Purple Television
[December 10 2013] : art
Terry Riley Live Performance 70’s by Unknown
We are celebrating the release of the remastered recording from the original tapes of the 1968 minimalist masterpice In C by Terry Riley, out today on vinyl on the Pure Pleasure label. A semi-aleatoric sequence of 53 short musical phrases, played an repeated an arbitrary number of times, In C allowed for infinite interpretation and has been performed significantly more than it has been recorded. Most recently, Portishead’s Adrian Utley assembled an orchestra of 19 guitarists, 4 organs and a bass clarinet earlier this year to perform the piece at Bristol’s St George’s Hall, a recording of which has become the latest reinterpretation to be released on vinyl. The remastered vinyl is now available here.
