Third Coast Percussion: the Music of Steve Reich

Create your own music inspired by minimalist composer Steve Reich! Pulitzer-prize winner Steve Reich has been called “America’s greatest living composer” (the Village Voice). Chicago-based percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion released a new album of Reich’s music in 2016 to celebrate the composer’s 80th birthday, and created this app to give audiences a new way to engage with this amazing music.

- Create your own musical content by recording sounds, building your own musical patterns, altering playback speed, “phase-shifting” a pattern against itself, and more.
- Share your musical creations via social media or e-mail.
- Explore minimalism with 3 different activities based on concepts from Steve Reich’s music.
- Listen to excerpts from Third Coast Percussion’s new album or buy the album.