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Rick Reed (b. 1957) is an entirely self-taught composer/visual artist
who has been working in the Austin music underground for the past 25 years. Using old battered electronic devices like sine wave
generators, short wave radios and a vintage EMS analogue synthesizer, Reed has performed solo and with various electronic/noise groups
including Frequency Curtain, Abrasion Ensemble, FTC and many others.
Since the mid 90s, Reed has released several LPs and CDs on labels such as Ecstatic Peace,
Beta-Lactam Ring, Pale Disc Japan and Elevator Bath. Among other projects, he's been host of a long running otherworldly music radio program called Commercial Suicide, as well as
serving as musical director of a concert series called Toneburst, which is dedicated to promoting unheard, or underexposed musicians
from the Austin experimental music scene. Since 2004, he has worked closely with New York filmmaker Ken Jacobs on three soundtracks
for his Nervous Magic Lantern displays, one of which, entitled Capitalism:
Child Labor, had it's world premiere at this year's Rotterdam Film Festival. Reed has two new releases due out later this
year, a new CD on Spectral House and a picture disc LP on Elevator Bath. |