Philip Glass

I know very little about minimalism.  The first time I heard this guy I didn’t get it, and disregarded it as boredom conceptualized and translated to the piano.  Now I hear his pieces like the tide coming in, his ideas slowly developing at their own pace, not the pace I naturally want them to.  I like the slow evolution of his pieces because they break me from my own fast paced whirlwind of thoughts, and force me to focus clearly on a single idea.  I find it more imaginative in that way.  The possibilities inherent in that one motive are bursting with so many possibilities that the potential energy of the piece is almost more exciting than the kinetic energy of it.