K T Reeder has been recognised as ‘one of 25 of the artists who have engineered the cultural transformation of British jazz over the past four decades’ in a seminal book on British Jazz by David Burke (Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz – 2021)
Music Education
Royal College of Music, London – Junior Department – (Scholar) 2001-2003 – Trombone/Bass Trombone – Professor: Simon Hogg ARAM //// Dip.ABRSM – Bass Trombone performance
Royal Academy of Music, London (Scholar) – 2003-2005 – Bass Trombone – Professor: Bob Hughes FRAM
Oxford Brookes University – 2013-2015 – MA – Composition and Sonic Art – Professor Shelley Sacks / Ray Lee
Groups / Collectives
• 1984ensemble (research group) – 2013-2015 – Founder / Director – A free improvisation collective and research
group applying experimental techniques within the context of free / unstructured improvisation –
http://1984ensemble.weebly.com/
• The Cosmic Asunder (research collective) – 2016-2017 – Co-Founder – A sound collective exploring the principle
of equal rights and democracy when applied to improvisation music groups
http://thecosmicasunder.weebly.com/
• K84 Institute of Soniciology (research institute)– 2015 – present – Research Lead – to further the study of
‘Soniciology’ and related areas – (Soniciology is the artistic study of applied sound in site-specific contexts) –
http://k84institute.weebly.com
• Time to Fly Project (sound research) – 2018-2019 – Director – Research introducing specific rigid structural
framework in order to investigate responses from a number of musicians and sound artists.
• Future Music Movement / Future Culture Movement (Research forum) – 2019-2020 – Administrator –
International artists/musician group dedicated to furthering research into interdisciplinary practice and wider
dissemination / surveys.
• Noise Trombone Studies (research centre) – (2020 -present) – Director – a research centre focussing on Noise
Trombone Manifesto (2020) and relevant concepts https://noisetrombonestudies.weebly.com/
Research dissemination
Releases
Over 200 sound releases to date across numerous international record labels including: Kalpamantra (UK), Blowpipe Records (NL), Obskyr Records (SWE), Classwar Karaoke (UK), Fatal Noise Action (RU), Nostalgie de la boue (Ivory Coast), Red Light Sound Productions (USA), Welcome to Clydebank (UK), Anonim Noise Recordings (UK), ლ(╹◡╹ლ), A Ten Pound Note Found In The Drain (UK), E.S.O.D. Productions (RU), earsheltering (FR), Nuclear Habitat Records (CR).
• K.T. Reeder – https://www.discogs.com/artist/4686405-Kris-Reeder?anv=K.T.+Reeder&filter_anv=1
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• KRIS T REEDER – https://www.discogs.com/artist/4686405-Kris-Reeder?anv=KRIS+T+REEDER&filter_anv=1
• Kris T Reeder – https://www.discogs.com/artist/4686405-Kris-Reeder?anv=Kris+T+Reeder&filter_anv=1
• Kris T. Reeder – https://www.discogs.com/artist/4686405-Kris-Reeder?anv=Kris+T.+Reeder&filter_anv=1
• Reeder – https://www.discogs.com/artist/4686405-Kris-Reeder?anv=Reeder&filter_anv=1
Innovation in music
• Jazz Grime – Jazz-Grime – ‘Go On Then’ (2016),‘Time to Fly Take 2’ (2018) (Burke 2021)
• Future Cool Jazz – Released three albums in this genre (Future Cool Jazz & Future
Cool Jazz 1.2 (2014), Future Cool Jazz 2 (2015) and FUTURECOOLJAZZ3 (2017)) stretching and expanding the genre
by merging highly layered and multi processed backing tracks with solo trombone melodies.
• Garage Jazz – Garage Jazz defined as ‘Free or Improvised music created in and around a
Garage’ (https://garagejazz.weebly.com/). His seminal release in this genre was released through Blowpipe records and is simply called: ‘Garage Jazz’. (Burke 2021)
• Noise Trombone – In its narrowest sense, Noise Trombone means ‘the use of the Trombone as a solo instrument to create highly complex noise pieces’. In the broadest sense Noise Trombone is ‘Trombone and Noise generated by a computer or electronic device’. Kris T Reeder has released several pieces in this genre which include a seminal series of self released Cassette tapes (Noise Trombone 1,2 and 3 – recorded in 2015 and 4 recorded in 2020). 1,2 and 3 were acquired by Kansas City Kansas Community College in 2019 (Burke 2021)
• Noise Jazz – has released extensively in this sub-genre.
Sloppy Garage Bass (2022)
Noise Bass Jazz (2022)