very pleased to announce the addition of this act to what is looking like its going to be a top art/music collaboration....
JESSICA RYLAN
www.irfp.net for more info/video/mp3's
Jessica Rylan is a sound artist and electronic musician who lives and
works in the Boston area. She builds unique synthesizers for
installations and live performance. Her designs are influenced by
plants, and the historically outmoded. Her music incorporates the
intuition of folk music with the techniques of the avant-garde.
Rylan spent much of 2005 on tour, performing over 100 concerts. She
performed across the United States, Eastern Canada, and Western
Europe. Highlights included Lisbon, Antwerpen, London, Chicago, L.A.,
and New York City.
Performances with Thurston Moore, Wolf Eyes, Lightning Bolt, Emil
Beaulieau, Prurient, Hrvatski, Magik Markers, Mouthus, Tim Barnes,
Charalambides, Amps for Christ, Chris Corsano.
Rylan was featured in the PBS documentary Greater Boston Arts in
March, 2003. She has created sound installations at the List Visual
Arts Center at MIT, the Boston Center for the Arts, Harvard
University, and the Berwick Research Institute. She earned an MFA in
electronic music from Bard College and has received grants from the
Penny McCall Foundation and the LEF Foundation. She is currently a Research
Affiliate at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies.
Recordings on RRRecords, Ultra Eczema, Heresee, Kittyplay, Curor.
"
...manages to pull off being emotionally vulnerable and startlingly
confrontational at the same time."
– anonymous blog review
"
As warm and direct as an autumn campfire."
-Tom Carter, Volcanic Tongue
"
One of the strangest things I've seen in awhile."
-Thurston Moore