Patchbent Session: Sarah Belle Reid

Description

Octotber 1, 6-8PM: RSVP via Eventbrite. This event is pay-what-you-can.

The Patchbent Sessions are a meeting place and learning community supporting women, trans, and non-binary people in sound and music. In this workshop, participants will explore how to build interactive patches in the free software VCV Rack that respond in real time to your voice, instrument, or other sound sources. You’ll discover how to trigger sounds with a microphone input, transform your voice with glitchy processing, and create effects that shift and evolve based on how you play. If you’d like to patch along with me, bring a laptop with VCV Rack installed. You can also just watch, take notes, and ask questions!

BIO

Sarah Belle Reid is a performer-composer who plays trumpet, modular synthesizer, and an ever-growing collection of handcrafted electronic instruments. Her unique musical voice explores the intersections between contemporary classical music, experimental and interactive electronics, visual arts, noise music, and improvisation. Often praised for her ability to transport audience members through vivid sonic adventures, Reid’s sonic palette has been described as ranging from “graceful” and “danceable” all the way to “silk-falling-through-space,” and “pit-full-of-centipedes” (San Francisco Classical Voice). Reid holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from California Institute of the Arts, with a research focus on the development of new electronic instruments and musical notation systems as interfaces for exploring temporal perception and co-creation. Her debut album for trumpet and interactive electronics, “Underneath and Sonder,” was released on pfMENTUM in October, 2019. In March 2021, she released an electroacoustic EP titled “MASS”, featuring trumpet, voice, electronics, and amplified objects. In addition to her performance and compositional work, Reid runs an online music education company dedicated to teaching sound synthesis and electroacoustic composition to professional and hobbyist musicians. She has mentored thousands of musicians from around the world in her online programs, and is a frequent guest lecturer at notable institutions in the US and Canada including Princeton University, Stanford University, University of Victoria, California Institute of the Arts, New York University (NYU), among others.