Lynn Wright is a musical wanderer, a composer, songwriter, musician, and producer residing in Berlin. His solo album Before the Sinking Plains will be out on Miasmah 4 Septermber 2026.

He is currently the live guitarist and lap steel player for Swans bassist Dana Schechter’s and Khanate drummer Tim Wyskida’s cinematic, experimental band Insect Ark; one half of the dark-ambient duo eiSou; guitarist of the re-vamped improv project Molecular; and the leader of his occasionally-active song project And The Wiremen.

Since moving to Berlin at the end of 2022, he has frequently worked with composer Simon Goff as a musician, music editor, and assistant composer on film and television projects, including Usvit (We Have Never Been Modern, 2023) , the Canal+ series Dcera národa (Daughter of the Nation, 2024), seasons one and two of the BBC television series The Gold,Vlny (Waves,2024), The Cage (BBC Television, 2026); and as a composer and performer of additional music for the film Night and Day (2026) and the documentary about Cinematographer Robert Richardson The White Devil (2026).

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Full Bio

For most of the 90’s Lynn Wright was a session guitar player for never-to-arrive next big things. His work from this era was described by Guitar Player magazine as consisting of “…sizzling treble tones, an acidic, razor-edged attack and a healthy eclecticism that embraces psychedelic R&B, blues-infused punk and neo-roots balladry.”

Burnt out from the major label shuffle, he briefly left music at the end pf the 90’s and returned a year later with the decidedly more minimalist, Dana Schechter-led noir chamber ensemble Bee and Flower. He recorded the album What’s Mine Is Yours (Neurot), a single for the album This Is Next Year: A Brooklyn-Based Compilation, and the scores for the Craig Singer films Dead Dog’s Lie and A Good Night to Die with the band before it split up in 2004. While playing in Bee and Flower, he also recorded and toured with Bee and Flower drummer Ani Cordero’s eponymous Latin indie rock band.

During the second half of the aughts, Wright worked with composer and writer Chris Becker and William Parker Quartet trumpeter Lewis “Flip” Barnes on the former’s music for New York choreographer Rachel Cohen’s dance company Racoco, which included an artist residency at Harvard, and performed as part of Becker’s improvisatory Music for Silent Films project. He formed the short-lived Afro-Colombian band Gachupín with Pere Ubu bassist Tony Maimone; the one-off, New Orleans trance-improv trio BDID with Drums and Tuba drummer Tony Nozero and bassist Grant Curry and continued working as a session musician.

In 2009, he joined a reformed Bee and Flower for an album and tour, and formed his song project And The Wiremen, which featured a revolving door cast of New York and Berlin-based musicians with Paul Watson (Sparklehorse, Othotonics, Michael Hurley) being the only other constant member. The band released a self-titled record, the EPs Send Me Low and Caged Bird before becoming largely inactive in 2016 due to Watson’s worsening Parkinson’s disease. Wright produced Watson’s final solo album My Secret Effect before Watson retired from performance.

For writer and director Victoria Miguel, he composed the score for her online play De Tribus Impostoribus (2010), and the piece Please, Wait for her John Cage Trust commission to create an online version of Cage’s Reunion, which premiered in tandem with her play Laqueria at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2013. The latter work featured a score by Wright created entirely of sounds from Cage’s former apartment that amused or inspired the Cage. He also contributed sound to Miguel’s and artist Matthew Lusk’s, More Broken Glass Than There Was Window installation, at Zieher Smith Gallery, New York in 2012. 

Throughout the twenty-tens Wright participated in wide range of recurring and one-off projects, recording two improvised albums with Swans alums Algis Kizys and Norman Westberg: ALN (2015) and This is Where (2017), toured and recorded a live  album Warm Regards under the name Molecular with Enablers front man and poet Pete Simonelli, Sam Ospovat (Ava Mendoza), Algis Kizys, and Simon Goff; performed Raphaele Shirley’s Blue Line, running man, spinning circle  with violinist Laura Ortman at Ventana244 (2015) and her collaboration with Algis Kizys  Lyrae/Le Chiffre at The Chimney in Brooklyn (2017). In 2014, he played guitar on Alexander Hacke’s score for the Fateh Akin movie The Cut. The following year he scored the indie film April Flowers (released 2017) and provided text and sound for Spanish photographer Laura Silleras’s Daytona project. In 2017, he was the live guitarist for singer Shilpa Ray’s Door Girl album tour. He continued his work with choreographer Rachel Cohen, scoring her works I Would (2012, Danspace, NY), Construct (2013, Incubator Arts Project, NYC), Paper Works (2014-17, various locations)––a series of performances/installations with visual artist Stephanie Beck and Cohen, and Tilt (2019-2020), which enjoyed a two-week, sold-out run at Abrons Art Center in New York.

Before the pandemic brought much of the world to a halt, Wright wrote the text and, with Simon Goff, co-composed the score for Helga Letonja’s dance On the Shoulders of Giants (Theater Bremen, 2020), and with Goff, scored the Swiss-American film Warmuffin (released 2022).

Starting during the pandemic, he recorded a solo record of layered guitars, synths, and lyric-less vocals Before the Sinking Plains, which will be released on 4 September 2026 on Miasmah Records, and collaborated with instrumental post-jazz band The Royal Arctic Institute on the EPs From Catnap to Coma and From Coma to Catharsis (Already Dead Tapes), which were recorded live in the studio by Yo La Tengo bassist James McNew, and later combined into the full-length release From Catnap to Comas to Catharsis.

Since moving to Berlin at the end of 2022, he has frequently worked with composer Simon Goff as a musician, music editor, composer, and assistant composer on film and television projects, including Usvit (We Have Never Been Modern, 2023) , the Canal+ series Dcera národa (Daughter of the Nation, 2024), seasons one and two of the BBC television series The Gold, Vlny (Waves,2024), The Cage (BBC Television, 2026); and as a composer and performer of additional music for the film Night and Day (2026) and the documentary about Cinematographer Robert Richardson The White Devil (2026).

He is currently the live guitarist and lap steel player for Swans bassist Dana Schechter’s and Khanate drummer Tim Wyskida’s experimental doom band Insect Ark; a member of the revived improv project Molecular (Simonelli/Wyskida/Wright/Goff), and one half of the dark-ambient duo eiSou.