Welcome to the web site for the Society for Minimalist Music. The SMM was formed in September, 2007, at the First International Conference on Music and Minimalism, at the University of Bangor, Wales, directed by Pwyll ap Sion and Tristian Evans.The Society for Minimalist Music exists to promote the intellectual and scholarly study of the music known as minimalism, and originating in the 1960s activities of composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Tony Conrad, Terry Jennings, Jon Gibson, Charlemagne Palestine, Phill Niblock, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and others. The Society’s interests are not limited to the music of that period, but also to ensuing streams of music developed from minimalist origins, and also in the relationship of music to minimalism in the other arts. Specifically, the Society recognizes minimalism not only in its familiar idiom of motivic repetition, but also its more general concern with drones and stasis. The Second International Conference on Music and Minimalism is being planned for August-September 2009 at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. The directors are Kyle Gann and David McIntire. Details on this conference will be announced on this site as they become available.