Ryan Bell

I have a new release on Bandcamp: Live at Boiler Repair. Link in bio. turntables, broken records, contact mics, objects Recorded live at Boiler Repair in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on August 14th, 2025 by myself and @puttyknife_ . Mixed and mastered by Steve Flato (@steve.flato ). No edits, overdubs, or cuts. This is my favorite solo set of 2025; my second favorite, a few days later at the Pilot Light in Knoxville, is available on YouTube (link also in bio). Shoutout to the other folks on the show: @puttyknife_ , @alienwastematter , @st.july.of.the.noise , @egregoregregore , @curious.hair , and @buffymcruffer . The videos on this post are taken from Instagram stories of the set.

television / camera / computer The instrumentation for James Pardue’s SIGNAL DIAGNOSTICS. Join us tomorrow on UB North Campus (Slee B1). We will begin at 6:30 sharp. Free admission, free parking.

live 4.17.26 at BICA garage 🐣 w @fad_diet_ny + @ry__b___ 🙏 thanks to @namefarminert @bica_school @bica.buffalo @nataliemhayes @sils_the_schmuck @thelowliestonemusic and everyone that came out. big time ty to @fad_diet_ny + @ry__b___ for tapping into the sonic field🏑 . . . 📸@mr_aio #livemusic #ambient #americana #buffalo

snapshot of rehearsal for upcoming show April 17th @bica.buffalo garage. @fad_diet_ny and @ry__b___ featured here and will be making the thing run. 🙏 the photo was taken the same day at Union Ship Canal in the outer harbor. 🙄 these large mounds that look like remediated landfill but I think were made to represent piles of pig iron. .. movement, stasis, mind wandering , sudden realization … trying to fit things together in an appealing manner 💨

Mark your calendars! I’m really excited for this upcoming concert with James Pardue and Tim Georger, performing James’ Signal Diagnostics. If you’ve seen us perform as a trio before, this is completely new: different instrumentation, pacing, and scope. The piece is about an hour long, featuring three video interludes. From James: “Signal Diagnostics is a performance where the materiality of media is gutted and probed. This live event features three performers improvising with purpose-built instruments assembled from found media objects: a camera, a television, and a computer. The imperceptible signals that live inside these objects are amplified into audible sounds, shaped by a collaborative interplay among performers. Over the course of the evening, immersive audiovisual interludes will play between these movements. These video works, generated in real-time and spatialized across 23 speakers, explore themes related to media histories and materialities. Together, Signal Diagnostics aims to foster an embodied perspective on the media technologies we use and the temporalities they construct.” Thursday, April 23rd University at Buffalo - Slee Hall (B1) Doors: 6:00 pm Show: 6:30 pm sharp FREE Video in the second slide by James, featuring excerpts from the interludes and rehearsal audio.

I’m joining @happygroupppp with @fad_diet_ny for this cool show at @bica.buffalo , which also features @thelowliestonemusic and Wild Gone Girls (@drhamburgerz + @namefarminert ) Doors: 7:30 Tunes: 8 $10/pwyc 30 Essex Street, Buffalo NY

join us @ 7:00 pm for 4️⃣ sonic projects

On Saturday, 3/14, I’m presenting at @hallwalls for the 2026 UB DMS Graduate Student Conference, Methodologies of Re-Creation and Remediation. I’m going to talk a bit about my turntable practice and then perform. Make it out if you can—the schedule also features friends like @c11111hris_ , @erin.kacie , @almondmilkisnotgood , and James Pardue. Full schedule in slide 2.

SUNDAY MARCH 8th at FITZ BOOKS An evening of performances by -No Bingo (my sampler trio with Brooke Bastie and Tim Georger) -Agony Grotto -happygroupppp 8 PM Free/dwyl (donate what you like) Flyer: RB

SUNDAY:SESSIONS • MARCH 8th • FREE /// d.i.y.l. donate if you’d like • FITZ books @ waffles 1462 • main street • buffalo, new york • FREE /// d.i.y.l. donate if you’d like • an evening of music: no bingo @ry__b___ • agony grotto @maroonedmike • happygroupppp @happygroupppp poster (first image) by Ryan Bell @ry__b___

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH AT BLACK DOTS: a night of improvised, experimental, and electronic music, featuring BODYWORKS (album release show!), RYAN BELL + JUSTIN VON STRASBURG DUO, UNURTH (all the way from Jacksonville FL!), CANTICLE FADE, and EAT YOUR HAIR (debut show!). $5 / 7PM 368 Grant Street Buffalo NY FLYER: RB @steve.flato @chrisdeuelmusic @bodyworks.sound @quipamo @_unurth_ @eat.your.hair @mcgintykr @justingoboom

Snapshots from my 1/11/25 set with James Pardue and Tim Georger for the BICA Contemporary Communications Telethon (organized, captured, and transmitted by Silas Rubeck). @sils_the_schmuck @bica.buffalo @bica_school