“My fundamental artistic drive is to do things with my friends, and sometimes I can care less about the actual music."
Kory Reeder is a performer and composer whose music is meditative and atmospheric, investigating ideas of objectivity, place, immediacy, situation, and interaction. Kory draws inspiration from the visual arts, nature, astronomy, and history, translating their structural or philosophical elements into musical form.
Kory’s music has been released on Edition Wandelweiser Records, and performed across North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. His work has been heard on BBC 3, Klangraum, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the New Music Gathering, Composer’s Circle, SEAMUS, LaTex, The New Music Conflagration’s Traveling Tunes // Traveling Sounds, the national BGSU Graduate Student Forum, the Bowling Green New Music Festival, the Electroacoustic Barn Dance, New Music on the Point, Noise Floor, New Music on the Bayou, SCI Conferences, among others. His work for Hecuba was awarded by The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for achievement in Original Composition Music and Sound Effects, he has been an ASCAP Morton Gould Award finalist, recognized by ACSM 116 (Tokyo), Festival Stradella (Italy), and artist-in-residence at Arts, Letter, and Numbers in Averill Park, NY, the Kimmel, Harding, Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska and has been Artist in Residence in the Everglades. Kory has frequently collaborated with theater and dance programs, writing incidental music for productions of Euripides’ Hecuba, Henrik Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea, Dayna DeFilippis 2016 Dance Recital, choreographer Princess Charis Grant, and the BGSU MicrOpera program.
Kory is currently pursuing a PhD. in music composition at the University of North Texas. He is a former student of Antoine Beuger, Anthony Donofrio, Sungi Hong, Mikel Kuehn, Elainie Lillios, and Darleen Cowles Mitchel, and holds a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and a Master of Music in composition from Bowling Green State University.
Making Noise Podcast is starting off the new year with a big one! The first episode of 2021, 3 hours and 15 minutes long, features my friend and phenomenal composer Kory Reeder. Kory and I met at orientation when we started graduate school at BGSU. We spent many nights going to performances, having drinks, and listening to a lot of music and talking a lot about music.
We cover topics from mainstream music like Kendrick Lamar and Flying Lotus, to the purpose of art, having challenging and difficult conversations, the composer/performer relationship, music as an empathetic artform, and so much more - literally so much more - all in episode 12 of Making Noise Podcast.
Shout outs to Richard P. John, Aliana Clarice, Devon Tipp, Alan Theisen, Kirsten Broberg, Kendrick Lamar, Jack Yarborough
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