RYAN PAGE

Ryan Page is a sound designer, programmer and electronic music composer. He holds a Ph.D. in digital media (UCSC) and an MFA in electronic music (Mills College). His work focuses on human interaction with technology, particularly the limitations and biases of communications media and their relation to human perception. In 2017 they created Repairer of Reputations, a project aimed at exploring the relationship between deprecated communications technologies and electronic music. Repairer of Reputations has produced film scores, video-game soundtracks, software plugins, short films, and a modular synthesizer.

He is currently an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, teaching sound design, synthesis and game audio.

Recordings of his music have been released by The Path Less Traveled Records, Give Praise Records, The Electronic Music Foundation, Indexical, Full Spectrum, Self-Help Tapes and Vestige Recordings. He has performed and/or collaborated with David Dunn, Laetitia Sonami, Anna Friz, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, Ikue Mori, Rhys Chatham, James Fei, and Trimpin. Their music has been positively reviewed by The Wire, Pitchfork, Decibel Magazine, National Public Radio, Maximum Rock N’ Roll, and Aquarius Records.

Ryan has designed instruments for companies such as Keith McMillen Instruments (creating the redesigning and creating first prototype of the Softstep 2 by hand and prototyping many products including Quneo Rogue, Kmix and Kboard) and designed the technologies for installations at the California Academy of Sciences and the Museum of Art and Design in New York. In 2018 they founded the electronic instrument company Magus Instrumentalis. More recently they have created the DSP for Sands and Unfolds for Rainbow Circuit and have served as a beta tester for Make Noise, SSF and other eurorack manufacturers. He currently maintains and updates a large open-source library of DSP fundamentals for teaching audio programming.