Reed K. Holmes

Reed Holmes was created in Oak Ridge, TN, in 1952, and examined at the School of Tennessee at Knoxville. His primary teachers there have been Allen Johnson, Kenneth Jacobs, and David Vehicle Vactor. He received his Ph.D. in music theory from your University or college of Tx at Austin where he analyzed structure with Barton McLean. He was for quite a while Associate Teacher of Theory and Structure at the University or college of Tx at San Antonio where he was Movie director from the Electronic Music Studio room. Among his many honours are: the Luigi Russolo International Competition in Electroacoustical Music (Italy); Recognized Award for Study and Innovative Professional Actions; the David Vehicle Vactor Reward in Structure; the Percussive Arts Culture Award in Structure; Outstanding Instructor of the entire year; miscellaneous ASCAP honours; and the extremely distinguished Freeman Reward in Structure (LA). His structure grants possess included three University or college of Texas Study Grants for Structure, a function for the Ruler William Winds (San Antonio), and an NEA Composers’ Fellowship for Structure. Recordings of his functions show up on two Folkways albums: Pc Music from the exterior In and Digital Music from the exterior In which consist of his Moire and Nova respectively; two Opus One albums which feature his Toccata for Piano and Live Delays (#128) and four latest functions (#162); and an LP from Progress Recordings (American Culture of University or college Composers #6), which contains his Round the Waves for quadraphonic tape. Group Sonata for Percussion was made up in 1986 and was as a result of several affects: Balinese gamelan music, rock and roll & move, and avant-garde collage-style musical texturing. Percussion materials activates around pre-recorded digital events, and it is written inside a complicated 15/8 time. As with additional of Holmes’ items, foreground and history resources exchange and interpose musical suggestions. The work is conducted within a sterling way with the Oberlin Compact disc in his Cat’s Cradle 3 for single cello, performed by David Garrett; the digital Drumfire, for computer-generated percussion, a function for dance creation motivated by jazz and rock and roll rhythms; and his Electric powered Symphonies, a pattern-based pc piece offering an ostinato with constant variations that your San Antonio Express-News known as “scintillating…wonderfully wealthy and varied texture with squiggly highlights which sets the piece before even more dogmatic minimalism.” Reed Holmes also toured being a composer/performer of his very own works for pc, electric/midi electric guitar and folk device. He offered as Chairman and Co-Chairman of Area VI from the Culture of Composers, Inc. On Oct 26, 1996, Mr. Holmes passed away of the inoperable human brain tumor after a short illness.