Hey guys, it's Klaudia from Cascade.FM and today we have Ryan Redebaugh with us.
When did you get started [with music]? What's your first profession?
I got into piano pretty early on and
I got into
songwriting right out of college
It's like, creative expression because I went to school for acting and we had studio time,
you know 24/7 every day and then upon graduation, you know I went right to the
piano for the artistic expression
So coming out of college
I kind of kept busy with both the acting and the music and the music's been taking a little bit more the forefront these days.
So how did you get into composition itself?
So I had a buddy
I had a buddy doing a web series that I went to school with. He knew me through my my songwriting work
and he reached out and he thought, you know, he appreciated what I do with music,
so I guess, it was my first experience putting music to picture
and it was kind of a fun experience, and I didn't think anything of it from there
and then I kind of started to circle back to that and that same buddy of mine
kept encouraging me like "You know you should really consider
instrumental composition for media now."
And I was like ehh, alright and then I started looking more into it, and I started falling in love with it more and more.
I started to have some professional experiences within that world and I love it.
It's work you can do from home, you get to be creative, you get to fulfill
another creative's vision.
What's the process when you're scoring for film?
So you have to get a rough cut of the film and
you have a dialogue with the creative team director and you get to kind of chat about what their vision is for the film and
what they're looking to do with the music. So you kind of, you know, you have a spotting session where you
determine where
the music should be, what its purpose and function should be and then from there, I'm really kind of left to kind of
It's all up to you at that point?
Yeah, I mean you have certain guidelines
but you know, within those guidelines you get to kind of
be creative and create like, put your own kind of spin on things and
and the acting
training you know that I have as my background really serves,
you know, the music that I score, so I'm thinking about like, you know character
subtext and you know, story arc and I'm kind of letting that kind of influence
what the music is doing and how the music is kind of highlighting subtext.
Do you play all of the instruments you use?
Yeah so I set out a keyboard, primarily I write on piano and you know,
you pull out the software and you know, the software kind of replicates the real sound.
So I'm sitting at home now at a keyboard playing
different instruments and creating kind of like you know, the sonic landscape of whatever that wants to be.
That's amazing! So other than that, you're also a songwriter and you already have two albums out, correct?
Yeah, I got into songwriting and I released my first one back in 2011 called "New Life" and then
in 2014 I released a project called "Nearby Places" which was the most recent and
I'm gearing up this summer actually to release a third
LP, it's going to be called "True North" and I'm going to start getting some music here this summer
and it kind of touches of, you know looking at your journey in life and kind of...
It's a very storytelling album. You know, all the songs have different characters
and it's kind of a new style of songwriting that I haven't really done before so I'm kind of excited to
share that but all these characters are kind of you know, at various stages in their life path
and it's about that moment like you know, day by day
you kind of check in and see like where you are and like, you know what's your life about?
What kind of story are you telling?
And you know the characters and these songs are kind of
coming to terms with, you know
what that story is and it kind of covers all spectrums of life like, you know from young adulthood to
older aging up at the end of the spectrum.
Are they inspired by true events?
I feel like a lot of songs are kind of
There's some personal
elements within there that that did kind of spark the initial idea and then I got to kind of get in the head of the
character and song and kind of tell a story from their point of view
but I feel like they all do in a way to kind of spin back to something that
was personal or
something not necessarily
something I've lived through but something that you know I can connect with or you know, something more universal
So before we get into acting because I also want to ask you about that,
do you have any other musical influences?
When I was in high school, it was John Mayer, Dave Matthews
Coldplay and I still very much enjoy them, David Gray..
Nowadays, I'm really into like, you know, I like Sigur Rós and what they do. I've been getting into a lot of
the work of Oliver Kernels,
who's like an instrumentalist and a lot of cinematic stuff too.
So it's changing up completely.
Yeah, and oddly enough, I'm really kind of, I feel like I'm,
you know, either getting boring or old cause I'm starting to get into like,
Chamber music or Classical, like...
But it never gets old, that's the thing.
Right!
So what are your plans for the next 10 years in that case?
My goal would really be to kind of hunker in the scoring for media world.
I really love the exonerated work and I want to continue to use that as a form of expression
and it's fun to like, you know, create individual works and share that and I'm starting to get into
writing instrumental music too just for the sake of its own thing
and starting to release some projects in that vain as well
but I'd really like to start to focus on the composing work.
Scoring independent film, documentaries,
commercial media..
So one more thing and the last question would be, just what do you think of Cascade.FM?
I like it because it's a platform
where you know, you have these independent artists, so there's so much great...
there's just like a treasure trove of independent music being done that never gets heard. At best
It's like you know, the media family friends of the artist
or
the bar that they happen to be playing at so I think
it's a cool form to kind of you know, share what you're doing and
have a wide array of artists with different influences kind of contributing and kind of sharing their work and having a
public forum to kind of you know, have their voice heard and you know start to get their music out there beyond that immediate circle.
Amazing! Alright thank you.
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