Festa: Ryan Holiday

Festa: Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday is a laptop musician/vocalist from the Philadelphia area. Holiday has released over a dozen albums and has written music for stage and commercials. Holiday works with pre recorded loops and mixes them with live vocals, live layering, and live sound manipulation. It is a hybrid of DJ and live musicianship.

Songs are never finished products; they are suggestions of what might be. Ryan Holiday use recordings as jumping-off points. A basic song idea is expanded by adding textures and melodies, changing the structure, or experimenting with new sounds. And these expansions are done live, so the audience experiences new configurations with every performance.

Ryan Holiday is a one-man operation that primarily works with loops, vocal layering, and electronic production equipment to build songs. Both music and found sound bring inspiration. Holiday's aesthetic sensibilities descend from the loop layering of Andrew Bird and Tune-Yards, the sonic expansion of electronic artists Jon Hopkins, Brian Eno and Moderat, and textured jams of bands like Radiohead and Massive Attack. Holiday tries to incorporate all these ideas that will expand with every performance.