{"id":139,"date":"2023-08-01T08:46:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T08:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/?p=139"},"modified":"2023-09-22T11:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T11:59:03","slug":"different-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/different-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Reich: Different Trains &#8211; signal\/noise ensemble [18:30, 16\/10\/2023]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>When: 18:30, 16\/10\/2023<br>Where: <a href=\"https:\/\/w3w.co\/unity.suffice.shelf\">ECA West Court<\/a>, 74 Lauriston Place Edinburgh<br>What: A performance of Steve Reich&#8217;s <em>Different Trains<\/em> by the Signal\/Noise ensemble<\/strong><br><strong>UNESCO week of sound events are free, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/steve-reich-different-trains-signalnoise-ensemble-tickets-722072407007?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&amp;keep_t\">book a ticket<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Different Trains<\/em> is a three-movement piece for string quartet and pre-recorded soundtrack written by&nbsp;Steve Reich&nbsp;in 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The piece emerged from Reich\u2019s childhood memories of travelling on trains between New York and Los Angeles. These merge with reflections on his Jewish identity: had he been on a train in Europe at the same time, in the late 1930s and 1940s, the destination may have been very different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We launch the UNESCO Week of Sound with this piece since it brings to life sound\u2019s power to evoke memory and to trigger imagination. Sound recordings of voices and trains are picked apart and used to find musical shapes, forms and rhythms. These are revealed by the string quartet who convert recorded sound into musical energy and pace. With its powerful incorporation of testimony from Holocaust survivors, <em>Different trains <\/em>also links to Thursday&#8217;s concert of music from places of detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four exceptional musicians have come together tonight to perform this work. Each are interested in collective experience and team-work involved in making this complex piece come together. Like most of Reich\u2019s pieces, <em>Different Trains<\/em> requires discipline, feverish counting, focus and accuracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeff Moore \u2013 Violin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ariane Todes \u2013 Violin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Mutter \u2013 Viola<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dee Isaacs &#8211; Cello<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When: 18:30, 16\/10\/2023Where: ECA West Court, 74 Lauriston Place EdinburghWhat: A performance of Steve Reich&#8217;s Different Trains by the Signal\/Noise ensembleUNESCO week of sound events are free, book a ticket Different Trains is a three-movement piece for string quartet and pre-recorded soundtrack written by&nbsp;Steve Reich&nbsp;in 1988. The piece emerged from Reich\u2019s childhood memories of travelling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/different-trains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steve Reich: Different Trains &#8211; signal\/noise ensemble [18:30, 16\/10\/2023]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}