CUSP Presents: Matthew Ryals // Harper/Haluska/Oicherman

Name: CUSP Presents: Matthew Ryals // Harper/Haluska/Oicherman
Start: 2025-09-26T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Convivium 33

Schedule

Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Convivium 33 | Cleveland, OH

Friday, September 26
1433 E 33rd St Cleveland
Doors 7:30, Music 8PM
Admission: $15 suggested donation
No one will be turned away for lack of funds
Matthew Ryals
Harper/Haluska/Oicherman
Matthew Ryals (he/him) is a NYC-based synthesist and composer-improviser. Described as “a sonic explorer on the frontier of experimental music” (Plastic Mag), Matthew has been praised for treating sounds “as if they were alive, breathing” to create something “truly immersive and unforgettable” (Beats Per Minute).
Matthew has released three studio albums and a series of EPs on 3OP, SØVN, and dingn\dents, and will release a solo record on Infrequent Seams in Fall 2025 and a collaborative album with Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie on Oxtail Recordings in 2026.
An active performer as both a soloist and in group configurations, Matthew has performed internationally across Europe, Asia, and North America, and will be featured on High Zero Festival in Baltimore and Ex Nihilo Festival in Omaha in Fall 2025. He has collaborated with such artists as Madison Greenstone, Nava Dunkelman, and Stephan Haluska. Matthew received a 2025 Art Omi: Music Residency, 2025 Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant, a 2022-23 New Music USA Award, and a 2021 IEA Electronic Media Residency.
A dedicated educator, Matthew teaches worldwide, including workshops for Art Science Connect at THE GRADUATE CENTER CUNY and an upcoming workshop at Indexical in Santa Cruz, CA. He also co-curates Artifact, a Brooklyn-based experimental music series that was awarded a 2025 Brooklyn Arts Council grant.
https://matthewryals.bandcamp.com/album/exalge
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Harper/Haluska/Oicherman
Piano, harp, electronics
The trio will perform graphic scores composed by its members.
Grace Harper is a Cleveland-based pianist, composer, and improvisor. Her compositions have been featured in the Greater Cleveland Flute Society’s Composers Connection series and the She Scores series. In 2024, her score, “Water, Wood, Stone, Breath,” was published in A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros. The piece was performed in Portland, Oregon by Extradition Ensemble. She has performed with Mark Mothersbaugh, Elliott Sharp, Joo Won Park, and Tatsuya Nakatani, and has collaborated widely with musicians in the Cleveland area.

Cleveland-based improviser, harpist, and composer, Stephan Haluska (he/they) draws from the instrument’s unique textural, percussive, physical, and kinetic qualities. Viewing the harp as a frequently misunderstood and underrepresented instrument in contemporary music, he often rejects conventional modes of playing in favor of finding new ways to expand his sound palette. Stephan plays with an advanced vocabulary of extended techniques and preparations, which explore the use of various tools, materials, gadgetry, and household objects, interweaving elements of found sound, collage, sound art, and movement into his artistic practice.
https://infrequentseams.bandcamp.com/album/time-wants-a-skeleton
Boris Oicherman is a visual artist, curator, arts administrator and composer, releasing music as Against Interpretation. His debut record ".1" appeared on Abstrakce Records in 2025, employing Jaki Liebezeit's rhythm method to create minimal yet texturally rich soundscapes. His second record, "Voices," uses the same method to translate Paul Celan's poetry in dub, and is forthcoming on Naviar Records in November. He performs on a SOMA Laboratory Lyra-8.
https://againstinterpretation.bandcamp.com