https://www.ryangpowell.com/about daily 1.0 2022-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1631321253367-FL0SCQC7HARDQ7SKBLOP/IMG_6466.JPG About Ryan G. Powell is a film and multimedia composer who has provided work for a variety of award-winning short films, advertisements, and other projects, most recently for NASA as a NASA Psyche Inspired Intern, where he was selected as one of 16 undergraduate students around the country to create and innovate to educate and excite the public about the Psyche Mission of 2022. He is a constant collaborator with Antonio Corsi, recently having worked on his Regional Student Emmy Winning PSA, Don’t Send The Reply. Ryan is an assistant to film composer Christopher North of Grammy winning Two Trains Runnin’ and All in Time. He was also an intern at production company QDepartment in 2018-2019. Ryan is a second generation immigrant from Germany, also having spent part of his childhood there. He is an incoming screen scoring master’s student at NYU. By mixing elements of the musically familiar, the musically unfamiliar, and sound design, Ryan seeks to innovate to capture the subtle emotions that can’t be put into words. Inspiration lies in Trent Reznor, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, Marco Beltrami to name a few. https://www.ryangpowell.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-11-14 https://www.ryangpowell.com/mymusic daily 0.75 2025-05-02 https://www.ryangpowell.com/press daily 0.75 2023-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1602652463132-EUCTZL6MCV8POETHKCGU/IMG_9854.jpg Press/Awards Happy to have received a Best Original Score award for contributions Antonio Corsi’s “The Smile I Wear”. Watch it here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1602705882523-DLU4KDQYFYTM6242YRY0/Heavenly%252BCare1.jpg Press/Awards Very grateful to have received a Best Original Score award on Sam Lowenburg’s Heavenly Care from Independent Shorts Awards in Los Angeles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1635186007155-8AB2APC5VYBCR0LSJPWR/image-asset.png Press/Awards - Make it stand out One of the pieces I made during NASA’s Psyche Mission internship was taken up into outer space on a flashdrive along with 400 other tracks on Blue Origin’s NS-18 mission, and 2nd human flight mission! Thanks to astronaut and musician Chris Boshuizen, who flew alongside William Shatner. Click the image above to read about this cool project of his. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1621697393959-OHCE47HWNE3JWGISFT86/Screen+Shot+2021-05-22+at+11.29.39+AM.png Press/Awards - Make it stand out See here for an interview blog post with the New York Arts Program, which I was a part of in 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1602000892730-BIALTWZ6O2V0EDAWJ7ZN/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-06%2Bat%2B12.12.47%2BPM.jpg Press/Awards Click through to read and about and view the piece created for Albion College Earth Day! Commissioned by Albion’s Center for Sustainability. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1594156611998-LST5EM6RLMN9WJRIKZBY/PAGE4.jpg Press/Awards Huge thank you and shoutout to Antonio Corsi of 640 Films who featured me in their newest zine! Click through to see the full zine - and check out 640! They’re making great films (https://www.640films.com/). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1659561133445-NGS4QSDDP48TJY1UA4ON/Screen+Shot+2022-08-03+at+5.11.52+PM.png Press/Awards - Make it stand out Feature film Sh*t Saves the World was featured in Detroit Free Press newspaper July 31st, 2022. Catch the film and my soundtrack on AppleTV! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1602995623224-6UY33DUXO20ZTEIAV6MJ/Screen+Shot+2020-10-18+at+12.19.13+AM.png Press/Awards Animator friend and collaborator Jessika Raisor and I were awarded winner of Lifeology’s September SciComm Challenge along with a small grant to complete the project. With whale research from Lisa Kettemer (PhD candidate, University of Tromsø in the arctic), we intend to create an educational animated song in a similar vein to that of our NASA Psyche animated song. Click through to read more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/c81bbbb4-592d-4789-90b4-b0a880682925/Screen+Shot+2023-10-21+at+10.20.00+AM.png Press/Awards - Make it stand out A study on memory that used musical stimuli I created with Columbia University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1659561450044-LYL91CO2G0E024JZKJTD/Screen+Shot+2022-08-03+at+5.17.07+PM.png Press/Awards - Make it stand out Animated song An Asteroid Named Psyche is currently featured in a museum exhibit in Phoenix airport! You can find the piece at Terminal 3, just before security. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1594155882958-UEFYJ96JU8U1SAWQ3IGM/Screen+Shot+2020-07-07+at+5.04.13+PM.png Press/Awards A nice article from Arizona State University that covers and features students of NASA’s Psyche Inspired program. Click through or follow this link to read (https://asunow.asu.edu/20181218-creativity-psyche-mission-comes-life-through-creativity-team-artists). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1639242526528-IU8QPFQG9A6XRATGJ0VO/Screen+Shot+2021-12-11+at+12.06.18+PM.png Press/Awards - Make it stand out Thanks to SigmaXi for funding our most recent science education-focused animated song and lesson plan. https://www.ryangpowell.com/sciart-portfolio daily 0.75 2022-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1655750252693-WP61J4L3QA4D89MM189O/lindy.png SciArt Portfolio - Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tantum Psyche Mission Lead "When An Asteroid Named Psyche was complete, I listened to it from a hotel room late at night and was so affected by its authenticity and humanity. Right away I sent it around to the whole mission team, hundreds of people, and I know from their emails back how many people felt united by this work. This is the power of animation and song: It connects people, and it connected us across the team, engineers, scientists, managers, financial analysts, media people, all together with one vision." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1660588032285-YL8IHDZV4I5WYN2CNDLU/Screen+Shot+2022-08-15+at+2.26.58+PM.png SciArt Portfolio - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1655750555673-JTDJ42TQLS3NVTD4VXT2/Image+from+iOS+%282%29.jpg SciArt Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1641915514779-Z6OH2P77N4UI6BZAT6PQ/RyanPowell_AnAsteroidNamedPsyche_Lyrics.png SciArt Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1641915603463-VM25IXM2OBGB2SODONID/AnAsteroidNamedPsycheLeadSheet.png SciArt Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1641915314145-D5OUH09SU8HYBSCHJS85/IMG_20190104_122646.jpg SciArt Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1641915436057-HL33K6H6YVWRNOPATVEV/AmeliaMurray.png SciArt Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1641915332350-I5V1V6MN7NSQZLM6HOFT/IMG_20190104_122730.jpg SciArt Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1641913078346-CEW97VO70CGO7SSAQZ0H/Kid+Refined+A.JPG SciArt Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1641913038998-AUAOUY97TW96EI1ILPI8/Water+Refined+A.JPG SciArt Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1641913046963-VY9W1WTPNAWI7O7K69RN/Water+line.PNG SciArt Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1641913052495-9V5QYQTXNYUHN9RYBLK0/Water+exploration.JPG SciArt Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1641913074427-JRF4NM109UL2ELCIZIBG/Fatberg+lineart.PNG SciArt Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1641913082262-WAJ9VGDV60EUCVM0TGNH/Kid-lineart.PNG SciArt Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d596f22ab0f7c00019ff778/1641913084778-9TK274CK6KY89U510GUG/Concepts-10622.JPG SciArt Portfolio - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.