Other Projects
- Performing Groups
- Film Music
- Creative Writing
Performing Groups
Most of these groups are now defunct (usually due to the members moving), but some of the recordings are still on the site
The Paper Moon Jazz Trio - A vocal jazz trio based in Hartford that plays the great american songbook
Eggfreeflan - A KC-based group of musicians with influences from appalachia to jazz to funk to classical
Ryan Jesperson & Aleks Sternfeld-Dunn - A 2006 recording of original compositions by Ryan Jesperson and Aleks Sternfeld-Dunn
Jessica Rabbitt & the Gorillas of Rhythm - a jazz quintet led by the vocalist Jessica Abbott
Film Scores
I have contributed scores to a few films, sometimes only scenes. You can check them out below
Precambria
animation by Spencer Musser
music by Ryan Jesperson
the music for the film is was created in Pro Tools using a snippet of midi and a recording of me at the piano.
Premiered in Kansas City, MO as part of Dreamy Time: Little Tokoyo, an ArtSounds event featuring Maria Creyts, Spencer Musser, and Ryan Jesperson.
Now Watch Me Become
a film by Dylan Marko Bell
music by Ryan Jesperson
recorded by the West End String Quartet
violins - Sarah Washburn, Jessica Meyer
viola - Russell Wilson
violoncello - Carlynn Savot
The film is based on Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron".
Premiered in Hartford, CT May 2007. Official Selection: New York International Independent Film and Video Festival - 2007. LA Premiere - Sept. 2007
Literature:
Click on a work to download the Microsoft Word or PDF file:
FICTION:
Songs from Behind the Curtain - a story about an opera composer who is secretly a spy for th Soviets. This is the third draft from mid 2010.
NON FICTION:
The Use of Silence in "The Mask of Time" - A paper that examines Michael Tippett's mammoth work, The Mask of Time, and how he incorporates silence in a variety of metaphoric and structural ways.
