MATTHEW RYALS / NUNNPHONICS [JORDAN GLENN + DAVID MICHALAK + SUDHU TEWARI]

WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES

MATTHEW RYALS is a NYC-based synthesist and composer-improviser. He has released three studio albums and a series of EPs on 3OP, SØVN and dingn\dents, and will release records on Infrequent Seams in Fall 2025 and Oxtail Recordings in 2026.

Matthew performs internationally and will be featured on High Zero Festival and Ex Nihilo Festival. He has collaborated with Madison Greenstone, Nava Dunkelman, and Stephan Haluska. Matthew received a 2025 Art Omi: Music Residency, 2025 Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant, a 2022-23 New Music USA Award, and a 2021 IEA Electronic Media Residency. He also co-curates Artifact, a Brooklyn-based experimental music series that was awarded a 2025 Brooklyn Arts Council grant.

Instrument inventor SUDHU TEWARI, filmmaker/improviser DAVID MICHALAK and percussionist JORDAN GLENN join forces in NUNNPHONICS: an improvised set featuring instruments built by the late, great inventor, TOM NUNN.

Nunn’s over 200 instruments include: The Skatchbox, Skatchplatter, T-rodimba, Bug Belly, Crustacean. Lukie Tubes, The Crab, Space plates and many others. All of Tom Nunn's instruments are amplified using contact microphones and have sculptural qualities.