THE REST IS NOISE Colin Currie Group plays Steve Reich

The exhilarating Colin Currie Group celebrates leading American minimalist Steve Reich. The composer himself joins Currie for 'Clapping Music'.

Steve Reich: 'Clapping Music' for two musicians

Steve Reich: 'Come Out' for tape

Steve Reich: Music for pieces of wood

Steve Reich: Pendulum music for three or four microphones, amplifiers and loudspeakers

Steve Reich: Music for 18 musicians

('Come Out' is a hard-hitting piece of political art written for the retrial of the Harlem Six. 'Music for Pieces of Wood' is a more exuberant piece for five pairs of claves, which creates a series of intoxicating rhythmic sounds.

'Pendulum music' is created by swinging microphones next to loud speakers, which forms hypnotic rhythms through the sound of the feedback.)

Note: At 11.45am Steve Reich takes part in a Q&A about the 1960s and 1970s composing scene in America, as part of the 'Superpower' weekend, in The Rest is Noise festival.)