A trio of Kory Reeder, Ryan Seward, and Andrew Weathers visit Iowa City to share their music ("high plains ambient noisecapes"). An ensemble comprised of Christine Burke, Justin K Comer, Tâmila Freitas, Mark Rheaume, and Levi Raleigh Brown will open the show with music for objects and instruments (works by Burke, Comer, Brown, and Rheaume).
Kory Reeder is an American composer and performer whose music, drawing inspiration from the visual arts and political theory, is often introspective and atmospheric, investigating ideas of objectivity and immediacy, while exploring the social implications of musical interaction with pieces ranging from symphonic and chamber works to field recording, text scores and computer-assisted improvisations.
Described as “one of the most captivating composers in modern classical music” (Dallas Observer), Kory’s music is performed frequently around the world in concert halls, festivals, academic settings, basements, and DIY venues. A dedicated collaborator, he has worked with opera, theater, and dance programs, as well as noise, free-improv, and new media artists on projects ranging from video collaborations to 24-hour live performance art works.
With a catalog of over 100 programmed works, his music has been released on Edition Wandelweiser Records, where one may also find scores of his work, as well as portrait albums released on Full Spectrum Records, Sawyer Editions, Sawyer Spaces, Impulsive Habitat, and Another Timbre, with further releases planned for 2024 and 2025.
Kory is from Nebraska and currently resides in Denton, Texas where he is an active performer and received his PhD from the University of North Texas.
Ryan Seward is a musician, composer, and artist living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His work is situated within and across a number of forms, including composition, improvisation, installation, performance, phonography, photography, sculpture, and videography.
Ryan’s work has most recently been performed by TAK ensemble, Filament, and Sam Wells, and presented at CO-OPt Research + Projects (Lubbock, Texas); Blo Back Gallery (Pueblo, Colorado); Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany); Washington Street Art Center (Somerville, Massachusetts) for co-incidence festival 2020; Die Station (Neufelden, Austria); California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California) for The Dog Star Orchestra 15; and Casper College (Casper, Wyoming) for the Second Annual New Music Day. His recordings have been released by Editions Glomar, emic rite, Marginal Frequency, and Sawyer Editions.
He has previously collaborated with Gabriela Areal, Nat Baldwin, Jaap Blonk, Eugene Chadbourne, Tashi Dorji, Sandy Ewen, Douglas Farrand, Simon Labbé, Llano Estacado Monad Band, Bob Marsh, Cecyl Ruehlen, Daniel Ryan, Bret Sexton, Susan Wolf, Ben Wright, and Jack Wright, among others; and currently collaborates with Kory Reeder and Andrew Weathers. He has also commissioned and premiered the work of composers Eva-Maria Houben and Alexis Porfiriadis.
Ryan holds the MA in Music from Wesleyan University, where he studied experimental music and composition with Ron Kuivila, Paula Matthusen, and Neely Bruce. He has also been mentored informally by composers Antoine Beuger, Michael Pisaro-Liu, and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé.
Andrew Weathers (1988) is a composer and improviser based in the Llano Estacado region of northwestern Texas. His work is equally concerned with the disjunction of duration and place, as well as improvisation’s prospect as a vessel of discovery and collective practice. His projects and performances span the idioms of field recording, prepared guitar, surrealist soundscape, and minimalist composition rooted in repetition and drone. Apart from his longtime commitment to collaboration alongside a wide swath of figures inhabiting the sonic underground, Weathers is founder and operator of Full Spectrum Records, which has continued to release the works of sundry sound artists and experimental musicians since its inception in 2008 in his home state of North Carolina. On top of frequent credits as a mixing and mastering engineer, he has also produced various projects for Other Minds Records and Rural Situationism.