{"product_id":"philip-glass-music-with-changing-parts-2lp","title":"Philip Glass - Music With Changing Parts (2LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally released on Philip Glass's own Chatham Square label in 1971, 'Music with Changing Parts' is a minimalist set text, a work for multiple electric organs and woodwind that deserves to be filed alongside Terry Riley's 'A Rainbow in Curved Air' and Steve Reich's 'Four Organs'.\n\nGlass suffers from discography bewilderment - he's released so much that it's hard to know exactly where to go. Do you opt for his soundtrack to 'Koyaanisqatsi', his prophetic pseudo-opera 'Einstein on the Beach' or go for something even more widely known? He's one of those artists who's understood more as a reference; someone you've heard, whether you're aware of it or not. And listening back to 'Music with Changing Parts', it's quite clear that he's had an overwhelming impact on so much experimental music, especially as we hit the twilight of the organ revival. Riley and Reich, who was long Glass's sparring partner, often take the critical flowers and yet, listening back to this one you can hear just how it's Glass's melodic sensibilities, the ear that got him a seat at Hollywood's top table, that ripple throughout so much contemporary avant-garde music.\n\n'Music with Changing Parts' is an early example of Glass's very specific brand of minimalism, where interlocking repeating melodies create eerie phasing patterns, leading to psychoacoustic phenomena that would become hallmarks of the wider \"new age\" genre. Glass was inspired after a rehearsal of his 1969 piece 'Music In Similar Motion' where he noticed the rhythmic pulses were creating the illusion of sustained tones. So writing this one, he concentrated on the keyboard patterns, varying their rhythm while accepting that the three Farfisas and electric piano would create phantom sounds. There are no solos, exactly, and as the hour-long piece evolves, Glass coolly adds woodwind, electric violin and voice to reinforce the psychoacoustic elements, creating a haunting flux that's still rarely been bettered. Listening back 55 years later, it's alarming how perfect it sounds having absorbed so much that's been directly and indirectly inspired by its lattice of electronic chimes. \n\nEven if you think you've got a handle on Glass's output, this is an album every enjoyer of minimalism - whether it's Steve Reich's 'Music for 18 Musicians', Kali Malone's 'The Sacrificial Code' or Charlemagne Palestine's 'Strumming Music' - needs to own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uf8TPnba3xs?si=1tr-7giKBTT1kquv\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Superior Viaduct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49180562096387,"sku":"SV211","price":6112.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/files\/p-glass-flat.jpg?v=1783065872","url":"https:\/\/meditations.jp\/en\/products\/philip-glass-music-with-changing-parts-2lp","provider":"Meditations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}