Providence, Rhode Island based Work/Death, operated by Scott Reber, is an intersection of musique concrete, electro-acoustic improv and composition, field recording, drone, harsh noise, physical performance, and the pop song. As the name suggests it is a labor of determination, focus, and quality accumulating over a lifetime. For the past 10 years he has synthesized sounds of the 20th century. His multimodal composition process navigates effortlessly between the intellectualist avant garde and the noise underground with its violent removal of musical structures. paraphrasing reber himself, “David Tudor or Alvin Lucier as prototype wall noise via early mapping of crunch, crumble, cracks, crackle, ruptures, space, and moving air that would later be central to The Rita, Macronympha.” Work/Death exemplifies the subtlety of pain and the intensity of tenderness. Garbage in. Garbage out.
- ALISON KNOWLES +
- ALVIN LUCIER +
- ANDRÉ CORMIER +
- AREA C +
- BLEVIN BLECTUM +
- CAROLINE PARK +
- CASSIA STREB +
- CAT LAMB +
- CHASE SPRUILL +
- CHRISTIAN WOLFF +
- CHRISTINA KUBISCH +
- CLAY CHAPLIN +
- COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS PLAYERS +
- CRYSTAL HELL POOL +
- DAMION ROMERO +
- DAVID LEE +
- DAVID MONACCHI +
- DAVID ROTHBAUM +
- DAVID WESSEL +
- DELEUZER +
- DONNA PARKER +
- ED OSBORN +
- ÉLIANE RADIGUE +
- EMILY DIX THOMAS +
- ERNST KAREL +
- FORREST LARSON +
- FRANCES-MARIE UITTI +
- GEOFF MULLEN +
- GLENN BACH +
- HANS FJELLESTAD +
- HINJNOIZ +
- IANNIS XENAKIS +
- JÜRG FREY +
- JAMES TENNEY +
- JEN BOYD +
- JEREMY DRAKE +
- JOHN CAGE +
- JOHN OSWALD +
- KADET KUHNE +
- KATHERINE BERGERON +
- KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN +
- KEN UENO +
- KEVIN PATTON +
- KONUS QUARTETT +
- KRAIG GRADY +
- LAURA CETILIA +
- LUKE MOLDOF +
- LYN GOERINGER +
- MARC THOMAS +
- MARK CETILIA +
- MARK TRAYLE +
- MEM1 +
- MIKE BULLOCK +
- MITCHELL BROWN / SEED POD PALS +
- MORTON FELDMAN +
- NOMI EPSTEIN +
- PETER ABLINGER +
- PHILIP GLASS +
- PIERO GUIMARAES +
- POLYRHYTHMIC +
- REDUX +
- REN SCHOFIELD +
- REUBEN SON +
- ROB BETHEL +
- ROBIN STREB +
- RROSE +
- RS-232 +
- SAKIKO MORI +
- SCHAULUST +
- SHAWN GREENLEE +
- STEVE REICH +
- STEVE RODEN +
- SUBSTRATE +
- SVARTE GREINER +
- TASHI WADA +
- THE PENDERECKI STRING QUARTET +
- TITANS OF JAZZ +
- TOMAS KORBER +
- VIC RAWLINGS +
- WILL GUTHRIE +
- WORK / DEATH +
- YANN NOVAK