Ten To The Googolplex (Accretions, 2001) collects four solo improvisations on prepared electric piano. ghostly cosmic drones of Whimbrel On White Linen, the disjointed dissonances of Coiled Plumbbob, the languid shapeless events of Whigmaleerian Duologue, and especially the 28-minute Planarian Egress whose very long sustained tones behave like organic beings in slow motion.

Dalaba Frith Glick Rieman Kihlstedt (Accretions, 2003) is a collaboration with trumpeter Lesli Dalaba, guitarist Fred Frith and violinist Carla Kihlstedt. The 13-minute Worm Anvils features some of Dalaba's most sophisticated counterpoint to the most fragile scaffolding as guitar, violin and piano conspire to weave ghostly drones and dissonances. After about eight minute, the 12-minute Shallow Weather creates enough structure from chaos to sound like a funereal fanfare. At the synergetic peak of their jam the four personalities are well defined, as Dalaba's sustained tones collide against Frith's dadaistic noises, Glick-Rieman's anemic notes and Kihlstedt's demented whistles in the 16-minute Ant Farm Morning.

Lung Tree (january 2004 - ReR, 2005) is a collaboration with Lesli Dalaba on trumpet and Stuart Dempster on trombone, didjeridu and other instruments. Glick-Riemann mostly plays prepared electric piano but also synthesizer and traditional keyboards. The music is puntillistic but not overtly abstract. Emotions surface from the shy, sparse, subdued interchange of the trio. The pieces are a display of slow-motion and subliminal elegance. Most of them are sleepy elegies caught in the interplay between trumpet and trombone, such as the delicate droning and wailing of The Dock-Red Ice and Walking Ruminations, and especially Bed Shadows into Sleep, each of them littered with metallic piano noises. This paradigm culminates in the light trumpet and trombone drones of Morning Light Through the Smokestacks, the most abstract and otherworldly track, although towards the end the trumpet begins to "sing" a real song. A flickering melody is also drowned in the jelly of overtones of Waking by the Refinery. Two of the pieces are significantly different in spirit. Timbral Shift 10/ Coward's Line/Lobby Bar unfolds a series of non-musical dissonant staccato notes. The frantic piano metamorphoses of Dissolution and Redemption Animals (besides being infinitely more energetic than the rest) produces an angular melody out of what initially appears to be a mathematical game. Talking into the Wind closes the album in a somewhat desolate and depressed tone.

Reiman is also active in the chamber ensemble Bilge Radiolaria (tuba, trumpet, bassoon, viola, percussion, guitar, flute, computer, saxophones, piano), in the duo Thieves of Silence with Jeff Karsin, and in the Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble.

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