Ryan Page

Curriculum Vitae

Ryan Daniel Page, Ph.D.

rpage2@berklee.edu | ryandanielpage.com | 3220 Mendon Rd., Cumberland, RI

Education

2015-2022 Film and Digital Media (Ph.D.) — University of California, Santa Cruz
2011-2013 Electronic Music and Recording Media (MFA) — Mills College
2007-2011 New Media (BA) — University of Maine

Current Position

2022-Present Assistant Professor of Sound Design — Berklee College of Music
2025-Present Senior DSP Engineer — Rainbow Circuit

Work Experience

2018-2021 Magus Instrumentalis — Founder/Product Development LeadDesigned ten synthesizer modules for VCV Rack. Managed a small team of programmers and designers to bring products to market. Prepared product demos, tutorials, manuals, logos, front-panels and designed module functionality.

2015-2021 University of California, Santa Cruz — Teaching Assistant/LecturerDeveloped and taught Film 171A Sound Workshop, ran discussion sections and graded for seventeen courses.

2018 Electronics Arts/Maxis — Audio ArtistMixed and mastered dialogue, as well as engineered recording sessions for The Sims 4: Get Famous expansion pack.

2014-2015 California Academy of Sciences — Exhibits Engineering TechnicianProgramming and electronics construction for new exhibits. Maintenance and repair of existing audio/visual systems.

2013-2014 Keith McMillen Instruments — Engineering Technician/Product TechnicianConstructed and tested prototypes for KMI instruments, including the creation of DSP and control software in Max/MSP.

2011-2013 Mills College — Teaching and Lab AssistantAided faculty and guest composers including Alvin Lucier, David Behrman and Pauline Oliveros with performances, including equipment fabrication and repair.

Skills

Software: Wwise, FMOD, Blueprints, Metasounds, C++, JUCE, Max MSP, Kyma, Pure Data, VCV Rack Development, Python, Reaper, Pro-Tools, Logic Pro X, Adobe Audition, Izotope Suite, Avid, Final Cut Pro, Unity, Unreal Engine, gen~, Ableton, GitHub

Hardware: Arduino, Teensy and Daisy microcontroller programming, DSP design, UI design, SMD soldering, Pro Tools HD, API 500 series, Avid S6, Ensoniq DP4, Cranesong STC-8, Eventide H-3000

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows and MacOS operating systems

Honors/Awards

  • 2025 Faculty Development Fellowship ($7,500) for development of synthesizer Fledge.
  • 2021 Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Scholarship ($10,000)
  • 2020 Dissertation Research Fellowship
  • 2019 Florence French Fellowship
  • 2018 Florence French Fellowship
  • 2017 Santa Cruz Arts Council Grant for Ctrl-Z’s “Call for Scores/Fall Program Series.”
  • 2017 Florence French Fellowship
  • 2017 Awesome Foundation Grant for “Reviving Lou Harrison’s Lost Electronic Music.”
  • 2016 Florence French Fellowship
  • 2013 Frog Peak Collective Experimental Music Award.
  • 2011 Undergraduate thesis Etude for 9 Kinetic Sound Objects awarded “Highest Honors”.
  • 2010 Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

Certifications

  • 2025 Avid Certified | Pro Tools Specialist
  • 2022 LinkedIn Learning Certificate of Completion for Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos in Logic Pro X

Teaching Experience

Berklee College of Music2022-Present Assistant Professor of Sound Design: Course Coordinator for MTEC-222 Introduction to Synthesizer Programming and Sound Design, EP-365 Effects Design in Advanced Production, and EP-321 Advanced Control Systems. Taught seven core classes per semester, developed syllabi and curriculum, created undergraduate award for video game sound design, interviewed and accepted students into the major.

Classes Taught:

  • MTEC-222 Introduction to Synthesizer Programming and Sound Design
  • EP-223 Modular Functions and Signal Flow
  • EP-321 Advanced Control Systems
  • EP-322 Advanced Sound Design
  • EP-341 Programming in Max
  • EP-381 Digital Audio Production and Design
  • EP-401 Advanced Seminar
  • EP-491 Advanced Projects in Production and Design
University of California, Santa Cruz2015-2021 Teaching Assistant/Lecturer: Led discussion sections for seventeen courses including Introduction to Film Studies, Television Studies, Film Production, Video Games as Visual Culture, Silent Cinema, Film Theory, and Digital Media Production. Developed and taught Film 171A Sound Workshop as lecturer. Conducted research and development for installations by Anna Friz including Earth Suit and Echophone projects.

Mills College2011-2013 Teaching and Lab Assistant: Assisted composer John Bischoff in teaching advanced digital synthesis in Max. Aided faculty and guest composers including Alvin Lucier, David Behrman and Pauline Oliveros with performances, including equipment fabrication and repair. Provided technical assistance to students and visiting musicians at the Center for Contemporary Music and Prieto Multimedia Lab.

Code

2025 Fledge. FM synthesizer VST developed in C++ and JUCE. Supported by Faculty Development Fellowship.
2025 Sands. Max For Live device for reshaping sound by simulating and abusing old digital sampler technology. Models digital to analogue and analogue to digital converters of an 8-bit sampler with bit-matrix interface for patching individual bits. Co-developed with Takuma Matsui for Rainbow Circuit.
2025 Unfolds. Wave-unfolder Max For Live device featuring five instances of wave unfolding, stereo-widening comb filter and noise ring modulator. Co-developed with Takuma Matsui for Rainbow Circuit.
2024 The Path of Veins Part 1. Visual Novel developed in Unity. Includes 20 song original soundtrack, as well as dozens of bespoke ambiences and sound effects.
2022 Instructional Materials for Max 8. Ongoing development of 150+ Max patches to assist students in learning Max. Materials include generative sequencing, basic AI, simulated digital to analog converters, polyphonic synthesizers, and granular effects.
2021 Cassette and MP3 Codec Emulations. Designed audio cassette simulations and an emulation of the MP3 codec for dissertation research.
2021 Madness Suite. Created a suite of seven modules for VCV Rack, including chaotic oscillators, a vactrol simulation and a modeled lowpass gate. Oversaw the production of 13 videos detailing the functionality of modules in this set.
2020 Polymaths. Created a suite of four modules for VCV Rack. Ars Memorium, the primary module in the set, is capable of producing 16 arbitrary functions at once, and providing two-dimensional interpolation between saved states. All functions are mapped to X and Y coordinates—allowing for a wide range of audio applications including: patch preset design and interpolation, LFOs with user programmable shapes, sequences with an arbitrary number of steps, precise recall of complex feedback patches, dense glissando, quadraphonic panning and many other forms of linked, user-defined modulation.
2018 HarmSpat. Developed a vocoder/resynthesizer for distributing sounds in a 32 channel sound-sculpture by artist Greg Sullo. Sounds are analyzed/resynthesized and sent to speakers mapped to a predefined portion of the audio spectrum. Band-pass filters can be tuned in real time for non-linear spatialization. Written in Max 8.
2017 Telharfauxnium. Designed and coded a free, open-source alternate firmware for the Music Thing Modular Radio Music eurorack synthesizer module. Firmware shown by the manufacturer at SuperBooth17 in Germany and distributed with the original firmware bundle.
2012 The Perilous Night. Created a midi-controlled sampler for Grammy Award-winning pianist Paul Sullivan used in the performance of John Cage’s The Perilous Night. Recorded sounds from each note of a prepared-piano at multiple dynamic levels.

Hardware Design

2025 Multimod. Beta Tester for Eurorack Module from Make Noise
2023 Impulse Dynamics. Beta Tester for Eurorack Module from Steady State Fate.
2021 Ubbo-Sathla. Created eurorack blank panel, artwork developed in collaboration with Materia Design.
2019 Machen. Designed and built a laser cut modular synthesis system. Includes wavetable oscillators, format translators, diode distortions, ring modulators, and soil-based signal processors. Circuits were either bespoke or modified from existing designs.
2016 The Adding Machine. Modified Burroughs adding machine with solenoids to calculate Naked Lunch in binary renderings of ASCII characters.
2014 uIaMF + VCIaMF Designed a miniature video mixer around PFETs and Arduino, eurorack version created in tandem.
2013 IaMF. Constructed an interactive performance system including video and audio processors, circuit-bent laserdisc players and prepared laserdiscs

Installation/Gallery Shows

2022 Pressing My Ear Against The Fourth Wall. Sound Installation for the What is an Image? exhibition. Hosted by International Visual Sociology Association.
2021 A Lambent Mirror for Remote Ontographies of Nested Infinities. Assisted composer David Dunn in the implementation of chaotic oscillator and vactrol simulation technologies co-authored with David Kant for multichannel installation.
2019 Earth Suit. Designed conductive thread VLF antenna, created sensor monitoring system in Python for embedded Raspberry Pi in smart-fabric installation.
2017 Echophone. Designed four computer-controlled radio stations for Sound Artist Anna Friz’s contribution to the Museum of Art and Design’s Sonic Arcade Exhibition
2014 Shifting Walls installed at Central Maine Art Gallery. 5.1 surround-sound generative audio installation.
2012 Nancarrow Percussion Orchestra. Created a composition for sound artist Trimpin’s exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum. Assisted building the exhibit.
2011 Etude for 9 Kinetic Sound Objects. Installed at University of Maine, Orono.
2009 MCRCSM. Co-created this interactive multimedia installation and designed the 16-channel audio system in Max MSP.

Publications & Presentations

2024 From the Night Land to the Dreamlands: Parallels and Convergences in Hodgson and Lovecraft – Participated in panel discussion hosted by Anne VanderMeer at Necronomicon Providence.
2024 Panel discussion on AI and creativity at AES International Symposium on AI and the Musician, hosted by Akito Von Troyer, PhD
2024 Simulated Mediation in Eurorack-Format Modules — Chapter in Modular Synthesis: Patching Machines and People a peer-reviewed book from Routledge addressing modular synthesis.
2024 Using Synthesis to Develop an Understanding of Music and Acoustics. Lecture given at Massachusetts Music Educators Association conference.
2021 Simulated Mediation: A Sonic History of Mediation, Affect and Digital Aesthetics — doctoral dissertation
2020 Recording Meta-soundscapes: Synchronized Multi-frame Audio Field-recording at a Large Spatial Scale — Open access pre-print. Written collaboration with Dunn, David, David Kant, Matthew Mitchell, Greg Sullo, Mustafa Walker, Brian Ford, et al.
2019 Daisy Bell — Artist statement/composition published in Refract Media Journal
2018 Fertility Rite — Short story published in The Weird Fiction Review #9 from Centipede Press. Edited by S.T. Joshi.
2018 A Silent Trembling: Digital Aesthetics and Dither – Presented at UCHRI Symposium on War, Security and Digital Media.
2018 Non-linear Feedback Systems: Kyma and Eurorack – Lecture and performance delivered at the Kyma International Sound Symposium in Santa Cruz, CA.
2013 Notes on Douglas Kahn’s Mainframe Experimentalism – Letter to the editor published by the MIT Press in the quarterly Computer Music Journal.

Discography

  • 2024 Repairer of Reputations. The Path of Veins Part 1. Self-Published.
  • 2022 Repairer of Reputations. Pressing My Ear Against The Fourth Wall. Self-Published.
  • 2022 Repairer of Reputations. Mirage ’77. Self-Published.
  • 2022 Repairer of Reputations. Mirage (Instrumental). Self-Published.
  • 2022 Repairer of Reputations. The October Country. Self-Published.
  • 2022 Repairer of Reputations. IX. Self-Published.
  • 2021 Repairer of Reputations. VVVVVVVV. Self-Published.
  • 2021 Repairer of Reputations. The Tainted Blade. Self Published
  • 2020 Repairer of Reputations. The Burning Pyramid. Self Published
  • 2020 Repairer of Reputations. Millvale ’02. Self Published
  • 2020 Repairer of Reputations. Burning Shadows. Self Published
  • 2019 Repairer of Reputations. Fragments from the Green Book live at KZSU Day of Noise. Self-Published.
  • 2019 Repairer of Reputations. Unending Failure II. Self Published
  • 2019 Repairer of Reputations. Innsport ’86. Self Published
  • 2018 Repairer of Reputations. Live at Bar Freda. Self-published.
  • 2018 Repairer of Reputations. Subrosa Rehearsals. Self-published.
  • 2018 David Dunn. Horseshoe Lake. Self-published. [Collaboration – synchronized multi-frame audio field-recording]
  • 2018 Repairer of Reputations. The Night Ocean. Self-published.
  • 2018 The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast. Strange Aeons. Soundtrack. Witch House Media.
  • 2018 Repairer of Reputations. Unending Failure. Self-published.
  • 2018 Various Artists. The Essential Indexical. Indexical Recordings.
  • 2017 Ctrl-Z. Ctrl-Z. Cassette LP. Full Spectrum Records.
  • 2017 Various Artists. Cutty Strangers. Digital LP. Cutty Strange Records.
  • 2017 Ryan Page. Euroserge. Digital LP. Cutty Strange Records.
  • 2017 Ryan Page. A Place To Be. Video-Game Soundtrack.
  • 2017 Slavestate 641A. Narcissist. Cassette Single. Cutty Strange Records.
  • 2016 Heroic Quartet/Pink Gaze. Sextet. Cassette Album. Self Help Tapes.
  • 2016 Ryan Page/Daniel Steffey. Automatic Typing/Terminal Beach. Cutty Strange Records
  • 2016 Christina Stanley. Fabric. Digital LP. Self Published
  • 2016 Jakob Pek. Gentle Songs of Mo(u)rning. Digital LP. Self Published
  • 2016 Dunkelpek. LIVE @ CTRL + SHIFT Gallery. Digital EP. Self Published
  • 2016 Dunkelpek. Sounds of the Inner Earth. Digital LP. Self Published
  • 2015 Night Worship. Degrading and Everlasting the Same. Cassette LP. Black Horizons
  • 2015 Ctrl-Z. Live at Grey Area. Full Length Digital Album. Self Published.
  • 2015 Ctrl-Z. Live at Omni Commons. Self Published.
  • 2014 Body Hammer II: The Mechanism of Night. Compact disk. The Path Less Traveled Records.
  • 2014 Abrasax. Demo. Cassette LP. Vestige Recordings
  • 2013 Various Artists. Monomaniac. 7″ vinyl EP. Blastbeat Mailorder.
  • 2013 Various Artists. Signal Flow Compilation. Self Published.
  • 2013 Slavestate 641A. Masochist. Cassette single. Laugh Now Records.
  • 2012 Nate Aldrich. Dirigo Mix. Digital Release. Ear to the Earth.
  • 2012 Robocop. Dead Language, Foreign Bodies. 12″ vinyl LP. Give Praise Records.
  • 2009 Body Hammer. Jigoku. Compact disk. The Path Less Traveled Records.

Selected Performances

  • 2025 EPD Faculty Multichannel Concert. Berklee College of Music. Boston, MA
  • 2024 EPD Faculty Multichannel Concert. Berklee College of Music. Boston, MA
  • 2021 Repairer of Reputations. New York Modular Society, Online Performances
  • 2020 Repairer of Reputations. Indexical Twitch Channel, Online Performance
  • 2019 Repairer of Reputations. KZSU Day of Noise. Stanford University. Stanford, CA
  • 2018 Repairer of Reputations. Kyma International Sound Symposium. Santa Cruz, CA
  • 2018 Repairer of Reputations. Radius Gallery. Santa Cruz, CA
  • 2017 Ctrl-Z. CCRMA. Stanford University. Stanford, CA
  • 2017 Ctrl-Z. The Jazz Gallery. Manhattan, NY
  • 2016 Ctrl-Z. Grey Area. San Francisco, CA
  • 2016 W/Laetitia Sonami. Center For New Music. San Francisco, CA
  • 2013 W/Rhys Chatham. Craneway Pavilion. Richmond, CA
  • 2013 W/Pauline Oliveros. Littlefield Concert Hall. Mills College. Oakland, CA
  • 2013 W/David Behrman. Littlefield Concert Hall. Mills College. Oakland, CA
  • 2012 W/Alvin Lucier. Littlefield Concert Hall. Mills College. Oakland, CA
  • 2011 W/Ikue Mori. Littlefield Concert Hall. Mills College. Oakland, CA

Press

Web

ryandanielpage.com
magusinstrumentalis.com
repairerofreputations.bandcamp.com