The piece I am going to introduce is called clapping music by minimalist composer Steve Reich. This piece was written in 1972. It is written for two performers and is performed entirely by clapping. Steve Reich had the idea of this piece when he heard a terrible show at a nightclub in Brussels. After he saw the performer were clapping, he had a thought that: “ What if there's a power failure in a gig, what if everything goes off?. And this was the inspiration of the clapping music. In Reich’s own words: “I want to create a piece of music that needed no instruments beyond the human body". The piece has only one rhythmic pattern and is based on fundamental African bell pattern in 12/8 time. One performer claps the basic pattern, and the other
