1. Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint

In some ways, for Reich, Electric Counterpoint is a step back from Different Trains. While on Different Trains, Reich experimented and came out with a huge success, on Electric Counterpoint, he reverts to his old methods and makes a piece based on pulses and phasing, not unlike Music for 18 Musicians.

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Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint

Different Trains was composed by Reich for the Kronos Quartet, and it is a reflection on how different his life could've turned out if he had only been born in Europe. Being Jewish, he sees now that instead of traveling from SF to NY as a child, he would've been in a very different train had he been born in Europe. The work makes use of a technique that has come to be a trademark of Reich, which is to notate musically pre-recorded spoken excerpts. The excerpts come from interviews with Jewish people and with people Reich knew, who talk about subjects from the trains themselves, to Europe and American before and after WWII. A thoroughly gripping work, and its intense rhythmic drive is pure Reich, especially foretelling the rhythmic intensity of later works like Double Sextet and 2x5.