Gerard Ryan
Events
Talk
Symposium Session 1
This session will include three presentations, followed by time for discussion. Erin Demastes – Found Objects, Play, & Creativity Gerard Ryan – Improvising Without Outcome: Listening to the Infrastructure of Consumption Cameron Clarke – Lead by Landscape
BIO
Gerard Ryan is a composer, sound artist, and academic based in Barcelona, where he is Professor of Marketing and Consumer Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
Performing under the parafictional project name Le Cliché, he is a widely published recording artist whose releases appear primarily on vinyl and cassette across international micro-labels including Polytechnic Youth (London), Detroit (Berlin), and Medical Records (Seattle).
His recent work explores the sonic dimensions of consumer culture through soundwalking, composition, and interactive installation. His practice examines how listening can function as a critical method in consumer culture theory studies.