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 "Terry" 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 minimalism and important influences on experimental music, rock, and contemporary electronic music.[2] Subsequent works such as Shri Camel (1980) explored just intonation.[2]
Raised in Redding, California, Riley began studying composition and performing solo piano in the 1950s. He befriended and collaborated with composer La Monte Young, and later became involved with both the San Francisco Tape Music Center and Young's New York collective, the Theatre of Eternal Music. A three-record deal with CBS in the late 1960s brought his work to wider audiences. In 1970, he began intensive studies under Hindustani singer Pandit Pran Nath, whom he often accompanied in performance. He has collaborated frequently throughout his career, most extensively with chamber ensemble the Kronos Quartet and his son, guitarist Gyan Riley.[2]
^Hooper, Greg (June–July 2006). "Hear and now: Terry Riley in Australia". RealTime (73). Australia: 33.
^ abcdeAnkeny, Jason. "Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
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of the audience (#2), or pushing a piano into a wall (Piano Piece for TerryRiley #1). These compositions have been described as calling into question...
third album by American composer TerryRiley, released in 1969 on CBS Records. The title track consists of Riley's overdubbed improvisations on several...
developed in the electronic music studios of the early 1960s by composers TerryRiley and Pauline Oliveros and made popular through its use in ambient music...
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music (often written especially for them by for instance Philip Glass, TerryRiley, Alexandra Vrebalov) and was founded in 1973 by violinist David Harrington...
contemporary composers of 1950s and 1960s, such as Éliane Radigue, Steve Reich, TerryRiley, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, who used them to create phase patterns, rhythms...
notably TerryRiley (b. 1935) in works like In C for orchestra [...]" Cook & Pople 2004, p. 659 ("Personalia" mini biographies): "Riley, Terry (b. 1935)...
Bauermeister, Joseph Byrd, Ben Patterson, Daniel Spoerri, Ken Friedman, TerryRiley and Wolf Vostell. Not only were they a diverse community of collaborators...
repetition and gradual variation, such as the works of La Monte Young, TerryRiley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Julius Eastman and John Adams. The term minimalist...
looping on the television show Omnibus. In 1963, musician and performer TerryRiley released an early tape loop piece called “The Gift”, featuring the trumpet...
performance pieces; Invisible Poem Sent to Terry Jennings (1960), performance pieces; Piano Pieces for TerryRiley #s 1, 2 (1960), performance pieces; Target...
Ramon Sender, Morton Subotnick, Phil Lesh and TerryRiley. He was involved with the premiere of Riley's In C and suggested the use of the eighth note...
lighting), John Cale (viola), and Tony Conrad (violin), with sometimes also TerryRiley (voice). Since 1966, Theatre of Eternal Music has seen many permutations...
Karlheinz Stockhausen. He subsequently worked with minimalist composers TerryRiley (on a 1968 recording of In C) and La Monte Young (as part of his Theatre...
is an album by experimental music and classical minimalism pioneer TerryRiley. Riley began composing the work in 1975 on commission from West Germany's...
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