Textures & Tonalities for Analogue Synthesizers & Percussion

Rick Reger was born in Chicago in 1958 and has resided in the Chicago area most of his life. He began playing keyboards in 1971 and a few years later began sporadically studying composition independently. He creates music using percussion instruments and vintage keyboards and synthesizers, such as the Arp 2600, VCS3, Moog Voyager, Fender Rhodes and Mellotron. He has played in several local Chicago groups, and from 2012-2015, he was a member of The Margots, which included Ken Vandermark and Tim Daisy. The band made two records, Pescado and Sople′, on Okka Disk records. He has also worked periodically as a music journalist, and in the past his work appeared regularly in the Chicago Reader and Chicago Tribune newspapers.