"Data Dilato" is a sound installation created for the opening of the CSUEB Art Department's spring art show, In The Dark.

The sounds of this piece are formed using data from videogames - specifically, the Final Fantasy series from Nintendo's NES and Super NES. Using recording software, game emulator files are converted into music; or rather, manipulated to look like audio. The result is a cacophonous array of noise and strange sound fragments. Through various techniques of stretching, compressing, sample rate adjustment, rearranging, and some echo, these masses of sound become atmospheric soundscapes.

Featured games are: Final Fantasy I, II, III, V, and VII.

Exhibition Opening: 
Thursday, March 10, 2015
5-7pm

Data Dilato - III. MP

Data Dilato - II.  /9999

Data Dilato - I. HP

Week 43 of WeeklyBeats 2014

http://weeklybeats.com/#/r2me2/music/book-sale

Book Sale (Week 43)

Loose Debris (2015) by Ryan Rey
for flute with electronics and alto saxophone

Commissioned by Meerenai Shim and premiered at Switchboard Presents: Meerenai Shim and New Match Arc.

Meerenai Shim, flute with electronics
David Wegehaupt, alto saxophone
VCO Vault, live visuals

May 8, 2015
Switchboard Presents
Center for New Music
San Francisco

Video/audio recording by David Wegehaupt

Video: https://youtu.be/MErAVT6gSZU

Loose Debris - flute w/electronics & alto sax

Level Inflation (2014) by Ryan Rey
for orchestra

Premiered by:
University of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra
Nicolas Waldvogel, director

November 17, 2015
Composers, Inc. presents REMEMBER NOVEMBER: Orchestra Invasion!
First Congregational Church of Berkeley

Video: https://youtu.be/axZmNGh2TgY

Program Note:
Expansion and contraction are the primary inspiration for Level Inflation. These two complimentary effects of ebb and flow occur throughout nature. Cacti and other plants expand to retain water, and retract as they dehydrate. Expansive mathematical fractals can be reduced and identified as a small repeating pattern. This concept of expansion and contraction is compelling because it is exhibited throughout nature. These two contrasting ideas were important throughout the development of the pitch collection and range, rhythmic treatment, orchestration, and structural proportion. Even the title suggests these influences.

Level Inflation - orchestra

A Few Weeks: IV. From The Mirror (2015) by Ryan Rey
for guitar with electronics and percussion

Premiered by: 
The Living Earth Show

May 9, 2015
Composers, Inc. presents !BAMM! 2015
First Congregational Church of Berkeley

Video: https://youtu.be/KNNLbYFVFaU?t=6m6s

Program Note:
The four movements of A Few Weeks are arrangements from “Weeklybeats 2014,” a 52 week-long project in which artist composed and publicly released one song a week for an entire year. Each movement is an adaptation from a particular week from the nearly 52 compositions. Many of these focus on a single pattern that is manipulated and layered throughout the piece. Sometimes the layers line up evenly, other times they get out of phase, but always driven by a steady pulse. The resulting composite texture is dense, up to as many as ten layers. The duo is able to accomplish this though the use of looping devices connected to the guitar. These devices allow the player to record a live performance and repeat it immediately. Layering extra parts is possible as well.

Each movement has its own character and is named after its “Weeklybeat 2014” counterpart: Settling Debris – Sparkling and playful; 5 Points – Resonant and full; Piano Rolls Royce – Dark and echoing; From the Mirror – Energetic and driven.

A Few Weeks: IV. From The Mirror - gtr w/elec & perc

A Few Weeks III. Piano Rolls Royce (2015) by Ryan Rey
for guitar with electronics and percussion

Premiered by: 
The Living Earth Show

May 9, 2015
Composers, Inc. presents !BAMM! 2015
First Congregational Church of Berkeley

Video: https://youtu.be/KNNLbYFVFaU?t=3m56s

Program Note:
The four movements of A Few Weeks are arrangements from “Weeklybeats 2014,” a 52 week-long project in which artist composed and publicly released one song a week for an entire year. Each movement is an adaptation from a particular week from the nearly 52 compositions. Many of these focus on a single pattern that is manipulated and layered throughout the piece. Sometimes the layers line up evenly, other times they get out of phase, but always driven by a steady pulse. The resulting composite texture is dense, up to as many as ten layers. The duo is able to accomplish this though the use of looping devices connected to the guitar. These devices allow the player to record a live performance and repeat it immediately. Layering extra parts is possible as well.

Each movement has its own character and is named after its “Weeklybeat 2014” counterpart: Settling Debris – Sparkling and playful; 5 Points – Resonant and full; Piano Rolls Royce – Dark and echoing; From the Mirror – Energetic and driven.

A Few Weeks III. Piano Rolls Royce - gtr w/elec & perc

Hen Gao Xing Jian Dao Ni (2012) by Ryan Rey

Song with Mandarin Chinese phrases I learned and use often. (Some explicit) 
Recorded and performed with Garageband for iPhone.
Happy Chinese New Year.

Hen Gao Xing Jian Dao Ni - pop song

Fuschian Haze (2012) by Ryan Rey
for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano.

Performed on the 2012 Glenn Glasow Fellowship Concert 
Jeff Anderle, clarinet 
Kevin Rogers, violin
Hannah Addario-Berry, cello
Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano

Score: http://issuu.com/r2me2/docs/ryanadamrey_fuschianhaze_score?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222

Album

Fuschian Haze - piano quartet

Ryan Rey is a composer, guitarist, teacher, and SF Bay Area native. He writes for film, chamber ensembles, rock/metal groups, and production libraries. Ryan holds an M.A. and B.A. in music composition from CSU East Bay and formerly taught there. With a focus on music technology, he teaches at Pyramind, Diablo Valley College, and online through Pyramind's Mentorship Network. He is Director of Seventh Avenue Performances and board member of Ninth Planet, formerly known as Composers, Inc. where he was Executive Director and an Artistic Co-Director. Ryan is co-author of Audio Production Basics with Logic Pro X and composes for Emmy Award-winning production music library CrimeSonics.

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