Clapping music, by Steve Reich

[Matt]

We did this when we were doing minimalism...or at least tried to. It's SSSSOOOOOOO difficult to keep your concentration! These guys did it though:

www.stevereich.com/multimedia/clapping56k.html

Basically, it starts off with both people going (x=clap, o=no clap):

x x x o x x o x o x x o
x x x o x x o x o x x o

(there are 12 beats to a bar) and this goes on twelve times, then person two starts a beat later:

x x x o x x o x o x x o
x x o x x o x o x x o x

And that carries on for ages until they're clapping the same thing again...if you listen to it it becomes clearer...anyone reckon they could do it?

[tremolo]

sounds easy. not sure if it is though as I haven't triec yet!

[Matt]

It sounds very easy, but it's VERY hard indeed...

[izzy]

We do something like that in samba.

If you have one person doing kness clap click and another doung knees knees clap click, there's a point where the click falls on the same place

I think that's right, we just do it without thinking!

It is interesting though!

[monkey laydee]

I have that on CD!!!