“Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.” KindPlayWould BeAbleWantedSoundMusicianDecidedAbstractFabricRepetitionFragmentsExperimentation Author:Terry Riley
“Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.” WesternMusicalPatternsContributionOver ItMelodyIngredientsIntroducingRepetitionGdpWestern Music Author:Terry Riley
