Ryan Lott

American musician (born 1979)

Musician
composer

Labels

Joyful Noise
Anticon
This is Meru

Websitesonlux.tumblr.com

Musical artist

Ryan Lott (born 1979) is an American musician. He founded the band Son Lux which has released five albums and four EPs. The band's most recent album Brighter Wounds appeared in February 2018, the preceding album Remedy appeared in May 2017. He is also a member of Sisyphus and has scored the soundtracks for a number of films, most notably Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Mean Dreams (2017), Paper Towns (2015),^[1] and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013).^[2] In 2020, Lott composed the soundtrack for the adventure game Tell Me Why.^[3] In 2022, Ryan released a course on designing sample-based instruments with online music school Soundfly.^[4]

Discography

As Son Lux

As Ryan Lott

Albums

Original Music From And Inspired By: The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby (Glassnote, 2014) (as/with Son Lux)
Sisyphus (Asthmatic Kitty/Joyful Noise, 2014) (with Sisyphus, as Son Lux)
Pentaptych (2019)
Quartered (2020) (with Third Coast Percussion)

EPs

Beak & Claw (Anticon, 2012) (with Sisyphus, as Son Lux)

Soundtracks

Tell Me Why: Original Video Game Soundtrack (2020)

Collaborations

First (2017) (with yMusic)
S16 (2020) (with Woodkid)

References

^ Lindner, Emilee. "Exclusive: Son Lux's Ryan Lott To Score John Green's 'Paper Towns'". MTV News. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
^ Hilton, Robin (February 16, 2012). "New Son Lux Instrumentals". NPR.
^ "Reverberations of the past: Creating the soundtrack of Tell Me Why". September 23, 2020.
^ Rabinowitz, Chloe. "'Ryan Lott: Designing Sample-Based Instruments' Course Now Available on Soundfly". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved July 13, 2022.

External links

Official website

Son Lux

Rafiq Bhatia
Ian Chang
Ryan Lott

Albums

At War with Walls & Mazes (2008)
We Are Rising (2011)
Lanterns (2013)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2014)
Sisyphus (2014, with Serengeti and Sufjan Stevens)
Bones (2015)
Brighter Wounds (2018)
Tomorrows I (2020)
Tomorrows II (2020)
Tomorrows III (2021)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2022)
Alternate Forms (2023)

v t e Guild of Music Supervisors Award for Best Song Written and/or Recording Created for a Film
2010s	"See You Again" – Written by DJ Frank E, Charlie Puth, Wiz Khalifa, and Andrew Cedar (2015) "City of Stars" – Written by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul (2016) "Mystery of Love" – Written by Sufjan Stevens (2017) "Shallow" – Written by Stefani Germanotta, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt (2018) "One Little Soldier" – Written by Regina Spektor (2019)
2020s	"Hear My Voice" – Written by Celeste Waite and Daniel Pemberton (2020) "Dos Oruguitas" – Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda (2021) "This Is a Life" – Written by Ryan Lott, David Byrne, and Mitski Miyawaki (2022) "What Was I Made For?" – Written by Billie Eilish O'Connell and Finneas O'Connell (2023)