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| I negate the resolution Individual Claims of Privacy ought to be valued above competing claims of social welfare. Before continuing I would life to offer some counter definitions. | |||
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| 1. Privacy - The extent to which we are known to others, the extent to which others have physical | |||
| access to us, and the extent to which we are the subject of others' attention or | |||
| '''Steve Reich''' (born ], ]) is one of the most famous living composers, who is popularly regarded as repetitive and ], but in some works deviates from a purely minimalist style. His style of music has influenced many others including the group of composers associated with the ] festival such as ]. | |||
| A degree of inaccessibility of persons, of their mental states, and of information about | |||
| them to the senses and surveillance devices of others."' (Ann Cavoukian, Ph. D, Info. and Privacy Commission in Ontario) | |||
| Reich's music explores such ideas in ] as using ]s to create ] patterns - amongst Reich's first works, ''It's Gonna Rain'', ''Come Out'', ''Drumming'', and others, and using processes to create and explore concepts in music ('']'', '']''). | |||
| 2. Social Welfare – what society determines to be in its interest, such as security, governmental stability, protection of rights for the majority of citizens and etc. | |||
| Reich achieved a ] degree from ] in ], attended the ] and, from 1961 to 1963, ] in ] with ] and ]. His works, particularly ''Drumming'' (1971), show the influence of African music, Reich being particularly influenced by ]' ''Studies in African Music'' about Ghanian ]. Eventually he travelled to Ghana to study drumming. He also studied Balinese gamelan in Seattle. | |||
| After ''Drumming'', Reich moved on from the "phase shifting" technique that he had pioneered, and began to start writing more elaborate pieces. He moved on to other musical processes such as ] (the temporal lengthening of phrases and melodic fragments). It was during this period that he wrote works such as '']'' (1973) and '']''. | |||
| '']'' deals specifically with augmentation, and was based on a piece written in 1967, '']'', which was more of a prototype piece. Having never been performed, the idea of slowing down a recorded sound until many times its original length without changing pitch or timbre was applied to Four Organs. The result was a piece with maracas playing a fast ] ], while the four organs stress certain quavers using an 11th chord. This work therefore dealt with rhythmic change and ]. This work is unique in the context of Reich's other pieces in the way that is in linear as opposed to being cyclic like his earlier works. | |||
| In 1974, Reich began writing what would be classed as his seminal work by most, '']''. This piece involved a lot of new ideas, although it harked back to earlier pieces. The piece is based around a cycle of eleven chords, then a small piece of music is based around each chord, then returning to the original cycle at the end. The sections are aptly named "Pulses", Section I-X, and "Pulses". This was Reich's first attempt at writing for larger '']s'', and the extension of performers resulted in a growth of pyscho-acoustic effects, which fascinated Reich, and he noted that he would like to "explore this idea further". Reich also noted that this one work contained more harmonic movement in the first five minutes then any other work he had written. | |||
| Later that same year, he also published a book, ''Writings About Music'', containing essays on his philosophy, aesthetics, and musical projects written between 1963 and 1974. An updated collection, ''Writings On Music (1965-2000)'', was published in 2002. | |||
| In 1993, Reich collaborated with his wife, the video artist ], on the ], '']'', which explores the roots of ], ] and ]. The two collaborated again on the opera '']'', which concerns the ], the testing of ]s on ], and more modern concerns, specifically ] and ]. | |||
| Notable works include: | |||
| *'']'' (1965) | |||
| *'']'' (1966) | |||
| *'']'' (1967) | |||
| *'']'' (1967) | |||
| *'']'' (1968) | |||
| *'']'' (1971) | |||
| *'']'' (1973) | |||
| *'']'' (1974-76) | |||
| *'']'' (1978) | |||
| *'']'' (1979) - arranged for ] as '']'' (1983) | |||
| *'']'' (1973) - Trascribed as '']'' (1986) | |||
| *'']'' (1981) | |||
| *'']'' (1984) | |||
| *'']'' (1987) | |||
| *'']'' (1998) | |||
| See also ], ], ]. | |||
| == External links == | |||
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| * from Duke University, includes sound samples and quotes | |||
| * ''Steve Reich'' by Roger Sutherland | |||
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Revision as of 03:56, 26 August 2004
I negate the resolution Individual Claims of Privacy ought to be valued above competing claims of social welfare. Before continuing I would life to offer some counter definitions. 1. Privacy - The extent to which we are known to others, the extent to which others have physical access to us, and the extent to which we are the subject of others' attention or
A degree of inaccessibility of persons, of their mental states, and of information about
them to the senses and surveillance devices of others."' (Ann Cavoukian, Ph. D, Info. and Privacy Commission in Ontario) 2. Social Welfare – what society determines to be in its interest, such as security, governmental stability, protection of rights for the majority of citizens and etc.