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Stephen Michael Reich (/ˈraɪʃ/; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
Reich's style of composition influenced many composers and groups. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (for example, his early compositions It's Gonna Rain and Come Out), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, Pendulum Music and Four Organs). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably the Grammy Award-winning Different Trains.
Writing in The Guardian, music critic Andrew Clements suggested that Reich is one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history". The American composer and critic Kyle Gann has claimed that Reich "may...be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer".
Three Tales is the title of multiple works:
Beryl Korot (born September 17, 1945) is an American video artist.
Beryl Korot has pioneered the field of video art since the early 1970s. She was co-editor of Radical Software (1970), the first publication to discuss the possibilities of the new video medium, and Video Art (1976) with Ira Schneider. Her first multiple channel works (Dachau 1974 and Text and Commentary) were seen at such diverse venues as The Kitchen (1975), Leo Castelli Gallery (1977),Dokumenta 6 (1977), and the Whitney Museum (1980 and 2002), Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2010) among others and explored the structural relationship between programming on the ancient technology of the loom and computer programming. Text and Commentary was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.
Dachau 1974 is in the Kramlich Collection. Her painted text-based handwoven canvases in an original language were exhibited in 1986 at the John Weber Gallery and in 1990 at the Carnegie Museum (Points of Departure). Two video/music collaborations with Steve Reich (The Cave, 1993, and Three Tales, 2002) brought video installation art into a theatrical context. Both works continue to be performed and have been installed, apart from live performances, at such venues as the Whitney Museum, the Carnegie Museum, the Reina Sofia, the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, and ZKM. Since 2003 she has been creating a new body of video and print work which was seen at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum for the first time, in Beryl Korot: Text/Weave/Line, Video 1977-2010, and subsequently at Dartmouth College Fall 2011 and bitforms gallery, Spring 2012, among others. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and has received numerous grants for her work from the NEA, NYSCA, and most recently from Anonymous Was a Woman (2008).
Bikini Atoll (pronounced /ˈbɪkᵻˌniː/ or /bᵻˈkiːni/; Marshallese: Pikinni, [pʲi͡ɯɡɯ͡inʲːii̯], meaning coconut place) is an atoll in the Marshall Islands. The atoll consists of 23 islands totaling 3.4 square miles (8.8 km2) surrounding a deep 229.4-square-mile (594.1 km2) central lagoon at the northern end of the Ralik Chain (approximately 87 kilometres (54 mi) northwest of Ailinginae Atoll and 850 kilometres (530 mi) northwest of Majuro). Within Bikini Atoll, Bikini, Eneu, Nam and Enidrik islands comprise just over 70% of the land area. Bikini and Eneu are the only islands of the atoll that hosted a permanent population. Bikini Island is the northeastern most and largest islet. Before World War II, the atoll was known by its Baltic German name as Escholtz Atoll.
Between 1946 and 1958, 23 nuclear devices were detonated by the United States at seven test sites located on the reef, inside the atoll, in the air, or underwater. They had a combined fission yield of 42.2 Mt. The testing began with the Operation Crossroads series in July 1946. Prior to nuclear testing, the residents initially accepted resettlement voluntarily to Rongerik Atoll, believing they would be able to return home within a short time. Rongerik Atoll could not produce enough food and the islanders starved for lack of food. When they could not return home, they were relocated to Kwajalein Atoll for six months before choosing to live on Kili Island, a small island one-sixth the size of their home island. Some were able to return to the Bikini Island in 1970 until further testing revealed dangerous levels of strontium-90. The islanders have been the beneficiary of several trust funds created by the United States government which as of 2013 covered medical treatment and other costs and paid about $550 annually to each individual.
Steve Reich: Bikini, In the air 2 (da "Three Tales", 2003)
Bikini Atoll Diving - 2003 (part3)
Steve Reich & Beryl Korot - Three Tales. "Hindenburg", "Dolly", "Bikini".(continue)
Steve Reich in Conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi
Wuppertaler Bühnen: Three Tales - Trailer Spielzeit 2016/17
Three Tales-Bikini: In the Air 1 and 2
Sextet, by Steve Reich
Die Südsee 3D - Bikini Atoll und Marshallinseln (Blu-ray)
Experiment With Death: Bikini (1946)
Fairmont - Last Words
Novosibirsk State Concert Hall by A.Katz , Siberian Seasons Festival - 2015 New Music Lab Orchestra In 2002, Reich and Beryl Korot finalized a new partnership, which had begun in 1997, the work Three Tales (Three Tales), a new kind of musical theater or opera that includes film, video interviews, photographs and text, mounted with computer and projected on a large screen of about 9 meters, under which the singers and 16 instrumentalists playing. The performance lasts just over an hour and is a profound reflection on scientific advancement and use of technology. The opera had a full excelennte welcome and premiered at the Vienna Festival 2002 ("Hindenburg", the first act, was released first Spoleto Festival in May 1998). The tour continued with premieres that year throughout Europe -Holl...
Mr. Reich will speak about his work and play sample recordings from his oeuvre, especially WTC 9/11 (2009), and he and Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, will have a public conversation. From his early compositions in taped speech It’s Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) to his digital video opera Three Tales (2002, with video artist Beryl Korot), Steve Reich has evolved a distinctive style marked by simple melodies and pronounced rhythm, repetition, and variation. His music has sources in the Western Classical tradition but also in non-Western and vernacular structures, harmonies, and rhythms. His work has been performed widely and he has received numerous commissions from prestigious institutions. Among other distinctions, he is a member of th...
℗ Filmproduktion Siegersbusch, Wuppertal, 2016 Video-Oper von Beryl Korot und Steve Reic Three Tales – drei Geschichten: 1. Ein gigantischer Zeppelin wird den Atlantik überqueren. Während der Landung bei New York geht er in Flammen auf – der brennende Zeppelin wird zu einem Symbol für die technische Hybris des 20. Jahrhunderts. 2. Auf dem Bikin-Atoll werden die amerikanischen Streitkrafte Atomtests durchführen, die die Inseln dauerhaft unbewohnbar machen. 3. Das Schaf Dolly wird das erste geklonte Säugetier werden. Als Dolly im Alter von nur 6 Jahren stirbt, weist das Schaf Alterserscheinungen auf, die Wissenschaftler darauf zurück führen, dass es aus der Zelle eines erwachsenen Tieres stammt. Die Oper ›Three Tales‹ von Steve Reich ist ein bahnbrechendes Werk des ausgehenden 20. Jahr...
Auf Blu-ray 3D von NewKSM Für viele Menschen ist die Südsee ein Inbegriff des Paradieses aus Sonne, Strand und natürlich dem Bikini. Bikini steht aber auch für eine verheerende Serie von Nukleartests der USA unmittelbar nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg. Die Testobjekte waren Kriegsschiffe unterschiedlicher Größe, welche nun ein nasses Grab auf dem Grund der Lagune des Atolls gefunden haben. In bis zu 60 Metern Tiefe fern ab von dem was der normale Taucher erreichen kann. Der Mount Everest jedes Wracktauchers. Begleiten Sie uns zu einem Schiffsfriedhof der besonderen Art. Hat sich die Natur ihren Lebensraum trotz der Atomtests zurückerobert? Erkunden Sie eine Region, die mehr als 60 Jahre von Menschen nahezu unberührt geblieben ist und erleben sie die Faszination der Südsee -- natürlich in beste...
Thought to be Selected Originals from late 1940s material. 18/07/1946? Title reads: "Experiment With Death". American voiceovered newsreel material. Bikini, Marshall Islands. C/U as a metronome ticks away the last few seconds on board the battleship "Pennsylvania", before the exploding of the atom bomb (number 4). A map shows the Bikini Atoll where the experiment is taking place. The aeroplane "Dave's Dream" starts up and takes off. M.P. Raymond Blackburn narrates the events as we see C/U's of the crew looking tense. M/S elevated shot of U.S. sailors on board a ship, sitting on deck, shielding their eyes against the rays of the atom. C/U sailors adjust antiglare glasses over their eyes. VS onboard plane. A map shows an animation of the explosion. M/S of sailors onboard ship,...
Novosibirsk State Concert Hall by A.Katz , Siberian Seasons Festival - 2015 New Music Lab Orchestra In 2002, Reich and Beryl Korot finalized a new partnership, which had begun in 1997, the work Three Tales (Three Tales), a new kind of musical theater or opera that includes film, video interviews, photographs and text, mounted with computer and projected on a large screen of about 9 meters, under which the singers and 16 instrumentalists playing. The performance lasts just over an hour and is a profound reflection on scientific advancement and use of technology. The opera had a full excelennte welcome and premiered at the Vienna Festival 2002 ("Hindenburg", the first act, was released first Spoleto Festival in May 1998). The tour continued with premieres that year throughout Europe -Holl...
Mr. Reich will speak about his work and play sample recordings from his oeuvre, especially WTC 9/11 (2009), and he and Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, will have a public conversation. From his early compositions in taped speech It’s Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) to his digital video opera Three Tales (2002, with video artist Beryl Korot), Steve Reich has evolved a distinctive style marked by simple melodies and pronounced rhythm, repetition, and variation. His music has sources in the Western Classical tradition but also in non-Western and vernacular structures, harmonies, and rhythms. His work has been performed widely and he has received numerous commissions from prestigious institutions. Among other distinctions, he is a member of th...
℗ Filmproduktion Siegersbusch, Wuppertal, 2016 Video-Oper von Beryl Korot und Steve Reic Three Tales – drei Geschichten: 1. Ein gigantischer Zeppelin wird den Atlantik überqueren. Während der Landung bei New York geht er in Flammen auf – der brennende Zeppelin wird zu einem Symbol für die technische Hybris des 20. Jahrhunderts. 2. Auf dem Bikin-Atoll werden die amerikanischen Streitkrafte Atomtests durchführen, die die Inseln dauerhaft unbewohnbar machen. 3. Das Schaf Dolly wird das erste geklonte Säugetier werden. Als Dolly im Alter von nur 6 Jahren stirbt, weist das Schaf Alterserscheinungen auf, die Wissenschaftler darauf zurück führen, dass es aus der Zelle eines erwachsenen Tieres stammt. Die Oper ›Three Tales‹ von Steve Reich ist ein bahnbrechendes Werk des ausgehenden 20. Jahr...
Auf Blu-ray 3D von NewKSM Für viele Menschen ist die Südsee ein Inbegriff des Paradieses aus Sonne, Strand und natürlich dem Bikini. Bikini steht aber auch für eine verheerende Serie von Nukleartests der USA unmittelbar nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg. Die Testobjekte waren Kriegsschiffe unterschiedlicher Größe, welche nun ein nasses Grab auf dem Grund der Lagune des Atolls gefunden haben. In bis zu 60 Metern Tiefe fern ab von dem was der normale Taucher erreichen kann. Der Mount Everest jedes Wracktauchers. Begleiten Sie uns zu einem Schiffsfriedhof der besonderen Art. Hat sich die Natur ihren Lebensraum trotz der Atomtests zurückerobert? Erkunden Sie eine Region, die mehr als 60 Jahre von Menschen nahezu unberührt geblieben ist und erleben sie die Faszination der Südsee -- natürlich in beste...
Thought to be Selected Originals from late 1940s material. 18/07/1946? Title reads: "Experiment With Death". American voiceovered newsreel material. Bikini, Marshall Islands. C/U as a metronome ticks away the last few seconds on board the battleship "Pennsylvania", before the exploding of the atom bomb (number 4). A map shows the Bikini Atoll where the experiment is taking place. The aeroplane "Dave's Dream" starts up and takes off. M.P. Raymond Blackburn narrates the events as we see C/U's of the crew looking tense. M/S elevated shot of U.S. sailors on board a ship, sitting on deck, shielding their eyes against the rays of the atom. C/U sailors adjust antiglare glasses over their eyes. VS onboard plane. A map shows an animation of the explosion. M/S of sailors onboard ship,...
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Now, you talk about that Bohagus boy. You know him, Billy Bohagus? They
found him last week out behind the barn [dramatic pause] with his math
teacher, his Scout leader, and the local minister, and that boy had the
nerve to say it was part of a biology project. We killed him; had no
other choice.
Part 3
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I saw you naked, you were chasin' a pig
So I led the police to your house and showed 'em where to dig
You thought you could live in peace
But I saw you naked and I called the police
I saw you naked and I saw the terrible things that you did
I saw you naked and you know it made me sick
I saw you naked, you were campin' with scouts
I know they earned some merit badges when the lights went out
How could you touch those children?
I saw you naked, you were holdin' a trout
I saw you naked and I saw the terrible things that you did
I saw you naked and you know it made me sick
Don't you kids try this solo at home
That man is a trained professional
I saw you naked, you were up in a tree
Were you gonna jump on the paper boy? I hadda wait and see
Were you afraid of squirrels? Poison Ivy?
I saw you naked, you were singin' "Born Free"
"Born Free"
I saw you naked and I saw the terrible things that you did
I saw you naked and you know it made me sick