted as a new ...

Idle hands may be the devil’s workshop, but busy hands can be hell too. “It’s insane,” says Atom Egoyan, on the phone talking about the balls he currently has in the air. “It’s been a crazy, intense ...

Steve Reich’s seminal percussion work ‘Clapping Music’ has a justified reputation as one of the most influential works of the 20th century. But how does it work? Reich’s original objective was to ...

Good news if you can't hold a beat: An app called Steve Reich’s Clapping Music might be able to fix you. Clapping Music, from the British app shop Touchpress, is a gamified lesson in tempo. It plays ...

Fifty years ago the American composer perfected minimalism for the mainstream. By Phil Hebblethwaite In 1972, after a concert in Brussels, the American composer Steve Reich and his ensemble heard a ...

Steve Reich’s compositions dropped on unsuspecting audiences like bomb shells. A Berlin concert prompted an audience member to pound the stage with her umbrella saying, “We surrender.” The Pulitzer ...

Composers and musical styles come in and out of fashion for the oddest of reasons. Now, the great 20th-century avant-gardist Steve Reich is back in the news because – of all things – a computer game.

Fifty years ago the American composer perfected minimalism for the mainstream. By Phil Hebblethwaite In 1972, after a concert in Brussels, the American composer Steve Reich and his ensemble heard a ...