Nick Ryan Studio is a high-end music and sound design practice, renowned for creating experiences that push the boundaries of listening and engage new audiences with audio. We love creating many different forms of sound, from award winning feature film scores and sound design, avant-garde sound installations and bespoke museum projects to audio concepts for major products and brands.

The VoiceLine sound installation, The Strand, London

BBC My Life as a Rolling Stone

The Reason I Jump feature documentary

FATHOM Feature Documentary

Onboard immersive UX sound design for Sennheiser's groundbreaking Ambeo Soundbar

Gossaert: 'Sensing the Unseen' Exhibition at UK National Gallery, London

The Reason I Jump wins at Sundance

Machine 9 Space Debris sound instrument - Project Adrift

Electromechanical phonograph instrument creating sonification of space debris data for Project Adrift

Machine 9 Space Debris sound instrument - Project Adrift

Electromechanical phonograph instrument creating sonification of space debris data for Project Adrift

Machine 9 Space Debris sound instrument - Project Adrift

Electromechanical phonograph instrument creating sonification of space debris data for Project Adrift

Machine 9 Space Debris sound instrument - Project Adrift

Electromechanical phonograph instrument creating sonification of space debris data for Project Adrift

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Inside the MET TV documentary series

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The VoiceLine sound installation, The Strand, London

The VoiceLine - a major new artwork commissioned by @thenorthbankbid to celebrate the history of radio and the relaunching of a newly pedestrianised Strand Aldwych…

BBC TV Series: My life as a Rolling Stone

Four hour-long films, each an intimate portrait of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts, show how these individual musical geniuses came together to make the music that has provided the soundtrack to the lives of millions.

BBC + PBS Inside the MET Documentary

The largest art museum in the Americas prepares to celebrate its 150th birthday with a treasure trove of landmark exhibitions. When COVID-19 strikes, the world shuts down and, for the first time in its history, the Met closes its doors.

The Reason I Jump Documentary Feature Film

Based on the book by Naoki Higashida, this immersive film explores the experiences of non-speaking autistic people around the world.

Fathom Documentary Feature Film

Fathom is a visual and aural wonder of a documentary that follows researchers working to finally decode the communication of humpback whales. With Dr. Michelle Fournet, Dr. Ellen Garland.

RE:COGNITION PODCAST

Artist Nick Ryan presents an ontological adventure into voice recognition, language, semiotics, sensory experience, immersive sound and imagination for the latest podcast series for Somerset House Studios.

My Beautiful Broken Brain

My Beautiful Broken Brain is the story of something that could happen to any of us at any time – a film born out of necessity to help a young woman make sense of having to start her life again when she was only half way through it.

The Gulf of Understanding, BONDS Exhibition at Somerset House Gallery 31

Nick Ryan presents his sound work The Gulf of Understanding (Re:cognition) at the exhibition BONDS at Gallery 31, Somerset House Studios

Spyscape Museum, New York

Nick Ryan Studio was responsible for the sound design for Spyscape Museum - a huge project comprising some 6 galleries, two bespoke 40-channel immersive surround systems and sound for over 40 exhibits.

IWM Duxford marks its Centenary year with DX17

To commemorate this landmark, Nick Ryan created DX17 - an immersive sound sculpture.

'DOLBY ESCAPE' ANIMATED SHORT FILM SOUNDTRACK WITH IMOGEN HEAP

In collaboration with Imogen Heap I created the sound design for Dolby's new animated short film Escape, a cinematic poem about the world-changing power of invention.

Tate Sensorium

Tate Sensorium was an immersive multi sensory exhibition at Tate Britain that allowed visitors to engage with paintings from Tate’s collection using sound, smell, taste and touch to highlight different aspects of each painting and explore the way the senses interrelate to influence our overall gallery experience.

"A LIVING RIVER" - WORLD'S LARGEST SOUND INSTALLATION AT GATWICK AIRPORT

The ground breaking and interactive audio installation brings China’s 6,300km Yangtze River to the 194m long Gatwick Skybridge using actual sounds recorded on the river...

'Lovebite' film

No one on the planet has drawn more than Laurie Lipton. Largely ignored by the mainstream art world, her haunting creations are made up of hundreds of thousands of tiny strokes of the humble pencil...

The 'Bomtree' instrument

The 'Bombree' was an experimental instrument I created for the Tate Sensorium project as a means of translating David Bomberg's painting 'In the Hold' into audio.

The James Boag Meteorphonium

The “Meteorphonium” is a mechanical musical instrument which performs an evolving piece of music controlled, in real time, by the local weather.

The Meteorphonium was designed by Nick Ryan for the famous Tasmanian beer maker, James Boag and given its premiere performance on Ben Lomand Mountain in Tasmania in October 2015.

VW GTi + Underworld - Play the Road

“Play The Road is a highly ambitious concept that reinvents driving music. We’ve created an experience that blends music, technology and emotion, turning the new Volkswagen Golf GTI into a responsive musical instrument. It delivers a unique experience.”

'Plasticity' Sound Installation

As sounds are scattered across the array of speakers, emergent patterns reveal the complex firing patterns of the neurons and the plasticity of the network.