Eric Glick Rieman, Composer and Improviser
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Performing on a variety of instruments, including the prepared/extended Rhodes electric piano, as well as piano, melodica, celeste, organ, Waterphone, and toy piano, SF Bay Area composer/improviser Eric Glick Rieman performs improvised and previously structured music in several settings, both solo and in groups, He has performed with the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble in Oakland, CA, USA since 1999, and received an MFA from Mills in Electronic Music and the Recording Media in 2001. Rieman writes for piano, Rhodes electric piano, and ensembles.
His recent compositions include explorations of Biosonicism (music created at the intersection of composition and biology). The "Helix Aspersa Series"(2008) is a series of graphic scores made in collaboration with snails. "Felis Catus Series I" is a series of graphic scores made in collaboration with a cat (2009). "Circle House and Chutes"(2009) is a piece for indeterminate ensemble employing techniques used to handle cattle in a slaughterhouse to herd an ensemble through a score.
Rieman has recorded with Fred Frith (of Henry Cow, Naked City, Keep the Dog, Cosa Brava), Lesli Dalaba (of 2005 Tzadik solo release "Timelines", Jeff Greinke's Land, Elliot Sharp's Carbon), Carla Kihlstedt (of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat Trio, Two Foot Yard, Cosa Brava), Stuart Dempster (Merce Cunningham Dance Troupe, Deep Listening Band), Zoe Keating, and Tom Heasley. He has performed with Ikue Mori, Fred Anderson, Daniel Godston, David Boykin, Marcos Fernandes, Amy Denio, Matt Ingalls, David Slusser, Kristin Miltner, and John Ingle, and he has performed the work of Roscoe Mitchell, Eliane Radigue, Meredith Monk, Fred Frith, Cecil Taylor, Alvin Curran, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, James Tenney, George Lewis, and Alvin Lucier under the composers' supervision.
In March of 2005 he received a Subito grant from the San Francisco Chapter of the American Composer's Forum to present the piece "Presentism2" (for small ensemble ) at the 8th annual Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival in Oakland, CA. In December of 2007 he received a Meet the Composer grant to perform his piece, " Agape" for prepared Rhodes, tape, and percussion at the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco. Glick Rieman's work has been performed by the Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble and the Cardew Choir among others. He was recently commissioned by Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers (San Francisco). In January of 2011 he received a Meet the Composer grant to perform his compositions at the Pianoforte Foundation and the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago.
Website content copyright 2012-2019, Eric Glick Rieman/Water Goes Into the Air, ASCAP.
His recent compositions include explorations of Biosonicism (music created at the intersection of composition and biology). The "Helix Aspersa Series"(2008) is a series of graphic scores made in collaboration with snails. "Felis Catus Series I" is a series of graphic scores made in collaboration with a cat (2009). "Circle House and Chutes"(2009) is a piece for indeterminate ensemble employing techniques used to handle cattle in a slaughterhouse to herd an ensemble through a score.
Rieman has recorded with Fred Frith (of Henry Cow, Naked City, Keep the Dog, Cosa Brava), Lesli Dalaba (of 2005 Tzadik solo release "Timelines", Jeff Greinke's Land, Elliot Sharp's Carbon), Carla Kihlstedt (of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat Trio, Two Foot Yard, Cosa Brava), Stuart Dempster (Merce Cunningham Dance Troupe, Deep Listening Band), Zoe Keating, and Tom Heasley. He has performed with Ikue Mori, Fred Anderson, Daniel Godston, David Boykin, Marcos Fernandes, Amy Denio, Matt Ingalls, David Slusser, Kristin Miltner, and John Ingle, and he has performed the work of Roscoe Mitchell, Eliane Radigue, Meredith Monk, Fred Frith, Cecil Taylor, Alvin Curran, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, James Tenney, George Lewis, and Alvin Lucier under the composers' supervision.
In March of 2005 he received a Subito grant from the San Francisco Chapter of the American Composer's Forum to present the piece "Presentism2" (for small ensemble ) at the 8th annual Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival in Oakland, CA. In December of 2007 he received a Meet the Composer grant to perform his piece, " Agape" for prepared Rhodes, tape, and percussion at the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco. Glick Rieman's work has been performed by the Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble and the Cardew Choir among others. He was recently commissioned by Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers (San Francisco). In January of 2011 he received a Meet the Composer grant to perform his compositions at the Pianoforte Foundation and the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago.
Website content copyright 2012-2019, Eric Glick Rieman/Water Goes Into the Air, ASCAP.