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MINIMAL_GLASS

                                             May       6, 2010
                                             September 4, 2013

  It may be that "minimalism" in modern
  classical music was the invention of small
  synthesizer memory buffers.
                                                
  Moog synthesizers could do very precise, rapid
  looping, but only over a relatively short     
  melodic line-- hence the sound of a band like      
  "Mother Mallard".                                    
                                                     
  Early Philip Glass works were written to use
  those kinds of synthesizers...

  His more famous, symphonic pieces still have that
  same quality... it's striking once you listen for
  it, having heard one of the early Moog works.

  In the early 80s, I thought Glass was doing a
  classical-music-for-a-rock-n-roll-ear... but
  really I think it was the indirect influence of
  the character of a particular instrument.




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