Jules Reidy makes song cycles which abstractly deal with devotional love, transcendence and
death of the self. They use materials such as guitars, voice, percussion and found sounds, deconstructing and augmenting them through non-standard tuning systems, polyrhythmic structures, electronic processing and spatialisation. They aim to express and invoke states of uncanniness, dissociation, dys/euphoria, imagination and void.
They’ve released on Thrill Jockey, Black Truffle, Shelter Press, Editions Mego and Longform Editions.
Their current collaborations include projects with Sun Kit (shoegazey pop), Judith Hamann (deconstructed karaoke “songs”), Morten Joh (re-tuned guitar + vibraphone through analogue tape delays), Sam Dunscombe (psychedelic environments made of synthesis, clarinets and guitars) , Andrea Belfi (post-rock jam duo) and Ivan Cheng (sincere, maudlin, twee, fabulous). They have written for ensembles such as Zinc&Copper (DE), the Australian Art Orchestra (AUS), Splitter Orchester (DE), the Pitch (DE), and are currently writing for JACK Quartet (USA).
They are originally from Australia, and are currently based in Berlin.
They host Local Heroes on Cashmere Radio, a bi-monthly show which features Berlin-based artists presenting and discussing their work. They run a regular karaoke series at anorak e.V. which riffs on poetics of memory, dedicated amateurism and entanglement with failure.