Rylee Short is a composer and horn player from Louisville, Kentucky.  They enjoy performing with a myriad of music styles from free noise improve, to trash prog, to orchestral and chamber settings. They lost a lot of their early media promotion with their name change and transition but since, has been producing either scores or recorded productions since 2008.

A lot of work explores the collaboration between disciplines while either combining spoken word, written poetry, dance, fluxus, video media or even the combination of all, Rylee is fascinated with how each individual expression changes under live collaboration. For many years, they produced and hosted events that combined artists to collaborate together for a live audience without rehearsal, Subterranean Phrases. They also served on the Board for Dreamland Louisville, an experimental music venue run by drummer and composer, Tim Barnes.  Rylee also served as the Arts and Repertoire chair for Orchestra Enigmatic.

Short hopes to make new musical connections in Chicago.

Rylee’s compositions undergo motivic exploration and are generally programmatic in nature and often informed by spoken word or elements of astronomy, astrology, nature, and metaphysics.