Reynolds joined by Future Museums at GBT
Special to the LPR
Composer-improviser Graham Reynolds, with support from Future Museums (Neil Lord) will be performing at Gaslight-Baker Theater on Saturday beginning at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.).
Tickets for the event range from $22.50-$35.
The event is presented by Plum Creek Records & Tapes, a record shop and event promoter in Lockhart.
Reynolds’ performance will feature cinematic soundscapes, delicate piano melodies, chaotic improvisation (giant red bass drum), and Jim Findlay’s amazing video design while Future Museums brings out a full ensemble, channeling their own composition-for-film inspiration from Florian Fricke and classic Herzog scores.
Reynolds has been called “the quintessential modern composer” by the London Independent.
The Austin-based Reynolds records and performs music for film, theater, dance, television, rock clubs, and concert halls, with collaborators across a multitude of disciplines. He recently scored Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Annapurna Pictures) with Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, and Laurence Fishburne, Happy Jail (Netflix), Stop
Hitting Yourself (Lincoln Center Theater), Out of Her Mind (BBC), Grimm Tales (Ballet Austin), and a multi-year commission from Ballroom Marfa, The Marfa Triptych, culminating in his Creative Capital Award winning project Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance, a bilingual cross-border opera created with librettists Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol (Mexico City) and director Shawn Sides (Rude Mechs) and staged in over a dozen cities in North America.
As Artistic Director of the non-profit Golden Hornet, Reynolds spearheads efforts which draw on both the collaborative spirit of rock bands and the composer-led nature of classical music, with a focus on commissioning new music, fostering young and emerging composers, and presenting adventurous works in non-traditional settings. These endeavors include The Sound of Science alongside Kronos Quartet’s longtime cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, and most recently MXTX:
A Cross-Border Exchange; a multi-faceted project comprised of a live performance, album, remixes, and open-source audio sample library involving more than 40 artists from Texas and Mexico.
Reynolds leads the jazz-based but far-reaching Golden Arm Trio, a company member with the internationally acclaimed Rude Mechs theater collective, and resident composer with Salvage Vanguard Theater and Forklift Danceworks. His accolades include a Creative Capital Award, an Independent Music Award, two Frederick R. Loewe Music Theatre Awards, 10 Austin Critics Table Awards, the John Bustin Award, multiple Austin Chronicle ‘Best Composer’ wins, and a B. Iden Payne Award. MARFA: A Country & Western Big Band Suite (Fall 2019) broke into the top 100 on the NACC radio charts along with a track premiere in Billboard. In 2020, Reynolds signed with London-based record label Fire Records and released his original score for Alfred Hitchcock’s silent classic, The Lodger, with a forthcoming album of original material in 2024.
Future Museums is the moniker of producer & multi-instrumentalist Neil Lord. Since 2010, he’s been witnessed performing and recording with a rotating cast of artists and musicians. He engages within the realms of ambient, kosmiche, minimalism and post-rock to burrow deep into the psyche, while also calming the nervous system, creating a full-spectrum sensory experience for body and mind.
