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Music performed by How Things Are Made at The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh for the WQED Sessions:
My band How Things Are Made was recently featured on the most recent episode of "WQED Sessions" 
Check out the video below, as we performed at The Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh, PA
I mixed and mastered the newest Sneeze Awfull ablum.
Stream, download, or purchase the tape on the bandcamp link below:
My band Trovants just released out very first proper album “I Hope Your Town Has Good Bands” is now available to stream, download, or on CD through bandcamp. Originally recorded live at spiritpgh in fall of 2021, with additional edits and overdubs over the last year.
My band Trovants (w/ Erik Cirelli, Phil Jacoby, and Matt Aelmore) has an album release show this Wednesday 11-02-2022 at The Government Center with Take Me With You and Sky Creature.
You can pick up the new album "I Hope Your Town Has Good Bands" at the show. Bandcamp release date is Friday 11-04-2022. 
​Link to show: https://fb.me/e/1LQtMnjk9
Link to album:
Hey NYC, I'll be in town on next week to play some live electronics by Berio with SydeBoob Duo:
"We’re back for a very special show on 10.27.22 at 7pm Scholes Street Studio!! Works by Hannah Selin Erin Rogers Brittany Green , Rebecca Saunders, Georges Aperghis, and Luciano Berio’s electro acoustic classic “altra voce”, with Brian Riordan designing and running electronics. Come on out and get turned on with us!!"

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My band Trovants has a CD coming out 11-04-2022. Pre-orders available now. 
Album release party 11-02-2022 at The Government Center in Pittsburgh, PA. 
Link to show: https://fb.me/e/1LQtMnjk9
Link to album:
My band Trovants was featured on a radio program called "Agave Party" and you can listen to the entire program 
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My band Trovants has its own bandcamp page now
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Anna Elder performing my piece at Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn 07-07-2022 at 7pm

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My composition for soprano and live electronics called "Succubus" is featuring on the new SEAMUS compilation album:
I mastered the tracks on this 7 inch by John Boursnell and David Bernabo:
Sydeboob Duo in concert. Anna's playing my piece succubus again. I'll also perform electronics in a group improvisation. 05-13-2022, 7:30pm at MIS_EN PLACE. 

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My "musical game" called 'John Williams Told You To Silence Your Phone, Don't Listen To Him' will be played on 05-07-2022 in Jamaica Plain, MA.
Click here for details about the show

The game is published here
Video performance of How Things Are Made participating in "The Wild West of Computing" Live! An Oral History Podcast Performance from Cut Pathways. 
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Join us 4/7 @ 7PM for "The Wild West of Computing" Live! An Oral History Podcast Performance from Cut Pathways. Hosts Katherine Barbera and David Bernabo will take you on a 60-min journey through the fascinating history of #ComputerScience at CMU. Guests and collaborators: Sam Lemley, Andrew Meade McGee, Maggie Lynn Negrete, and How things are made. Register https://bit.ly/3tDad9C

Schedule: https://web.cvent.com/event/f0d1ed6c-fa1f-4864-be9d-42a2ea7aaae7/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce
World premier of the live version of "Succubus"
Thursday night at Irma Freeman Center for Imagination in Pittsburgh, PA. 
​Also, the world premier of the new ensemble Sydeboob 

11-18-2021 8pm
5006 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224

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Else Collective playing 3 sets Saturday at The Space Upstairs 11-13-2021 at 9pm. I recorded and mastered their debut album. Vinyl copies will be available for sale at the show.

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Purchase/Stream the album here at Bandcamp:
After 20 months of virtual events, my piece "Succubus" is finally getting a live premier. Sydeboob, featuring Anna Elder and Sarah Alice Steranka at The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination. 

Thursday 11-18-2021 at 8pm.
Vaccine cards, masks, etc. required. 
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I'm playing a short set live at Kingfly Spirits with Mark Micchelli's Improvisor Speed Dating. Sunday night, 10-24-2021, Mark's 1st set starts at 7pm. I'm on the 3rd set. 
https://www.kingflyspirits.com/events/artist-collective-market-2

"I Hope Your Town Has Good Bands" - the new set by Trovants, the ethereal, ambient, shoegaze, dreampop, wall-of-sound band featuring Erik Cirelli, Matt Aelmore, Phil Jacoby, and Brian Riordan. This Our first show in over two years, and my first live performance in over 18 months.
Thursday, 09-30-2021, 8pm at Spirit in Pittsburgh, PA. It will transcend. (Link for details in comments)
We'll be sharing the stage with Stinking Lizaveta, and Amby Doosters (Ramteen Sazegari)
This is a masked/vaxx card/negative test kind of deal.
Click here for details: https://fb.me/e/21Zpk41t1
Check out the Trovants Discography below:
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My piece "Succubus" featuring Anna Elder will be streamed at this year's CIME / ICEM - International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music. 09-18-2021 at 1pm EDT (or 19:00 CET). Check out this insane video that Anna made for it. Link below:

https://www.cime-icem.net/
Here is a new project by drummer PJ Raduta called "Else Collective" featuring David Bernabo and Matt Aelmore. I tracked all of the songs and mastered them as well. Vinyl pressings are on their way if you are interested in a physical copy of this great album. 
I have a piece performing on the SPLICE Institute 2021 online concert series. There's a lot of good stuff on these virtual events, between June 28th and Jul 2nd. Anna Elder will be playing my piece "Succubus" on July 2nd at 7:30pm: 
https://splicemusic.org/institute/events
Anna Elder will be performing my piece "Succubus" at the 2021 SICPP Iditarod concert on 06-25-2021. The concert starts at noon EDT and goes all day. Anna will perform during the final set which starts around 11:40 EDT. Click the link below:
https://sicpp.deck10.media/stages/STAGE-5 
Thank you to Doctor Matt for having me on board for the mastering of his debut album "The Watershed" 
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From 06-09-2021 to 06-13-2021, I'm working at the Technical Director of NMOP (New Music On the Point). My piece "Succubus" is also featured. You can stream all of the concerts, or watch them in post, here: pointcp.com/new-music-on-the-point/performances/?fbclid=IwAR2BoOhY0w43SWdHMKECGpD22VlvbbfgsJGY9wfM8Ad8PEDDa_Cm7VPz0bw

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Skeletonized - Future Shock. I did the mixing and mastering for this one:

Doctor Matt's "The Watershed"
I Mastered the album, and I also played percussion, and did some computer programming:

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Check out Eric Weidenhof's "Phloem EP" which I had the privilege of mastering. 
On 4/15/2021 @11:30 PM EDT/8:30 PST:
Anna Elder is performing a new rendition of my piece "Succubus" for voice and live electronics at
Oh My Ears! Anna also made an amazing video for this performance.
On this set, she'll also perform some compositions by Georges Aperghis, Andrew Hamilton, and Julius Eastman.

Link to Purchase Tickets Here
Back in 2020 Li-han Li composed this video composition for How Things Are Made to premier at Electroacoustic Barn Dance. 
"000" was commissioned from Alia Musica for premiere at Pittsburgh's City of Asylum's "The Show Must Go On(line)" series in August of 2020—as a multimedia piece to be streamed over the seminal 1920s experimental short "Ballet Mecanique" by French filmmaker Ferdnand Léger.
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I mastered the "IT IT" album "Two Squirrels Fighting Each Other at the End of the World"
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I mixed and mastered the Skeletonized side of the "Skeletonized / Un Festín Sagital split"
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"only midnight" by Rodgers, Riordan, & Cirelli
Recorded back in 2018 
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Nat 28 performing "Recorded Ruins" from Microtonal Pittsburgh 2020
Stephen Marotto's performance of my piece "Book Burner" from 11-12-2020 at New England Conservatory: 
Here's a live recording from my penultimate concert before the pandemic. This track called "Elk Splat" is a setting of a poem by Taneum Bambrick (used by permission). This was recorded at Moxsonic in Warrensburg, MO on 03-05-2020. Vocals by Jake Sentgeorge and myself on live processing. 

On 11-12-2020 at 8:00pm EST, Stephen Marotto will be performing my piece for cello and electronics called "Book Burner" on a concert hosted by Callithumpian Consort at New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. This live streaming event will also feature pieces by John Cage, Giancinto Scelsi, Hilary Tann, and Michelle Lou. 

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How Things Are Made featuring Lu-Han Li performed a live streaming event on 11-06-2020 at 8:30pm EST. This was our first performance in over a year. 

Click here to watch a video recording of the concert

I performed percussion on this Niesya track:

Click here to listen to the Audio on Spotify


Premier of my piece "000" for 5 performers, electronics and silent film.
To be premiered virtually 08-04-2020 at 7pm EST.

"000" is a piece to be synced with legendary silent film "Ballet Mécanique" by Ferdnand Léger in 1924. 
The piece reimagines the sounding atmosphere in our own times of uncertainty and technological revolution, with composer-directed, remote recordings by performers Brittany Trotter (flute, piccolo, and bass flute), Simon Cummings (cello), Federico Garcia-De Castro (piano), Ben Barson (baritone saxophone, and bass clarinet), and Brian Riordan (modular synthesizer, and signal processing).

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Anna Elder, premier of my composition "Succubus" for soprano and electronics.
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Sunday 06-21-2020 at 6PM CST, Anna Elder will be premiering my piece "Succubus" for soprano and electronics live on Experimental Sound Studios quarantine concert series, hosted with Omaha Under the Radar. 

Video of live stream event available here

http://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts

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Bandcamp.com is waiving all of their fees and giving 100% to the artists on 03-20-2020.
Head over to these links to support any of the projects I have:

Here's my full page with everything I have on bandcamp: https://brianriordan.bandcamp.com/
My private bandcamp page (without many collaborative groups included) https://brianriordan.bandcamp.com/music
All of the albums by How things are made: https://howthingsaremade.bandcamp.com/
All 3 albums with my duo Arborance with Susan Kuo: https://arborance.bandcamp.com/
A Little Bit Hot Tonight" with the legendary Betty Davis: https://daniellemaggio.bandcamp.com/releases
An album of recent-ish compositions that people seem to like: https://brianriordan.bandcamp.com/album/recorded-ruins
And all 4 albums from my band Trovants:
https://brianriordan.bandcamp.com/album/trovants
https://brianriordan.bandcamp.com/album/something-is-going-to-happen
https://brianriordan.bandcamp.com/album/it-would-be-a-god-damn-travesty
https://brianriordan.bandcamp.com/album/post-industrial-mistress

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Eko Chamber Collective at Andy Warhol Museum:
February 20th, 8pm

https://www.warhol.org/event/sound-series-eko-chamber-collective/

https://www.facebook.com/events/2358462927579693/

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Podcast episode featuring music theorist Paul Miller and me talking about our research involving plants and synthesizers:
soundcloud.com/user-387639231/do-plants-make-music

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Album collaboration between Skeletonized and How Things Are Made. Also check out the new HTAM album out on Flag Day Recordings: 
Live performance of my composition "Never The Earth Forever":