Needles Down is back with dublab’s Callie Ryan! We’ll see you at Part Time Lover on Friday, December 6 for intentional curation reflecting fluid sonic movement, nature, and the connections within it.

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Callie Ryan—she/her/hers; currently living on Tongva, Hahamogna, and Kizh land— is an electronic musician, resident dublab DJ, design artist, composer, acupuncturist, 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 through sound curation and composition. Callie’s creative practice is rooted in social justice work and inspired by frameworks of mutual aid and intersectional disability. Her dublab show, STORAGE CONTAINER is a he mix series which aims 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 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 Ace Hotel Theater, the 2018 Ableton Loop Summit, and the Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco. In 2019, Callie released her first record, HEALTH, which was released via the Los Angeles label, Outside Insight. The stream for HEALTH was first released and reviewed by i-D Magazine, and the music video for her single, Paste, was premiered via Vogue Magazine.

Callie has recently earned her masters degree in East Asian Medicine and Herbalism with the intention of creating accessible trauma-informed medical care for marginalized bodies.