Randy Raine-Reusch

Randy Raine-Reusch (born 1952) is a Canadian composer, performer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist specializing in New and Experimental Music for instruments from around the world, particularly those from East and Southeast Asia.

Raine-Reusch studied at the Creative Music Studio in the 1970s with artists such as Frederic Rzewski, Jack Dejohnette, and Karl Berger, before going overseas to study with master musicians in Australia, Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, and the Philippines, as well as with "National Treasures" in South Korea and Japan.

With a collection of approximately 1000 instruments, Raine-Reusch regularly performs on the Chinese guzheng, bawu, hulusi and xun; the Japanese shō and ichigenkin; the Korean kayagum; the Thai khaen and pin pia; the Australian didjeridu; and the Appalachian dulcimer.

Raine-Reusch has recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening Band, Aerosmith, The Cranberries, Yes, Raffi, David Amram, Jon Gibson, Jin Hi Kim, and Henry Kaiser as well with as his own intercultural quartet, ASZA. He has performed with a wide range of artists including: Aerosmith, Robert Dick, Mats Gustafsson, Barry Guy, Sainkho Namtchylak, Pauline Oliveros, Trichy Sankaran, Paul Plimley, Miya Masaoka and Issui Minegishi, the Japanese Iemoto, or Hereditary Grand Master, of Seikyodo Ichigenkin. He also performs in a duo with his wife, the Chinese zheng virtuoso and scholar Mei Han.

Other credits include two Juno Award nominations, a performance on the famed American PBS “Prairie Home Companion,” and appearing in five documentary films on music.

He was the co-founder of the Rainforest World Music Festival held in Malaysia. He returned in 1998 as the Artistic Director and Consultant for both the Rainforest World Music Festival held just outside Kuching, Malaysia, and the Miri International Jazz Festival in Miri, Malaysia, re-branded in 2010 as Borneo Jazz. Both festivals are overseen by the Sarawak Tourist Board. He was a music consultant for the Korean Arts Management Service, the Sarawak Tourist Board, and Cirque du Soleil's Quidam.

He was the former Director of Acquisitions for the Musical Instrument Museum, which opened in early 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona. He also has been an instrument consultant for the Stearn's Collection at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California.

Raine-Reusch is an affiliate of the Canadian Music Centre, a member of the Canadian League of Composers, Board member of the Museum of World Music, a former Board Member of the Canadian New Music Network, and the Executive Director for the Red Chamber Cultural Society.

With Deep Listening Band, and Joe McPhee

2013 - Looking Back

With Henry Kaiser, and Torsten Müller

2012 - Kamüra

With Stuart Dempster, Jon Gibson, Jin Hi Kim, William O. Smith (Bill Smith), Barry Truax

2005 - Bamboo, Silk & Stone

With Mei Han

2001 - Distant Wind: New Direction For Chinese Zheng

With Yes

1999 - The Ladder

With Barry Guy, Robert Dick

1999 - Gudira

With Pauline Oliveros

1998 - In the Shadow of the Phoenix

With The Cranberries

1996 - To the Faithful Departed

With Raffi

1994 - Bananaphone

With Aerosmith

1989 - Pump

• Play the World - a 101 World Instrument Primer, Mel Bay Productions

Interviews

• Extensive Randy Raine-Reusch interview at AsiAmerican DreaMusic
• Global Rhythm. World Marketing Incorporated. 2008. p. 16.