About Noah Spott
Noah Spott writes, plays, and records ivoryHAUS from the Poconos: beatless ambient music for rest, prayer, and sleep, begun with the 2018 debut album.
Noah is Hebrew for rest. Noah Spott didn't choose the name, but ivoryHAUS, the solo project under which he writes, plays, and records everything, is his way of living up to it: slow, floating music made to give people a restful place to go.
The road there was not a quiet one. Spott grew up in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, in a house where his mother always had music on; his first concert was an acoustic Godsmack show, and what he remembers is the thrill of the bass in his chest. At thirteen his father bought him a bass and a Hal Leonard book, and he taught himself from that, tab sites, and a YouTube that was just starting to exist. Local bands followed, then guitar.
After a band rehearsal, around 2016, he put on an album simply because he liked the cover. It was Dive by Tycho. “I immediately had this feeling of chill,” he says, “and it hit me how powerful music is in shaping how we feel.” He wanted to give other people that feeling. He started tinkering in Logic, and the first ivoryHAUS album arrived in 2018: beat-driven, analog synths, downtempo.
Everything since has moved toward stillness. The music is beatless now, sometimes drone, sometimes more compositional. Much of it is just Spott, a guitar, and a pedalboard making swells and light melodies, or a synth drone gathering layers. He works in field recordings captured on hikes or out stargazing, and there's live piano on earlier pieces like Patience and Stillness. He credits Tycho, Brian Eno, and Marconi Union as the artists who most shaped the sound.
But the rest he was building for other people pointed at something he hadn't found himself. Spott spent his teens and twenties agnostic, carrying a yearning he couldn't quite fill. The full story is a complicated one to tell; he puts it simply: “Christ called me back to Him.” He's Catholic, and that changed what the music is. It's prayer. It's a vocation. He isn't making it for Catholics or Christians in particular, though. “The music is for everyone. It's a gift God gave me to give.”
In 2025 he left the band he'd played with for over a decade and moved to the south of Brazil to be with his wife. They live outside Florianópolis, and the music, he thinks, feels at home among the beaches and mountains there.
It comes back, in the end, to the name. Spott hears a calling in it, and everything released as ivoryHAUS answers to it. Peace, calm, rest.
Noah can be reached at ivoryhausmusic@gmail.com. The recordings are on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Bandcamp, and Insight Timer.
Quiet notes
Who is ivoryHAUS?
ivoryHAUS is the solo project of Noah Spott, who writes, plays, and records everything released under the name. It started after he heard Dive by Tycho and felt this immediate chill; he wanted to make music that gives people that feeling. The first album came out in 2018 and he's been at it since.
What does it sound like?
Floating, meditative, relaxing, atmospheric. Ultimately it's ambient music. Sometimes drone, sometimes more compositional. Guitar swells, soft synths, field recordings, some piano here and there. The 2018 debut was beat-driven and electronic. Everything since has been beatless. Mostly, Spott is trying to create a space you can rest in.
Where can I listen?
On Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Bandcamp, and Insight Timer. The Music page on this site gathers everything in one place. Some longer pieces, like the hour-long versions and a series called The Ambient Cosmos, are only on YouTube and Insight Timer.
Is this meditation music?
A lot of people use it that way, for meditation, prayer, sleep, and studying. Especially on Insight Timer, where the response has been really heartwarming.
How often do releases come out?
My goal is to release at least once a month. Sometimes it's more, sometimes it's less.
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