Composer and improviser Bryan Noll explores the subtleties of emotion, memory, and time with his musical project, Lightbath. Taking inspiration from Brian Eno's view of composers as gardeners, Noll plants musical seeds with his synthesizers and, through improvisation, guides their development and growth into pieces that unfold in the present moment. "Working with generative processes on the modular synthesizer feels like a collaboration," says Noll of his music as Lightbath, "as if the synthesizer is alive and interacting with me. It's an active meditation wherein I set the initial framework and just listen while remaining agile enough to guide the musical conversation." His most recent work, "full/new" is a split album with synthesist Emily A. Sprague released on RVNG Intl. "full/new" is an expression of mutual planetary motion. Drawing a school of listeners to the floor of Commend's relatively small interior on a late July Sunday afternoon in 2018, the two synthesists provided an hour of aqueous reflections that whispered with the trees outside on NYC's Forsyth street and tempered the activity of the surrounding island.