Wow - Never heard of this!!! Thanks for the tip 
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I am currently relearning that space is something I can work with too. Back in the day, when I played in a guitar-wave band, we left so much space everywhere, so whatever was in focus had more than enough room to shine. Let it be the vocals, a melodie or a bassline.
Now, with synths and the ability to play more or less as many voices as I can think of, I tend to overdo it a lot. Because you are able to does not mean you need to. I start to remove more and more over time until I am happy with the result.
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Here’s a good link for the book
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minimalism is actually a genre… few good electronic bands from the late 70s were popular…
I wanted to share this somewhere and this seems like as good a place as any. I really like repetition, I think my brain has some very well worn simple neural pathways 
An exercise with the PreenFM2 and Blofeld.
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I dig it! Really subtle rolling track. Definitely in the minimal genre. It kind of messes with your sense of time / rhythm. Like listening to a clock where you start to group the ticks together into patterns.
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I love this. Another Villalobos track got me into minimal-
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Ha, I really like that clock thing. It’s similar to being at an intersection where you can hear the beeps/clicks from different sets of pedestrian crossing signals.
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Here’s a little meditation piece. I’m delving in to the Pulse2 and really enjoyed trying to find a few nice tones with the self-oscillation of the LP filter. The drum hits just allow my attention to wander a little while listening.
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About self-oscillation
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This gives me the inspiration to play around with the same idea in the Blofeld mulitmode. Pulse2 only has one filter at a time. I think it sounds nice but multiple filters allow for this ryhtmic stuff. I guess Ryoji Ikeda’s early work utilised a similar idea?
I like this one too. It gave me the idea to separate the 2 vco on my monologue. Then of course Bitwig showed up and tempted me into creating 8 automation lanes and now I got 1/2 a track going but it’s not as meditative as yours.
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This album is great, it sounds like Tim Hecker before Tim Hecker
I switched to a more minimal approach, when I found that I got a bit overwhelmed by working on too many devices at the same time. I put everything but the digitakt away and suddenly saw my inspiration and productivity increase> I think you can call these tracks quite minimal:
Available on spotify as well:
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I read about Stone’s album, “Mom’s” in Option magazine back in the early 90’s. That “Banteay Srey” song is wonderful.
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That’s a great, if randomly picked, example of good currentish minimal techno. Count how many elements are playing at once 3?4? But it’s still interesting.
Easily one of the best bits of minimal electronic music of all time.
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“What you don’t play can be more important than what you do play.”
– Thelonius Monk
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Saw a performance of Six Pianos with 6 people on 6 small MIDI keyboards several years ago. It was a nice show.
Nice video btw.
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That always reminds me of this…
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