Dr. Ryan Ingebritsen
Assistant Professor of Music
Office: Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex, Room 209
Email: ringebritsen@wtamu.edu
Phone: 806-651-2864
Professional Profile
Dr. Ingebritsen joined the faculty at WTAMU in the Fall of 2022. He studied composition at St. Olaf College (BM) with Peter Hamlin and Timothy Mahr and the University of Cincinnati (MM) with Richardo Zohn-Muldoon and Mara Helmuth. He spent a Fulbright year at the Akademia Muzyczna in Krakow, Poland studying electronic and interactive music with Marek Choloniewski and composition with Zbigniew Bujarski and Krzysztof Penderecki. More recently, he received a PhD in Informatics with an emphasis on interactive performance systems from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Teaching and Related Service
Dr. Ingebritsen currently teaches courses in the music technology program as well as advising and mentoring each cohort of students. He is working to create possibilities for music technology students that reach outside of the music program into other areas such as theatre and dance, communications, and computer science, to show students interested in sound technology the myriad possibilities the skills they learn in the program can open for them. He will be heading a newly formed electronic ensemble starting in the Fall of 2023 and hopes to use it as a common space where artists from a variety of musical backgrounds, and even various disciplines, can share a creative language through technologically mediated interaction.
Research and Creative Activity
Dr. Ingebritsen is a composer, sound designer, live electronic performer, and Grammy award winning sound engineer whose work investigates the multi-dimensional aspects of sound and our human relationship to it. His work uses spatialized sound systems as musical instruments, building virtual instruments that capture human kinetic movement and performance expression to enliven and manipulate electronically generated sonic environments. He has received awards and grants from New Music USA, CEC Artslink (NEA), the Illinois Arts Council, Illinois Humanities Festival, American Composers Forum, and the Mc Knight Foundation and has presented his work at NATEAC, IMEA, AES, SEAMUS, TEI, and MOCO conferences among others. His research is the culmination of his 20 years of experience as a composer of interactive and inter-disciplinary electronic music and sound engineer to Chicago’s new music scene. He continues to work with his many collaborators around the world to investigate the human aspect of human-machine interaction.
Personal Sketch
Dr. Ingebritsen is married to flutist and music educator Shannon Budd and lives in Amarillo with their dog Rudy. He enjoys hiking and the outdoors, long road-trips, and the occasional roll playing game session or fine bourbon when he has time.