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C. Reider



       C. Reider lives in Northern Colorado, in the United States. His activities can roughly be divided into four:
   1.) Listener
   2.) Composer of electronic, electro-acoustic and process music - with a recent interest in improvised performing and field recording
   3.) Publisher / sharer of this work (this is a very distinct tendency from the creation impulse)
   4.) Active member of a community of people making music, and distributing it for free with Creative Commons licensing.

He manages the Vuzh Music netlabel, Derivative Netlabel, Dystimbria netlabel, and manages the internet sound archives for Drone Forest and Sound Through Barriers.

       This is a recent interview explaining some methods and philosophy: AUTOreverse Interviews C. Reider, July 14, 2011 (external link)

       A major project for 2011-2012 was the curation of an exhibition of sound art titled Sound Through Barriers, which exhibited the work of 15 international sound artists in Fort Collins, Colorado, as well as two performances of experimental music by Cheryl Leonard and Jeph Jerman. The exhibition documentation is archived at SoundThroughBarriers.com (external link).

       The curatorial note from the Sound Through Barriers exhibition presents a more fleshed out vision of Reider's philosophy on sound:
On Listening Through Barriers (external link).

Further writing:
     - Fear of Silence
     - Ignorability and Inclusiveness
     - Reduction
     - You Are Your Own Archive
     - C. Reider interviews PBK
     - Response to Silent World of Netlabels


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
       Reider has participated in many collaborations, and groups, most notably Drone Forest (external link). Other major projects included Luster and Crook'd Finger.

       He was active in the global cassette underground during the nineties. He was also involved in music journalism, having written reviews and conducted interviews for the now defunct magazines AUTOreverse and Mouthy during the 90s & early 00s.

       His current pursuits circle around raising awareness of the netlabel community, and considering its future.

       Other than musical pursuits, he enjoys cats, mushrooming, cigars, sculpture, museums/museum studies politics, philosophy and writing about himself in third person for his website. Check out his SoundCloud. Read his Blog. Add him on Google+. Add him to your Last.FM library, follow him at Twitter @vuzhmusic.

DISCOGRAPHY
with Drone Forest (Bolded/Linked items were composed by CR)
  • Drone Forest
  • Drone Forest II
  • our ghost in her wood (composed / assembled & recorded by C. Reider) 2003
  • June 21, 2003
  • zoso
  • airways nova teeth
  • remixes volume I
  • META:drone
  • Drone Forest IV
  • remixes volume II
  • Kirchenkampf vs. Drone Forest
  • biolegacy
  • point (composed / assembled & recorded by C. Reider) 2005
  • honey
  • wormwood (composed / assembled & recorded by C. Reider) 2006
  • spatial displacement
  • Amy's Arms / metacollage (composed / assembled & recorded by C. Reider) 2007 Ltd. to 219 12" Vinyl
  • Forester 2007
  • distinguish 2007
Other Collaborative Work compilations (eesh, to the best of my memory!) Editing / mastering credit
  • Harlan - Collective Sounds (editing & mastering) (Vuzh Music)
  • El Tafkeera: Re-Mixs in Remembrance of Muslimgauze (curation of the project, track-sequencing, mastering, cover art) 2002
  • Apollon - Nox (mastering) (Vuzh Music) 2003

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