And if you put, between those four points, four little scratches, you have exactly the grounds for a techno track. So these ideas weren't really new, but there was no context for them then. And for me, the feedback from the Kompakt people, especially from Mike, was a big motivation to start again. Tell me a little more about snapshots with sound. I think of minimalism as the opposite of mimesis, as something like pure abstraction, a reduction of musical elements to pure form.
Minimalism is very old.
It's not just Steve Reich . Bells are very special. They have always informed people. I lived for two years in Italy, in a church, and they had a lot of different codes, just to inform the people if a new child is born, if somebody dies, if it's Christmas, Easter, and so forth. So they have maybe 30 or 40 programs.