:::: Todd Cameron Reynolds (grin) : violin, electronics, software and composition ::::
Still Life with Mic cast members: (see the site) :::
Michael Lowenstern :: Evan Ziporyn :: Theo Bleckmann :: Alexandra Montano :: Katie Geissinger :: David Cossin :: Bohdan Hilash :: Jody Elff :: Luke DuBois :: Phil Kline :: Gutbucket :: Jesse Stiles :: Leese Walker :: Christian Brandjes :: Steve Salerno :: Michael O'Brien :: Dave Cook :: L. Ron Dubbard
Influences
Jascha Heifetz, Steve Reich, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Kenny Werner, James Brown, The Eagles, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, Jimi Hendrix, Miles, Coltrane, Jesus (may he rest in peace), HH the DL, Robert Johnson, Bang on a Can, Richard James, Robin Rimbaud, Evan Ziporyn, The Second Viennese School, The Renaissance School, Doug Cox-Violinmaker, Cycling74, Peregrine Arts, Neil Rolnick, Michael Lowenstern, Trevor Exter, Theo Bleckmann, Todd Rundgren, Joe Jackson, Ethel (my former band), Gurumayi Chidvilisinanda, Laurie Anderson, Jason Kottke, TWIT, Ableton.com and Live 6, Steve Jobs and all things Cupertino, David Cossin, Phil Kline, Randy Woolf, Kathy Supove, Bill Ryan and Billband, Thich Nhat Hanh, Bigfoote Studios, Yo-Yo Ma and all things Silk Road, The Books, Nonesuch Records, Cantaloupe Records, Warp Records.
Sounds Like
Bach, Paganini, Peter Frampton and Karlheinz Stockhausen sipping mojitos in Palm Springs, Fritz Kreisler and Jascha Heifetz plugged into a 100 watt generator and a Macintosh on their birthday (Feb2), Acoustic Alchemical Electronica, Quantum-Ambient-uh... Ness, but it's all going Lower soon.
TODD REYNOLDS (NYC), composer, conductor, arranger, violinist and electronic musician, is a veteran of the New York City music scene, and a longtime touring and recording member member of Bang On A Can, Steve Reich and Musicians and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project . Collaborations run the gamut from Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson to Kenny Werner and Betty Buckley to Meredith Monk and Scanner. His solo sets on tour opening for Indie sensations, The Books, and his affiliation with and use of the music software phenomenon Ableton Live have opened his unique blend of "classically- improvised-quantum-ambient-electronica" to a new and wider audience. His commitment to genre-bending and technology-driven innovation in music continues to produce innumerable collaborations with artists that regularly cross musical and disciplinary boundaries, regularly placing him in venues from clubs to concert halls around the world.
A forerunner in the expansion of the violin beyond its classical and ’wood-bound’ tradition, Reynolds electrifies in concert, weaves together composed and improvised segments, and makes use of computer technology and digital loops to sculpt his sounds in real time, seamlessly integrating minimalist, pop, Jazz, Indian, African, Celtic and indigenous folk musics into his own sonic blend. As a cross-genre improviser and collaborator, he has appeared and/or recorded with such artists as Anthony Braxton, Uri Caine, John Cale, Steve Coleman, Joe Jackson, Dave Liebman, Yo-Yo Ma, Graham Nash, Greg Osby, Steve Reich, Marcus Roberts and Todd Rundgren, and has commissioned and premiered countless numbers of new works by America’s most compelling composers, including John King, Phil Kline, Michael Gordon, Neil Rolnick, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Evan Ziporyn and Randall Wolff. His interdisciplinary work includes ongoing collaborations with SoundPainter Walter Thompson as well as media artists Bill Morrison and Luke DuBois and sound artist Jody Elff.
Reynolds is a founder of the band known as Ethel, a critically acclaimed amplified string quartet (represented by ICM Artists), with whom he wrote and toured internationally for its first 7 years. He also carries in his booking stash ’Still Life With Microphone’, an ongoing theater piece which incorporates his own written and improvised music, compositions written for him, and elements of video and theatrical arts. Nuove Uova [new eggs], new works for violin and electricity, another Todd Reynolds production is a ’new-music cabaret’ of sorts, having as its home Joe’s Pub in Manhattan. He is the recipient of ASCAP awards, an American Composers Forum Grant for Still Life with Mic and Commissioning and Performance grants from Meet The Composer, classical music’s funding godsend to the continuation of the classical music tradition.
Show updates are not often included on myspace, but do find them on toddreynolds.com, where you can also relearn how to cross the street, and subscribe to a realtime newsletter and visit the blog
Hey Todd, Was just up for Weekend of Chamber Music with Matt Sullivan and a bunch of others and we all thought of you will great compliments! You with The Books??? Excellent... they are one of my favorite groups. Going to listen to more of your newer stuff now. Hope all is well and that you are happy Todd. Best wishes, Ken
Todd, Hi back and thanx for checking this out! Like it? CD review at www. metalmonthly. com/5StarVio7. html and 5 live Audio Interviews about everything Metal and ... Violins... and bow ... and NO GUITARS on our MySpace page under 'Blogs' and the beginning of our rock journal at www. metalmonthly. com/RockJournal. html ;) - Armand
Papiers Collés (Lorenzo Commisso / Stefano Giust) @ Art Gallery Contemporaneo for "Art? - Nuove Pratiche Artistiche Interrogano La Città" a project by Chiara Sartori | film director: Fabrizio Personeni | location: piazzetta Mons. Olivotti 2, Mestre (Venezia) | produced by Galleria Contemporaneo on June 22nd 2007 | Art - to see things differently | Art - to not disappear | Art - questions avery answer | Art - sounds like experience | Art - plays with what surrounds you | Art - can be everywhere | Art - can break the rules | Art - makes life more interesting.
*************** TODD REYNOLDS *************** GRATITUDE IS ABSOLUTELY THE WAY TO BRIN MORE INTO YOUR LIFE !!!!!!!! ALL THE BEST FOR YOU AND YOUR'S........ MARTHA PATRICIA YEPES ...... !!!!!!
Todd hey hope LA trip was wonderful, sounded like really great series of gigs. Well a year into the viol I received an acoustic one for this father's day and shot some playing over the 4th which I wanted to send as a 'hello'... Dancing between it and fretless guitar but continuing to bow and dance!
Just wanted to say hey. I ran across some sl pics from when we went parachuting and was thinkin of ya. Hope work and all that is going well. Talk to ya soon.
