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Terry Riley

American composer and performing musician (born 1935)

For the British deaf rights activist and broadcaster, see Terry Riley (broadcaster).

Not to be confused with Teddy Riley.

Terry Riley
Riley in 2017
Born	(1935-06-24) June 24, 1935 (age 89) Colfax, California, US
Genres	Minimalism, avant-garde, tape, electronic, microtonal, classical
Instruments	Electric organ, tape machine, saxophone, keyboards, synthesizer, piano, tambura
Years active	1950s–present
Formerly of	Theatre of Eternal Music
Website	terryriley.net

Musical artist

Terrence Mitchell Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician^[1] best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition.^[2] Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his work became notable for its innovative use of repetition, tape music techniques, improvisation, and delay systems.^[2] His best known works are the 1964 composition In C and the 1969 album A Rainbow in Curved Air, both considered landmarks of minimalis

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Terry Riley

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Terry Riley, born in 1935, is an American composer recognized as thefounding father of minimalism. Riley’s compositions were able to cross six decades of vanguard music, creating procedures and structures so flexible that they were able to resist through time and influenced a wide range of sounds that were apparently far removed and incompatible.

Terry began his career during the Fifties playing piano professionally and influenced by legendary artists like John Coltrane and John Cage, he began to move closer to improvisational and vanguard music. Thus, his first album Mescalin Mix was born in 1960.

In 1964, after having published Music for the Gift the year before, was released the project that consecrated Terry Riley as the biggest and best exponent of minimalist music, “In C”. The peculiarity of the track derived from the fifty-three musical phrasing that composed it which could be repeated and arranged to the discretion of any musician who took on the interpretation of the song. The composition was born with the intention to have infini

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California Composer Terry Riley launched what is now known as the Minimalist movement with his revolutionary classic IN C in 1964. This seminal work Provided a new concept in musical form based on interlocking repetitive patterns. It's impact was to change the course of 20th Century music and it's influence has been heard in the works of prominent composers such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams and in the music of Rock Groups such as The Who, The Soft Machine, Tangerine Dream, Curved Air and many others. Terry's hypnotic, multi-layered, polymetric, brightly orchestrated eastern flavored improvisations and compositions set the stage for the prevailing interest in a new tonality.

While working on a masters degree at UC Berkeley in 1960, he met La Monte Young, whose radical approach to time made a big impact and the two made a life long association.

During this time Riley and Young worked out many of their seminal ideas while working with influential dancer Anna Halprin.

During a sojourn to Europe 1962-64 he collaborated with members of the Fluxus group, playwright Ke