pun about minimalism

Giteck's Om Shanti

I found this to be a really fascinating work. Quiet and reserved, she has captured an element of tranquility atop curiosity. This pensive section slows to a halt and keeps the listener in a very peaceful place until what I would naturally call the second movement comes in. This upbeat rhythmic section incorporates percussion unheard before into it's texture, a quick spritely but still peaceful and calm movement which seems to be over as quickly as it began. Next she sends the listener into a beautiful, luscious string quartet. This beautiful section concludes and brings the listener into a piano solo that brings us back into the initial mood of ambiance with a little light percussion and a soaring solo without words.

Admittedly, it gets a little long-winded, however, this work is attainable by the laymen and allows real people to hear it, listen to it, without any preemption, and brings the element of the common man back into contemporary music in a way that many contemporary works do not.

Lentz's Crack in the Bell
 
Upon first hearing I had no idea what was going on. With a little more patience and time, I grew to appreciate and expect each change and even looked forward to many of the sounds. I love how it goes from brass chords to synthesizer in the blink of an eye only to come right back to a wind ensemble setting in the flutes a minute later. Incorporating so many different sounds could have been disastrous. In this case, utilizing the rhythmic and tonal similarities through the changes in instrumentation provides a stable point for the listener to jump off of.

Postminimalism takes the minimalist idea of reiterating melody, rhythm, form, whatever, and takes away the slow nature of it, to transform the music into a completely different animal. Differentiating from the minimalists, these composers lose the mathematic method by which they choose what is to come next, and instead rely on artistic intuition. It makes for much more enjoyable listening, that really is more attainable to the common man, and allows the laymen to enjoy without reservation this interesting, if somewhat alien realm.