Piss Rows for Two Violins
Composed by Paul Reller
Conrad Harris, violin
Pauline Kim Harris, violin

LIVE recording from Ostrava Days 2013

Paul RELLER: Piss Rows for Two Violins

Matt is a composer and guitarist, and an ad hoc recordist of environmental sounds, noise, and street sounds.  His improvisational guitar performances oftentimes incorporate random detuning of the guitar which is an attempt to impose a focus on sound and texture.  

Matt started in garage bands at 16, played regional bars in rock/pop bands in the southwest Florida area, and later added studies in jazz and classical guitar.  He then focused on composition at USF Tampa, Florida, and completed his Master’s degree in composition at Princeton University.   Matt has created over six cd's of original music, collaborated with film and video artists, and various works have been presented nationally and internationally.
His piece Collage (for percussion and electronic soundtrack) is published by HoneyRock, with the score available through HoneyRock and J.W. Pepper. 

Notable influences include: Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Beethoven, Penderecki (experimental period only), Xenakis, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Bartok, Debussy, Carter, Cecil Taylor, and The Art Ensemble of Chicago's live improvisations.  Time period qualified influences: early-mid 1970s John Mclaughlin and Yes.

Matt also works with the experimental group Sound Janitor he founded with Greg Diamond.

-Composer of works for electronics, objects, and arrays of people.

Daniel Harrison (b.1987) is a frequently commissioned and performed composer of chamber, orchestral, choral, and electronic music whose music has been heard across the United States. His music has been praised for its "vivid use of instrumental color", and "poetic expressiveness". He has been performed by numerous outstanding performers and ensembles such as members of Fifth House Ensemble, Iktus Percussion Ensemble, Three by Radio, All of the Above, the CCM Chorale, and Hypercube. In 2015, he was a finalist for ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and he was commissioned to compose a new work for chorus and electronics for a recording project for the CCM chorale. He was recently named the Ohio Music Teachers Association's commissioned composer for 2016 and will have a new work premiered at Kent State University in December of 2016. Current commissions include a new work for reed quintet and piano for Noise-to-Signal, as well as a new string quartet that will be premiered by the Del Sol string quartet that the 2017 Red Note New Music Festival at Illinois State University. He holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and the University of South Florida.

Paul RELLER: Piss Rows for Two Violins

String Noise