Reading Group

Reading Group (b.2016) is a record label by Derek Baron and Emily Martin. The project began as runs of 20 CD-rs of James Krivchenia’s Taylor Swift-inspired computer music and Cop Tear’s attempt at reading through John Cage’s Thirteen Harmonies and has since expanded their practice within, but outside and beyond the production sphere by releasing albums ranging from archival cassette tape diaries of David Wojnarowicz to the improvising trio of Fred Moten, Brandon Lopez, and Gerald Cleaver.

habitat extends an invitation to Derek Baron and Emily Martin, as the Reading Group, due to the project’s extraordinary transforming qualities.

Reading Group is a New York-based record label operated by Derek Baron and Emily Martin. Beginning in 2016 with runs of 20 CD-rs of James Krivchenia’s Taylor Swift-inspired computer music and Cop Tears’s attempt at reading through John Cage’s Thirteen Harmonies, the label has since released over 30 albums ranging from the archival cassette tape diaries of David Wojnarowicz to the incendiary improvising trio of Fred Moten, Brandon Lopez, and Gerald Cleaver.

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