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Music for 18 Stick S3s

A web sketch of eighteen devices with one part each. Piano 1 keeps the pulse and sends the section number with every eighth note. Everyone holds their chord until the section changes. The vibraphone decides when to move on and plays a cue, and each change is announced a bar ahead so a device that drops packets still changes on time.

After Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians (1974–76) · Wikipedia · Listen on YouTube

Opening pulses, then eleven sections, then closing pulses.