Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich

Hartenberger, Russell

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“…Musicologist Keith Potter and computer science colleagues used two early works by Philip Glass to compare information dynamics and musical structure (Potter et al, 2007 ). Psychologist Michael Schutz worked with percussionist Russell Hartenberger to examine desynchronization among performers of Reich's Drumming (Hartenberger, 2016 ), 3 and Daniel Cameron and colleagues have studied experiences of groove and neural entrainment using Reich's Clapping Music (Cameron et al, 2017 , 2019 ). Dauer et al ( 2020 ) examined preattentive cortical responses to various types of formal repetition using synthesized melodies based on early minimalist compositional techniques.…”

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Inter-subject Correlation While Listening to Minimalist Music: A Study of Electrophysiological and Behavioral Responses to Steve Reich's Piano Phase

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Musical minimalism utilizes the temporal manipulation of restricted collections of rhythmic, melodic, and/or harmonic materials. One example, Steve Reich's Piano Phase, offers listeners readily audible formal structure with unpredictable events at the local level. For example, pattern recurrences may generate strong expectations which are violated by small temporal and pitch deviations. A hyper-detailed listening strategy prompted by these minute deviations stands in contrast to the type of listening engagement typically cultivated around functional tonal Western music. Recent research has suggested that the inter-subject correlation (ISC) of electroencephalographic (EEG) responses to natural audio-visual stimuli objectively indexes a state of “engagement,” demonstrating the potential of this approach for analyzing music listening. But can ISCs capture engagement with minimalist music, which features less obvious expectation formation and has historically received a wide range of reactions? To approach this question, we collected EEG and continuous behavioral (CB) data while 30 adults listened to an excerpt from Steve Reich's Piano Phase, as well as three controlled manipulations and a popular-music remix of the work. Our analyses reveal that EEG and CB ISC are highest for the remix stimulus and lowest for our most repetitive manipulation, no statistical differences in overall EEG ISC between our most musically meaningful manipulations and Reich's original piece, and evidence that compositional features drove engagement in time-resolved ISC analyses. We also found that aesthetic evaluations corresponded well with overall EEG ISC. Finally we highlight co-occurrences between stimulus events and time-resolved EEG and CB ISC. We offer the CB paradigm as a useful analysis measure and note the value of minimalist compositions as a limit case for the neuroscientific study of music listening. Overall, our participants' neural, continuous behavioral, and question responses showed strong similarities that may help refine our understanding of the type of engagement indexed by ISC for musical stimuli.

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Inter-subject Correlation While Listening to Minimalist Music: A Study of Electrophysiological and Behavioral Responses to Steve Reich's Piano Phase

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“…Musicologist Keith Potter and computer science colleagues used two early works by Philip Glass to compare information dynamics and musical structure (Potter et al, 2007). Psychologist Michael Schutz worked with percussionist Russell Hartenberger to examine desynchronization among performers of Reich's Drumming (Hartenberger, 2016), 3 and Daniel Cameron and colleagues have studied experiences of groove and neural entrainment using Reich's Clapping Music (Cameron et al, 2017(Cameron et al, , 2019. Dauer et al (2020) examined preattentive cortical responses to various types of formal repetition using synthesized melodies based on early minimalist compositional techniques.…”

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Neuroscience and New Music: Assessing Behavioral and Cerebral Aspects of Its Perception, Cognition, Induction, and Entrainment

2022

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“…Musicologist Keith Potter and computer science colleagues used two early works by Philip Glass to compare information dynamics and musical structure (Potter et al, 2007). Psychologist Michael Schutz worked with percussionist Russell Hartenberger to examine desynchronization among performers of Reich's Drumming (Hartenberger, 2016), 3 and Daniel Cameron and colleagues have studied experiences of groove and neural entrainment using Reich's Clapping Music (D. J. Cameron et al, 2019;D.…”

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Inter-Subject Correlation during New Music Listening: A Study of Electrophysiological and Behavioral Responses to Steve Reich’sPiano Phase

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Gang

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Musical minimalism utilizes the temporal manipulation of restricted collections of rhythmic, melodic, and/or harmonic materials. One example, Steve Reich`s Piano Phase, offers listeners readily audible formal structures containing unpredictable events at local levels. Pattern recurrences may generate strong expectations which are violated by small temporal and pitch deviations. A hyper-detailed listening strategy prompted by these minute deviations stands in contrast to the type of listening engagement typically cultivated around functional tonal Western music. Recent research has suggested that the inter-subject correlation (ISC) of electroencephalographic (EEG) responses to natural audio-visual stimuli objectively indexes a state of ``engagement'', demonstrating the potential of this approach for analyzing music listening. But can ISCs capture engagement with minimal music, which features less obvious expectation formation and has historically received a wide range of reactions? To approach this question, we collected EEG and continuous behavioral (CB) data while 30 adults listened to an excerpt from Steve Reich`s Piano Phase, as well as three controlled manipulations and a popular-music remix of the work. Our analyses reveal that EEG and CB ISC are highest for the remix stimulus and lowest for our most repetitive manipulation. In addition, we found no statistical differences in overall EEG ISC between our most musically meaningful manipulations and Reich`s original piece. We also found that aesthetic evaluations corresponded well with overall EEG ISC. Finally we highlight co-occurrences between stimulus events and time-resolved EEG and CB ISC. We offer the CB paradigm as a useful analysis measure and note the value of minimalist compositions as a limit case for studying music listening using EEG ISC. We show that ISC is less effective at measuring engagement with this minimalist stimulus than with popular music genres and argue that this may be due to a difference between the type of engagement measured by ISC and the particular engagement patterns associated with minimalism.

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Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich

Cited by 40 publications

References 101 publications

Inter-subject Correlation While Listening to Minimalist Music: A Study of Electrophysiological and Behavioral Responses to Steve Reich's Piano Phase

Inter-subject Correlation While Listening to Minimalist Music: A Study of Electrophysiological and Behavioral Responses to Steve Reich's Piano Phase

Neuroscience and New Music: Assessing Behavioral and Cerebral Aspects of Its Perception, Cognition, Induction, and Entrainment

Inter-Subject Correlation during New Music Listening: A Study of Electrophysiological and Behavioral Responses to Steve Reich’sPiano Phase

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