NEWS

NEW DVD RELEASE
Mode Records released in June, a double-DVD documenting Reynolds’ Sanctuary Project. Included are a complete live recording of the premiere of this three-movement, 75-minute composition for percussion quartet and real-time computer manipulations, a novel studio recording involving intricate cross-cutting and visual effects designed by Ross Karre, and two features. The Wire magazine calls it "a new way to chart ... the evolution of a piece ... a model documentation. Sanctuary delivers what it promises, an immersive and consoling space in which every musical element is redeemed." The Washington Post called Sanctuary's Washington premiere “a once-in-a-lifetime aural experience”, noting that it was “a process of questioning and development that, in [an] exemplary realization of the score, sounded strange and remote but also, somehow, universal and timeless."


JOHN CAGE CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL WASHINGTON, DC
a retrospecive: music, watercolors, dance, theater
Reynolds, along with Steve Antosca and Karen Reynolds, is a co-director of the John Cage Centennial Festival Washington, DC. Involving eleven events straddling Cage’s September 5, 2012 anniversary, the Festival will present the National Gallery of Art new music ensemble, Irvine Arditti, Steve Schick and the red fish blue fish percussion ensemble, Allen Otte and the Group Percussion Cincinnati, pianists Margaret Leng Tan, Stephen Drury, and Jenny Lin, as well as cellist Alexis Descharmes, and violinist Irvine Arditti. Held at a range of Washington venues that includes the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the Phillips Collection, Arena Stage, the Kreeger Museum, and the Freer Gallery, as well as American University, and the University of California’s Washington Center, the Festival will offer a broad range of Cage’s work: music, visual art, and text. Tribute works from Robert Ashley, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, David Felder, Beat Furrer, Philip Glass, George Lewis, Kaija Saariaho, Tamzin Ferré Elliott, and Ryan Bridge will be included.


WASHINGTON, DC COMPOSITION SEMINAR
In the Spring of 2012, Reynolds will offer an all-University of California Composition Seminar at UC’s Washington Center, DC. The resulting student compositions will be rehearsed and recorded by New York’s vibrant JACK string quartet. Some of these works along with other works including Reynolds’ own not forgotten, will be included in a concert by JACK at the National Gallery of Art in early June.


TWO PREMIERES
His newest string quartet, not forgotten, was premiered at the Wittener Tage Festival by the Arditti Quartet in April of 2010. Schweizer Musikzeitung praised its assemblage of “very diverse memories, like landscapes as well as colleagues including Takemitsu, Carter, or Xenakis”, adding that it accomplished “everything in a very noble and admirably masterly way.”


Reynolds’ Dream Mirror, for guitar and real-time computer manipulations was performed at The Phillips Collection in March of 2011 by Pablo Gómez-cano and computer musician Jaime Oliver. The Washington Post wrote, “The effect was electrifying, as if the computer had become a sort of meta-guitar, revealing a hidden universe of ideas, dreams, possibilities and memories ..." For the complete review, CLICK here.