Line up:
Matthew Ryals
Andrej Hrončo +
Amma AteriaS'hells Gate: Cat Lauigan, Jon Carr, + Matt Brownell
Matthew Ryals is an award-winning synthesist and composer-improviser based in New York. Working primarily with modular synthesizer, his music explores improvisation, generative composition, cybernetics, and experimental archiving. Recognized for his tactile approach to synthesis and innovative use of esoteric techniques, Ryals’ recent accolades include a ’25 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, a ’22 -’23 New Music USA Award, and a ’21 IEA Electronic Media Residency. He has released music on Oxtail Recordings, sound as language, SØVN, and other labels. He co-curates the Brooklyn experimental music series Artifact. In 2025, Matthew will release three new projects: the final installment of his Generative Etudes series on 3OP, a live album debuting in summer 2025 on Infrequent Seams, and a collaborative album with composer Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie on Oxtail Recordings.
Amma Ateria is a philosophy held through her work, — to give strength to disintegration and fragility, to rebuild from aftermath, from dust. An electroacoustic composer / sound artist, her work examines psychoacoustics in binaural beats, brainwave entrainment, and equal-loudness contour. With immediacy of tension / release, she navigates between oppositions, transforming deafening noise into self hypnosis and metamorphosis. Compositions developed during her concussion recovery, utilizes brainwave entrainment, time shifts, and changes of neurological responses to DELTA, THETA, ALPHA, BETA, GAMMA waves as materials and focal point. With memories of condensed cities, she gravitates to frequencies of close-ranged airplanes, polyrhythmic occurrences, out-of-body experiences, sustained harmonics intersected with musique concrète, and lost speech.
Cost: Suggested $10 - $15