Biography

Lin Culbertson is a composer and musician living in NYC.

BIO
Lin’s experience as an improvisor greatly informs her sound work. Her compositions are comprised of synthesized sounds, field recordings, and conventional instruments, and incorporate aspects of indeterminacy in their arrangement and performance. The influence of her graphic design background is evident in the use of graphic scores and visual translation software to include non-musical elements in the sound creation process. She is a founding member of the improvisational unit WHITE OUT, who have released seven albums to date. She has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists including Tom Surgal, Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, William Winant, Zeena Parkins, Mike Watt, and Ikue Mori among many others.

Lin Culbertson's compositions for film and television incorporate her instrumental skills, as well as her experience synthesizing and manipulating sounds, giving her a diverse sonic palette to draw from. Her eclectic background in a variety of genres can be referenced when creating a musical accompaniment to a film’s visual content. She is able to create everything from lush abstract soundscapes, to jazz vamps, to electronic/ambient drones, to classical orchestral pieces.

Lin earned a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from the University of Wisconsin, where her studies focused on contemporary composition, electronic music production, Javanese Gamelan performance, ethnomusicology, and studio art.

Film Credits
Fire Music
Peggy Guggenheim Art Addict
The Shift Discovery Network
Christopher short film by Jane Gang

Installation Soundtrack Credits
The Last Tree Babs Reingold
Hung Out in the Projects Babs Reingold
Labyrinth: Current Millennium Babs Reingold

Discography (partial)
Accidental Sky White Out with Nels Cline (Northern Spy Records)
Asphalt and Delay White Out (audioMER)
Live at No Fun White Out with Carlos Giffoni and C Spencer Yeh (No Fun Productions)
Senso White Out with Jim O’Rourke and Thurston Moore (Ecstatic Peace)
China Is Near White Out with Jim O’Rourke and William Winant (All Tomorrow’s Parties)
Drunken Little Mass White Out with Jim O’Rourke (Ecstatic Peace)
Red Shift White Out (Ecstatic Peace)