Zach Layton is a composer, curator and new media artist based in New York. His work investigates complex relationships and topologies created through the interaction of simple core elements like sine waves, minimal surfaces and kinetic visual patterns. Zach’s work has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and he has performed and exhibited at the Kitchen, the New York Electronic Art Festival, St. Mark’s Ontological Hysterical Theater, Dumbo Arts Festival, New York Digital Salon, Monkeytown, and many other venues in New York and Europe. He has collaborated with Luke Dubois, Vito Acconci, Jonas Mekas, Patrick Hambrecht, Angie Eng and Chika Ijima among many other artists, filmmakers and musicians. Zach is also the curator of Brooklyn’s monthly experimental music series “Darmstadt: classics of the avant-garde.” He is also co-curator of the PS1 warm-up summer music series.
Jesse Stiles was born in 1978 in Boston, MA. Stiles performs music with a device he has assembled called a “hacked briefcase.” His briefcase houses modified input devices and an unseen computer that runs Stiles’ custom-built software. About his sound, Jesse once said: “Drums flow physically through my blood, and my flesh is a single, changing sound. I am not the creator of this body, I am the body itself, Jesse Stiles.” Stiles has performed at a wide variety of new music venues such as Lincoln Center, The Galapagos Art Space, Joe’s Pub, and The Deep Listening Space. Stiles also performs at dive bars and rock clubs and actively participates in the development of underground venues.
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