Six Pianos

A friend in New York gave him and his fellow musicians access to the Baldwin Piano and Organ Company's premises during evenings, where they could try out ideas.

Six Pianos has three sections, separated by relatively sudden changes of tonal center, though they all use the same seven pitch classes of the D major diatonic scale.

Then that pattern slowly fades out, leaving a B minor tonality which serves as a short transition to the second section in E Dorian.

Piano Counterpoint's sonic difference from the original comes from the use of amplification and from the solo part in which some of the melodic phrases are an octave higher.

[8] Chow played the piece at a somewhat slower tempo to give a different feel to Corver's version.

[10] American DJ Kerri Chandler released a house-music track called Six Pianos that interpolates the Reich piece.

[11] Susumu Yokota sampled this piece in his 2005 track Blue Sky and Yellow Sunflower from the album Symbol, where it serves as the rhythmic foundation of the song, exemplifying the influence of Reich's minimalist style on the ambient electronic genre of contemporary music.