Updated 1 November 2024

Knowing / Not Knowing

Kenneth Herman Review

"... a 21st-Century secular oratorio, a work that deftly fuses recorded and live media, alternates chorus and the spoken word, and juxtaposes live drama with instrumentalists in order to pose probing questions about the nature and range of human knowledge.

... a music review ... could not hope to do justice to the depth and complexity of the work’s extensive catalogue of philosophical theses, but suffice it to say that Reynolds has concisely distilled them and deftly articulated them without indulging in pat conclusions. His title clearly shows he can live with ambiguity."

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music: The Reynolds Desert House

"It's an ode to love, to music, to architecture, to our pal, Iannis!”
Sharon Kanach

New Review in TEMPO by Edmund Hunt

... While Xenakis’ approaches to music, architecture and the design of the Reynolds Desert House provide an overarching structure, the [book’s] content is fascinatingly discursive … personal reflections, anecdotes and expressions of feeling serve to underline the touching honesty, even idealism, at the heart of this project. [The] supplementary material suggests that the Reynolds Desert House was not just a plan for a building, but an idea that grew with and from human connections and the exchange of ideas.… the analysis provided is thorough and informative.… the authors invite us to view decades of artistic endeavor and friendship. This book is an affirmative testament to the abundant creativity of lives lived to the full.
Edmund Hunt TEMPO, Volume 77, Issue 302, July 2023

Available on Neuma Records

Reviews:

FANFARE Want List for Robert Carl
Classical Modern Music Review
JAZZ Weekly
New Music Buff
Different Noises 13
Review by Robert Carl for Fanfare Magazine
Fanfare Magazine by Colin Clarke Review by Huntley Dent for Fanfare Magazine
Editorial Review AMAZON
Classical Modern
Amplified Mag
Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center (Tuesday, Jan 16, 2024)
The Rehearsal Studio
TAKE EFFECT
Kathodik Webzine

Available on
Island Music Records

"[In] Here and There, Reynolds creates his own bridges, between the bright clarity of a music of knowing … and the mistiness of a music of longing … music that … is among his most intimate and immediate."

The Library of Congress releases a series of
interviews and conversations with Roger Reynolds...

Enter Reynolds Personal Library

Remembering A Questing Spirit: Chou Wen-chung [original English]
by Roger Reynolds
Journal of Xinghai Conservatory of Music [Chinese translation]
MusikTexte 164 [German translation]

PASSAGE ... THE BOOK is a collaborative project realized by composer-author Reynolds with artist Stacie Birky Greene and editors Robert Kirzinger and Karen Reynolds. Through graphic manipulations, it melds texts written by Reynolds with images he selected such that a metaphoric “viscosity” arises, and the reader/apprehender’s experience is constantly modulated. Reynolds has performed intermedia PASSAGE events in La Jolla, at Darmstadt, in New York, Cambridge, and Ann Arbor.

Extended review of passage by Harvey Sollberger:

"To enter this book is to enter a world in which its author, the composer Roger Reynolds, weaves together the strands of a life lived in music into a unique and personal mandala of memories, thoughts, dreams, images, and stories...."    Read more

AMAZON Purchase
Wise Music Classical Purchase

PASSAGE 7: "John Cage – Incidents, Texts, Conversations, and Music" (2012)

Intermedia Performance by Roger Reynolds at the National Gallery of Art

ROGER REYNOLDS
Email: info@rogerreynolds.com


PUBLISHER
Wise Music Classical, Part of Wise Music Group


Institutional Collections of Roger Reynolds