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Alif Laila & Ryan Smith



Raag Shivaranjani, Alif Laila & Ryan Smith (practice session)
Alif Laila plays sitar, Ryan Smith accompanies with Touch Tone Tank. Recorded live, March 2019
artwork by: Ryan Smith & Alif Laila


Touch Tone drum played live with classical Sitar and Tamboura at Westminster Church in DC
"An entrancing and enchanting evening with Alif Laila on Sitar, Rishi Das on Tamboura, and Ryan Smith on Touch Tone Tank"
Video recording of the performance by Justin Miller


Touch Tone drum played live with classical Sitar and Tamboura at Westminster Church in DC





Ryan Smith & Jeff Byers


Thoth&Var.na July2009
(The video seen here is an edited version of part 2 of 3)
Thoth & Var.na (Ryan Smith & Jeff Byers) collaborate on a 35 minute performance (July 18, 2009)
Digital video and post production by Smith
Guitar, laptop, circuit-bent keyboard, iPod Touch application, wind chimes, drums, keyboard, and effects loops were used in the performance
Video recording of the performance by Rich McLaughlin


(The video seen here is an edited version of part 3 of 3)
Thoth & Var.na (Ryan Smith & Jeff Byers) collaborate on a 35 minute performance (July 18, 2009).


Amsterdam 2009: by Ryan Smith, with Jeff Byers, music by Var.na


Jeff Byers (Roomrunner, Var.Na, Parallax, Downer) & Ryan Smith (Xiphoid-Process, Thoth, Downer), play together for the first time in years, at "202", Timonium, Maryland.
August 2018. All improvised & unrehearsed.


Genesis by ryanSmithTHOTH & Jeff Byers


Power Out 2 by ryan Smith (THOTH), and jeff Byers (Var.na)




Matt Muirhead & company



details :
Justin & Becka Miller, Matt Muirhead, McKenzie Ditter, & ryanSmith released: December 6, 20147
recorded: in a dark basement, Baltimore City, MD, USA.
artwork & Design by ryanSmithArt.com



details :
At the Creative Alliance's 2015 Marquee Ball - To The MAX!
with the Immortal Jellyfish, Featuring: Matt Muirhead, Justin Miller, Becka Miller, McKenzie Ditter, & ryanSmith.
Installation by GamaLamaDingDong.
Video also features Ben Forstenzer, and random percussive additions by the public.





Rich McLaughlin & ryanSmith




details :
bookhouse Boys 2

soundNest: Dancing Fire (2014)
Rich McLaughlin & ryanSmith


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ryan Smith THOTH, &, rich McLaughlin, with Stan Brakhage, video, recorded during the jersey shore weekend, November 2011.
Rich McLaughlin & ryanSmith
released: Dec 11, 2011


NIGHT_FLIGHT Rich McLaughlin & ryan Smith THOTH, december 2012


Ryan Smith & Rich McLaughlin at MICA (the Fox 3 Gallery), Baltimore, MD - 2009


Ryan Smith & Rich McLaughlin, Towson University. April 2009


Rich McLaughlin & ryan Smith THOTH
"Night Flight" december 28, 2013 @ the blanket ranch


10 cymbals 1 Moogerfooger
(Night Flight, 2011)


No sleep, sky harbor, Phoenix, Arizona


released December 6, 2012


by Rich McLaughlin & Ryan Smith
released December 15, 2011




other recordings:




Ben Forstenzer & Ryan Smith play the final performance inside SoundNest III, the "S.S. Nest", at Artscape 2015.


Tim's Birthday Jam (edit)
by Jeff Byers, Ryan Smith, Mike Kreiner, Tim Messing




updated 2019
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