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Often hailed as America's greatest living composer, Steve Reich's remarkable career has progressed from tape loop experiments and 'phasing' techniques to deploying samplers and video footage, influencing countless musicians along the way.

Here Reich, 79, explains the ideas behind some of his earlier compositions and tells how while on tour in Belgium he had a Eureka moment at a flamenco gig. He explains how all these musical discoveries developed to become components of his larger ensembles such as Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, Six Pianos and Music For 18 Musicians.

The film features archive footage of Reich鈥檚 ensemble performing Music for 18 Musicians in the 1979 大象传媒 programme Trailblazers: Reich鈥檚 Revolution.

Thanks to Colin Hynd and Svend Brown at Glasgow Life.