Biography

Composer, sound designer, and electronic performer Ryan Ingebritsen's music and sound art focus on the multi-dimensional aspects of sound while attaining a degree of clarity and lyricism to permeate and reveal the musical structures he creates. Though grounded with an education of the cannon, Ingebritsen's music stands with both feet firmly planted in the 21st. Challenging performers to extend beyond themselves into the realm of interaction with visual, electronic, and natural experience, his music provides audiences a window to observe our multi-dimensional universe through the interplay and interaction of sound.

A graduate of St. Olaf College (B.M. 1995) and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (M.M. 2000), he spent many years studying composition, electronic music and live improvisation in Eastern Europe where he was influenced by composers such as Krzystof Penderecki, Boguslaw Scheffer, and Tadeusz Baird. He studied under the tutelage of composer Zbigniew Bujarski and composer/audio artist Marek Choloniewski on a Fulbright Scholarship in 2000. Since then he has appeared on international festivals and created music for various mediums in Chicago and abroad. He has collaborated as a sound designer and composer with new music groups such as International Contemporary Ensemble, eighth blackbird, and MAVerick Ensemble as well as composing sound and music for dance, large installations, and film.

Recent composition projects include Songpath: a compositionally guided sound tour of the Minnesota State Parks; Audio Playground: an interactive playground sound installation commissioned by the Chicago Park District; Train Time: a collaborative sound installation on the theme of trains for Chicago's state of the art J. Pritzker Pavilion sound system as a part of the 2008 Chicago Humanities Festival; New Music Plus Painting: a collaboration with 4 composers, International Contemporary Ensemble, and collaborative visual artists the Zhou Brothers. He has collaborated with and been commissioned by artists such as Todd Reynolds (bang on a can), International Contemporary Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion, Beta Collide, Firewire, Till by Turring, Gold Sparkle and Stars Like Fleas.

As a sound designer and engineer, he has worked with groups such as grammy award winning ensemble eighth blackbird, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and has premiered works by Steve Reich (Double Sextet), David Lang, Julia Wolf, Michael Gordon, Nathan Davis, Steve Mackey and John Luther Adams (Inuksuit at the Park Avenue Armory).

Ingebritsen was recently awarded an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Composition as well as the Mc Knight Foundations Visiting Composer Fellowship to produce a new compositionally guided sound tour of a Minnesota State Park during the summer of 2010. He has also received awards and commissions from CEC Artslink, Chicago Community Trust, Chicago Composers Forum, and Chicago Dancemakers Forum to collaborate with Erica Mott on her current Icarus Project.