Ryan Packard
is a percussionist, composer and sound
artist currently based in Stockholm, SE. His compositional language is
concerned with intimacy, interdependence and sympathetic relationships. His
sound installations have been featured at the MCA Chicago, Lumen Project
Stockholm, Fuji Textile Week Japan, Graham Foundation, Defibrillator, Hyde Park
Arts Center, Galeria Labirynt, High Concept Labs, Constellation Chicago,
Norberg Festival and Experimental Sound Studio. He has collaborated with
artists like Nelly Agassi, Dave Rempis, Ben LaMar Gay, Brandon Lopez, Okkyung
Lee, Will Guthrie, Nate Wooley, Peter Ablinger, Julio Estrada, Annea Lockwood,
Magnus Granberg, John McCowen, Seth Parker Woods among many others. He’s a
member of the new music ensemble, Fonema Consort and has performed with
Ensemble Dal Niente, Norrlandsoperan, Ensemble Nist Nah, Joshua Abrams &
Natural Information Society, tya ensemble, MOCREP, a.pe.ri.od.ic ensemble, NYC
experimental rock group Skeleton$ and Architek Percussion Quartet. Some of his
current projects are Kommun, Kyosaku, ZRL and
the Chicago minimal free jazz quartet, RedGreenBlue.
He has released on American Dreams Records, Astral Spirits, Dinzu Artefacts,
Thanatosis, Insub, Fönstret Edition Festival Records, Shinkoyo, Amalgam and No
Index. Ryan has a masters of music from McGill University and bachelor of music
from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.