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Kai:
Hey, QC Music Forum. I've seen many a recommendation thread come and go, and while they're pretty aggravating, I am going to say fuck it and make this. I've been listening to a lot of Steve Reich and John Cage recently, two rather modern composers, and while I really enjoy it all, this is one music area that I haven't really found much luck with.

This is where it'd be nice if you came in! I really like Steve Reich's Music For 18 Musicians, and I'm kind of looking for something in that sort of vein.

Thank you muchly.

Cernunnos:
Does Morton Feldman count? Gyorgy Ligeti? I'm not sure what is meant by "modern" composers, but I guess I'd put those in that category. also, Penderecki. I was under the impression that you were already hells of familiar with that stuff already. I dunno.

Tom:
There is a composer here in Sydney who worked as a signal man, he hear that he is quite prodigious and prolific as well as very talented.

EDIT: his name is Graham Howard and here's a news blurb from the Sydney Morning Herald

--- Quote ---MOZART may have been a musical magician, but would you have trusted him to be in charge of a railway system? And while Beethoven wrote some of the most sublime music ever composed despite being deaf, would he have been able to take a decent macro-photograph of a bee on a flower? That's where Sydney composer Graham Howard has the edge on his illustrious forebears.
--- End quote ---

His website: http://www.grahamhoward.com.au/

I hope that helps!

celticgeek:
Philip Glass.

http://www.philipglass.com/

ALoveSupreme:
I'd also go with Morton Feldman.  Durations.

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