Curious about minimalism in music? Not every good song has to be an enormous, elaborate work of art. Sometimes, the real power of a song lies in its most stripped-down elements. Peter Gabriel isn’t ...

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four,” the avant-garde composer John Cage once said. “If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it ...

Before there was Minimalism there was Post-Minimalism. That might seem hardly feasible if you put your trust in time being an irreversible process. Theoretical physics, however, allows for a more open ...

As centenary events celebrate Simeon ten Holt’s work, music historians have questioned his omission from histories of Minimalism, and its focus on American greats. By Hugh Morris Reporting from London ...