RYAN GLASS

Ryan Glass is a multi-instrumentalist and audio engineer who has played in various indie rock and electro-pop outfits for over 25 years. His passion for music began at the age of five, when he discovered that he could hear a simple melody and then play it back on his grandmother’s piano. As a high school student in the mid-1990s, Ryan gravitated toward the guitar, finding inspiration from the alternative and indie bands of the day. He then became the guitarist and vocalist for his first band, a trio called Trigger Skwish (he knows it’s a dumb name!). The band recorded an album at Falcon Studios with engineer, Sean Norton, and during the process Ryan discovered his love for production. Soon after he studied audio engineering at the Art Institute of Seattle.

Since then, Ryan has collaborated with many artists in the Pacific NW including James Mendenhall with The Prom and Death Cab for Cutie, The Very Foundation, Spare Part Surgery with Dusty Grimm (Ninja, Tinmantle) and Shaun Lyvers (Abronia), Psychic Genius and Amorphestra with Ben Baier (Frankenixon, We Wrote the Book on Connectors, H is for Hellgate), The Portland All-Stars (members of The Decemberists, Floater, Sneak’n Out), and Hunter Paye (Arrows in Orbit).

Additionally, Ryan is a videographer who has worked with Michael Rizzo (Epic Soul) to create documentaries for local businesses such as Nature Bake and Dave’s Killer Bread, as well as advertisements for Adidas and promotional ads for the release of the 2012 video game, Kingdoms of Amalur. Ryan's previous contributions to the viral Youtube channel, FilthyFrackers, paid homage to chiptune music of retro game consoles, and received the attention of Spin, Rolling Stone, MTV, Loudwire, and NPR.