Jessica Rylan

Jessica Rylan is an electronic musician, sound artist, and synthesizer builder who lives and performs in the Boston area. She has an MFA in electronic music from Bard College, Avondale-on-Hudson, New York and has received grants from the Penny McCall Foundation and the LEF Foundation. Rylan has undertaken several national tours, and has created sound installations for the LIST Gallery for Visual Arts at MIT, the Boston Center for Contemporary Art, Bard College, the Berwick Research Institute and the Massachusetts College of Art. Rylan also creates music as Can't, defining it as her more rock guise, in contrast to the "serious" music she produces under her own name. Rylan also collaborates with Donna Parker as Secret Diary; with Vanessa Brewster as Perpetual Enemies; with Vampire Belt as Vampire Can't; and as [a=Dirty Dynamite Gang] with C. Spencer Yeh and John Olson.