Reid Kruger
- Sound Department
- Composer
Reid Kruger has composed music and sound designs for film, television
and dance. Recently, Reid had two scores in the Minneapolis/St. Paul
International Film Festival - "Triumph 67" and "Souvenirs." In 2009,
Reid adapted an earlier score for Offleash Area Contemporary Dance
Works' "Predator/Prey" (2004) and set it to the Emmy award-winning PBS
television show, "The Brower Youth Awards." Other career highlights
include recording the 2007 Grammy-nominated album "Whereas" by jazz
legend, Roy Haynes; scoring for Rikshaw Film's "The Listening Project"
(2007); mixing the 30th Annual DVD release of "A Prairie Home Companion
with Garrison Keilor" (2005); recording location sound for the Travel
Channel's hit television show "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern" and
living as an Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts
(Canada) from 1996 - 1999. While in Banff, Reid had the privilege of
recording the great Edgar Meyer performing a Paganini violin concerto
(...flawlessly on the double bass) as well as a release by jazz
saxophonist, David Liebman, "Colors" (recorded on a Saturday morning
with a pair of vintage RCA DX-77 microphones). Reid has taught at the
Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York and Macalester
College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Currently, Reid runs Waterbury Music +
Sound out of his home studio in Minneapolis. As a producer, arranger
and multi-instrumentalist, Reid works with a variety of music groups -
from classical to jazz to popular; from singer/songwriters to the
loudest of loud. He lives with his wife, Amy, and his white cat with
one blue eye and one green eye, Paloma.