Ryan Shreves

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 the Berlin Short Film Festival, the New York Latino Film Festival, Dances with Films, and the Golden Door International Film Festival. With recent credits including Tim O'Connor's supernatural feature The Undiscovered Country (2019), acclaimed horror director Dylan Clark's Rest (2021), Alexandra Hinojosa's psychological drama Lowlife (2021), and Paolina Weber's coming-of-age drama BB Gun (2021), 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 and experience in the traditions of orchestral film scoring while utilizing synthesizers and 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 Brooklyn based industrial electronic band Puppy Bite. He continues to perform and record experimental free improvisations with guitarist and frequent collaborator Spencer Friedman.