Ryan Rapsys

I am an electronic music composer/enthusiast interested in a variety of styles. Brief bio: Born on December 3rd, 1980 in Duluth, Minnesota, Ryan Rapsys earned a Bachelor of Music degree with a concentration of Theory and Composition at the University of Minnesota - Duluth under the advisement and tutelage of Dr. Justin Rubin in 2004. As a student, he studied traditional classical music composition and orchestration while simultaneously developing self-taught techniques in electronic sound engineering, producing, sequencing, mixing and mastering. Rapsys’s first official full length album The-Novus-Arcadia is a culmination of the variety of his experiences and influences expressed through the loose “genres” of experimental electronica, idm, drum’n’bass, trip-hop, ambient, trance, downtempo, etc. His approach to producing and mixing is much more connected to contemporary classical orchestration, however, rather than any of the various styles of electronica. He also just finished composing original electronic music to accompany a feature length documentary/art video by the renown nature photographer Craig Blacklock. The film is called Minnesota’s North Shore, and it is included with the book of the same name.