Jack Callahan (musician)

Jack Callahan is an American experimental musician and audio engineer. He is best known for performing under the moniker die Reihe, taken from the journal of the same name edited by Herbert Eimert and Karlheinz Stockhausen.[1][2][3]

Jack Callahan
Jack Callahan in 2019
Background information
Also known asdie Reihe
OriginMinneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Genres
Years active2008–present
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Associated acts

Musical Activities

Callahan's music deals with "microscopic focus and reflective analysis,"[2] "simple forms, limited scales, and generally reduced materials,"[4] "silence, a logical progression and a definable set of methodologies,"[4] "blurring of form and method,"[5] "[c]reating structure out of a simple concept ... [w]here you don't need to know about academic music ... to understand what's happening,"[6] and "a playfully disruptive and irreverent attitude and aptitude for dis/jointed sound."[7]

In 2011 he studied privately with composer Jürg Frey in Aarau, Switzerland.[4] In 2013 he participated in the Ostrava Days residency in Ostrava, the Czech Republic at which he had an orchestral work, If You Cannot Ignore the Response – Delay It, performed by the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra.[8]

Since 2013 he has run the experimental music label Bánh Mì Verlag.[9][10]

In April 2019 he co-curated the festival Neo-Pastiche: Changes in American Music at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, NC, which featured performances by Eugene Chadbourne, Jeff Witscher, Petr Kotik, the S.E.M. Ensemble performing pieces by Julius Eastman, Morton Feldman, John Cage plus other contemporary experimental artists.[11][12]

In May 2019 Callahan and Jeff Witscher performed their collaborative piece What Happens on Earth Stays on Earth at ISSUE Project Room.[13]

As a drummer he has played in Sunburned Hand of the Man and Home Blitz.

As an audio engineer he toured for many years as a live sound engineer for Thurston Moore. He runs a mastering studio in Ridgewood, Queens and has mastered releases by Cloud Nothings, Ryley Walker, Jeff Witscher, Peter Ablinger and many more.

Discography

As die Reihe
  • 106 Kerri Chandler Chords 12" (Psychic Liberation, 2019)
  • Toward Agave Expressionism Cassette (Bánh Mì Verlag, 2019)
  • Vocoder 12" (anòmia, 2018)
  • Housed Cassette (NNA Tapes, 2016)
  • Trap Studies Cassette (anòmia, 2015)
  • From Minna CDr (Salon, 2015)
  • Ascetic House Cassette (Ascetic House, 2014)
  • Music Demonstration Cassette (Bánh Mì Verlag, 2014)

References
  1. "Max Eilbacher and die Reihe's New Releases Represent Sound Art's Shapeshifting Possibilities". 10 November 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  2. Smith, Mark (3 November 2019). "die Reihe - 106 Kerri Chandler Chords". Resident Advisor.
  3. "Beyond Form: Reynols Interviewed by Jack Callahan". 22 July 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  4. Scavo, Nick (9 July 2018). "die Reihe "Vocoder"". Tiny Mix Tapes.
  5. "die Reihe – Sitting in a room with a Vocoder". 11 October 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  6. Mandeville, Michael (1 July 2019). "Q & A Jack Callahan". Love Injection Fanzine 49. New York, NY. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  7. "Jack Callahan & Jeff Witscher The Past, Present and Future of Experimental Music (Uncut GRM)". 1 October 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  8. "Ostrava 2013". 14 October 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  9. "Michael Pisaro / Matthew Sullivan - "Add Red (Grey Series No. 3)" / "Meaning, Figueroa"". 14 November 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  10. "Peter Ablinger & Luke Moldof". 1 December 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  11. "NEO PASTICHE: CHANGES IN AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL". Black Mountain College + Arts Center. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  12. "Neo-Pastiche Festival celebrates experimental music traditions". 23 April 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  13. "JEFF WITSCHER (RENE HELL) & JACK CALLAHAN (DIE REIHE): WHAT HAPPENS ON EARTH STAYS ON EARTH". 4 May 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
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