{"id":560,"date":"2006-10-09T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/10\/steve-reich-orgy\/"},"modified":"2006-10-09T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T09:40:00","slug":"steve-reich-orgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/10\/steve-reich-orgy\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Reich Orgy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I complain a lot about London in these pages, but every so often it still provides me with something so deeply refreshing and life-affirming that I give thanks for my location. The Barbican<\/a> have a cultural festival on at the moment which celebrates the 70th birthday of a composer who changed my life – Steve Reich. The reason Steve changed my life was that David Cunningham<\/a>, the man behind a lot of progressive music in the UK, gave me a copy of Reich’s “Come Out To Show Them” one day when I was at art school. I was already scratching with audio and video, using cassette and reel-to-reel tape and off-line video editing, and David just tipped me towards something which was to make a lasting impression on me and very definitely shaped my career. Within two years I was exhibiting internationally, and although my art career has been carefully neglected since that time, I’ve never stopped making recordings, making music.<\/p>\n

So I spent the weekend at the Barbican – which incidentally is also showing Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings<\/i> – multi-screen, generative art – in a state of exultation, feeling that I had very much returned to my roots. I rarely if ever think about having roots, I scarcely ever feel really connected<\/i> to the crazy golden dirt heap of London, just merely passing through for the last 25 years… but this weekend, I was elevated by the experience of feeling a part of this living history.<\/p>\n

I’ll write a review later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I complain a lot about London in these pages, but every so often it still provides me with something so deeply refreshing and life-affirming that I give thanks for my location. The Barbican have a cultural festival on at the moment which celebrates the 70th birthday of a composer who changed my life – Steve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}