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.
He has collaborated with artists like Nate Wooley, Will Guthrie, Nelly Agassi, Ben LaMar Gay, Finn Loxbo, Lisa Ullén, Dirar Kalash, Hara Alonso, Julio Estrada, John McCowen, Magnus Granberg and Seth Parker Woods, amongst many others.
He has presented sound installations at the Fuji Textile Week (Japan), Galeria Labirynt (Poland), Kim? Contemporary Art Centre (Latvia), Chicago Cultural Center and Graham Foundation (USA). He has performed at places like Lumen Projects, Cafe Oto, Bimhuis, Norberg Festival, Himera Turku and B-Sides Festival.
Some of his current projects are Kommun, Kyosaku, ZRL and the Chicago quartet, RedGreenBlue. He’s a member of the new music ensemble, Fonema Consort and has performed with Ensemble Dal Niente, Norrlandsoperan, Ensemble Nist-Nah, tya ensemble, MOCREP, a.pe.ri.od.ic ensemble, Skeleton$ and Architek Percussion Quartet.
He can be heard on American Dreams Records, Astral Spirits, Dinzu Artefacts, Thanatosis, Insub, Fönstret Edition Festival Records, Cafe Oto Otoroku, FUU Lab, Shinkoyo, Amalgam and No Index.
Ryan holds a Bachelors in percussion performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music; a Masters in percussion performance from McGill University; and is currently pursuing an Artistic Interdisciplinary Masters at Kungliga Musikhögskolan in Stockholm.
