Ryan Seward is a musician and artist living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His work is situated within and across a number of forms, including composition, improvisation, installation, performance, phonography, photography, sculpture, and videography.
Seward has toured extensively across the United States and his recordings have been released by Discreet Archive, Editions Glomar, emic rite, Marginal Frequency, Sawyer Editions, and Sawyer Spaces. He has collaborated with a number of North American, South American, and European musicians and artists.
DISCOGRAPHY
Kory Reeder – Mementos (2027 [forthcoming], Edition Wandelweiser, compact disc)
Kevin Good – Cave Dwellers (2026 [forthcoming], Editions Glomar, compact disc)
Michael Pisaro-Liu – Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation (2026, Sawyer Editions SE045, compact disc)
Reeder/Seward/Weathers – Two Meditations from the Underground (2025, Editions Glomar GLOM11, compact disc)
James Saunders – with paper (2025, Editions Glomar GLOM9, compact disc)
Ryan Seward & Andrew Weathers – A Probable Shoreline (2025, Discreet Archive DA11, streaming audio)
Manfred Werder – 20083 (2025, Sawyer Spaces SES025, compact disc)
Andrew Weathers – Two Recordings (2025, Editions Glomar GLOM8, compact disc)
Ryan Seward – weathering (2024, Sawyer Editions SE030, compact disc)
Reeder/Seward/Weathers – Two Ballads from the High Plains (2024, Editions Glomar GLOM4, compact disc)
Ryan Seward & Andrew Weathers – Laminar Interiors (2024, Editions Glomar GLOM3, compact disc)
Ryan Seward & Andrew Weathers – On a cloudy day, wind mostly out of the SSW (2024, emic rite emic 03, compact disc)
Ron Coulter / Ryan Seward – Traces (2023, emic rite emic 02, cassette tape)
Ryan Seward & Daniel Ryan – Breccia (2022, Marginal Frequency MFCS O, cassette tape)
Sandy Ewen / Ryan Seward – Live at thought//forms gallery (2019, self-release, streaming audio)
Matt Smiley / Ryan Seward – Sense of Place (2017, emic rite emic 01, cassette tape)
Bob Marsh / Michael O’Neill / Ryan Seward – Pueblo 5&6 (2017, self-release, streaming audio)
Bret Sexton / Ryan Seward – Live at Thee Haus Ov Where? Gallery (2017, self-release, streaming audio)
PERFORMANCES (SELECTED)
Dogstar Orchestra (2026, Santa Monica, California)
Sprout Fest (2026, Denver, Colorado)
Electrowave (2026, Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Sine & Symbol (2025, Tucson, Arizona)
Molten Plains Festival (2024, Denton, Texas)
High Desert Soundings (2024, Twentynine Palms, California)
Tierras Sonidas (2024, Marfa, Texas)
Re:Sound (2023, Cleveland, Ohio)
co-incidence festival (2020, Somerville, Massachusetts)
Dogstar Orchestra (2019, Valencia, California)
WORKS
Rain fell (2025) for three performers
SH 94 (2024) for piano trio and field recordings
weathering (3) (2024) for reed organ
weathering (2) (2024) for reed organ
weathering (1) (2024) for reed organ
translucent (2023) for any number of performers
transparent (2023) for any number of performers
it is a question of surrendering (2022) for three snare drums activated by miniature loudspeakers and sine tones
scrims (1) (2022) for two performers
lines (for Agnes Martin) (2021) for five or so performers with sustaining instruments
two harmonicas and stones (2021) for two harmonicas and stones
mesh (2021) for two speaking performers with sustaining instruments and radios, and 2- or 4-channel fixed media (field recordings and sine tones)
a tremulous light (2021) for organ
Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically (2) (2021) for organ
untitled (for Alvin Lucier) (2020) for glockenspiel bars and sine tones
Steel and air, a mottled presence (2020) for trumpet, transducer, and suspended sheet metal
copper pipes drawn over various surfaces (2020) for copper pipes and surfaces
Take any flat, plain piece of land, give it a name— (2020) for fixed media (field recordings and sine tones)
Ultimately, engaging in the practice itself was enough for us (2020) for two or three people (or perhaps alone)
Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically (1) (2019) for two or more vibraphones
To knowe the spryng of the dawenyng and the ende of the evenyng, the whiche ben called the two crepuscules (2019) for two or more performers
plainsong (2018) for percussion sextet (glockenspiel, two vibraphones, low octave crotales, and two snare drums [with one or two optional radios])
an invincible summer (2015/2023) for string trio
EDUCATION
MA in Music, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Thesis: Following Materials: Textilic Minimalism in the Visual Arts and Music since 1960
Primary teachers: Ron Kuivila, Paula Matthusen, Neely Bruce
Informal mentors: Antoine Beuger, Michael Pisaro-Liu, Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
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