Zach Layton

Zach Layton is a guitarist, composer, curator, teacher and visual artist based in upstate New York. His work explores emergent visual and auditory phenomena occurring in space, time, sound and light. His musical background is in free improvisation and jazz guitar, psych rock and noise, as well as composition for new music ensembles, brainwave sonification, computer music and modular analog synthesis. He has worked with a wide range of artists and musicians including Vito Acconci, Bobby Previte, Tony Conrad, MV Carbon, Tristan Perich, Loren Conners, Ben Vida, Elliott Sharp, Nick Hallett, Bradford Reed, Alex Waterman, Ben Neill, Luke Dubois, Matthew Ostrowski, Michael Schumacher, Linda Moody, Jonathan Kane, Francis Marie Uitti, and many more. He has composed orchestral music for the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn and has performed and exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, the Kitchen, MoMa/PS1, ISSUE Project Room, Roulette, EMPAC, Eyebeam, International Computer Music Festival, Experimental Intermedia, Performa, Exit Art, Sculpture Center, Transmediale Berlin, SCOPE Art Foundation, Audio Art Festival Krakow and many other venues in New York and worldwide. Zach is also founder of the experimental music series, "Darmstadt: Classics of the Avant Garde" (co-curated with Nick Hallett), former co-curator of the MoMa/PS1 WarmUp music series and former curator of Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY.