Ryan Lott
Ryan Lott grew up studying music, and earned a Bachelor of Music at Indiana University. Ryan's debut recording, At War With Walls and Mazes, created under the moniker Son Lux, earned him the title of "Best New Artist" by NPR's All Songs Considered. In 2011 he followed up this release with We Are Rising, which featured collaborations with chamber sextet yMusic, DM Stith, and Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond). In addition to his creative output as Son Lux, Ryan Lott has continued keeping busy balancing his time between scoring for film, commissions, and advertising work.
In 2012, Son Lux joined forces with rapper Serengeti and indie music luminary Sufjan Stevens to release Beak & Claw EP. This adds to the already long list of high profile collaborators such as Beans (AntiPop Consortium), Richard Perry (Arcade Fire), Busdriver, Colin Stetson (Bon Iver), and Peter Silberman (The Antlers). Ryan Lott also contributed brass and wind arrangements to the These New Puritans' album, Hidden, NME's 2010 Album of The Year.
In the spring of 2013, Ryan will premiere two hour-long works for dance in NYC. The first, for Stephen Petronio Company, is an electroacoustic work for The Young People's Chorus of NY and a multi-instrumentalist chamber ensemble comprised of members of Bon Iver and Son Lux. The second, for Gibney Dance, is another electroacoustic work for innovative string quartet ETHEL. Ryan has a long-standing creative partnership with both choreographers. His internationally lauded work with Petronio, "By Singing Light," for National Dance Company of Wales, led one critic to call it "the most important cultural event in Wales in ten years."
His arranging credits include feature filmsThe Brothers Bloom (2008), Et soudain tout le monde me manque (2011), and most notably is his recent work on the score forLooper (2012), starring Bruce Willis, Joseph-Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. In addition to designing and programming "virtual" instruments for the score, he was the orchestrator, assistant arranger, and pianist, and contributed one of his Son Lux songs to the soundtrack.
Son Lux is currently working on his third full-length release.
