Roger Reynolds
"The more that one's music reflects ... the fullest exploration of one's own experience, one's own ability to assess what is moving, what is interesting, what is not ... the more it has a chance to be something which is coherent and unlike what other people already know or possess"
Composer and author, Roger Reynolds has created a body of work that encompasses nearly every major musical development in the 20th century. His work explores relationships between text, video, theater, digital signal processing, computer algorithms, antiphony and spatialization.
Reynolds' music has been featured at the Edinburgh Festival, Warsaw Autumn, Music Today (Tokyo), Helsinki Biennale, Darmstadt, New York Philharmonic's Horizons '84 ... He is author of Mind Models, A Searcher's Path, and Form and Method: The Rothschild Essays. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Grant, Koussevitsky Award, Fromm Fellowship, and awards from the Suntory Foundations, National Institute of Arts and Letters, British Arts Council, Library of Congress ... He was a co-founder of the Once Group in the 1960s and founder of the Cross Talk Intermedia Festival in Tokyo in the 1980s.
Roger Reynolds teaches at the University of California at San Diego.
Available CDs
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