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Matthew Ryals (he, him) is an award winning synthesist and composer-improviser based in New York, NY.
Primarily working with a modular synthesizer, his music encompasses improvisation, generative composition, chance, cybernetics, unfixed forms, and experiments in manifold archiving. Tiny Mix Tapes has described his music as “filter[ing] the emotion of the human experience through the cold circuitry of electronics”.
Recent accolades include a 2025 Art Omi: Music Residency, a 2025 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, a 2022–23 New Music USA Award, and a 2021 IEA Electronic Media Residency. He has released on 3OP (transcontinental), Oxtail Recordings (Sydney), SØVN (Turin), sound as language (Carolinas), dingn/dents (Seoul), Post Season Franchise Records (NYC), Low Hanging Fruit (Cologne), and Behind Glass (NYC). He’s the co-curator of the Brooklyn-based experimental music series, Artifact.
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WGLT - Experimental music meets hip-hop for inaugural event promoting healing from mass incarceration
The Pantagraph - Matthew Ryals Generating Modular Synth Music for Normal Show
Shoutout LA - Meet Matthew Ryals | Synthesist, Composer, & Improviser
Wave Farm | WGXC Afternoon Show: Matthew Ryals + Stephan Haluska
Tome to the Weather Machine - Matthew Ryals - "etude no. 12 (take 2)"
Plastic Mag - Matthew Ryals Releases Next Installment In Generative Etudes Series
Beats Per Minute - Cassette Culture: June 2022
Tabs Out - Matthew Ryals - Voltage Scores
Blast Radio - Notable Broadcasts (Week of 1/17): Matthew Ryals
Tabs Out Cassette Podcast - Top 200 Tapes of 2021 Ep #173
CUNY Art Science Connect - Algorithmic Sound 9: Matthew Ryals
Fifteen Questions - Fifteen Questions Interview with Matthew Ryals
Tome to the Weather Machine - Interview: Matthew Ryals
Tome to the Weather Machine - Matthew Ryals: Days Like This
Last Day Leaf - Exclusive Track Premiere : Matthew Ryals – ‘Part of Me’
Tiny Mix Tapes - Matthew Ryals: Machine Memory
XLR8R - Matthew Ryals ‘We Could Make The Ride Better For Everyone’
Critical Masses - Matthew Ryals - We Could Make The Ride Better For Everyone
The Zender Agenda - Matthew Ryals (8/12/16)
Go Erie - Electroflux Welcomes
Cleveland Scene - Local Electronic Musician Matthew Ryals Releases Debut
Press Quotes
“impromptus in isolation is a bold, joyous tear through visceral free jazz, bucolic ambience, head-scratching sound design, and more” - Mike Nigro, Oxtail Recordings.
“On impromptus in isolation, he tackles the concept of diminishing realities and the differentiation between organic and inorganic connections.” - Joshua Pickard, Beats Per Minute.
“Voltage Scores is full-blown cybernetic synth shocks and mirrors, unabashedly confident in the pleeping and plonking that it swaggers through.” - Matty McPherson, Tabs Out.
“He approaches these sounds as if they were alive, breathing, and he works in concert with each one to create something truly immersive and unforgettable.” - Joshua Pickard, Beats Per Minute
“He’s fast becoming a leading name in the sphere of generative composition using a modular synth.” - Damo Howard, Plastic Mag.