“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.”
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Listen to Lightbath’s split release with Emily A. Sprague on RVNG
“As Lightbath, composer and improviser Bryan Noll invites listeners to enter a realm of infinite creation through the exploration of the subtleties of emotion, memory, and time. In this Moog Matriarch meditation from Moogfest 2019, Lightbath transports us to an alternate universe of musical experience.”
Press
→ Moog Music • Morphic Resonance
→ Bandcamp Daily • On And On And On: A Guide to Generative Electronic Music
→ Pitchfork • Modular Synthesizer Videos Are the YouTube Rabbit Hole You Won’t Want to Leave
→ Solid State Logic • Lightbath’s Modular Creations: Crafting a Shared Sound Experience
→ The Astral Hustle • Podcast Episode #266
Media
→ Download Press Photos
→ Download Stage Plot