"Ryako" (Mel Ciriaco, she/her) is a Filipino-American-Belgian musician based in Brugge, Belgium. She primarily creates nerd-inspired Hip-Hop and Electronica. Her last album release was "Metropolis Revamped", a rescore of 1927’s "Metropolis". It was screened in December 2021 at DisCon III. She took part in The Solstice Program this year for Code Coven. Currently, she is scoring and doing sound design for "The Spirit Lift" by "Prettysmart Games”, as well as creating original music for an Asian-American Rhythm Game in production.