Post-minimalism

As a post-minimalism is usually referred to the works of contemporary composers who "minimalist features" possess, but their processing is much more organic.

On the one hand, some of these composers were looking for a closer relationship with pop music , while others combined “minimalist patterns” with the tradition of classical concert music. Post-minimalism developed in the 1970s based on " minimal music ". It reached its peak in the 1980s and 1990s.

Composers whose works are described as post-minimalist are John Adams , Louis Andriessen , Graham Fitkin , Michael Torke , Robert Moran , Gavin Bryars , Steve Martland , Julia Wolfe , David Lang and Michael Gordon .

A second generation of post-minimalists, also known as totalism , increased the rhythmic complexity and brought in elements of polyrhythmic Asian and African music styles as well as rock music without leaving the repetitive arrangement structure. Composers such as Rhys Chatham , Glenn Branca , Kyle Gann , Mikel Rouse , Lois Vierk and John Luther Adams are assigned to this tendency .

The post-minimalism movement is often viewed as part of postmodern music .

Web links

• Kyle Gann: A Forest from the Seeds of Minimalism: An Essay on Postminimal and Totalist Music , from the program for the Minimal Music Festival 1998 of the Berlin Society for New Music (engl.)