ryan rapsys :: composer, producer, musician, filmmaker

Curriculum Vitae – Music Composition and Film/Video Scoring
(IMDB Resume: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710957/resume)

Ryan Rapsys
Duluth, MN
ryan@erratikproductions.com

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
3/2008 – 5/2008 – Freelance: Parthé Inc. – Duluth, MN
Industry: Television/Media
Composer/Video Scoring
Composed the soundtrack to Kohler Home Project: Woodstock/Atlanta. This is a promotional commercial video for Kohler. Parthé Inc. shot and edited the video.

2/2007 – 3/2008 – FOX 21 NEWS KQDS-TV – Duluth, MN
Industry: Television/Media
Production – Live Audio, Floor Director, Camera Operator; Photojournalist/Editor
Primary duties include audio board operation for the live news show. Also work as a photojournalist once a week for the Sunday news show, which includes independently shooting and editing video for air in the show. Photojournalism: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F611BAEB0B0F932F

2/2008 – Freelance: Parthé Inc. – Duluth, MN
Industry: Television/Media
Composer/Video Scoring
Composed the soundtrack to Kohler Home Project: Toll Brothers/California. This is a promotional commercial video for Kohler. Parthé Inc. shot and edited the video.

2/2008 – Freelance: Parthé Inc. – Duluth, MN
Industry: Television/Media
Composer/Video Scoring
Composed the soundtrack to Kohler Home Project: San Francisco. This is a promotional commercial video for Kohler. Parthé Inc. shot and edited the video.

11/2007 – Freelance: Parthé Inc. – Duluth, MN
Industry: Television/Media
Composer/Video Scoring
Composed the soundtrack to Kohler Home Project: Palmetto Bluff. This is a promotional commercial video for Kohler. Parthé Inc. shot and edited the video.

10/2007 – Freelance: Parthé Inc. – Duluth, MN
Industry: Television/Media
Composer/Video Scoring
Composed the introduction tracks to a series of skills training video used by Grand Casino in Hinckley, MN. Parthé Inc. shot and edited the video.

9/2007 – 10/2007 – Freelance: Parthé Inc. – Duluth, MN
Industry: Television/Media
Composer/Video Scoring
Composed the soundtrack to the video M.E.R.C. – People Moving Energy. This video was used by Midwest Energy Resources Company for industrial shows and other miscellaneous uses. Parthé Inc. shot and edited the video.

1/2007 – 7/2007 – Freelance: Blacklock Photography Gallery – Duluth, MN
Industry: Arts, Museums and Culture
Composer/Audio Editor/DVD Authoring/Additional Editing
Composed the soundtrack to a feature length DVD art video called Minnesota’s North Shore created by the photographer Craig Blacklock to accompany his upcoming photography book of the same title. The final DVD includes approximately 3 hours of original ambient music.

8/2006 – 9/2006 – Freelance: Blacklock Photography Gallery – Duluth, MN
Industry: Arts, Museums and Culture
Composer and Audio Editor
Composed music and edited the audio track for a feature length documentary entitled Autumn Winds Studio Tour by the photographer Craig Blacklock. Additional duties included touch-up video editing, creating the DVD menu, and organizing the manufacturing of the video.

8/1996 – 5/2006 – Blue Max Resort – Duluth, MN
Industry: Restaurants/Food and Drink Services
Manager/Bookkeeper/Bartender
Primarily aided in the running of the family business, the Blue Max Resort, from August, 1996 until May, 2006 (the sale of the business) under the supervision of the owner, Lorna Rapsys. Most recent duties at the Blue Max included: managing, bartending, cooking, payroll, business taxes, opening and closing, balancing out the cash registers, programming menu items and employees on the computer register system, basic maintenance, marketing, creating a website, creating special events, designing and printing signage (flyers, price lists) and menus, and developing an employee handbook. Past duties at the Blue Max include: dishwashing, bussing, serving tables, and lawn care.

9/2004 – 11/2004 – Freelance: Charles Bornstein – Duluth, MN
Industry: Arts, Museums and Culture
Music Engraver
Worked as a freelance music engraver for conductor Charles Bornstein, creating concert scores and parts from handwritten manuscripts for performances in Greece.

8/2003 – 2/2004 – Freelance: Project Lulu – Duluth, MN
Industry: Arts, Museums and Culture
Composer
Composed original electronic music for the “Sounding Duluth” dance and arts concert (Lisa McKhann, artistic director; held at the UMD Weber Music Hall, February 10 & 11, 2004). As a result, was the subject of an interview on Minnesota Public Radio about the dance and arts concert. The interview is available here: http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/02/10_hemphills_harbormusic/

EDUCATION
12/2004 – University of Minnesota
Bachelor’s Degree: Bachelor of Music, Concentration: Music Theory & Composition
- 3.539 GPA within degree program, 3.510 GPA overall
- Made the Dean’s List for Academic Excellence Four Semesters.
- Acted as the UMD Music Department Student Technology Representative for the School of Fine Arts.
- Assisted in the creation of a computer animation (It Takes Two – Lisa Valdez, producer) developed by the Visual and Digital Imaging Laboratory at UMD (as composer, music editor, and sound effects creator and editor).
- Completed a UMD Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) project dealing with the engraving and publishing of unpublished classical piano works.
- Represented the UMD School of Fine Arts at the University of Minnesota’s system-wide Impress the President event with my orchestral score Modicum One 2-1202. More info: http://www.d.umn.edu/news/2003/April/03.html
- Featured as a student presenter of music technologies in several music technology related courses at UMD.
- Won first place in the UMD Music Department Symphony Composition Competition allowing the performance of the orchestral composition (Fantasy Interlude for Orchestra) by the UMD Symphony Orchestra.
- Accomplished several freelance audio editing projects for various professors at UMD.

6/1999 – Proctor Public High School
High School Diploma: Graduated with Honors

AWARDS/RECOGNITION
- Featured in a segment of the television show On The Road with Jason Davis (KSTP Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN) for work in experimental electronic music – http://kstp.com/article/stories/S447217.shtml?cat=1
- Interviewed on Channel 8 WDSE PBS with Craig Blacklock about the music composed for the film Minnesota’s North Shore – December, 2007 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVM6-oezDaQ
- Zeitgeist Composer workshop – Tuesday Salon – featured composer – November, 2007. More info page 6: http://www.composersforum.org/objects/Programs/Sounding_Board/JanFeb%202008.pdf
- Nominated along with the crew for a Regional Emmy – Best News Special for the first broadcast FOX 21 News – KQDS-TV – http://www.natas-mn.org/files/07-Emmy-Nominees.pdf (pgs 7-8).
- New Music Festival with Zeitgeist – Composer workshop – UMD – featured composer – January 2007.
- Won the James and Paula Nelson Young Composers Competition with the orchestral composition Modicum One 2-1202 which was subsequently performed by the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra on March 27, 2003. More info: http://www.depotfoundation.org/html/pdfexspring2003.pdf
- Won Best Local Film for the short multimedia work Two Movements for Video and Electronic Sounds at the Bearded Child Film Festival in Grand Rapids, MN in August, 2002. Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H62TpJ1269Y

PUBLICATIONS
- Minnesota’s North Shore - Blacklock Photography Gallery (http://www.blacklockgallery.com) – feature length documentary on DVD that accompanies the book
- The-Novus-Arcadia – Erratik Productions (http://www.erratikproductions.com) – full length electronica CD
- A Catalog of the Manuscripts and Manuscript Copies in the Frank Mannheimer Memorial Library – University of Minnesota Duluth – As a student researcher, engraved and edited the handwritten piano manuscripts.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Composers Forum
The American Music Center
ASCAP

Please email me for a paper resume and demo DVD and CD. Thanks!