Ryan Shreves
- Composer
- Sound Department
Ryan Shreves is a composer and multi-instrumentalist for film and television based in Los Angeles, CA.
As a graduate of the Media Scoring program at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema in Brooklyn, NY, his work can be heard in numerous short and feature films that have premiered at festivals around the world including Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Portland Film Festival, and the Telluride Horror Show. With credits including Tim O'Connor's supernatural feature The Undiscovered Country (2019), Alexandra Hinojosa's psychological drama Lowlife (2021), and acclaimed horror director Dylan Clark's Portrait of God (2022), Ryan continues to create inventive and contemporary film scores for emerging and seasoned filmmakers alike.
Combining a lifelong passion for filmmaking with an instinctually experimental approach to sound, Ryan possesses an acute knowledge of the traditions of orchestral film scoring while utilizing the tools of contemporary music production to explore electronic and acoustic textures in cinematic sonic environments.
As an accomplished synthesist, guitarist, keyboardist, and bassist, Ryan has performed, toured, and recorded with a variety of bands and ensembles including Baltimore based noise-punk bands Big Christ and Tremors II, Kiowa Hammons and Daonne Huff's New York multi-media art collective Hot Hands, and continues to perform and record with guitarist and frequent collaborator Spencer Friedman.
As a graduate of the Media Scoring program at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema in Brooklyn, NY, his work can be heard in numerous short and feature films that have premiered at festivals around the world including Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Portland Film Festival, and the Telluride Horror Show. With credits including Tim O'Connor's supernatural feature The Undiscovered Country (2019), Alexandra Hinojosa's psychological drama Lowlife (2021), and acclaimed horror director Dylan Clark's Portrait of God (2022), Ryan continues to create inventive and contemporary film scores for emerging and seasoned filmmakers alike.
Combining a lifelong passion for filmmaking with an instinctually experimental approach to sound, Ryan possesses an acute knowledge of the traditions of orchestral film scoring while utilizing the tools of contemporary music production to explore electronic and acoustic textures in cinematic sonic environments.
As an accomplished synthesist, guitarist, keyboardist, and bassist, Ryan has performed, toured, and recorded with a variety of bands and ensembles including Baltimore based noise-punk bands Big Christ and Tremors II, Kiowa Hammons and Daonne Huff's New York multi-media art collective Hot Hands, and continues to perform and record with guitarist and frequent collaborator Spencer Friedman.