Currents

— Dana’s composition “Currents” was recently performed in Tel Aviv by the TAU Wind Band (conductor: Uri Reisner) in July 2022. View a video of the performance on Youtube.

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Chanson de Fleurs: Eleanor of Aquitaine

— Dana composed Chanson de Fleurs – Eleanor of Aquitaine (2017) for oboe and soundscape for Catherine Lee. The piece was created through a collaborative process (RedShift Records, 2021). Catherine’s album, which includes the track, was nominated for a 2022 Juno Award (Best Classical Album of the Year – Solo Artist).

— Listen to a live performance of Chanson de Fleurs: Eleanor of Aquitaine

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Silent Blaze

— Check out this performance of Silent Blaze by Dana — recorded in one single take on Sept. 16th, 2020 during the Oregon Wildfires at Boxwood Labs, Corvallis Oregon — Filmed Second Life as “Machinima” (Camera and edit by Melody Owen).

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Mother and Daughter and the Benvenue Avenue Letters of 1918

— Mother and Daughter and the Benvenue Avenue Letters of 1918 — multimedia, collaborative improvisation with fixed elements between composer-pianist Dana Reason, visual artist Paris Myers, and architectural archivist Bruce Anthony. This work was created for IF Improv Festival of Canada August 7-8 2020.

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Artists Studio: Roscoe Mitchell at The Armory

— Dana performed on The Artist Studio concert series featuring 2020 NEA Jazz Master award winner, Roscoe Mitchell. The event was curated by Jason Moran at the Armory in NYC (2019)

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Desert Reflections: Water Shapes the West

—  Dana was commissioned by the Oregon Cultural Trust to contribute to Desert Reflections: Water Shapes the West, an award-winning Exhibition at the High Desert Museum (2019)

Find out more her contribution, entitled She Breathes Water and her collaborator Paris Myers

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DJ Spooky – The Heart of a Forest (Performance)

Dana did the arrangement for this piece by DJ Spooky, AKA author, composer, and multimedia artist Paul D. Miller, which is part of his “Forest Symphony,” based on his four seasonal residencies at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest. Performed by an Oregon State University orchestra on July 13, 2016.

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Off The Road

This film by Laurence Petit-Jouvet recently showed up online. It follows the US tour of bassist Peter Kowald and features a performance with Dana in San Diego.

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“Reason’s voice as a composer and instrumentalist is firmly her own, and well worth listening to.” 

— Joe Tangari, Downbeat Magazine

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About Dana Reason