


"American composer Kory Reeder's 10th album In Place returns to the Grid Series heard on 2 of the 4 tracks from Reeder's debut release on Edition Wandelweiser Records Love Songs/Duets. With raw recordings of three works from the ...
In Stock
Quantity in Basket: None
Log In to use our Wish List
Shipping Weight: 3.00 units

Sample The Album:



Kory Reeder-piano
Kathleen Crabtree-viola
Michael Moore-viola
Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist.
UPC: 7320470274842
Label: thanatosis produktion
Catalog ID: THT045
Squidco Product Code: 36264
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: Sweden
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Denton, Texas in 2023, by Kory Reeder.
"American composer Kory Reeder's 10th album In Place returns to the Grid Series heard on 2 of the 4 tracks from Reeder's debut release on Edition Wandelweiser Records Love Songs/Duets. With raw recordings of three works from the mid-phase of this Series of 45 works, In Place is the first release exclusively containing pieces from the Grid Series and features Reeder on piano with long-time collaborators Kathleen Crabtree and Michael Moore on violas.
Each track is a space to dwell, on the edge of silence, on the edge of collapse, and in a kaleidoscope of tones repeating again and again, cycling around each other in a freedom of movement motivated by the poetic prose-scoring of each piece.
Influenced by Agnes Martin's "innocence of the grid" and rooted in the methodology of series composition, the Grid Series presents a collection of works that explore the intersection of structure and spontaneity. Each piece offers a unique balance between fixed harmonic frameworks and performer agency, employing text-based scores and graph-like notational grids. Echoing Martin's belief that beauty resides within the viewer, the Grid Series emphasizes the performer's experience and the listener's lingering emotional memory, the "aura" of the piece over exact musical detail. These works are not linear narratives but sonic environments, open-ended and deeply personal, inviting exploration rather than dictation. Through suggestive prose and intuitive navigation of pitch fields, the Grid Series resists traditional expectations of musical authorship, offering instead a reflective, spacious mode of performance grounded in intimacy, presence, and the poetic potential of silence and sound.
The three compositions featured on In Place embody Reeder's distinctive approach to music-making, where structure and spontaneity coexist within a framework that emphasizes performer agency and introspection. Each piece, while unique in its construction and intent, contributes to a cohesive sonic environment that invites both performers and listeners into a shared space of contemplation.
"Landscape Study" puts instruments into sustaining and non- sustaining categories, creating an interplay between continuous textures and ephemeral gestures that mirrors natural landscapes, where persistent elements like terrain and climate interact with transient phenomena such as light and movement.
"Field" offers a sparse sonic tapestry encased in field recordings from Nebraska, where sound emerges from "silence" in subtle, fleeting moments. The piece's minimalistic approach encourages deep listening and heightened awareness, as the absence of sound becomes as significant as its presence.
In "Present Tense", performers navigate a grid-like score with the freedom to choose their starting point and path, moving adjacently through the material. This open-ended structure fosters a sense of immediacy and presence, as each performance becomes a unique realization shaped by the performers' decisions and interactions."-thanatosis produktion

Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Kory Reeder "Kory Reeder's 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 performed across North America, Asian, Australia, and Europe and has been featured on 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, and Klangraum 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, and the Kimmel, Harding, Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska. 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." ^ Hide Bio for Kory Reeder • Show Bio for Michael Moore "Michael Moore was born (1954) and raised in Arcata, California, USA. After absorbing music at home, playing locally and attending The College of the Redwoods and Humboldt State University, he moved to Boston to study with Jaki Byard, Gunther Schuller, Ran Blake, Joe Allard, George Russell and Joe Maneri at the New England Conservatory of Music, graduating in 1977. After a year in New York City he travelled to Europe for the first time in the summer of 1978 to play with Available Jelly, the musical accompaniment to the Great Salt Lake Mime Troupe. Since 1982 he has made his home in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The early '80's found him working in the theater (Baal, Dogtroep, De Voorziening, Teo Joling, Mug met de Gouden Tand) and dance (Pauline De Groot, Katie Duck, Allessandro Certini, Shusaku Takeuchi and Virgilio Sieni) as well as various musical contexts such as Gijs Hendricks' Octet, Franky Douglas' Sunchild, Guus Janssen's Septet and Maarten Altena's Quartet and Octet. Later he played and recorded with the groups of Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway, Sean Bergin, Maurice Horsthuis, Georg Graewe, Klaus Konig, Burton Greene (Klezmokum), Simon Nabatov, Dave Douglas, Myra Melford, Mark Dresser, Ig Henneman and others. In 1986 he received the Dutch jazz award, the Boy Edgar Prijs. In '97 Trio Clusone was voted #1 acoustic group (Talent Deserving Wider Recognition) in Down Beat's Critics Poll; in 2000 - 2002 Moore was voted #1 clarinetist in the same poll. He was also voted winner of the Bird Award from the Northsea Jazz Fest in 2000. Since '91 his activities as composer and performer have been documented both on his own recording label, Ramboy, and others including hatART, Palmetto, Gramavision, Between the Lines and Red Toucan. His playing and writing are to be heard on more than 80 CDs. His activities as a concert designer came to the fore in '93 with a commission for YoYo Ma's Carte Blanche at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; a three day festival (Moore & more) in Bremen, Germany; Clusone & friends concerts in Italy and Holland, and a three-day Available Jelly Festival at the Felix Meritus concert hall in Amsterdam. In '94 he organized three evenings at De Singel in Antwerpen with Lee Konitz, Misha Mengelberg, Joey Baron, Marilyn Crispell, Gerry Hemingway, Kenny Wheeler, Mark Feldman and others. His more recent activities include performances with his 'Fragile' Quartet, Michael Moore Quintet, Jewels & Binoculars - play the music of Bob Dylan, Misha Mengelberg's Instant Composers Pool Orchestra, the Magpie dance and music performance group, the Achim Kaufmann Trio, Benoit Delbecq, Oskar Aichinger (music of Carla Bley and Annette Peacock) and the Paul Berner band. Michael Moore has a deep understanding of both the American jazz and the Dutch improvised music traditions, but his writing and playing are also influenced by music from other cultures. He has played Turkish music with Ogüz Büyükberber and Hüsnü Senlendirici, Malinese with Toumani Diabate, Keletigui Diabate and Habib Koite, Portuguese with Fernando Lameirinhas and Cristina Branco, and Brazilian with Rogerio Bicudo, Banda Mantiqueira and Paulo Moura. The musics of Sicily, Madagascar, Istria and Indonesia have also been particularly influential. He has collaborated with and been influenced by poets and poetry, dancers and other visual artists. Michael continues to write, improvise, play and prepare new releases for Ramboy and other labels." ^ Hide Bio for Michael Moore
5/28/2025
Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.
5/28/2025
Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.

Track Listing:
1. Landscape Study 20:10
2. Field 18:04
3. Present Tense 16:33

In Stock, Not Yet Cataloged
Compositional Forms
Improvised Music
Ambient, Minimal, Reductionist, Onky Sound, &c.
Stringed Instruments
Trio Recordings
Search for other titles on the label:
thanatosis produktion.


