Despite his relatively young age, Kory Reeder has already produced well over a hundred scores, the earliest dating from 2017 and the Covid years being particularly fertile for him. He has composed in a range of genres which include large ensemble, soloist with orchestra, choral, chamber (5+ players), quartets, trios, duos, solo, open ensemble pieces, art songs, stage music, electronic music, field recordings. In addition, Homestead is his second album release on Another Timbre, his first on that label having been entitled Codex Vivere recorded in December 2021 by Apartment House. Prior to those releases, Reeder’s first album Love Songs, Duets had been released on the prestigious Editions Wandelweiser Records. Two other Reeder albums have been released…
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John Cage might have a bit of a reputation problem. Ask a random person about him and if they remember anything, it’s probably “4’33,” his infamously silent piece of music. Perhaps if they’re a little more of a music nerd they’ll know he sometimes composed for prepared piano, a piano where the strings have objects stuffed between the strings. But between the poles of not playing anything and playing something unusually is Cage the composer. Contrasted with Cage the experimenter, this is a composer who worked with string quartets, duos and solo piano. It’s this Cage that’s the focus of the new Another Timbre release Chamber Works: 1943-1951, a set of his early music played by the ever reliable classical ensemble Apartment House.