Lawson White is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist whose work spans ambient, electronic, and chamber music. Working with voice, pedal steel, analog synthesizers, percussion, and live electronics, he makes music for bodies, rooms, and records — moving fluidly between written composition and real-time improvisation, and increasingly beyond music alone, into work created with dancers, choreographers, filmmakers, and visual artists.

His current focus is live, improvised performance: responding in the moment to a dancer, a film, or a room, and shaping sound as it unfolds — soundscapes that become environments, with space left for the listener as the main character.

This way of working grows out of an unusually wide musical life. A former member of Sō Percussion and Alarm Will Sound, Lawson has collaborated with choreographers including Merce Cunningham, Shen Wei, and Eliot Feld, and with artists across contemporary classical and experimental music — among them David Lang, John Zorn, Bryce Dessner (The National), Zeena Parkins (Björk), Matmos, Kronos Quartet, yMusic, and the Metropolitan Opera. He performs regularly with the Nashville Symphony.

As a producer and engineer — and a singer and player on much of what he makes — he has worked on multiple GRAMMY-nominated and -winning recordings, with artists including Jamie xx, Twenty One Pilots, Turnstile, Brittany Howard, Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Ben Folds, Shara Nova (My Brightest Diamond), Shakira, and Béla Fleck. He works from The Parlor, his studio on Music Row in Nashville.

He holds an MM from the Yale School of Music and a BM and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music.