The Soundmaker
Lowell’s sound lives in the space between composition, experimentation, and pure sonic play. Some pieces begin as field recordings, some as improvised performances, others as tiny audio accidents that refuse to be ignored. This page gathers a rotating selection of the work that defines him as a soundmaker – music built from exploration, instinct, and the thrill of seeing how far a sound can be stretched before it breaks, and what new worlds appear when you follow it.
The Divine Mother
Through this performance featuring modular synths and soaring choral samples, Lowell conveys a sense of peace, a place of solace. Using layered audio and a mix of live and sampled performance, he crafts a sound that makes the listener feel safe and at home.
The Divine Father
A “Soundmaker” can be simply described as “something that makes sound.” Nature offers plenty of examples: wind rustling through the trees, water cascading over stone, wolves howling in the night. Somewhere nestled among all of that – is Lowell.
Notice the similarities with The Divine Mother, but also feel the definitive masculine tones that run throughout. These two performances in tandem help illustrate the layering artistry at hand.
Listen to more
You & Me (JAMuary 2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymkVBRfQIEw
Tech House Jam1 (JAMuary 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KiL9W45dLo
Melodic Dub-Techno (JAMuary 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2KKIz_AISA
Set II (JAMuary 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8cv7EWjmYY
Set III (JAMuary 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOkbev1-0Ak
ΦNYX Live Electronic Music – Feb. 2, Sunday, 7pm CST
https://youtu.be/Kzafj96eK_c
Arabic Vocal VST Jam (2 Takes Mash-up) —okay two takes…but mashed together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFr2Y28eb0Y
Shashkin Live Remix & Mashup (feat. Parveen Sultana & Omar Faruk Tekbilek)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmRAgtYkQMI
War & Separation (feat. Gangaji)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ByaAroidLo
Want to learn how to create your own audio tracks from scratch?
Lowell is working on a brand new set of tutorials and guides for you to purchase.
If you’re interested in learning about mastering audio, please give him a shout!
He loves to hear from fellow audiophiles and new beginners alike.
Process
(noun): a series of actions that produce something or that lead to a particular result
Listening first.
Every piece starts with listening – to rooms, to people, to broken machines, to old recordings that weren’t meant to survive this long.
Building from fragments.
Lowell works in layers: cutting, looping, stretching and re-contextualizing sound until it stops behaving like “material” and starts behaving like a place.
Blurring disciplines.
Composition, improvisation, sound design, ethnography, archiving – they’re not separate boxes here. They’re tools on the same bench, grabbed as needed.
Collaborations & Comissions
Lowell regularly collaborates with filmmakers, choreographers, game designers, and other artists who need sound that doesn’t come from a stock library. If you’re working on a project that calls for something stranger, slower, or more deeply textured than “normal,” he’d love to hear about it.
Dr. Lowell Lybarger
Lowell Lybarger is a lifelong explorer of sound. A soundmaker, archivist, preservationist, and ethnomusicologist dedicated to capturing music in all its forms. He’s spent decades documenting, restoring, and creating audio that might otherwise be lost to time. This site is the hub of his ongoing work and curiosity.
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