Composer
Steve Reich
Composer of Music for 18 Musicians and Different Trains, and one of the founders of minimalism.
Stephen Michael Reich is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich describes this concept in his essay "Music as a Gradual Process" by stating, "I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music." For example, his early works experiment with phase shifting, in which one or more repeated phrases plays slower or faster than the others, causing it to go "out of phase." This creates new musical patterns in a perceptible flow.
- Born
- 1936-10-03, New York City, USAA Saturday
- At birth
- Sun in Libra, Moon in Taurus
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1936-10-03, New York City, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 10°17′ | Direct |
| Moon | Taurus | 20°25′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Libra | 4°44′ | Retrograde |
| Venus | Scorpio | 6°03′ | Direct |
| Mars | Virgo | 4°24′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 18°38′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Pisces | 17°31′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Taurus | 8°39′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Virgo | 17°23′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Cancer | 28°36′ | Direct |
Steve Reich is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Steve Reich was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.