Callie Ryan

Callie Ryan—she/her/hers; currently living on Tongva, Hahamogna, and Kizh land—is an electronic musician, resident dublab DJ, design artist, composer, student, and disability justice advocate living with Ankylosing Spondylitis. Through her various practices, Callie aims to make works that provide safe containers for exploring our unique internal anatomical processes and their impact on our embodied experience within a surrounding ecosystem.
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Callie’s creative practice is rooted in social justice work and inspired by frameworks of mutual aid and intersectional disability. She believes that individual healing is not possible without accessible care for all—a belief that has guided her in facilitating virtual care groups for folks who identify as chronically ill and/or disabled, participating in various mutual aid based meal support systems, as well as creating STORAGE CONTAINER as a means of centering conversations that work to dismantle systems of oppression and harm. The mix series is also intended to act as a virtual vessel—providing a safe, ever-changing, sonic landscape in which listeners and guests can engage in practices of learning, unlearning, expansion, growth, grief, anger, creativity and joy alongside one another. Callie’s creative practice is also deeply informed by her work as a licensed Acupuncturist and herbalist providing trauma-informed medical care for those with sensitive bodies and hearts.

Callie has performed alongside artists such as Visible Cloaks, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Sage Caswell, Kelman Duran, Harriet Brown, Aisha Devi, Loscil, Leech, Violence, Daedelus, Jimmy Tamborello (DNTEL) and more. She has presented both her live set and consciously curated DJ sets in spaces such as LACMA (Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art), David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption, the 2018 Ableton Loop Summit, and the Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco. Callie’s debut record, HEALTH, which was released via the Los Angeles label, Outside Insight was released and reviewed by i-D Magazine, and the music video for her single, Paste, was premiered via Vogue Magazine.

The work Callie does as an experimental artist is grounded in gratitude for the opportunity to give and receive care through sonic curation and collaboration.