Instrumentals
Luminous Ascent
An instrumental journey through
stillness, wonder and light.
Luminous Ascent is one continuous instrumental work unfolding across seven movements — a journey across landscapes of music, shaped through piano, atmosphere, textures and light.
Listen to the albumThe Journey
Some music begins with words. This collection began with a feeling.
A sense of movement. Of quiet spaces. Of something slowly unfolding beyond what can be seen.
Luminous Ascent is a piano-led instrumental work — sometimes intimate and still, sometimes searching, sometimes opening into something wider and more luminous.
Across seven movements, the music unfolds as one continuous journey, carrying the listener from stillness into light.
Listen to Luminous Ascent
One continuous instrumental album
“Music can sometimes say
what words cannot.”
Luminous Ascent
Behind the Music
Luminous Ascent was created from a love of expressive piano music — music that has room to breathe.
The grand piano remains at the heart of the work, sometimes standing almost entirely alone and sometimes surrounded by gentle strings and atmospheric textures.
Rather than following a rigid musical formula, this composition explores a range of moods and expressions while retaining the same sense of intimacy, reflection and wonder.
My hope is simply that the music gives the listener somewhere to be still.
Luminous Ascent was created using AI generative music tools with concept, creative direction, curation, sequencing and and final production by Marilyn Riggien.
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Luminous Ascent is available as a full album on the following platforms.