[In no particular order, ignoring all genre categorizations]
Audio: Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, Boards of Canada, Edgard Varese, Miles Davis, Olivier Messiaen, Brian Eno, Morton Subotnick, Herbie Hancock, Madlib, Dan the Automator, Philip Glass, John Cage, Gyorgy Ligeti, Happy Apple, Charles Ives, Frank Zappa, Prefuse 73, Krzysztof Penderecki, Arvo Part, George Crumb, Giacinto Scelsi, Steve Martin, George Carlin, Bjork, Plaid, Aphex Twin, Traditional Gamelon and Kecak from Bali, Traditional African Music particularly from Ghana, Madvillian, Wu-Tang Clan, Amon Tobin, Air, Daft Punk, Dom & Roland, Dieselboy, Led Zeppelin, DJ Krush, DJ Spooky, Jazzanova, Kilowatts, Massive Attack, Royksopp, Sam Kinison, Mr Sam, Lewis Black, Roots Manuva, RZA, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pat Metheny, Martin Dot, Canibus, DJ Q-Bert, Jurassic 5, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Bernard Herrmann, Pimmon, Jaga Jazzist, Peter Principle, John Lurie, Quasimoto, Twista, Wagon Christ, Autechre, Iannis Xenakis, Sica, TPower, AK1200, Richard Pryor
Visual: Koyannisqatsi, Mark Rothko, Werner Herzog, Being John Malkovich, Pi, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Requiem for a Dream, Akira Kurosawa, Adaptation, Happiness, History Channel, Einstein on the Beach, Family Guy, Da Ali G Show, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Peter Sellers, Stanley Kubrick, Craig Blacklock, Decasia, Scarface, Chicago Cubs baseball, Jim Jarmusch, Little Miss Sunshine, Ohm+: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!, Fishing With John, Quentin Tarantino, Tampopo, Chris Cunningham, Baraka, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kids, American Movie, Harmony Korine, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Julien Donkey-boy, Gummo, City Lights, Charlie Chaplin, The Marx Brothers, Duck Soup, Chicago Bears football, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Sounds Like
Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Amon Tobin, Prefuse 73, Boards of Canada, Kilowatts :: Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, Henryk Gorecki
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Minnesota's North Shore Soundtrack Disc 1 || Ryan Rapsys
Disc 1 of the relaxing, ambient soundtrack to Craig Blacklock’s film Minnesota’s North Shore.
Minnesota's North Shore Soundtrack Disc 2 || Ryan Rapsys
Disc 2 of the relaxing, ambient soundtrack to Craig Blacklock's film Minnesota's North Shore.
Antiquichrome || Ryan Rapsys
Deep explorations into microsound electronic ambience.
Free-form glitches, bleeps and distortions for the open-minded listener.
The-Novus-Arcadia || Ryan Rapsys
“Overall, [The-Novus-Arcadia's] an immensely enjoyable experience,
and it could well become a piece of electronic art that may
be a required listen in the near future.”
Muse’s Muse, 7/31/2007
Born on December 3rd, 1980 in Duluth, Minnesota, Ryan Rapsys earned a Bachelor of Music degree with a concentration of Theory and Composition at the University of Minnesota - Duluth under the advisement and tutelage of Dr. Justin Rubin in 2004. As a student, he studied traditional classical music composition and orchestration while simultaneously developing self-taught techniques in electronic sound engineering, producing, sequencing, mixing and mastering.
Although always extremely interested in music, Rapsys felt that video in combination with music was personally a more fitting way of expressing himself artistically. Combining his music background and interest in experimental video, he completed a series of videos combining elements of rhythm and color consistent within the music as well as the visuals (primarily through rhythmic editing). The first of such videos–which exemplifies this idea in its title Two Movements for Video and Electronic Sounds (2002)–won the Best Local Film award at the Bearded Child Film Festival in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Abstractions of Dreams and Memories (2003), Just Kids Growing Up and/or None Of Them Turned Out To Be Killers (2004) and Dyad (2006) were other multimedia video works that followed, continuing the exploration of visual and sonic combinations. His first full length album release includes a music video for the song “Novus-arcadia” among its enhanced features which continues experimenting with visual and sonic rhythms interlocking in order to create a background fabric upon which the primary themes may be presented.
Rapsys has also collaborated with several dance choreographers, creating electronic mixes to accompany live dance performances. Most recently, he created original electronic music for the one-woman theatrical/dance show Beep the Horn! by Lisa McKhann in Duluth, Minnesota.
Rapsys also won the First Annual James and Paula Nelson Young Composers Competition in 2002 for his orchestral work Modicum One 2-1202, which was subsequently performed by the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra on March 27, 2003. Currently, much of his classical acoustic writing is heavily influenced by experimental electronica, ambient electronic music and other various forms of obscure popular electronic music.
Rapsys’s first official full length album The-Novus-Arcadia is a culmination of the variety of his experiences and influences expressed through the loose “genres” of experimental electronica, idm, drum’n’bass, trip-hop, ambient, trance, downtempo, etc. His approach to producing and mixing is much more connected to contemporary classical orchestration, however, rather than any of the various styles of electronica.
He also just finished composing original electronic music to accompany a feature length documentary/art video by the renown nature photographer Craig Blacklock. The film is called Minnesota’s North Shore, and it is included with the book of the same name.
Residing in Duluth, Minnesota currently, Ryan Rapsys is engaged in a variety of ongoing projects, including multimedia video works, music videos, and freelance commercial music scoring.
Yo Friend! Bouch from Dante's Lounge here. I wanted to let you know that we just posted two songs from our new album entitled "TRANSPARENT SCARS" on our music player. When ya get a chance, give these trax a spin and check out the new merch on our website at www.danteslounge.com Let us know what ya think. Hope to cya at some shows this summer.
I would be absolutely chuffed and it would mean a great deal to me, if you took time to check out my debut EP 'Night Swimmer' at www.organicanaloguerecords.com
I would appreciate any feedback, particularily from artists I admire such as yourself!
Hey Ryan, how have you been? how's your summer going? Minneapolis has FINALLY warmed up!
If you haven't already, please check out my new album on iTunes or you can get the CD and Ts from my Merch Store and help support us independent musicians... so I can eat! :) let me know your thoughts! peace,
Yo YO yo ..This GSV Hitting you large on your space.. Just letting you no our Debut E.P is now done and dusted and ready to go national.. please pop by and give us your support and in return we offer you frankensense and Merr and many many prosperous thoughts.......GOD IS A DJ
