C. Reider lives in Northern Colorado, in the United States.
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--- Composer. Working in non-genre-specific musical areas including abstract electronic, electro-acoustic, process music, drone / noise, minimalist-psychedelic electronic music, and field recording
--- Netlabel archivist. Collections include Vuzh Music netlabel, Derivative Netlabel, Dystimbria netlabel (housed on Internet Archive: 1, 2, 3, 4), and the internet sound archives for Drone Forest and Sound Through Barriers.
--- Active networker. Finding community with other people making and distributing their music for free with Creative Commons licensing.
A major project for 2011-2012 was the curation of an exhibition of sound art titled Sound Through Barriers, which exhibited the work of 15 international sound artists in Fort Collins, Colorado, as well as two performances of experimental music by Cheryl Leonard and Jeph Jerman. The exhibition documentation is archived at SoundThroughBarriers.com (external link).
Additional Information Participated as a member in musical projects Drone Forest(external link), Luster and Crook'd Finger, as well as some anonymous contributions to other projects.
"Systems Aesthetics in Contemporary Sound Art: Two Netlabels" by Daniel Barbiero in Percorsi Musicali (LINK) discusses process music made by C. Reider and other colleagues, many of whom have releases on Vuzh Music.
A short conversation with Daniel Barbiero was published at Perfect Sound Forever. A Conversation about Process, Being with Sound, and the Pleasure of Surprise
