Portfolio

STUDIO RECORDINGS

Dana Reason: reasoning
With Mark Dresser, Mike Gamble, Lori Goldston
and Peter Valsamis
(Dana Reason, 2014)

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Dana Reason: Angle of Vision
With Peter Valsamis and Glen Moore.
(482 Music, 2013)
Read the Liner Notes

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Dana Reason Trio: Revealed
With John Heward and Dominic Duval
(‎ CD Baby, 2010)

Border Crossings:

Dana Reason, piano; Peter Valsamis, drums/samples. Produced by Mario Gauthier. Recorded at Radio Canada in Montreal. Red Toucan: Open Fields Series.

Dana Reason, piano; Philip Gelb, shakuhachi

Deep Listening Label

LINER NOTES: Dana Reason: Sound Out of All Time

by George E. Lewis

APPEARANCES

Roscoe Mitchell’s Distant Radio Transmission: Nonaah Trio 
With John C Savage and Catherine Lee
(Wide Hive Records, 2020)

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COLLABORATIONS

Catherine Lee: Remote Together
Music for oboe, oboe d’amore, and English horn with electronics,
field recordings, and fixed media by Canadian and American
composers residing in the Pacific Northwest.
Dana composed the track Chanson de Fleurs: Eleanor of Aquitaine
(Redshift Music 2021)

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John Heward Quintet
Recorded live in Montreal, September 2014
with Lori Freedman, Joe McPhee, Barre Phillips, Dana Reason
(Mode Records – Avant, 2019)

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Between/Waves
Chris Brown, Philip Gelb, Pauline Oliveros, Jon Raskin, and Dana Reason
Recorded at Bean Benders in Berkeley December 1999
(Sparkling Beatnik, 2007)

The Space Between:

Pauline Oliveros (accordion), Philip Gelb (shakuhachi), Dana Reason (piano/prepared piano), Jöelle Léandre (bass)

“Liz’s Top 2003 (Experimental)” — Liz Copeland, WDET-FM Detroit

“Recorded live at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Berkeley, CA, November 2 & 3, 2002. The Space Between brings together the freedom of spontaneous improvisation with a number of diverse traditions and ideas, not the least of which is the legendary Pauline Oliveros‘ Deep Listening concept. In the Cadence review of their 2001 debut, The Space Between with Barre Phillips, Frank Rubolino wrote, “As a unit, they speak in a broken tongue of rarified beauty that is demanding but fully rewarding.” This release once again pairs this esoteric trio with a world-renowned bassist in Jöelle Léandre.

More than just an award-winning instrumentalist, Léandre is one of the few artists able to world premiere works by new music composers like John Cage, actively compose and premiere her own music on a world stage, and also collaborate with the best creative improvisers playing today.

“Liz’s Top 2003 (Experimental)” — Liz Copeland, WDET-FM Detroit

“Léandre sounds so comfortable it’s as if she’s been playing with the group for years.” — Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic

“As the name of the trio might imply, Oliveros’ music is interested in silence and space, and this is a musical world that is very congenial to Léandre. Again we have intriguing instrumentation, as Gelb plays a beautiful shakuhachi and Dana Reason’s piano has been prepared to sound a bit tinny and brittle, at times even like a harpsichord. Oliveros, of course, plays accordion with the long tones and resonance we have come to expect from her. For this kind of music, this is an ensemble made in heaven. They create abstract and beautiful music constructed from little sounds, sometimes filled with nervous energy but more often with an expansive and atmospheric emptiness that can be captivating.” — Philip McNally, Cadence (Paragraph’s above quoted from: https://www.soundohm.com/product/the-space-between-with-jo)

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The Space Between with Matthew Sperry
Philip Gelb, Pauline Oliveros, Dana Reason, and Matthew Sperry
(CD Baby, 2007)

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The Space Between With Joëlle Léandre
Recorded live at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Berkeley, CA, November 2 & 3, 2002.
Philip Gelb, Joëlle Léandre, Pauline Oliverso, and Dana Reason
(482 Music, 2003)

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The Space Between with Barre Phillips
Recorded live at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Berkeley, CA, September 17 & 19, 1998.
Philip Gelb, Pauline Oliverso, Bare Phillips, and Dana Reason
(482 Music, 2001)

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On DVD

Dana Reason, Music Supervisor:

Featuring music by:
DOGS AND LOVERS, Connor McKay
BEAR, A BOY, AND A DOG, A, Caroline Gao
DOG FACTORY, Anthony Laurie
LOST DOGS, Mohamed Araki 
ILAK’S BIRTHDAY, Danielle Painter
SCREEN ALMANAC: STRONGHEART, Dana Reason
SKY RIDER, THE, Chris Rorrer
NOBLEMAN’S DOG, THE, Josh Phillips
FIDELITY, Esin Aydingoz
LAW’S LASH, THE, Jaasmaan Singh
HIS MASTER’S VOICE, Carolyn Koch
VAUDEVILLE DOGS (compilation), Adam Banks/Griffin Barbieri
WATCHDOG, THE, Jeff Schwartz
DOGS, DOGS, DOGS! (compilation), Nika Ko
DOG SHY, Carol Gao
JEAN THE MATCHMAKER, Ali Tolga Demirtas
TIN-TYPE ROMANCE, Anabel Gil Diaz
JEAN AND THE WAIF, Lorena Ruiz Trejo/María Fernanda García Solar
JEAN RESCUES, Allison Beth Fitzgerald
THE SILENT TRAILER, Mathilde Koechlin
MODERN PRODIGAL, A, Andrew Earle Simpson
LITTLE HERO, A, Dana Reason
FATTY’S FAITHFUL FIDO, Shane Prendiville
SIGN OF THE CLAW, Peter Valsamis

YAlice Guy Blaché Vol. 2: The Solax Years
Dana Reason, Lead Music Supervisor and lead composer
(Kino Lorber, 2020).

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Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
by Dr. Henry Louis Gates
Arrangements by Dana with composer, Paul Miller
PBS Documentary series (2019).

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Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers
Directed by Dorothy Davenport Reid, Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber,
Helen Holmes, Mabel Normand, and Grace Cunard.
Music by Dana Reason, Renee C. Baker,
The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra, Makia Matsumura,
Maud Nelissen, Aleksandra Vrebalov,
and others. (KenoLorber 2018).

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Birth of a Movement: The Battle Against America’s First Blockbuster
Dana Reason performs sound track music by Paul Miller (PBS 2017).

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Pioneers of African-American Cinema
Directed by Richard Norman, Richard Maurice, Spencer Williams,
and Oscar Micheaux.
Music by Dana Reason, DJ Spooky, Max Roach, Alloy Orchestra,
Samuel Waymon, Makia Matsumura, Donald Sosin,
and others (KinoLorber 2015).

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