Amy Reid is a queer electronic musician, producer, sound and visual artist striving to transform spaces visually, sonically and socially. Her work often explores the intersection of the natural, human-made world, and the liminal spaces of existence through the use of field recordings, vocals, and electronic instruments. Dedicated to creating spaces that are conducive to experiencing live music, Reid works collaboratively with other artists to create futuristic micro-worlds. Reid has studied Painting and Art Education obtaining a BFA and MAT from Maryland Institute College of Art where she began playing in bands and often incorporating original soundtracks into her visual works of art. Inspired by her experiences as a musician, visual and community artist, her lifelong goal is to explore the environments in which all three worlds intersect. 

Her first album Hirsute (released through Friends Records) was hailed by Baltimore City Paper as “The Best Solo Debut of 2017” receiving attention for it’s luscious textures and vulnerable lyrics from Impose magazine and other media outlets. Diving deeper into the realm of ambient music and sonic healing spaces, Reid’s sophomore album Isolated Bliss was released in May 2020 through Atlantic Rhythms. Isolated Bliss, combines field recordings and electronic elements with the goal of sonically transporting the listener to a space existing somewhere between reality and a distant world. Touring nationally and internationally since 2014, she has shared the stage with critically acclaimed artists such as; Future Islands, Dan Deacon, SOPHIE, XIU XIU, Flock of Dimes and Ami Dang to name a few. 

In addition to her music practice, she founded Baltimore’s GRL PWR Collective in 2014 whose mission is to create platforms for women and LGBTQ identifying people, elevating visibility for under-represented artists and talent. Recently, GRL PWR was chosen as a Grit Fund Grantee for the 2019-2020 grant cycle. GRL PWR events transform environments as a way to grapple with the lack of queer spaces in Baltimore. Their last event SWEAT, an inclusive drag show, featured Nina Bo’Nina Brown, an international drag queen appearing on RuPaul’s Drag Race. 

washington post review

“The sounds of Imka’s and Amy Reid’s videos are similar in mode and mood, but were generated by a synthesizer that converts plant biodata into tones. By rendering nature into sound, Imka and Reid join the other four artists in investigating the hidden character of the commonplace things that surround us.”

- Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post

Boiler Room- Baltimore

Honored to kick off Boiler Room x Dark Room at 8pm, Saturday September 27th. Click the Resident Advisor Link for Tickets and more Info

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Baltimore Banner Artist Highlight

Imagine you’re sweaty, out of breath and shuffling toward the bar while the DJ is giving the dancers a rest with a slow jam. When you turn to the DJ booth, there is a small blonde person with a sharp bob having the time of her life. It’s DJ Amsies, aka Amy Reid. -Imani Spence

“Shadow Bath” Premiere- Foxy Digitalis

“Neon lights flood labyrinthine corridors on the bounding synthscapes of Amy Reid’s “Shadow Bath” from her upcoming EP, Utopia. There’s no way to listen to this song and not get up and move.” -Brad Rose

Featured in New Music USA

Different Cities Different Voices is a series from NewMusicBox that explores music communities across the US through the voices of local creators and innovators. Discover what is unique about each city’s new music scene through a set of personal essays

Dome Trax in fader

Dome Trax runs for 25 minutes, but due to its cyclical nature, it feels timeless. Like the geodesic dome itself, it reads as both simple and ingenious, natural and alien. Droning synths bloom and warp endlessly as the record runs its course, rendering track designations irrelevant.

Fruiting Bodies solo Exhibition

Current Space is proud to present "Fruiting Bodies" a solo exhibition by Amy Reid. The exhibition can be viewed from outdoors, through our window boxes along Howard Street. The projections will run from 8-11pm each night. Please practice social distancing and wear a mask ❤️
To purchase works, visit our online shop​.

Bmoreart

Fruiting Bodies is part of series of an ongoing investigation titled Unearthing Queer Ecologies. The title references the term Queer Ecology which scholar Catriona Sandilands describes as “recognizing that people often regard nature in terms of dualistic notions like “natural and unnatural,” “alive or not alive” or “human or not human,” when in reality, nature exists in a continuous state.” This project pays homage to this idea by sonically and visually revealing the growth and life of plants that have been deemed “queer” by culture and organisms that are “queer” in the very nature of their DNA such as; lavender, pansies and various mushroom species. Click the link to read more!

Bandcamp daily

“Atlantic Rhythms reached out to Amy Reid about making an ambient album right as she was embarking on a new chapter in her life, living in a dorm on an island off the coast of Maine. She knew she wanted to make an album, but one that wouldn’t be as vocal-heavy as her first record, Hirsute.”

Fresh air exhibit featuring future canopies

Future Canopies is an audio visual installation featuring projections made by Johnny Rogers and original compositions created by Amy Reid. These elements were presented inside of an interactive, hand-built geodesic dome in The Merriweather District 2020 artist residency. Click the image to hear the soundscapes.

2020 Rubys Grant Recipient

to support Unearthing Queer Ecologies, an audio/visual project using biology and technology to reveal the imagery and sounds of queer plant life (whether deemed queer by culture or queer in DNA) that is currently beyond the scope of the human eye and ear.

“Immortal Voices”- A GRL PWR AUDIO VISUAL Project

Thursday, July 23 • 5:30-6:30 p.m.
hosted by The Walters

Artists Amy Reid and Pangelica take you on a time-traveling experience to give literal voice to two women represented in the Walters collection: a sculpture of the Greek sea goddess Amphrite and an ancient Egyptian mummy. Their spectral Art Sound Now performance, Immortal Voices focuses on themes of healing and destruction through ambient sound and performance. Art Sound Now highlights our commitment to supporting local artists and exploring new perspectives on the collection.

Join Amy and Pangelica for a live conversation with the Walters on Tuesday, July 30, at 5:30 p.m.

Sonic Landscapes; Utopic Dystopic shifts

Reid was one of 3 artists chosen for a residency curated by Maryland Institute College of Art’s Curatorial Sutdies Graduate Program in the Spring of 2020. Utopic/ Dystopic Shifts is a sound piece that combines field recordings, recordings of pre & current shut down performances, and original compositions to explore the ever-changing sonic landscape of day to day adaptations of quarantine life.

Attn: Magazine

“Composed when Amy Reid was living on the island of Monhegan off the coast of Maine, the 19 minutes of Isolated Bliss are a bittersweet ode to the futility of escape. With time, the spotless simplicity of an elsewhere – the bright sun, the glittering water – start to accrue the complexities of yet another here. Idyllic locations lose their novelty as the days churn by, eventually becoming the next refuge for familiar sensations of introspective restlessness. Stay still for long enough and home will always settle back into the bones.” -Jack Chuter ATTN:Magazine

NEW CHIFFON! Download “Third” now via bandcamp

Go listen to Chiffon’s Third EP now!! As all live events have been canceled or postponed until further notice, downloading this album helps us maintain our studio space, production costs and general life expenses. Our hearts go out to everyone experiencing losses right now from COVID-19. Stay healthy and safe <3

https://chiffon.bandcamp.com

remix alert! Super City’s “Roping” track

Out Now on Apple Music

https://music.apple.com/us/album/too-right-single/1476275669

Tiny mixtapes Feature “Icon Remix”

Ethereal space:

Have you walked in sunlight? Have you felt nostalgia?

Stream Amy Reid’s lustrous remix of George Corey Todd’s “Icon” below via Atlantic Rhythms, and be on the lookout for a longer ambient project from her in the future.

Baltimore Magazine “Faces of pride” issue

“The past year-and-a-half has been really important to me. I just came out to my mom and dad. You just hit a point where you can’t be someone you’re not anymore. And to be open about it, to celebrate it, to just be comfortable with it and yourself, and also be an example for other people who might have a hard time coming out…it’s a way to connect with people. ”

—AMY REID, ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN AND FOUNDER OF GRL PWR ARTS COLLECTIVE

New remix alert!!!

Check out Reid’s remix of George Corey Todd’s track Icon out now via Atlantic Rhythms, link below!

Baltimore City Paper awards “hirsute” as best solo debut!

“Reid’s singing is lush as ever, all of which is to say that “hirsute” has some of our favorite elements from Chiffon’s music while also feeling entirely distinctive.”

Week in pop of Impose

Amy Reid (Half of Chiffon) presented a listen to the sparse new electro single “Only Tonight” off the solo album Hirsute available September 29 on Friends Records. Urgent pangs of immediacy are drafted into the sequencing of the song’s equation where Reid exemplifies the feelings & pressures & mysteries as to what moves & what news may follow as the night ticks dutifully toward the light of a new dawn.

Flock of dimes & amy reid @ottobar!

I still remember hearing Jenn Wasner's first solo turn as Flock of Dimes, 'Prison Bride,' a lively song blending looping electronic beats and Wasner's rich vocals. It was quite a departure from Wye Oak, Wasner's guitar-oriented project with percussionist Andy Stack that by this point had started getting national recognition with 2011's "Civilian"; yet more evidence of Wasner's immense talents as a writer and arranger, and a sign that she was not to be pigeonholed by genre. As Wye Oak continued to forge new ground, including the addition of synths and electronic production on 2015's "Shriek," Wasner nursed along her solo project, releasing a couple singles here and there and, in 2016, the first proper LP, "If You See Me, Say Yes." Suffice it to say the album delivers on all the promise first heard in 'Prison Bride'—delivering a wide-ranging collection of electro-pop that hits all the right sweet spots. Wasner lives out of state now, so the show will be a homecoming of sorts, and she'll be getting opening support from Amy Reid, one half of the electro-R&B duo Chiffon, whose forays into solo work have also shown immense potential. 9 p.m., The Ottobar, 2549 N. Howard St., (410) 662-0069, theottobar.com, $16, advance $14. (Brandon Weigel)