Steve Reich
Transcending minimalism: the importance of being earnest with the "greatest living composer”
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I didn’t want to be the little old tape-maker. No casting aspersions. But me, at that time, that’s how I felt.
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If someone gave me a gamel, I’d feel burdened by it, it’s the weight of a culture that’s not mine. I want to go to 48th St and Manhattan. Anything in that store, that’s mine.
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When I write music I’m alone in the room. My criteria is this: if I like it, I hope you will too.
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Interviewer
Emma Warren
Inspired by her early days as a rave connoisseur, Emma Warren went on to become a founding writer for Jockey Slut and spent four years at The Face; she currently writes for the Observer Music Magazine, Time Out and boutique magazines like Marmalade and Dummy. In addition, Emma has passed a judicial eye over the Mercury Music Prize nominations and created bespoke productions for Channel 4 and 20th Century Fox, among others. She’s also been behind numerous compilations on the London’s seminal Soul Jazz label, but we’re not naming names.
