Justin Ruppel

About

Justin Ruppel is a Toronto-based musician, writer, lab rat, and former Simpsons trivia champion. He has performed or recorded drums with many artists including George Massenburg, Pete Anderson, The Great Lake Swimmers, Watchhouse, Cat Clyde, Jeremie Albino, Blood Ceremony, Charlotte Cornfield, The Queen Priyanka, Iskwé, Dwayne Gretzky, and Al Tuck. Performance highlights include The WayHome Festival, SXSW, Hillside Folk Festival, Edmonton Folk Festival, Desertfest Berlin, and the New Orleans French Quarter Festival. As a touring musician, he has travelled around the world opening for Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, The Decemberists, The Proclaimers, Sam Roberts, Bahamas, Thee Sacred Souls, Saint Paul and The Broken Bones, and Sylvia Tyson. He has collaborated on a number of theatre and film soundtracks as a composer, earning a Dora Nomination for sound design on theThe Italian Mime Suicide. A fairweathered friend to the clawhammer banjo, Justin's drop thumbing can be heard on Cicada Ball by The Boxcar Boys and has been featured on CBC, BBC, and Canadian college radio stations. 

He also works as a writer and researcher at the University of Toronto and has published scientific articles in a number of journals including Brain and Cognition and Scientific Reports. His fiction has been published in Grain Magazine, Vallum, Sundog Lit (USA) and presented at Toronto Art Bar Series, The Robert Gill Theatre in Toronto, and Poet’s House in New York City. He has recently completed his debut collection of short stories, It’s Really Coming Down, for which he received a literary grant from the Ontario Arts Council.

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Selected Discography

• Try To Make It Fly - Lonesome Ace Stringband - 2023

• TBD - Eirene Cloma - 2023

• Sprachen der Vögel - Völur - 2023

• Zwischen den W​ä​ldern ft. Arif Mirbaghi Völur - 2022

• You Don’t Have To Know – Ellie Buckland - 2021

• Naked Brunch - Gabe Kong - 2021

• Winward and Leeward - Arif Mirbaghi - 2021

• Christmas at the Oasis - Zuze Redux - 2020

• Alangu - Zuze - 2020

• Retro Sounds for Modern Summer - Zuze Redux - 2020

• Gomshodeh - Zuze - 2020

• Death Cult - Volur - 2020

• Dear Sienna – Aerlialists - 2019

• The River - Cat Clyde - 2019

• The Great Escape - Angie Hilts - 2019

• Twelve by Two - Nick Hornbuckle - 2018

• Angie Hilts EP – Angie Hilts -2018

• The Littlest Dobro Vol.2 - Ivan Rosenburg - 2018

• Carlo – Carlo – 2017

• Zogh – Zuze – 2016

• Staycation EP– Staycation – 2016

• Zuze– Zuze – 2016

• Blast Off– The Double Cuts – 2016

• Everything’s Different in the Night – Nudie – 2016

• Wicked Moon – Jack Marks – 2015

• Cicada Ball – The Boxcar Boys – 2015

• Fair Country – Al Tuck -2015

• Drinkin Alone – Tim Bradford – 2014

• Shug’s Grandkids – Shug’s Grandkids – 2013

• Borderline – Carl Lorusso Jr. – 2013

• Stranger -Scarlett Jane -2012

• Her Early Work – Calla – 2012

• Bend and Break – Shannon Quinn – 2012

• Slow Cooked – The Joyful Sinners – 2012

• Before We Get Down to Business – David St. Bernard – 2011

• Humber New Standards Volume 23 – World Hand Drum Ensemble – 2011

• The Circus – Max Galactic and the Cloud of Evil – 2011

• Urban Preacher -Urban Preacher – 2010

• Max Galactic and the Cloud of Evil – Max Galactic and the Cloud of Evil – 2010
  

Selected Film, Television, and Theatre Work

• Million Dollar Quartet - Theatre - 2018 - Drums, W.S. "Fluke" Holland

• Skyship March - Television - 2018 - Drums

• Lord Only Knows I'm Gone - Film - 2017 - Drums, Percussion

• La Boda de Valentina - Film - 2016 - Percussion

• Italian Mime Suicide - Theatre - 2016 - Drums, Compositions

• Marathon – Film – 2016 - Drums, Compositions

• Ari Posner and The Heavyweights Brass Band – Television – 2015 - Drums

• Scotiabank Commercial - Television - 2014 - Drums
  

Writing

 Selected Publications

• Wilson, K., Sun, S.Z., Emrich, S., Lowe, M.X., Kosnik, R., Ruppel. J., and Ferber, S. (under review). Individual differences in visual attention: Conscientiousness and selective attention.

• Stevenson, R. A., Sun, S., Ruppel, J., Segers, M., Ncube, B., Barense, M. D., & Ferber, S. (2020). Perceptual binding errors in autistic children during a visual working memory task, Scientific Reports,11(1):36-48.

• Ferber S, Ruppel J, & Danckert J. (2020). Visual working memory deficits following right brain damage. Brain and Cognition,142 (10):55-66.

• Wei C., Ruppel, J. et al (2019). “Vultures.” One Poem. Sundog Lit, Issue 14. https://sundoglit.com/

• Ruppel, J. (2018). Three poems. Grain Magazine, Volume 45, No. 3, Spring Edition.

• Wilson, K.E., Lowe, M.X, Ruppel, J., Pratt, J., & Ferber, S. (2016).  The Scope of No Return: Openness Predicts the Spatial Distribution of Inhibition of Return.  Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 78 (1), 209-217.

• Ruppel, J. (2015). The Waiting Room. Vallum Magazine, Volume 12, No.2, Spring Edition.

• Dixon, M., Ruppel, J., & DeRosa, E. (2009). Learning to Ignore: Acquisition of Sustained Attentional Suppression.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2, 418-423.

• Emrich, S,M., Ruppel, J.D., & Ferber, S (2008). The role of elaboration in the persistence of awareness for degraded objects. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 319-329, PMID: 17239616

• Emrich, S.M., Ruppel, J.D., Al-Aidroos, Pratt, J., & Ferber, S. (2008). Out with the Old:Inhibition of Old Items in a Preview Search is Limited. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 70, 1552-1557.
  

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