https://www.ryansmith.studio/home daily 1.0 2026-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a05fe3e6915cd28768f872b/96bf5d19-3364-42e0-9bbd-c9840fef590c/380682fe2fb039b8ddca34179eed068d9494fff6.webp https://www.ryansmith.studio/caribou daily 0.75 2026-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a05fe3e6915cd28768f872b/3b1c3c7b-7f6f-4f88-a568-341414d41a59/_2025.01.04_Caribou-95+%40will.hamiltoncoates.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a05fe3e6915cd28768f872b/96bf5d19-3364-42e0-9bbd-c9840fef590c/380682fe2fb039b8ddca34179eed068d9494fff6.webp https://www.ryansmith.studio/taraval daily 0.75 2026-05-31 https://www.ryansmith.studio/mixingmasteringproduction daily 0.75 2026-06-23 https://www.ryansmith.studio/teachingcommunitymentoring daily 0.75 2026-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a05fe3e6915cd28768f872b/180e1984-c7b8-4cdb-b61f-5803701d62a5/Ambient+Music+Making.jpg Teaching, Community, Mentoring Learn how to make Ambient Music and Ableton Live at the same time. From classic Eno studio techniques to modern sound design and generative composition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a05fe3e6915cd28768f872b/7753bfec-c512-41b8-8233-18413e6b28bd/Analog+Making+Music+With+Tape.jpg Teaching, Community, Mentoring Free community workshop showing the creative bounty and limitations of making music on a vintage 8 track tape machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a05fe3e6915cd28768f872b/d7278ba6-2f40-46d9-a024-eba4e5f8545d/ezgif.com-gif-to-mp4.gif Teaching, Community, Mentoring An NEA-funded synthesizer and electronic instrument lending library, free-to-all modelled on public libraries, founded in 2020 at the Gray Area in San Francisco. Come borrow something and make music! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a05fe3e6915cd28768f872b/66db5fda-74ff-4c6d-a2a5-d1fd2a33d9d2/Studio.png Teaching, Community, Mentoring My studio. High-end monitoring, I/O, modular and vintage synthesiszers, drum machines, vintage and modern, guitars, amps, creative fx, and even an analog video synthesizer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a05fe3e6915cd28768f872b/ecfb02d5-5f86-473e-8d5f-8b4713a4e903/Synth+Session+Classroom.jpeg Teaching, Community, Mentoring Free, community Synth Session. I think this one was about programming drum machines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a05fe3e6915cd28768f872b/aa9bd13f-f872-4cbc-9fbb-f25680a96a5a/Synth+Sessions+Artwork.jpg Teaching, Community, Mentoring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a05fe3e6915cd28768f872b/ab158fbf-a0c1-4a56-9b88-d8960965aa61/synthsesh.jpg Teaching, Community, Mentoring Another free Synth Session, I think this one was all about FM Synthesis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a05fe3e6915cd28768f872b/6fd022b2-9735-4b76-82b6-8b3b0dbe36bc/Techno+Workshop.jpg Teaching, Community, Mentoring Two day Techno music workshop. Together we compose, automate, mix and arrange a techno track from scratch using classic hardware techniques inside Ableton Live. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a05fe3e6915cd28768f872b/626e864f-2520-46ff-b539-e358150caa3e/VCV+Rack.jpeg Teaching, Community, Mentoring VCV Rack workshop - learn modular synthesis - the building blocks of all synthesizers and drum machines - from the ground up to advanced generative patches across two days using this free open source software.