Mode Records is an American contemporary classical music record label based in New York City, New York, whose primary focus is modern classical, avant-garde, and new music. Composers featured include John Cage, Morton Feldman, Iannis Xenakis, and Harry Partch. Performers include Aki Takahashi, Martine Joste, the Arditti Quartet and Motion Ensemble. The label also has a commitment to younger composers with releases featuring Jason Eckardt, Joshua Fineberg, and Lei Lang.

Another Mode Records existed for a short time in the 1950s and was involved with jazz on the West Coast, including saxophonist and Lennie Tristano disciple Warne Marsh. It is now controlled by VSOP, and is unrelated to the existing Mode Records.

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Roger Reynolds is an American composer born July 18, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. He is a professor at the University of California at San Diego. He received an undergraduate degree in engineering physics from the University of Michigan where he later studied composition with Ross Lee Finney. Together with fellow Michigan classmates Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma, Reynolds was a founding member of the ONCE Group. After receiving his PhD, he lived abroad for seven years, first in Europe then in Japan. In the late 1960s, he returned to the United States and settled in southern California where he has been based to this day.

Roger Reynolds's works most often include text and electronic elements; he is especially a pioneer in multichannel spatial explorations. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for Whispers Out of Time, a composition for string orchestra.

He says, "I believe in as wide a range of musical involvements as is feasible given the reality of life." (Swed, 1993)