Honors & Awards

Clio Award, Bronze Winner. (Medium: Audio Craft, Category: Sound Design) 2021 - “Boom” Audio AR app for Listen Agency.

Golden Wheel, Silver Award (Category: Craft of the Year) 2021 - Microsoft Research’s Skyview for AEG Stockholm.

Parsons School of Design, Guest Lecturer 2020

Panelist, "Immersive Audio" by The Recording Academy of Arts and Sciences 2020

Tisch School of the Arts Departmental Fellowship 2016-2018

NYU Data Services Research Mapping and Visualization Competition, 1st Place Award 2017

Microsoft Research Design Expo - Most Inspirational Presentation Award 2017

Press

New York Times, Sept 2009 “Compact hooks and artfully ambiguous emotion.”

Washington Post, Sept 2009 “Specializes in understated pop, usually opting for subtler melodies over big hooks.”

The Guardian, March 2008 "Good lord, he is good."

Seattle Times, July 2016 “Extraordinarily talented.”

Apple Music, Feb 2014 "Striking electronica..an exquisite nine-song cycle."

Paper Magazine, Feb 2016 "A gorgeous statement on the triumphant, enduring power of love and life over fear.”

NPR, Dec 2008 "Catchy, upbeat indie pop with enough experimental twists and turns to keep it interesting.”

Pitchfork, March 2008 “Reitherman’s range highlights his hooks and wordplay. TMTS’s candor is compelling.”

Pitchfork, March 2009 “Hook after hook in each song, any one of which a lesser band might try to squeeze a whole tune out of.”

The Stranger feature, July 2009 “The 12 best songs by TMTS (and By The Way, They Only Have Two Albums)”

Portland Mercury, March 2016 "One of indie pop’s greatest records of the past decade..a masterpiece.”

2014 - "Pillar Point: The Remixes" - self released tour-only CD