Nick Ryan is a multi award winning composer, sound designer, artist and audio specialist, widely recognized as a leading thinker on the future of sound. His extensive and diverse practice, as an audio expert, sound designer and music composer involves working with film, motion graphics, animation, TV drama and documentary, interactive media, technology innovation, instrument making and orchestral ensemble. Among his awards are a BAFTA for Technical Innovation, a Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel for sound editing, an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound and an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Plymouth University.

As a practitioner and thinker he has worked with organizations throughout the world such as The MIT Media Lab, The BANFF Centre for the Arts, The Montreal Film Festival, Screen Australia, The European Broadcasting Union, The BFI, BAFTA, TEDx, Aldeburgh Music, The Royal Institution, Tate, BBC Research and Development and UK Government Department of Trade and Industry.

Nick established the studio, based at Somerset House Studios in London, as a high-end music and sound design practice with the core mission of creating experiences that push the boundaries of listening and engage new audiences with audio. It delivers many kinds of work, from award winning feature film scores and sound design, avant-garde sound installations and bespoke museum projects to audio concepts for major products and brands. The studio operates a small and agile internal team and with our large network of highly specialized associates is able to rapidly mobilize delivery of a wide variety of projects from the highly focussed to the large scale.