Roger Reynolds

Updated 6 December 2023

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ELECTROACOUSTIC

Except for some works which remain in manuscript form in the Reynolds Archive, all compositions are published by or are on rental from Wise Music Classical, Part of Wise Music Group. In the case of certain works, viewers may be asked to contact the composer directly for information.


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ACTIONS [SHARESPACE V] (2018-2020)
Solo Piano, Real-time algorithmic transformation
First performance: 30 October 2023
Eric Huebner, pianist
Jacob Sundstrom, computer musician
Library of Congress, DC

Commissioned by Eric Huebner
ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS

For inquiries regarding ACTIONS, contact the composer directly: info@rogerreynolds.com.

TECHNICAL MANUAL
Four Real-Time Algorithms, Roger Reynolds (with Jaime E. Oliver and Paul Hembree) (2015)
Technical manual for the use of software in the works of Roger Reynolds (SEASONS: Cycle 1, Dream Mirror, MARKed MUSIC, Toward Another World: LAMENT, Positings, george WASHINGTON, FLiGHT, "Shifting, Drifting," ACTIONS, PERSISTENCE)
UPDATE IN PROGRESS

Early performance: 8 April 2020
Eric Huebner, Piano, Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
San Francisco State University


Again (originally titled Template series one) [rev. 1971-74] (1970) 30'
2 Sopranos, 2 Fl, 2 Tbn, 2 Perc, 2 Db,
Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound, amplification, optional lighting
First performance: 20 July 1970
American Festival, Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, St-Paul-de-Vence
Evenings for New Music Ensemble, Lukas Foss, Conductor

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The Angel of Death, cf. SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE
Solo Piano, Chamber Orchestra,
6-channel computer processed sound

AngelSpace (2010) 25’
Real-time interactive computer music
C.F. Peters’ TECHNICAL SCORE, Reynolds with Jacob Sudol, is the score.
First performance: 4 June 2010
Jacob Sudol, Computer Musician
ICMC 2010 New York and Long Island, USA
New York University at Stony Brook
New York

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Archipelago, cf. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
Chamber Orchestra (32 players),
4- or 8-channel computer processed sound


Ariadne's Thread, cf. STRINGS
String Quartet, Computer generated sound


...brain ablaze...she howled aloud, cf. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
One, two, or three Piccolos, Computer processed sound, Real-time computer spatialization


Compass, cf. VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
Tenor, Bass, Vc, Db, Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound,
35mm slide projections


Dervish (1962), cf. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
Piano, Percussion, Db, Stereophonic electroacoustic sound


Dream Mirror (2010) 22' [SHARESPACE I], cf. SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Guitar, Real-time algorithmic transformation
First Performance: 1 April 2011
Pablo Gómez Cano, Guitar, Jaime Oliver, Computer Musician
"Music of Roger Reynolds"
Centro Mexicano para la Música y Artes Sonoras Conservatorio de las Rosas
Morelia, Mexico

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TECHNICAL MANUAL
Four Real-Time Algorithms, Roger Reynolds (with Jaime E. Oliver and Paul Hembree) (2015)
Technical manual for the use of software in the works of Roger Reynolds (SEASONS: Cycle 1, Dream Mirror,MARKed MUSIC, Toward Another World: LAMENT, Positings, george WASHINGTON, FLiGHT, "Shifting, Drifting," ACTIONS, PERSISTENCE)
UPDATE IN PROGRESS



The Dream of the Infinite Rooms, cf. ORCHESTRA
Solo Cello, Orchestra, Quadraphonic computer processed sound


Eclipse [Voicespace III] ELECTROACOUSTIC VERSION (1979) 16:10', cf. SERIES OF WORKS as well as ELECTROACOUSTIC
Electroacoustic vocal work
Quadraphonic computer generated and processed sound,
Electronically processed voices
Text fragments by Issa, Melville, Stevens,
Borges (The Moon, The Other Tiger ["...in the sun or deceptive moonlight..."]),
Joyce, García Márquez
Recorded voices: Carol Plantamura, Philip Larson
Recordings: Roger Reynolds
Technical assistance: Loren Rush
First performance: 18 February 1982
Symphony Space, New York City
(Concert in honor of Ross Lee Finney)
1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award (sound version)

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Eclipse [Voicespace III] MULTIMEDIA (VIDEO) VERSION, cf. MULTIMEDIA and SERIES OF WORKS


FLiGHT (Stage 1) cf. MULTIMEDIA
String Quartet, Multiple projection surfaces, Multichannel sound distribution


...from behind the unreasoning mask, cf. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
Trombone, Percussion (+ Assistant),
Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound


Here and There, cf. PERCUSSION
Percussion


The Image Machine (2005) 25'
Real-time interactive computer music
Roger Reynolds, Computer, Pei Xiang, Musical assistant
First performance: 6 October 2005
Roger Reynolds, computer
Ultima Festival, Oslo

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The Ivanov Suite (1991) 32:20'
Quadraphonic omputer processed sound
(originally in an 8-channel format)
I. Trumpet Dream, II. The Scream, III. Religious Music,
IV. The Brides, V. Piccolo Dream,
VI. Monogatari ("Stories"), VII. Primitive Music
First performance: 5 July 1992
Computer Music Conference/Festival, Delphi, Greece
Commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation

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Justice, cf. MUSIC FOR THEATER and SERIES OF WORKS
Actress, Soprano, Percussion, Multichannel computer sound,
Real-time spatialization, Staging
Text assembled by the composer from Aeschylus and Euripides


Less than Two, cf. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
2 Pianos, 2 Percussion,
Quadraphonic computer generated sound


MARKed MUSIC [SHARESPACE II] (2011) 18' , cf. SERIES OF WORKS as well as ELECTROACOUSTIC
Solo Contrabass, Real-time algorithmic transformation
First performance: 25th August 2011
Mark Dresser, Contrabass, Jaime Oliver, Computer Musician
The Stone, New York City

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TECHNICAL MANUAL
Four Real-Time Algorithms, Roger Reynolds (with Jaime E. Oliver and Paul Hembree) (2015)
Technical manual for the use of software in the works of Roger Reynolds (SEASONS: Cycle 1, Dream Mirror, MARKed MUSIC, Toward Another World: LAMENT, Positings, george WASHINGTON, FLiGHT, "Shifting, Drifting," ACTIONS, PERSISTENCE)
UPDATE IN PROGRESS



A Merciful Coincidence [Voicespace II] ELECTROACOUSTIC VERSION (1976) 36', cf. SERIES OF WORKS as well as ELECTROACOUSTIC
Quadraphonic vocal montage
Text: extract from Watt, a novel by Samuel Beckett
First performance electroacoustic version: 11 December 1976
Currents Series, Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles
1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award
Published score coming soon

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A Merciful Coincidence [Voicespace II] THEATER VERSION, cf. MUSIC FOR THEATER and SERIES OF WORKS


Not Only Night, cf. VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
Soprano, Fl (Picc), Cl Eb (B-cl), Pf, Vl, Vc,
Stereophonic computer processed sound


Odyssey, cf. VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
(originally titled Entre le galet et la dune)
Mezzo Soprano, Bass Baritone, Ensemble (16 players),
8-channel [4 + 4] computer processed sound, lighting


The Palace [Voicespace IV], cf. SOLO and SERIES OF WORKS
(Modest staging) Bass Baritone, Quadraphonic computer processed sound


PERSISTENCE [SHARESPACE VI] (2019-2023), cf. SERIES OF WORKS
Cello and Computer Musician
First performance: 30 March 2023
Peter Ko, cellist
Jacob Sundstrom, computer musician
IDEAS Event in the Auditorium for California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
La Jolla, California


For inquiries regarding PERSISTENCE, contact the composer directly: info@rogerreynolds.com.

TECHNICAL MANUAL
Four Real-Time Algorithms, Roger Reynolds (with Jaime E. Oliver and Paul Hembree) (2015)
Technical manual for the use of software in the works of Roger Reynolds (SEASONS: Cycle 1, Dream Mirror, MARKed MUSIC, Toward Another World: LAMENT, Positings, george WASHINGTON, FLiGHT, "Shifting, Drifting," ACTIONS, PERSISTENCE)

UPDATE IN PROGRESS


Personae, cf. SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE
Solo Violin, Chamber Ensemble,
Stereophonic or Quadraphonic computer processed sound


Ping, cf. MULTIMEDIA
Fl, Perc (Harmonium, Bowed Tam Tam, Bowed Cymbal), Pf,
35mm slide projections, 16mm film,
Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound, live electronic processing


Positings, cf. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
Flute/Piccolo, French horn, Violin, Cello, Piano, Real-time sound spatialization


Process and Passion, cf. STRINGS
Violin, Cello, Computer processed sound, Real-time computer spatialization (optional)


The Red Act Arias, cf. ORCHESTRA and SERIES OF WORKS
Orchestra, Chorus, Narrator, 8-channel computer processed and spatialized
vocal, instrumental, and environmental sound


The Red Act Arias Suite 2001 (1997-2001) 15', cf. SERIES OF WORKS
Multichannel computer-processed choral sound
First performance: 8 May 2001
Warren Lecture Halls – Studio A, University of California, San Diego
First performance (1st version, 1997): 4 May 1998
Programa Musicistas,
Instituto de Artes da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
Porto Alegre, Brazil

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SANCTUARY I, II, III, cf. PERCUSSION
Percussion Quartet, Real-time computer processed and spatialized sound, Lighting design


SEASONS: Cycle I, cf. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
Flute, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Percussion, Real-time computer sound processing


...the serpent-snapping eye... (1978) 20'
Tpt, Perc, Pf, Quadraphonic computer synthesized sound
First performance: 31 January 1979
Mandeville Center for the Arts, La Jolla, Sonor Ensemble,
Edwin Harkins, Trumpet, Jean-Charles François, Percussion, Cecil Lytle, Piano
National Endowment for the Arts Award
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Shifting/Drifting (2015) 23'37" [SHARESPACE IV], cf. SERIES OF WORKS as well as ELECTROACOUSTIC
Solo Violin, Real-time algorithmic transformation
First performance: 25 September 2015
Irvine Arditti, Violin, Paul Hembree, Computer Musician
ArtPower
Experimental Theater
Conrad Prebys Music Center
La Jolla, California


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TECHNICAL MANUAL
Four Real-Time Algorithms, Roger Reynolds (with Jaime E. Oliver and Paul Hembree) (2015)
Technical manual for the use of software in the works of Roger Reynolds (SEASONS: Cycle 1, Dream Mirror, MARKed MUSIC, Toward Another World: LAMENT, Positings, george WASHINGTON, FLiGHT, "Shifting, Drifting," ACTIONS, PERSISTENCE)
UPDATE IN PROGRESS



SKETCHBOOK (for The Unbearable Lightness of Being), cf. SOLO
Low female voice accompanying herself at the piano,
electronic processing


Still [Voicespace I] (1975) 21'35", cf. SERIES OF WORKS as well as ELECTROACOUSTIC
Electroacoustic vocal work
Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound
Text from The Wanderings of Cain by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
First performance: 27 October 1976
Sixth Annual Contemporary Music Festival, Las Vegas
1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award

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Submerged Memories, cf. SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE
Narrator, B-cl, Vln, Elect Gtr, Perc, Electroacoustic processing, Visual projections


Summer Island (Islands from Archipelago: I), cf. SOLO
Solo Oboe, Quadraphonic computer processed sound


Toward Another World: LAMENT [SHARESPACE III] (2010-2017) 25'07" [SHARESPACE III], cf. SERIES OF WORKS as well as ELECTROACOUSTIC
Solo Clarinet, Real-time algorithmic transformation
First performance: 31 July 2017
Anthony Burr, Solo Clarinet, Jacob Sundstrom, Real-time algorithmic transformation
Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference
Calit2 Auditorium
University of California, San Diego

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TECHNICAL MANUAL
Four Real-Time Algorithms, Roger Reynolds (with Jaime E. Oliver and Paul Hembree) (2015)
Technical manual for the use of software in the works of Roger Reynolds (SEASONS: Cycle 1, Dream Mirror, MARKed MUSIC, Toward Another World: LAMENT, Positings, george WASHINGTON, FLiGHT, "Shifting, Drifting," ACTIONS, PERSISTENCE)
UPDATE IN PROGRESS


Traces, cf. PIANO
Piano, Fl, Vc, Multichannel electroacoustic sound (6 channels [3 stereo pairs]),
Real-time electronic signal processing


Transfigured Wind II, cf. ORCHESTRA
Solo Flute, Orchestra, Quadraphonic computer processed sound


Transfigured Wind III, cf. SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE
Solo Flute, Chamber Orchestra (14 players),
Quadraphonic computer processed sound


Transfigured Wind IV, cf. SOLO
Solo Flute, Quadraphonic computer processed sound


The Vanity of Words [Voicespace V] (1986) 20'12", cf. SERIES OF WORKS as well as ELECTROACOUSTIC
Electroacoustic vocal work
Stereophonic computer processed sound only
Text drawn from The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
First performance: 6 June 1987
Festival International de Musique Expérimentale, Bourges
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Versions/Stages I-V (1986-91) 25', cf. SERIES OF WORKS
Computer processed sound
I. Cello Dream, II. Dionysus (Text: Tadashi Suzuki's
adaptation of Euripides's The Bacchae), III. Waterfall,
IV. Farewell Cult (Text: Tadashi Suzuki's
"The Farewell Cult"), V. Ocean
First presentation of I-V: 29 March 1994
Intercambio/Exchange Concerts, CRCA, La Jolla

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Symphony[Vertigo] (1987) 23', cf. ORCHESTRA
Orchestra, Quadraphonic computer processed sound
2 Fl (II = Picc), A-fl, 2 Ob, Ca, 2 Cl (II = Cl Eb), B-cl, 2 Bsn, Cbsn,
4 Hn, 3 Tpt, 2 Tbn, B-tbn, Tba, Perc, Pf, Hp, Str

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Vertigo ELECTROACOUSTIC VERSION (1985) 19'30"
Quadraphonic computer processed sound
First performance: 25 April 1987
New and Unusual Music, San Francisco
Written under the auspices of the Systems Development Foundation

Video version, cf. MULTIMEDIA

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SUMMARY:
VOICESPACE I - V (1975-1986), cf. SERIES OF WORKS

Voicespace I, Still, Quadraphonic electroacoustic work using voices
Written with support from a 1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award
There is no score. Digital sound files available on rental.
EP67808

Voicespace II, A Merciful Coincidence, Quadraphonic electroacoustic work using voices
Written with support from a 1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award
Score. Digital sound files available on rental.
EP67809
(There is music for a THEATER VERSION for 3 vocalists and electroacoustic sound.
VOICESPACE II HAS 2 VERSIONS)

Voicespace III, Eclipse, Quadraphonic electroacoustic work using voices and computer-synthesized sound
Written with support from a 1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award
There is no score. Digital sound files available on rental.

EP67809
(VOICESPACE III HAS 2 VERSIONS, one with VIDEO by Ed Emshwiller.) cf. MULTIMEDIA
The VIDEO VERSION was commissioned by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Voicepace IV, The Palace, (Modest lighting and staging), Bass Baritone, Quadraphonic computer processed sound
Written with support from a 1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award
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Voicespace V, The Vanity of Words, Stereo computer-processed sound
rental on Zinfonia

[Voicespace I-IV were written with the assistance of a 1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award.
The multimedia version of Voicespace III, Eclipse, was commissioned by
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Voicespace V, The Vanity of Words, computer sound, was not a commission.]


Watershed III (1995) 31', cf. SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE
Solo Percussion, Chamber Orchestra,
Optional real-time computer sound spatialization
Fl (Picc), Ob, Cl, B-cl, Hn, Tpt, B-tbn, Pf, 2 Vln, Vla, Vc, Db
First performance: 30 October 1995
Loeb Centre, New York
Music Mobile Ensemble, Steven Schick, Percussion,
Bruno Ferrandis, Conductor, Peter Otto, Spatialization

TECHNICAL SCORE by Roger Reynold

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Watershed IV (1995) 29'
Solo Percussion, Real-time computer sound spatialization
First performance: 11 April 1996
Mandeville Center for the Arts, La Jolla
Steven Schick, Percussion, Peter Otto, Spatialization
TECHNICAL SCORE by Roger Reynolds


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Watershed V (2020)
Solo Percussion, Stereophonic, algorithmically generated "Shimmer"
First performance: 1 September 2020
Mathias Reumert, Percussion
Copenhagen, Denmark
TECHNICAL SCORE by Roger Reynolds


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