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  • Ross Wightman

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    Ross Wightman

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    Ross Wightman is a double bassist and composer from New Jersey. Currently, he serves as Technical Manager at the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) and Curator of the CCAM Sound Art Series. At the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, he teaches computer music and composition courses and leads electroacoustic improvisation ensembles.

    As a composer and improviser, his work incorporates microtonality, electro-acoustic multimedia composition and instrument building. Drawing often on a deep love of film, Ross’ work often incorporates video art created by digitally sampling video as well as circuit bending analog video equipment. 

    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 The Ever-Present Orchestra, Ghost Ensemble, Ensemble Mise-en, Callithumpian Consort and at international festivals including the Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, The Lucerne Festival, Ambient Festival Köln, The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and the Bang on a Can Summer Festival. 

    At Yale CCAM, Ross is the founder, curator and producer of the CCAM Sound Art Series as well as the founder of the CCAM Audio Composition Collective (CCAMACC), which creates virtual, multimedia musical performances for remote laptop ensemble. For more information please visit rosswightman.net

    Recent Publications

    https://yalemaquette.com/Why-A-Remote-Laptop-Ensemble

    Future Courses

    Lessons 1000
    JLES 1000, Fall 2025

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