About Ryan Materna

Ryan Materna is a video game composer and sound designer whose work blends cinematic orchestration, immersive electronics, and layered soundscapes to craft emotional, impactful scores.
 

Ryan has studied and shadowed with award-winning media composers Jeff Broadbent, Peter Murray, and Jake Lives, as well as concert composers Dr. Bill Clay and Dr. Benjamin Dean Taylor. He is currently pursuing a bachelors degree in Music Composition and Theory at Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute, studying with renowned faculty including Jody Rockmaker, Alex Temple, Fernanda Navarro, Christopher Norby, Daniel Bernard Roumain, and Gabriel Balaños.

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In 2025, Ryan received the Distinguished Composer Award at the MCA Video Game Scoring Workshop and an internship with Night Signal Entertainment, where he composed music for the upcoming game Forbidden Solitaire. Since then, he has contributed music to a growing number of indie titles, including UAZO: Free As Birds, Jet Scalawag – The King of Shooters, Astrobound, Galaxy’s Edge, and Pharmini, a university-funded resource-management video game currently in development at ASU.