The word minimal is often used to describe the sound that Glass developed, but economical is probably more accurate—every note, every #movement, every gesture with purpose. His landmark 70s works, like the epic Music in Twelve Parts (1971-74) and the theatrical #Einstein on the Beach (1976), remain touchstones for a tectonic shift in avant-garde music of the period during which the spheres of more academic #intellectual music and less conventional art rock began to crash into one another, giving rise to a wave of artists and bands that existed at the intersection of their collision. (A Good read about Philip Glass - Julián de la Chica
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