Steve Reich

Steve Reich is seen with 4 Farfisa Mini Compact organs on his this album cover. According to Pitchfork, "The Farfisas are played by Steve Reich and Philip Glass, joined by Arthur “Art” Bixler Murphy and Steve Chambers, while Jon Gibson supplies the steady maraca shakes." Note: Steve Reich is on the right and Philip Glass is on the bottom.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21584-four-organs-phase-patterns/

For more than 15 years, Avid Sibelius has been front and center, and critical to helping Reich compose the works that inspire musicians and captivate audiences worldwide. At its core, Sibelius gives him creative freedom. He remembers when, in the mid-1980s, the bill from a copyist for a large and complex piece was greater than his actual commission. “I told myself there has to be a better way,” he says.

Around the same time, computers were beginning to be used to aid the creative process. He recalls a composer telling him about an early music program, “If you input the score, it’ll print it out and the parts will be extractable, and if the score’s right, the parts will be right.” He calls that first program “a dog that crashed every 35 seconds,” but it got him into the digital realm. When his publisher later told him about Avid Sibelius, he was hesitant to commit to learning a new system. But, he says, “In 10 days I was working, there was a manual, and I went through some of it, but you could just intuit what was the right thing to do, and everything looked good right away. I’ve been working with Sibelius ever since.”