Joanna Newsom grew up next door to minimalist composer Terry Riley. She also attended Mills College where Riley is on faculty. Riley received an MA in composition from Berkeley and was involved in the San Francisco Tape Music Center with other composers of the avantgarde scene. His earliest experiments (which included commissions for the stage) dealt with tape manipulation and a tape's interplay with live music and performance. These early works were contemporary recordings but did not see release until 2000 on the Music for the Gift album.
Note: This is my first entry on classical music. Classical music is naturally organized and performed differently than the popular music I've dealt with so far, so I will likely change my formula of discovery and chronicling as a result. The same goes for jazz, field recordings, and whatever other kind of music that is just around the corner.
Here are Terry Riley's debut set of compositions:
Concerto for Two Pianists and Five Tape Recorders (1960 composition)
Mescaline Mix (1960-1962 compostion)
Music for the Gift
Bird of Paradise (1965 composition)
"Concerto for Two Pianists and Five Tape Recorders" by Terry Riley
Pass the Headphones!!
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