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Sarah Belle Reid

Sarah Belle Reid
Position
Assistant Professor
Technology
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Credentials

BMus (McGill); MFA (CalArts); DMA (CalArts)

Area of expertise

Technology, composition

Areas of research and creative activity

  • Developing hardware and software devices for musical expression and human-machine interaction.
  • Synthesis, signal processing, and computer music programming.
  • Electroacoustic composition and improvisation.
  • Human perception of sound, time, and music.
  • Ambisonics and multi-channel spatial / immersive audio.
  • Graphic notation and alternate methods of scoring sound.

Courses

  • MUS 307: Intro to Computer Music
  • MUS 407/507: Computer Music Seminar

Brief biography

Sarah Belle Reid is a performer-composer who plays trumpet, modular synthesizer, and an ever-growing collection of handcrafted electronic instruments. Her unique musical voice explores the intersections between contemporary classical music, experimental and interactive electronics, noise music, and improvisation. Often praised for her ability to transport audience members through vivid sonic adventures, Reid's sonic palette has been described as ranging from "graceful" and "danceable" all the way to "silk-falling-through-space," and "pit-full-of-centipedes" (San Francisco Classical Voice). 

Reid holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from California Institute of the Arts, with a research focus on the development of new electronic instruments and musical notation systems as interfaces for exploring temporal perception and co-creation. She has previously held faculty positions at CalArts (Santa Clarita, CA) and Chapman University (Orange, CA) where she taught music technology, and Temple University (Philadelphia, PA), where she taught physical computing and electronic instrument design.

Selected publications

  • Reid, R. Gaston, A. Kapur, 2019. “Perspectives on Time: performance practice, mapping strategies, & composition with MIGSI.” in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Brazil.
  • Reid, S. Sithi-Amnuai, A. Kapur, 2018. “Women Who Build Things: Gestural Controllers, Augmented Instruments, and Musical Mechatronics.” in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Virginia.

Selected recordings

  • 2024

  • (2025) Sarah Belle Reid & Vinny Golia

Videos

Exploring the 1st Buchla 100 Modular Synthesizer