Liquid Music

Son Lux special projects

Consultant for orchestral projects of Son Lux

Academy Award® and BAFTA-nominated band Son Lux has always embraced radical experimentation. Comprised of musician-composers Rafiq Bhatia, Ian Chang, and founder Ryan Lott, the self-described "sonic test kitchen" questions and explores what music can and should be. Featuring and upending electronic, soul, and pop influence, their aural explorations remain intimate in their intricacies and burst through any expectation of style.

In partnership with Liquid Music, Son Lux takes its expansive sound to a grand scale with the world premiere of their next studio album adapted and arranged for a fully immersive symphony orchestra experience. Integrated with a large ensemble, their maximalist work promises to electrify. The band rounds out the program with works curated by the group, creating a sonic dialogue highlighting their inspiration and revealing their place among the orchestral canon.

About Son Lux

From the start, Son Lux has operated as something akin to a sonic test kitchen. The Academy Award® and BAFTA-nominated band strives to question deeply held assumptions about how music is made and reconstruct it from a molecular level. What began as a solo project for founder Ryan Lott expanded in 2014, thanks to a kinship with Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia too strong to ignore. The trio strengthened their chemistry and honed their collective intuition while creating, releasing, and touring six recordings, including Brighter Wounds (2018) and triple album Tomorrows (2021). The result is a carefully cultivated musical language rooted in curiosity and balancing opposites that largely eschews genre and structural conventions. And yet, the band remains audibly indebted to iconoclastic artists in soul, hip-hop, and experimental improvisation who themselves carved new paths forward. Distilling these varied influences, Son Lux searches for equilibrium of raw emotional intimacy and meticulous electronic constructions. Son Lux has most recently scored the new Daniels film for A24, Everything Everywhere All at Once (March 2022). The full score album features new collaborations with Mitski, David Byrne, Randy Newman, and Moses Sumney, among others.

“A rare and perfect mix of classical influences, electronica, and post-rock.” –BBC

“Son Lux’s broader artistic ethos are rooted in the imperative of creation, so sprawling in its possibilities as to span an entire multiverse.” –Pitchfork

“Sits at the intersection of pop and classical, creating imaginative and complex music for every medium.” – NPR

Creative Partners

This Is Meru is Son Lux’s management company, founded by Michael Kaufmann and run by Michael and Hannah Houser. Michael has a rich history of cultural entrepreneurship, working collaboratively to make space for others to create and experience surprising beauty. He believes in the transformative power of art, its ability to ask critical questions, provoke meaningful conversations, and imagine new possibilities. Hannah brings with her a passion for all aspects of communication, branding, narrative identity, design, and business organization by way of marketing five of North America's top music festivals, managing a pool of marketing creatives, and assisting in the management of internationally renowned musicians.

Outer/Most Agency have created a unique and distinguished reputation for working with artists who have the ability to navigate a wide-range of touring opportunities, as well as presenters/promoters who champion and foster an ever-evolving landscape of touring. Their artistic approach is rooted in independence and entrepreneurship and informed by 20 years of high-level agency expertise.