die Reihe

die Reihe is the moniker of New York City based composer and sound engineer Jack Callahan. Taken from the journal edited by Herbert Eimert and Karlheinz Stockhausen, die Reihe, since 2013 he has been making mostly electronic works focusing on clinical deconstruction of contemporary music tropes such as Trap and House music. With this project he has toured the both the U.S. and Europe multiple times, been invited to many festivals and has released music with labels such as Anomia, Ascetic House and Salon. In 2014 he founded Bánh Mì Verlag, an imprint dedicated to contemporary experimental music and culture. As a composer his music has been performed and recorded by ensembles such as the SEM Ensemble, the Wet Ink Ensemble, the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra & the Dog Star Orchestra in such cities as New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Zürich. As a sound engineer he has toured consistently with Thurston Moore and his projects since 2012 and has done numerous tours with him on no fewer than four continents.