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Rick Reed
Beta Lactam Ring, Ecstatic Peace
Austin, Texas
 Rick Reed (b. 1957) is an entirely self-taught composer/visual artist who has been working in the Austin music underground for the past 25 years. Using old battered electronic devices like sine wave generators, short wave radios and a vintage EMS analogue synthesizer, Reed has performed solo and with various electronic/noise groups including Frequency Curtain, Abrasion Ensemble, FTC and many others. The Spring 2006 issue of Signal To Noise Magazine said of his most recent CD release, Dark Skies at Noon, that "(Reed works) a complex weave of sounds plucked from the dawn of electronic music -- or maybe stolen from some future fading memory of it's passing".
Since the early 90s, Reed has released several LPs and CDs on labels such as Ecstatic Peace, Beta-Lactam Ring, Pale Disc Japan and Elevator Bath. Among other projects, he's been the host of Commercial Suicide, a long running 'other worldly' music radio program heard on the local KOOP Radio. He is also the musical director of an experimental music concert series called Toneburst, which is dedicated to promoting unheard, or underexposed musicians from the Austin new music community.
Since 2004, he has worked closely with New York filmmaker Ken Jacobs on three soundtracks for his Nervous Magic Lantern displays, one of which, entitled "Capitalism:Child Labor", had its world premiere at this year's Rotterdam Film Festival. Reed has 3 new releases due out later this year, a new CD on Spectral House, a Ken Jacobs DVD project and a picture disc LP on Elevator Bath.
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