Lynn Wright is a composer, songwriter, musician, producer, and arranger based in Berlin. He is currently the live guitarist and lap steel player for Swans bassist Dana Schechter’s and Khanate drummer Tim Wyskida’s cinematic, experimental doom band Insect Ark; one half of the dark-ambient duo eiSou; and leads his newly reformed, song-oriented project And The Wiremen, whose next record Night Cracks Harbor will finally be released in 2025.

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, and Vlny (Waves,2024).

His solo album Before the Sinking Plains and the score to the 2022 film Warmuffin, which he composed in collaboration with Goff, are also slated for release in 2025.

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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—most prominently gothic showman James Hall—and an occasional side person for New York institution Reverend Vince Anderson. 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.”

When Hall’s deal with Geffen Records ended, he briefly left music 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, 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 Maimon; the one-off, New Orleans trance-improv trio (unfortunately named) Ballroom Dance is Dead with Drums and Tuba drummer Tony Nozero and former James Hall bandmate 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 with Enablers frontman 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 also continued his work with choreographer Rachel Cohen’s neo-absurdist dance company Racoco Productions, 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), 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).

During the pandemic, he recorded a solo record of layered guitars, synths, and wordless vocals Before the Sinking Plains, which is scheduled to be released in late 2025, 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 in at the end of 2022, he has frequently worked with composer Simon Goff as a musician, music editor, and second 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, and Vlny (Waves, 2024).

He is currently the live guitarist and lap steel player for Swans bassist Dana Schechter’s and Khanate drummer Tim Wyskida’s cinematic, experimental doom band Insect Ark; one half of the dark-ambient duo eiSou; and leads his newly reformed, song-oriented project And The Wiremen, whose next record Night Cracks Harbor will finally be released in 2025. The soundtrack 2022 film Warmuffin, which he composed in collaboration with Goff, is also slated for release in 2025.