Sarah Belle Reid joins Nonsequitur for an evening of adventurous and experimental music at the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center.

Presented by Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded artists and organizations, the series brings together some of the most boundary-pushing voices in contemporary music, spanning contemporary and post-classical composition, free improvisation, experimental jazz, electronic and electroacoustic music, sound art, phonography, new instruments, and other innovative practices. The concerts take place in the beautiful Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center, located on the traditional homelands of the Duwamish people.

Sarah Belle Reid’s work explores experimental electroacoustic performance, improvisation, and human-machine interaction. Performing with trumpet, voice, modular synthesizer, and custom electronic instruments of her own design, she creates interactive performance systems in which performers, technologies, environments, and listeners continuously shape one another.

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Combining Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 French silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc with a spellbinding score by Julia Holter, this Australian premiere and Australia-wide exclusive event will see her craft an immense sonic tapestry – performed live with Sarah Belle Reid, Tashi Wada and Corey Fogel, and The Consort of Melbourne choir, and conducted by renowned UK-based orchestrator and composer Hugh Brunt, known for his work alongside Johnny Greenwood, Nicholas Britell and Mica Levi, among many others.

Duration: 1 hour 30 mins (no interval). Please note, running times are approximate and subject to change.

ARTISTS:

Julia Holter keyboards, vocals
Hugh Brunt conductor
Corey Fogel percussion 
Sarah Belle Reid trumpet, electronics
Tashi Wada synthesizers, bag pipes
The Consort of Melbourne vocals

TICKETS:

Standard $97.50 ($95 Concession)
MIFF Member & MRC Member $87.75

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Type: Performance with trumpet and electronics
Location: Trans-Pecos 9-15 Wyckoff Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385
Date: April 12, 2025 | 7-11pm

Sarah Belle Reid will be leading a workshop at the NYU Integrated Design and Media on April 11, 2025. The session will offer hands-on learning experiences and insights into Reid’s creative process.

Location: NYU Integrated Design and Media

Date: April 11, 2025

PhD students in Composition host a colloquium with guest artist Sarah Belle Reid.

When: Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Where: Woolworth Music Center, 102

Ticket: Free, Unticketed

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Outside The Box welcomes an exciting evening of improvisation by Ryan Gaston and Sarah Belle Reid.

Date: March 25, 2025 | 7pm | FREE

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Join Sarah Belle Reid, Ryan Gaston, and Vinny Golia at the MOXsonic Festival on March 20, 2025, at 8 PM for an evening of improvisation featuring homemade electronic instruments, amplified trumpet, woodwinds, and laptop. This event is free. Click here for more info.

Type: Performance with trumpet and electronics in quadraphonic sound 

Location: Scribble (Los Angeles, California - 5541 York Blvd) 

Date: March 16, 2025 | 8pm | $15 tix at door 

Sarah Belle Reid will conduct a workshop and performance called “Designing Interaction: Acoustic and Electronic instruments in Quadraphonic Sound. The event will take place on March 13, 2025, at 7:30 PM at the University of California, Irvine.

Join us at the Music in the Garden Festival Season 3 at Elastic Arts Foundation!

Music in the Garden presents a 2-day music festival with Chicago-based improvisers and creative musicians, featuring an art installation by Christina Sadovnikov inspired by the works of Moki Cherry and a feature film by Gabe Udofia.

Come enjoy a night of music and rest. This event is the perfect opportunity to relax, unwind, and feel a sense of community after the 2024 election season.

DAY 1 LINE UP:

8 PM - Counterfeit Madison

9 PM - Sarah Belle Reid & Ryan Gaston

10 PM - The Mouth is the Beginning (improvising vocal ensemble)

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The CLEAT Series has an incredibly special November edition planned with visiting artists Sarah Belle Reid + Ryan Gaston visiting Chicago and presenting new work for 16 channels. Reid and Gaston are presenting a structured improvisation for piccolo trumpet, MaxMSP, and homemade electronic instruments. The piece was developed over the course of the 2024, using the 16-channel CLEAT system. Much of the sound material explored in this work is created from very short bursts or grains of sound, which are strung or clustered together to form larger gestures. To accomplish this, they use a granular sample player built in MaxMSP, and a hardware-based pulsar synthesizer—a new instrument developed by Gaston specifically for use in this piece. The result is a dynamic, unpredictable soundscape that swings between sparse, delicate textures and frenetic swarms of noise.

Music at 8PM

$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door

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Sunday, September 29th, there will be a free electro-workshop with Sarah Belle Reid. The event is aimed at children and youth but is open to participants of all ages.

About the event, Sarah Belle Reid writes:

"A hands-on workshop with trumpeter/composer/improviser Sarah Belle Reid, introducing the unique world of amplified trumpet and electronics. Sarah will demonstrate aspects of her live performance setup, including different effects, tools, and extended trumpet techniques she uses to transform the sound of her trumpet into otherworldly soundscapes. Following each demo, participants will be invited to play with the tools shared and explore some new sounds with their own instruments/voices. This workshop is beginner-friendly, and no special preparation or equipment is needed. Bring an instrument if you have one!"

This concert is free.

Friday, September 27, at 9:30 PM, Sarah Belle Reid will perform together with Sigurd Melvær Øgaarden, the NyNorsk Brass Quintet, and musicians from the Bergen Cornet Ensemble, among others, at Johanneskirken. They will premiere a new piece by Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen titled "Surrounded by Memories."

"Surrounded by Memories" is a composition by Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen, commissioned by BrassWind for this year's festival artist, Sarah Belle Reid. The piece is written for trumpet connected to a modular synthesizer, organ, and trumpet ensemble.

The NyNorsk Brass Quintet will also present their own program, where they will premiere a new work by Ketil Hvoslef, titled "GNJ (GammelNorsk JIMBE).

We are once again thrilled to present this month’s Exit Points concert to you. Mark your calendar for Friday, June 28 and be there!

Featuring tenor saxophone, grand pianos, electric guitar, vocals, trumpet, live processing, modular synthesizers and a toy piano!

Exit Points 50

Friday, June 28

Doors open: 7:30pm

Show begins: 8pm sharp

Venue: Array Music, 155 Walnut Ave, 2nd Floor. Main entrance at top of a silver accessibility ramp. Building is accessible (ramp, elevator, washroom)

Performances:

Ensemble 1: Nirvana Sagar, Alexis Dionne, Hymns57, Donovan Locke, Jackie Leung

Ensemble 2: Wendelin Bartley, Sarah Belle Reid, El Mahboob, Stephanie Chua, Michael Palumbo

Set 3: Switchemups! (Audience guests sit in with performers for several 5-minute pieces)

Exit Points is supported by generous funding from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ted Fund.

At Grillo/ADA in Essen, workshop participants led by Sarah Belle Reid present their results on the topic of “Creative exploration: co-creation in the digital era” in a performance. In “Circles”, the violinist Anna Maria Olsson addresses the cycles of our lives using minimal sound structures. Reid will then take us into worlds of manipulated trumpet sounds and live electronics. Yosi Horikawa closes the evening with everyday sounds and field recordings of nature.

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Don't miss this unforgettable evening of musical innovation and collaboration featuring Sarah Belle Reid, Ryan Gaston, Adam Tindale, and Michael Palumbo at the Tranzac Club at 5:00 PM, EST. This will be a night of exploring sound and creativity through improvised duos and quartets.

Delve into the mesmerizing world of improvised quartets featuring the extraordinary talents of Sarah Belle Reid, Ryan Gaston, Ben Finley and annais linares. From intricate melodies to rhythmic explorations, these four artists will take you on a sonic journey like no other!

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The Susanna Hood Trio and Sarah Belle Reid are set to launch the new series with a panel discussion and performance on Wednesday, April 17. The event marks the first show in IICSI’s new “Live @ ImprovLab” concert and performance series that serves to showcase touring artists working in a variety of improvisatory idioms.

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MOXsonic Nightlife 2 — Ryan Gaston & Sarah Belle Reid

Noise, phase cancellation, glitches, stutters, aliasing, and DSP failures—the sounds of errors and imperfections in the age of computer music are the primary material of this improvised duo performance. The sounds of tubes and trumpet extended techniques stammer into extended, unnatural, repetitive pulses; arbitrary transfer functions impose continuous transformations on sputtering electronic feedback; whistles, clicks, and crackles shift unexpectedly into explosive blasts, sonic caricatures, and frantic gestures before dissolving into a soft, intermittent digital fizz.

Sarah Belle Reid performs on trumpet and laptop; Ryan Gaston performs on map02/21, a chaotic hardware instrument of his own design. Both performers utilize unpredictable synthesis and processing structures whose behaviors are always responsive, yet difficult to predict. The performers must rely on careful listening and quick reflexes, constantly learning and re-learning their instruments’ shifting behaviors over the course of the performance.

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Ground Hum is a winter celebration of experimental music, dance, and installation art.

Join us on Saturday, March 2, 2024 for an afternoon and evening of deep listening at Washington Hall, featuring performances by:

• Gladstone Deluxe

• Lucy Liyou

• Sarah Belle Reid

• Bug Bus Piano

• Phylyps Hue

• IVVY

• Selene

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Following the success of their duo album, NOWS, multi-instrumentalists and composers Sarah Belle Reid and David Rosenboom will present premiere performances of new creations encapsulating the spirit of their album with instruments ranging from strings, horns, and keyboards to modular synthesizers, analog signal processors, urban and desert soundscapes, and much more. NOWS was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, with Reid and Rosenboom working remotely from their home studios. The music examines “co-presence,” or togetherness, when experienced in isolation, and the power of imaginative listening as a means of connecting with one another across great distances.

Starting with no goal other than to listen and play, Reid and Rosenboom sent sonic ideas and fragments back and forth to each other, gradually collecting threads, themes, and commonalities. These links revealed themselves in surprising ways, emerging from experiments, transference, and concurrent imagining. A frenzy, a dance, a reverie, a pause, a corridor, a leap, a shattering, a whisper…ear-stopping musical moments emerged as they navigated and validated alternative means of converging on a musical “co-presence” in an altered world, finding new pathways for co-creation. For the first time, this music will be brought before an in-person audience, reimagined for live performance and accompanied by premieres of new works written by the composers.

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West Chester University Wells School of Music proudly presents New Music at WCU; Devin Arne and Jacob Cooper (Directors) and Sarah Belle Reid (Performer-Composer).

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Join Sarah Belle Reid in this beginner friendly Intro to Modular Synthesis workshop, where we will explore the VCV Rack!

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The Performing and Communication Arts Division at Pasadena City College is pleased to present a Symposium designed to reframe student understanding of what it means to be a creative artist in our contemporary, "creative economy."

The symposium, titled Imaging the Future of Music; Creativity and Entrepreneurship will begin on October 25th with a panel discussion led by industry leaders from across the musical spectrum, followed by three exciting speakers culminating in a talk entitled “How to Make it in the New Music Business” by bestselling author Ari Herstand.

Hosted by PCC Music Faculty Zac Matthews and Louis Lopez this series will plumb the depths of the recent changes in the music industry and look towards the music industry that our students will be engaging with.

All events will conclude with a catered reception where audience members will have the opportunity to meet our esteemed speakers and panelists.

Wednesday, October 25 - Panel Discussion with Sara Belle Reid, Joshua Levy, John Proulx, Jennifer Lucy Cook, and Jonathan Snipes.

An open discussion on Imaging the Future of Music; Creativity and Entrepreneurship.

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Experience your museum in a new way, surrounded by art and nature and awash in music.

Join us in the Contemporary Art Gallery for a live music performance featuring analog synth artist and improv trumpeter Sarah Belle Reid. Inspired by works in the collection, this performance promises to entertain and enlighten you with a truly one-of-a-kind, immersive experience. See you there!

Free, no tickets required.

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