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David Reeder
In a previous life David Reeder has played at the roles of seeker, soothsayer, magician, and Cassandra. Today he seeks to manifest these same qualities through the practice of classical and electro-acoustic composition.
David is an avid composer and entrepreneur of new music who develops live interactive electronic works as well as acoustic compositions. He also strongly supports the need for inter-disciplinary collaboration with other artists including dance, theater, video and lighting design.
He participated in Darmstadt (2004) and the Oregon Bach Festival Composers' Symposium (2005). In May 2004 he curated and produced a concert of new music in New York City which included performances by Bliggidy Blam, Anti-Social Music and members of the Anonyme Composers Collective, of which he is a founding member. He was also invited by the Cathedral Arts Festival (2004) to perform and give a technical presention on Voicewalk, a custom program built from Max/MSP and SoftVNS which relies on video input to translate movement into the live reading of a poem manipulated by sample scratching and audio effects processing. In 2003-2004 he performed and produced new media collaborations as part of the Performance and Interactive Media Arts program at Brooklyn College. Between 2001 and 2004 he sang tenor for the Greenwich Village Singers. He also sang with the select GVS Chamber Singers (2002-2004). Further information about his musical background and performance experience may be found in his resume.
His larger artistic goals include an earnest search for new forms of expression and inter-genre synthesis. He spurns entrapment by all stylistic traditions and unnaturally self-protective institutional thinking. He believes that embracing and re-using the aesthetic forms of the past may be as radical an act as re-drawing the boundaries of the future. Above all, he seeks to manifest and embrace the needs, integrity and communicative power of the human spirit whether it hails from the Romantic era or the Darmstadt style.
David was recently granted a full scholarship to the MFA program at the Claire Trevor School for the Arts at UC Irvine where he will focus on composition, inter-media, and music technology. Heretofore he has been primarily self-taught, taking lessons from faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, and others in New York and San Francisco. He is deeply indebted to his performers who have helped to transform book and intuitivive knowledge into living works.
He hopes to continue the legacy of the Seattle Composers' Alliance as liaison or contributor while living in southern California.
More information about David may be found at www.danaprajna.com. This Web site includes both a resume for music and computer science as well as a catalog of work. In addition there are MP3s, videos, full scores and parts, as well as a variety of stand-alone programs representing interactive electronic "instruments" and educational tools designed in Max/MSP.
See the events calendar for information about past and future performances.