Chris Ryan Williams is a musician in Brooklyn, NY. He creates electroacoustic compositions using field recordings, hand-built electronics, and video to examine family archives and ancestral trauma.
Chris Ryan Williams makes electroacoustic compositions that pull family archives apart. His work sprawls across performance installation, homemade circuitry, and projection—operating in the space between recorded sound and live improvisation. He's chasing something specific: how to sonically decode ancestral trauma, how ambience holds inheritance, what happens when you compress time and history into a single room. Recent pieces like I Ain't Got No Spare (2019) interweave field recordings, hand-built electronics, and video to examine the particular weight of being Black American. He collaborates often with contemporary improvisers and experimentalists, and has been shaped by residencies at BANFF and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
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