When we first started rehearsing it, nobody, including me, knew how to play it. I had a kind of idea of how it should sound, but to rehearse it and actually turn it into music took a bit of doing.
Terry just came into it from a completely different place. Because he studied in India, he was influenced by Indian classical music, by African music, by all these other non-Western traditions, and of course, free jazz improvisation.
Both Philip Glass and Steve Reich quickly embraced Riley's evolving repetition. It's hard to imagine minimalist classics like Glass' Einstein on the Beach or Reich's Music for 18 Musicians without In C.
Today, the music is all around us, from Taylor Swift's song 'Peace', with its copycat Riley pulse, to music for television, film and commercials.
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