Rick Reed

RICK REED (born 1957) is a composer / visual artist originally from Corpus Christi, Texas, who has been working in the Austin underground music scene for the past 20 + years. Using a Moog synthesizer, short wave radios and sine wave generators, Reed has performed solo and with various music groups such as Frequency Curtain, Abrasion Ensemble and Field. Since the mid 90's, Reed has released several LP's and CD's on labels such as Ecstatic Peace, Beta Lactam Ring, Pale Disc Japan and Elevator Bath.  A few of the higher profile musicians he has played with over the years includes No Necks Blues Band drummer David Nuss and guitarist Keith Rowe, of the legendary English group AMM.  

In 2004, Reed joined in with the Austin New Music Coop playing short wave in a version of John Cage's Imaginary Landscape. He also composed soundtrack music for New York filmmaker Ken Jacobs latest digital film, Mountaineer Spinning, which received it's premiere at this years Rotterdam Film Festival. 2005 has found Reed performing the music of Phill Niblock, playing ebow guitar in a version of "Guitar Too, For Four". In one of the more notorious events he has participated in, Reed played cracked and broken records in a concert focused on the destruction of the music of Pierre Boulez, as part of fellow Austinite Josh Ronsen's infamous Boulez Project. Look for a new CD from him later this year called Dark Skies at Noon, on the Elevator Bath label, as well as a forthcoming CD on spectral house.

For more information: richardkreed@hotmail.com