Ryan Ross Smith

Recent and past events

[5.2023]
Live Coding performance with Shawn Lawson and Animated Notation Workshop at NIME 2023, Mexico City, Mexico [forthcoming].

[5.2023]
Animated Notation Workshop and Performance at TENOR 2023, Boston, MA.

[4.2023]
ALGORAVE performance with Shawn Lawson [remote] at ICLC 2023, Utrecht, Netherlands.

[11.2022]
Animated Notation Workshop presentation of my work with Animated Notation, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

[11.2022]
PIKSEL Festival Live Coding Performance of AKIRA with Shawn Lawson [remote]. Bergen, Norway.

[6.2022]
Toplap Barcelona Live Coding Performance with Shawn Lawson [remote]. Barcelona, Spain.

[3.2021]
Livecode.nyc Live Coding Performance with Shawn Lawson [remote]. New York City, NY.

[7.2020]
Network Music Festival's TOPLAP MX VR Algorave Live Coding Performance with Shawn Lawson [remote].

[3.2020]
Wonderverse Algorave Live Coding Performance with Shawn Lawson [remote].

[2019]
Toplap 15 algo-stream Live Coding Performance with Shawn Lawson [remote].

[2019]
Monash University premiere performance of In Which I Enjoy Myself (solo electronics), Melbourne, Australia.

[7.2019]
Tenor 2019 panelist on the Animated Notation panel, Melbourne, Australia.

[2.2019]
Plenary Talk on live Coding with Shawn Lawson, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

[1.2019]
ICLC 2019 [International Conference on Live Coding] Paper Presentation with Shawn Lawson [remote]. Madrid.

[12.2018]
ACMC 2018 panelist on the Animated Notation panel, Perth, Australia.

[12.2018]
ACMC 2018 presentation of the Animated Notation Workshop, Perth, Australia.

[12.2018]
Make it up Club solo modular synthesizer performance, Melbourne, Australia.

[9.2018]
SMF 2018 [Sample Music Festival] Lecture-Demonstration on Live Coding. Berlin.

[6.2018]
NIME 2018 The Dark Side Live-Coding Demo. University of Virginia.

[12.2017]
ICLC 2017 [International Conference on Live Coding] Co-Located Paper Presentation with Shawn Lawson, Morelia, Mexico.

[11.29.2017]
Live Coding Audio and Visual Performances Co-Located Presentation, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

[10.25.2017 (PM)]
Live Coding Audio and Visuals at Creative Coding NYC #3 Co-Located Live-Coding demonstration with Shawn Lawson.

[10.25.2017 (AM)]
Live Coding: Mathematics in Performance at Art_X: Music, Sound, and Mathematics Co-Located Live Coding Demonstration with Shawn Lawson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

[10.2017]
Generate! Festival, Co-led Live-Coding workshop with Shawn Lawson, Tübingen, German.

[10.2017]
Guest Lecturer and Critic for Graduate arts students at The School at the Art Institute of Chicago.

[9.2017]
SMF 2017 [Sample Music Festival] Lecture on Live Coding & Workshop on Animated Notation, Berlin, Germany.

[Summer, 2017]
I visited the Walden School for Young Musicians as a Guest Artist, gave a lecture and short workshop, Dublin, NH.

[5.2017]
TENOR 2017 [Totalitarian Scoring Workshop] Co-Located Presentation with Benedict Eris Carey, Spain.

[9.1.2016]
Performance of Study no. 55 as part of SMC2016, Hamburg, Germany.

[8.8.2016]
GREEN DOME Performance with Green Dome [Zeena Parkins, Ryan Sawyer, and Ryan Ross Smith], I-Beam, Brooklyn, NY.

[5.29.2016]
Premiere of Study no. 53 and Study no. 54 Premiere performances at the TENOR 2016 Second International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, Cambridge, UK.

[5.28.2016]
[Study no. 50][Notational Becoming][Speculations] Paper presentation at the TENOR 2016 Second International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, Cambridge, UK.

[5.27.2016]
What to do and When to do it: Animated Music Notation Workshop, Workshop presentation at the TENOR 2016 Second International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, Cambridge, UK.

[4.29.2016]
Algorave 0x0f, Performance with Shawn Lawson at Algorave 0x0f, Tech Valley Center of Gravity, Troy, NY.

[4.8.2016]
GREEN DOME, Performance with Green Dome [Zeena Parkins, Ryan Sawyer, Ryan Ross Smith] at Counterflows Festival, Glasgow, UK.

[4.3.2016]
modDRUMS, Performance with Ryan Sawyer as modDRUMS, Mengi, Reykjavik, Iceland.

[3.25.2016]
SOURCE 2016, Performance with Shawn Lawson at SOURCE 2016 Supercollider Conference, NYU, NY.

[2.2016]
Premiere of Study no. 51, Premiere of Study no. 51 by Jennifer Bewerse, University of California, San Diego.

[2.2016]
Premiere of Study no. 50, Premiere of Study no. 50 by the Williams College Percussion Ensemble, EMPAC, Troy, NY.

[2015]
Pixie GOLD Award!, 7th Annual Pixie Gold Award for Sarlacc [with Shawn Lawson].

[8.14.2015]
ISEA 2015, Performance at ISEA 2015 [International Symposium on Electronic Art], with Shawn Lawson, Vancouver, CA.

[5.2015]
An Atomic Approach to Animated Music Notation, Paper presentation at the TENOR 2015 Second International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, Paris, FR.

[3.2015]
CultureHub Artist Residency, Artist Residency with Shawn Lawson at CultureHub, NY.

[2.2015]
Northern Illinois University Artist in Residence, Invited to speak with students of the Music and Time Arts Department, and attend a concert dedicated to my music, Dekalb, IL.

[1.28.2015]
Study no. 9.2 [KZU] performed at Geisel Library, University of California-San Diego.

[1.26.2015]
Study no. 30 installed and performed by Jennifer Bewerse [DMA Recital], University of California-San Diego.

[1.2015]
New Music Gathering 2015, Panelist [music technology, specifically its impact on education], San Francisco, CA.

[1.2015]
New Music Gathering 2015, Presented Lecture no. 3 performed by Christina Stanley and Daniel McKemie, San Francisco, CA.

[11.2014]
International Conference on Live Interfaces 2014, Presenter with Shawn Lawson, Lisbon, Portugal.

[11.2014]
Radical dB Festival, Presenter with Shawn Lawson, Zaragoza, Spain.

[11.2014]
Study no. 45 performed with K. Michael Fox and Ernesto Caracamos at South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY.

[11.2014]
Study no. 10 performed at South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY.

[11.2014]
Study no. 9 performed by James Saunders/Material Ensemble, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK.

[11.2014]
Study no. 27 [down] performed by James Saunders/Material Ensemble, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK.

[11.2014]
Study no. 40 [pulseight] performed by James Saunders/Material Ensemble, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK.

[8.19-8.31.2014]
16th International Kozani Music Seminar, Virtual presentation of Lecture no. 1, Kozani, Greece.

[7.25.2014]
Study no. 12 [windmills] performed as part of an evening of new experimental music from composer/performers Sebastian Adams, Tim Cape, Elis Czerniak, Edward Henderson, Paul McGuire, Barry O'Halpin and Ryan Ross Smith. Featuring musicians from Kirkos Ensemble and Bastard Assignments. BLOCK T Smithfield Chambers, Smithfield Square, Dublin 7, Dublin, Ireland.

[7.10-7.12.2014]
Deep Listening: Art/Science 2nd Annual International Conference on Deep Listening. I gave a talk and premiered a new composition for audience [Study no. 50], EMPAC, Troy, NY.

[6.30.2014]
NIME 2014, I gave a brief talk on animated notation at Interactive Music Notation and Representation Workshop, NIME 2014, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK.

[5.20.2014]
Study no. 5 [Rainbow], Performed by Drew Cecatto and Adam Tinkle at 'Synaestheoria: Color and Control in Graphic Music', CPMC Theatre, UCSD, San Diego, CA.

[5.7.2014]
Study no. 40.3 [pulseven], Performed by the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble, conducted by Steed Cowart, Oakland, CA.

[4.25.2014]
Celebration: JustPressPlay!, Performed live electronics (as 'The Wookie') with live coded video by Shawn Lawson (as 'Obi-Wan Codenobi), Gamefest 2014, EMPAC, Troy, NY.

[3.18.2014]
Emergency Notation Device [Lecture] presented at the Graduate Composition Seminar at Mills College, Oakland, CA, Oakland, CA.

[3.16.2014]
Study no. 38 [Variations on Sol LeWitt's Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes], Performed at the Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut, Oakland, CA.

[3.8.2014]
Study no. 16 [Anna], Performed at R.O.D. Music Hall, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA.

[1.25.2014]
Study no. 42, Performed at Mengi, Reykjavik, Iceland by members of S.L.A.T.U.R.

[12.12-12.14.2013]
Ghost Lines, Music for dance, commissioned by choreographer Coli Olinghouse, Danspace, New York, NY.

[12.5-12.6.2013]
Study no. 30 Installed at EMPAC's Studio 1, Troy, NY.

[11.14.2013]
Study no. 6 [Escalators], Performed by SuperMusique at Conservatoire de Musique de Montreal, Montreal, QC.

[7.10.2013]
Awareness through Animation: Animated Notation and Deep Listening Practices in Education, Performance, and Composition. [Lecture/workshop], Presented at the 1st Annual International Conference on Deep Listening, Troy, NY.

[10.9.2013]
Study no. 21 [for Harp and Percussion], Performed by Duo Harpverk, Kex Hostel, Reykjavik, Iceland.

[4.24.2013]
Study no. 17 [for Laptop Orchestra], Performed by PLoRK, Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

[4.20.2013]
Study no. 16 [NavavaN], Performed by Nava Dunkelman, Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, CA.

[4.2.2013]
N.A.M [Telematic performance with the creator's of the piece at University of Michigan], Performed on piano and paper N.A.M. by Carolina Heredia, telematic performance using the speed of sound as structural, compositional, improvisational.

[2.28-3.2.2013]
The Machine Starts, Created the sound design for 'The Machine Starts,' a collaborative project with RPI professors Shawn Lawson and Michael Oatman, choreographer Joanna Haigood, artist Mary Ellen Strom, and RPI arts and architecture students, Studio 2, EMPAC, Troy, NY.

[2.13 & 2.20.2013]
Composed score for Glyph, Commissioned by choreographer Ellen Bromberg. Evening-length, spatialized score. Performed at the Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

[2.12.2013]
Animated Notation: Choreography and Complexity [lecture/workshop], Lecture/workshop for graduate dance students, University of Utah-Salt Lake City.

[12.9.2012]
Study no. 10 [for claviset and electronics], I Performed a 2-hour version of Study no. 10, Fall Arts Graduate Show, West Hall, RPI, Troy, NY.

[10.28.2012]
On Animated Notation. [Panel discussion], Panel discussion presented at Sláturtíð, Reykjavik, Iceland.

[10.24.2012]
Study no. 6 [Escalators], Performed as part of the Sláturtíð festival, Reykjavik, Iceland.

[10.24.2012]
Study no. 8 [for 15 percussionists], Performed as part of the Sláturtíð festival, Reykjavik, Iceland.

[10.7.2012]
Study no. 10 [for claviset and electronics], Performed at O Positive Festival, Kingston, NY.

[5.31-6.3.2012]
Plumb Line, Commissioned to compose the score for 'Plumb Line', a dance choreographed by Elizabeth Morales, Mills College, Oakland, CA.

[5.31-6.3.2012]
'and the snow fell softly on all the living and the dead...', Commissioned to compose the score for 'and the snow...', a dance choreographed by Ellen Bromberg, UC Davis, Davis, CA.

[12.2.2011]
Otherworld [Machine], Composed and performed sound score for this evening-length piece for dance quartet and 60+ dancer chorus, featuring 8-channel sound diffusion and spatialized, mobile sound by way of handheld devices. Duration: 1.5 Hours. In collaboration with Lisa Wymore and Sheldon Smith. Performed at BAM (Berkeley Art Museum), L@TE series, Berkeley, CA.

[9.22-9.23.2011]
Are you there?, Skype-based duet from three locations, music commissioned by Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts, The Other Dance Festival, Chicago, IL. Tape Piece.

[4.15.2011]
The Somnambulist's Dream, Score commissioned by Lisa Wymore and the University of California at Berkeley, in collaboration with Ellen Bromberg. Berkeley, CA. Tape Piece.

[5.21.2011]
Trace, Score commissioned by choreographer/dancer Kate Martel for Brooklyn’s Rooftop Dance Series, Brooklyn, NY. Tape Piece.

[6.4-6.5.2011]
Tower Ring, by Pauline Oliveros, Performer [gong hoister] for Pauline Oliveros' 'Tower Ring,' performed at the Ann Hamilton Tower at Oliver Ranch, Geyserville, CA.

[early 2011]
Puncture, Composed the full score for 'Puncture,' starring Chris Evans, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, April 2011. In addition to the score, licensed 6 tracks from my various side-projects, including Twin Thousands, and Power Player.

[9.2010]
3Work/In-Progress, Score commissioned by choreographer/dancer Nora Stephens and the Nora New Dance Company for Ocupacao, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tape Piece.

[Summer, 2009]
Stars like Fleas at PS1/WarmUP 2009, as pianist, electronicist, improviser, composer, etc.

[Summer, 2009]
Stars like Fleas at MoMA/PopRally Series 2009, 3-part, evening-length performance, including improvised electronics with wireless lavaliers, roaming choirs, and site-specific ensembles spread throughout the museum [as pianist, electronicist, improviser, composer, etc.].

[10.28.2009]
Stars like Fleas at Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, as pianist, electronicist, improviser, composer, etc.

[5.2009]
No Marble, No Marble [24-channel fixed-media piece downsized to 12 channels] performed twice daily at Circuito Electrovisiones encuentro de arte digital y neuvos medios, Mexico City.

[2009]
No Marble, No Marble [24-channel fixed-media piece downsized to 4 channels] performed at Lab Synthese, Montreal, QC.

[9.2010]
3Work/In-Progress, Score commissioned by choreographer/dancer Nora Stephens and the Nora New Dance Company for Ocupacao, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tape Piece.

[Summer, 2009]
Stars like Fleas at PS1/WarmUP 2009, as pianist, electronicist, improviser, composer, etc.

[10.28.2009]
Stars like Fleas at Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, as pianist, electronicist, improviser, composer, etc.

[5.2009]
No Marble, No Marble [24-channel fixed-media piece downsized to 12 channels] performed twice daily at Circuito Electrovisiones encuentro de arte digital y neuvos medios, Mexico City.

[2009]
No Marble, No Marble [24-channel fixed-media piece downsized to 4 channels] performed at Lab Synthese, Montreal, QC.