Louis Andriessen, Aphex Twin, balinese gamelan, Battles, Dan Becker, Boards of Canada, Glenn Branca, Deerhoof, Ian Dicke, Arnold Dreyblatt, Dominic Frasca, Fred Frith, Michael Gordon, Gutbucket, David Lang, Gyorgy Ligeti, Steve Mackey, mbira, Marc Mellits, Arvo Part, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Steve Reich, Jonathan Russell, Sufjan Stevens, Upsilon Acrux, Julia Wolfe...
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“Great, satisfyingly cerebral stuff with a funky and appealing technique to back it up.” DC Theatre Scene
“Pushes the ensemble sound beyond the Western classical realm.” Santa Barbara News-Press
“This is modern composed music at its best; nimble, expressive, ear-turning and strange in an accessible way, highly virtuosic but never pretentious...It’s fun. It’s beautiful.” Washington City Paper
“The genuine enthusiasm the group evoked was infectious, and plenty of audience members bopped their heads along with the music.” San Francisco Classical Voice
Composer RYAN BROWN draws heavily on his omnivorous musical tastes while maintaining a unique sound all his own. His works are often noted for their energy and off-kilter, foot-tapping rhythms and have been called “modern composed music at its best: nimble, expressive, ear-turning, and strange in an accessible way, highly virtuosic but never pretentious.” (Washington City Paper)
Ryan’s music has been performed by many notable groups, performers, and presenters, including pianist Lisa Moore, guitarist Mark Stewart, the Robin Cox Ensemble, the BluePrint Project, the Great Noise Ensemble, and the MATA Festival. Radio features have included NPR’s Forum with Michael Krasney and Richard Freidman’s Music from Other Minds. In 2007 French record label trAce released Banksy on the album Post-Minimalism.
Ryan has received an Emerging Composer Award from the Gerbode and Hewlett Foundations, and a Morton Gould Young Composer Award from ASCAP. He is currently a fellow in the Brooklyn Philharmonic’s Composer Mentoring Program. Upcoming premieres and commissions include music for the Left Coast Ensemble, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic.
In 2006, along with composer Jonathan Russell and clarinetist Jeff Anderle, Ryan co-founded San Francisco’s annual Switchboard Music Festival, an 8-hour music marathon bringing together composers and performer’s who are challenging traditional genre lines. Himself active as both an electric guitarist and electric bassist, Ryan has been a featured performer in works by Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and John Adams, as well as the premiere performance and recording of Steve Mackey’s Measures of Turbulence.
Ryan is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and California State University, Long Beach, and is currently a graduate fellow at Princeton University. He has studied with Dan Becker, Martin Herman, Steve Mackey, and Bruce Miller. Visit his website at www.ryanbrownmusic.com.
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that my new album Afrikan Machinery is out now on Tzadik Records. Check out some of the tracks on my profile! You can buy the CD here, here, or here. It's also available on iTunes.
Best Wishes, Lukas Ligeti
Hey Ryan, How're things? Just a few weeks to go and our festival will start. Still plenty to be arange, but I'm dropping by to let you know we released two short movies about the venues, our festival will be held at. Check them out. Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, one venue of the OUTPUT Festival.
Thanks for stopping by and checking out the music before. If you'd like you can get the free Maltese CD-R (click for download) There is also the new track "D6add9".
hey dude. there is this musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's play The Adding Machine happening in chicago right now at a theatre i'm an Artistic Associate of called Next Theatre (it's more like an opera; they call it a "chamber musical"). There was recently a huge write-up of it and two other shows in chicago in The New York Times two days ago. if you go online you'll still see it in the Theatre section, i bet. it's composed by this amazing concert composer/musician named Joshua Schmidt out of Brooklyn. the whole time i was listening to it, i kept thinking of you and saying to myself "god, i wish Ryan was hearing this! we need to do this kind of thing together!".
Sat down last night and pulled Lady Stardust out of my piano. Can't believe I still rememeber it. I recall staying in my room for 3 hours learning that song by ear so I could play it at "Rumors" rehearsal just to try and impress you. Did it work? Glad to see (and hear) you're doing so well. There are times where I wish I could still see that castle in the clouds we ventured to that day at lunch ;)
...a little late...but HAPPY BIRTHDAY ryan!! brian and i totally remembered when we were looking at vintage coats in LA....for some reason, we thought of you! ha. :D hope you had a good one!!!
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