“Lightbath daubs an arc of floaty melodics, chalky auras and affecting chimes into space. The music manifests a magnetic kineticism as person and machine travel together exchanging ideas in turn, flowing with the motion and change of the tides.”

– RVNG Intl.

Lightbath explores sound, space, and form through generative processes that treat the machine as collaborator. In the composer-as-gardener spirit, improviser and sound designer Bryan Noll plants musical seeds and guides them into pieces that unfold in the present moment.

“Working with generative processes feels like a collaboration,” says Noll, “as if it’s alive and interacting with me. It’s an active meditation where I set the initial framework and just listen, remaining agile enough to guide the musical conversation.”

Lightbath’s sound and process took shape through YouTube videos that capture the physical act of coaxing music from modular systems. Pitchfork described these “artfully unpretentious demonstrations” as a “strange, sui-generis niche,” calling them “part performance, part tech tutorial, and part audio-visual wallpaper.”