Ross Wightman

Ross Wightman is a double bassist and composer from New Jersey. Currently, he is a fellow at the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media and recent graduate of the Yale School of Music. 

As a double bassist, Ross focuses on the performance of contemporary music, specifically microtonal music and seeks to bring this rarely performed music to wider audiences as well as commission new works. Ross has premiered works for the double bass by Alvin Lucier and Anthony Coleman and has had the pleasure of performing with contemporary music ensembles such as Ghost Ensemble, Ensemble Mise-en, Callithumpian Consort and at international festivals including the Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, The Lucerne Festival, The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and the Bang on a Can Summer Festival.

As a composer, his work focuses on electro-acoustic multimedia composition and instrument building as seen in his touring solo project, Water Feature where he improvises with feedback and noise sound sources on his self-made electroacoustic instrument of the same name. Drawing on a deep love of film, Ross’ work often incorporates video art which he creates by digitally sampling video as well as circuit bending analog video equipment as seen/heard in his solo musique concrete audio visual project, Gravepact. 

This past year he was commissioned to compose an audio visual work titled, Touch System for Ran Blake as part of the ReVox Installation, commemorating the 50 year anniversary of OHAM at CCAM.