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Aby Rosen

Rosen partnered with long time friend and co-founder of Studio 54, Ian Schrager to transform the 123 year-old Gramercy Park Hotel with minimalist architect John Pawson.

Andrew Poppy

One of the least internationally known of British minimalist composers, Poppy was a founding member (in 1981) of The Lost Jockey, a large ensemble dedicated to the performance of new works by British composers composed in the style of such composers as Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Louis Andriessen.

Asoka Handagama

Novel in the form, this minimalist film travelled all around the world, was critically acclaimed at more than 50 international film festivals, and won numerous awards in Singapore, Chonju, Delhi, Houston, Bangkok and Tokyo.

Castle Drogo

The stately home borrows styles of castle building from the medieval and Tudor periods, along with more minimalist contemporary approaches.

Douglas Huebler

Initially a painter, Huebler moved on to produce geometric Formica sculptures in the early '60s, which aligned him with the Minimalist movement.

Four Seasons Resort Carmelo, Uruguay

While exuding a minimalist elegance of Balinese and Japanese resorts, the designers (San Francisco-based Babey Moulton Jue & Booth) incorporated influences from China, Thailand, Europe and South America to fuse together a contemplative, yet familiar feel.

Foxton Fizz

The film features a soundtrack that includes excerpts of music by German minimalist composer Hans Otte.

Frederick Spratt

Spratt was informed by the formalist art of Josef Albers, minimalist painting by Ellsworth Kelly and Ad Reinhardt, and abstract expressionist painting by Barnett Newman; his work was also deeply influenced by his early days as a sign painter.

Geoffrey Farmer

Whereas minimalist artists, such as Donald Judd and Dan Flavin, were said by art critic Michael Fried to theatricalize the gallery-going experience, Farmer uses the idioms of theatre and performance as analogies of the process of meaning construction.

Gramsci Melodic

Founder, Martin Rubeo is a native of the Pittsburgh suburb of Peters Township and an alumnus of Bucknell University (class of 2001) where he was a student of post-minimalist composer, William Duckworth.

Holy minimalism

Examples include Arvo Pärt (an Estonian Orthodox), John Tavener (a British composer who converted to Russian Orthodoxy), Henryk Górecki (a Polish Catholic), Alan Hovhaness (the earliest mystic minimalist), Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Hans Otte, Pēteris Vasks and Vladimír Godár.

With the growing popularity of minimalist music in the 1960s and 1970s, which often broke sharply with prevailing musical aesthetics of serialism and aleatoric music, many composers, building on the work of such minimalists as Terry Riley, Philip Glass and Steve Reich, began to work with more traditional notions of simple melody and harmony in a radically simplified framework.

Jonathan Donahue

The members were further encouraged to explore their talents by their mentor, minimalist composer and multimedia artist Tony Conrad.

Kevin Carter

There is a song 'Kevin Carter' on the 1996 album of Martin Simpson and Jessica Ruby Simpson, Band of Angels, which is a mainly factual, minimalist, and informative ballad.

La Ligne droite

The critically acclaimed soundtrack for La Ligne droite was composed and conducted by Patrick Doyle, much in the minimalist style of composer Philip Glass.

Louis Maratier

In 1962 Maratier rejected the Abstract Expressionism which he had initially advocated and developed a more traditionally figurative, albeit minimalist, style specialising in the Monochrome still lifes for which he is now best known.

Márcio-André

In his plays are noted influences from noisy music, minimalist music and Eastern music, especially by the use of Tibetan chants and modes of Noh theater.

Marianna Hill

Hill is a cousin of the late American General H. Norman Schwarzkopf (retired), who served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in the Persian Gulf War in 1991, and of minimalist painter Heather Hutchison.

Markus Zürcher

With linear and minimalist works, he was considered an important representative of the concept art, influenced by Lawrence Weiner, Daniel Buren, Meret Oppenheim and Robert Filliou.

Mbira music

However, in most Mbira music, there are minute variations, suggestive of the minimalist movement in western music (for example Philip Glass et al.).

Michael Sutton

Michael Kelly Sutton (born 1987), software engineer, entrepreneur and minimalist

Neurofunk

In 2002, Sinthetix, Cause 4 Concern, and Silent Witness & Break took Konflict's hard edge, minimalist approach with emphasis on colder, precision beat engineering, harder stabs over the bassline, sharper mixdowns and simultaneously, hastening the advancement of the style's sound design between the periods of 2002 and 2005 along with Gridlok, Corrupt Souls, Noisia, Phace, and The Upbeats.

Nike ONE

The minimalist design is inspired by Nike founder Bill Bowerman's principles of less is more.

No-knead bread

New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman described Lahey's method in his November 8, 2006 column The Minimalist.

Norman Salant

Salant’s minimalist jazz piece for 40 saxophones was created for and had its world premiere at the New York Festival of the Arts’ Fête de la Musique in 1989, in celebration of France’s bicentennial.

Ofterschwang

In 2009, the German record label Kompakt released a track called Ofterschwang by minimalist electronic DJ Jürgen Paape.

Peter Garland

A student of James Tenney and Harold Budd, much of Garland's work could be considered post-minimal although many of his postminimal works such as "The Days Run Away" (1971) were written in the early 1970s at the same time as the first minimalist works.

Peter Terrin

Terrin cites Willem Frederik Hermans as an important influence for his minimalist style, and critics have recognized the influence of J. Bernlef in his prose.

Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread

The short play imitates composer Philip Glass's minimalist style; that is to say that comparatively few words and ideas are repeated many times throughout the work.

Ratpoison

Mark Pilgrim, a frequent user, praised it for being "minimalist" and "configurable".

Ride in the Whirlwind

Both films are considered acid westerns that express a rather bleak, minimalist quality that does not sentimentalize the Wild West.

Sept-Fons Abbey

More recently the community at Sept-Fons has settled a daughter house at Nový Dvůr in the Czech Republic, the first monastic foundation since the fall of the Communist government, and in 2001 commissioned the English minimalist architect John Pawson to undertake the building conversion.

Shaped canvas

Singapore's Anthony Poon (1945–2006) continued the tradition of cool, abstract, minimalist geometry associated with the shaped canvas in the 1960s.

Shir Habatlanim

The act consisted of two comedians, Nathan Datner and Avi Kushnir, dressed in black suits and ties in the style of the Blues Brothers, who performed alone in a talking style presentation, accompanied by a minimalist orchestra score conducted by a similarly attired conductor.

Speedbird

He also did posters for the London Underground at the time, which similarly incorporate then-stylish minimalist art forms.

Steve Yegge

His 3,700-word comment garnered major media and blogger attention for Yegge's pointed commentary criticizing the leanings of the company's technological culture (such as labeling Google+'s minimalist and, in his view, lackluster public platform "a pathetic afterthought") as well as for his comments about his former employer, Amazon (such as calling Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos "Dread Pirate Bezos").

Symphony in Slang

Minimalist and abstract in style (many of the "gags" are created either with single, still frames or limited animation), it tells the story of a man John Brown, who finds himself at the Pearly Gates explaining the story of his life to a bewildered Saint Peter and Noah Webster using slang of that era.

The Desert Music and Other Poems

Parts of "Theocritus: Idyl I" and "The Orchestra" were used in The Desert Music, a composition for chorus and orchestra or voices and ensemble by Minimalist composer Steve Reich in 1984.

The Druds

Minimalist Walter De Maria played drums, painter Larry Poons played guitar, and composer La Monte Young played the saxophone; artist and poet Patty Mucha (then Patty Oldenburg, as she was married to sculptor Claes Oldenburg) was the lead singer.

The Visible Men

The band's debut album, the minimalist acoustic and piano-driven In Socks Mode, was released in 2002.

TWERPS

TWERPS (The World's Easiest Role-Playing System) is a minimalist role-playing game (RPG) originally created by Reindeer Games (whose sole product was the TWERPS line) and distributed by Gamescience.

Visual arts in Israel

Conceptual Post-Minimalist Installation artists Avital Geva, Joshua Neustein, Micha Ullman, Buky Schwartz, Benni Efrat, Zvi Goldstein, Yochevet Weinfeld, Adina Baron, Nahum Tevet, Or Ner, Michael Gitlin, Pinhas Cohen Gan discarded the conventions of taste, the heroics of authenticity, and provincial narrative.

Wingates Band

The recent recording Nyman Brass containing arrangements of compositions by the British minimalist composer Michael Nyman.


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