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Terry Riley
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American composer and musician (born 1935)
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Terry Riley is an American composer, pianist, film score composer, and printmaker born in Colfax in 1935. He has worked in genres including contemporary classical music, minimalism, and electronic music. Riley began his work period in 1960 and has been educated at San Francisco State University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of San Francisco, and New Hope Christian College. He is employed by Mills College at Northeastern University and speaks English.
His notable works include Brothers of the Sun, The Incas (Ancient Civilizations), Allosaurus, Brachiosaurus, and Hadrosaurus. Riley has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is associated with the record label BYG Records. His works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. He plays the upright piano and has a child named Gyan Riley.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Brothers of the Sun
- The Incas (Ancient Civilizations) (Ancient Civilizations)
- Allosaurus
- Brachiosaurus
- Hadrosaurus
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Sound
Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley, born June 24, 1935, is an American composer and performing musician associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music, of which he was a pioneer. His work is deeply influenced by both jazz and Indian classical music.
Known for
- The Who: One Band's Explosive Story — Self (archive footage)2022
- In Between The Notes: A Portrait of Pandit Pran Nath — Self2006
- Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy — Self1994
- Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television — Self1976
- Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley — Self1974
- Music With Balls — Self1969
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1935
Discography
Member of
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 278,855
- Total plays
- 2,155,240
Tags
Terry Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer associated with the minimalist school. Born in Colfax, California, United States, Riley studied at Shasta College, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Conservatory before earning an MA in composition at the University of California, Berkeley, studying with Seymour Shifrin and Robert Erickson. He was involved in the experimental San Francisco Tape Music Center working with Morton Subotnick, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros,
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Guideline of Selecting and Reporting Intraclass Correlation Coefficients for Reliability Research
· 2016 · cited 25,081x
- A modified single solution method for the determination of phosphate in natural waters
· 1962 · cited 16,583x
- 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2016 · cited 11,113x
- A safe operating space for humanity
· 2009 · cited 9,720x
- Estimating Nonresponse Bias in Mail Surveys
· 1977 · cited 9,533x
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Key facts
- Born
- Terrence Mitchell Riley , ( 1935-06-24 ) June 24, 1935 (age 90) , Colfax, California , US
- Genres
- Minimalism avant-garde tape electronic microtonal classical
- Instruments
- Electric organ tape machine saxophone keyboards synthesizer piano tambura
- Years active
- 1950s–present
- Formerly of
- Theatre of Eternal Music
- Website
- terryriley .net
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Terry
- Family name
- Q16882085
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Colfax
- Child
- Gyan Riley
- Occupation
- printmaker
- Educated at
- New Hope Christian College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- upright piano
- Record label
- BYG Records
- Official website
- terryriley.net
- Image
- DuBois Riley (cropped).png
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- Commons category
- Terry Riley
- date of birth
- 1935-06-24
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- has works in the collection
- ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Terry Riley, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~14 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Riley at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 1985 Riley performing in 2018 Terrence Mitchell Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his work became notable for its innovative use of repetition, tape delay systems, and improvisation. His best known works are the 1964 composition In C and the 1969 album A Rainbow in Curved Air, both considered landmarks of minimalism and important influences on experimental music, rock, and contemporary electronic music.
Raised in Redding, California, Riley began studying composition and performing solo piano in the 1950s. He befriended and collaborated with composer La Monte Young, and later became involved with both the San Francisco Tape Music Center and Young's New York-based Theatre of Eternal Music. A three-record deal with CBS in the late 1960s brought his work to wider audiences. In 1970, he began intensive studies under Hindustani singer Pandit Pran Nath, whom he often accompanied in performance. Subsequent works such as Shri Camel (1980) explored just intonation. He has collaborated frequently throughout his career, most extensively with chamber ensemble the Kronos Quartet and his son, guitarist Gyan Riley.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Terry Riley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.