Ross Wightman

Ross Wightman is a sound artist, composer and double bassist from New Jersey. He serves as a Technical Manager at the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) and Curator of the CCAM Sound Art Series. At Yale and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, he teaches a variety of media studies, computer music and composition courses and leads electroacoustic improvisation ensembles.   

As a sound artist and composer, his work incorporates microtonality, electro-acoustic multimedia composition and instrument building. In his electroacoustic instrument building practice, he repurposes and deconstructs found instruments, combining 3D printing, robotics, and machine learning to investigate themes related to performance practice, virtuosity, timbre and resonance.    

As a double bassist, Ross focuses on the performance of contemporary music, specifically microtonal music and has premiered works by Alvin Lucier and performed at international festivals including the Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, The Lucerne Festival, Ambient Festival Köln, The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and the Bang on a Can Summer Festival.   

Clash Magazine has cited his work as among the “best of the American experimental underground.”