Giving Back - Music
Set Your Warm-Up Tone First
Before touching a metronome or running exercises, your tone matters. This setup keeps notes clear, dynamic, and honest—clean when played lightly, and responsive when you dig in.
A proper warm-up tone exposes technique without punishing your ears, making early practice more productive and musical.
Recalibrate Your Internal Time
This warm-up approach focuses on evenness, note quality, and consistency—one click per note, every note full and controlled.
If this feels uncomfortable at first, that’s the point.
Ghost Lab Band
Original Music
Before founding Ghost Lab Acoustics™, I spent years writing, recording, and producing original music under the name Ghost Lab Band. Created in 2017, these pieces are shared here freely as a way of giving back — and as proof that the instruments I build are designed by someone who truly understands the player.
Some of these pieces were written with accompanying lyrics that follow the music. The versions shared here are instrumental, but I hope to explore vocal collaborations in the future and bring those lyrics to life.
Copyright Notice & Usage License
All music on this page is original work written, composed, arranged, and produced by Ryan Wizner.
Unless otherwise noted, all instruments — including guitar, bass, drums, and auxiliary instrumentation — were performed by Ryan Wizner. Guest performances, where applicable, are credited explicitly within the corresponding track descriptions.
© 2017–2026 Ryan Wizner. All rights reserved.
You are permitted to:
• Listen to the music
• Download the music for personal, non-commercial use
• Share links to this page
You may not:
• Sell, license, or monetize this music
• Upload it to streaming platforms or content ID systems
• Use it in videos, films, games, or commercial projects
• Claim authorship or remove attribution
Attribution Required:
If you perform this music live or record a non-commercial cover, credit must read: “Written by Ryan Wizner (Ghost Lab).”
For commercial licensing, synchronization, or other uses, contact:
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Steam emerged from an experiment in extreme detuning, pushing an acoustic guitar until the strings rattled against the frets while remaining musical. That raw, mechanical texture became the backbone of the piece because it reminded me of the relentless momentum of 19th-century steam locomotives and the feel of long highway drives.
Aphoristic began with the privileged purchase of an authentic, Aboriginal-built didgeridoo in the key of concert B. I had just started to become proficient with circular breathing and subtle pitch-bending techniques, and the opening of this piece came directly from exploring those sounds. The rest of the song grew naturally from that foundation.
Amazon’s Beginning Trickle started as a small guitar riff I created that slowly built into a complete piece. As it developed, it naturally called for a flute opening, and I was grateful to record my mom — a very accomplished flautist — and collaborate with her. It also includes a guitar solo that I ended up being pretty happy with, which helped bring the whole piece together.
Privolnoye is a three-movement classical concerto I composed for a modern dance piece my wife was creating, inspired by my reading on Russian history and the life of Mikhail Gorbachev. The work takes its name from Privolnoye, the village where Gorbachev was born. The first movement reflects an imagined childhood in a stark, Stalin-era landscape. The second explores the strain of leadership — the tension between change and tradition, with many forces pulling in different directions. The final movement represents returning to life beyond power, carrying a quiet sense of closure.
Dust was inspired by growing up with films like Jeremiah Johnson and imagining a life completely outside modern society. The opening sound of a chain falling represents being granted passage past a physical boundary — into a government-approved area where life returns to living purely off the land, without money or taxes, governed instead by necessity, skill, and the coincidence of wants.