Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe

Sound

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe

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Sound

Credits

5 titles

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is a Brooklyn-based composer, vocalist, and modular synthesist working at the intersection of experimental sound art and film scoring. He composed the original score for the Oscar-shortlisted documentary UNION (2024), released as a standalone soundtrack album in 2025, and his film work includes Candyman (2021, dir. Nia DaCosta), Master (dir. Mariama Diallo), and The Color of Care (dir. Yance Ford), along with contributions to Arrival and Sicario. His solo practice centers on the voice and analog modular synthesizer, often exploring trance-like, ecstatic states through sound, and extends into video synthesis, installation, and live performance. He has collaborated with…

Known for

Last Kind Words poster
4.7

17-year old Eli moves with his family to the isolated farm of reclusive Waylon, a man whose dark past threatens to overtake him. Eli’s family works to restore the desolate fields, while he becomes fascinated with the forests. While on the farm, Eli meets the mysterious Amanda when she gives him an apple. The next day she extracts a promise from him to avoid the deep woods. Reeling from a violent encounter with his father, one night he breaks this promise and finds her body hanging from a tree.

Last Kind Words

2012

No artwork available
NR

Sunshine Soup captures the meeting and recording of reclusive French saxophonist Ariel Kalma and rising modular synthesist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe around their collaboration album. Set against the vibrant tones of Australia's outback, directors Misha Hollenbach and Johann Rashid focus an curious lens on the transportive qualities of musical exchange and friendship.

Sunshine Soup

2014

A Life in Waves poster
6.7

Explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.

A Life in Waves

2017

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness poster
6.2

A man at three disparate moments in his life: as a member of a fifteen-person collective on a small Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of Northern Finland and as the singer of a neo-pagan black metal band in Norway. Three moments for a radical proposition for the creation of utopia in the present.

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

2013

I Dream of Wires poster
6.5

An independent documentary film about the phenomenal resurgence of the modular synthesizer — exploring the passions, obsessions and dreams of people who have dedicated part of their lives to this esoteric electronic music machine. Inventors, musicians, and enthusiasts are interviewed about their relationship with the modular synthesizer — for many, it's an all-consuming passion.

I Dream of Wires

2014

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

Last Kind Words poster
4.7

17-year old Eli moves with his family to the isolated farm of reclusive Waylon, a man whose dark past threatens to overtake him. Eli’s family works to restore the desolate fields, while he becomes fascinated with the forests. While on the farm, Eli meets the mysterious Amanda when she gives him an apple. The next day she extracts a promise from him to avoid the deep woods. Reeling from a violent encounter with his father, one night he breaks this promise and finds her body hanging from a tree.

Last Kind Words

2012

No artwork available
NR

Sunshine Soup captures the meeting and recording of reclusive French saxophonist Ariel Kalma and rising modular synthesist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe around their collaboration album. Set against the vibrant tones of Australia's outback, directors Misha Hollenbach and Johann Rashid focus an curious lens on the transportive qualities of musical exchange and friendship.

Sunshine Soup

2014

A Life in Waves poster
6.7

Explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.

A Life in Waves

2017

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness poster
6.2

A man at three disparate moments in his life: as a member of a fifteen-person collective on a small Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of Northern Finland and as the singer of a neo-pagan black metal band in Norway. Three moments for a radical proposition for the creation of utopia in the present.

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

2013

I Dream of Wires poster
6.5

An independent documentary film about the phenomenal resurgence of the modular synthesizer — exploring the passions, obsessions and dreams of people who have dedicated part of their lives to this esoteric electronic music machine. Inventors, musicians, and enthusiasts are interviewed about their relationship with the modular synthesizer — for many, it's an all-consuming passion.

I Dream of Wires

2014