Brina Keene

Philip Glass' 1987 album Songs from the Trilogy is made up of brief selections from his three portrait operas, Einstein on the Beach (1976), Satyagraha (1980), and Akhnaten (1983). It gives a good idea of what the music from the operas sounds like, but at the same time it misrepresents what the music is actually about. In developing his "music with repetitive structures" (the description he preferred over "minimalism"), Glass was creating a new kind of experience, one in which the traditional temporal expectations of a piece of music are overturned, where changes happen incrementally and very slowly over a long (sometimes a very long) span of time.

En 1996, James Keene est arrêté et jugé pour trafic de drogue. Il accepte d'aider le FBI à piéger Larry Hall, un serial killer, en échange de l'annulation de sa peine. Suspecté d'avoir commis une vingtaine d'assassinats, celui-ci n'a été condamné que pour un seul. James est transféré dans l'unité où sont détenus les plus dangereux prisonniers et doit amener Larry à confesser ses crimes. …