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Now Watch This: Angry Angie Dickinson Performs Steve Reich on Lee Marvin's Chest

Janus Rose
New York, US

Steve Reich’s 1972 minimalist piece “Clapping Music” was conceived for what he thought to be the only fitting instrumentation: two people clapping a pattern in 12/8 time, with one shifting the rhythm by one eighth note every 8-12 measures. Reich, like many others, obviously did not anticipate the YouTube generation.

Back in 2005, George Manak and Peter van der Ham reproduced Reich’s piece in its entirety using a tiny 5-second clip of a scene from Point Blank where an enraged Angie Dickinson goes to town on a stoic Lee Marvin.

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Reich’s original intent, which was to “create a piece of music that needed no instruments beyond the human body,” remains precisely intact despite being brought into the realm of derivative media — a commendable feat, considering how many works have fallen prey to the Warholian whims of video mashup artists who reprocess sound and image into meaningless mess. But that’s not to say that those can’t be fun sometimes too.

Hear the original performed here.

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