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Mark Trayle works in a variety of media including live electronic music, installations, improvisation, and compositions for chamber ensembles. Recent venues for performances and exhibitions include t-u-b-e (Munich), DEAF '04 (Rotterdam), Resistance Fluctuations (LA), net_condition (ZKM Karlsruhe), Pro Musica Nova, Format5 (Berlin), and Inventionen 2004 (Berlin). His music has been performed by Champs D'Action, Ensemble Zwischentoene, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, and Ensemble Mosaik. Recent collaborators include Muhal Richard Abrams, Boris Baltschun and Serge Baghdassarians, David Behrman, Toshi Nakamura, Wadada Leo Smith, and The Hub. He teaches in the School of Music at CalArts.
"Few musicians go to Mark Trayle's level of musical and technological extremes."
- Electronic Musician
[discography]
> Boundary Layer, a 3 CD set from The Hub, is now available on Tzadik
> new solo CD due soon from Creative Sources
| title | label | number |
| Boundary Layer (The Hub) | Tzadik | TZ 8050-3 |
| die zeit, eine gebrauchsanweisung (Michael Wertmueller) | GROB | GROB 545 |
| Luminous Axis (Wadada Leo Smith) | Tzadik | TZ 7083 |
| RPM::MHZ (solo) | Artifact Recordings | Art 1022 |
| Music for Woodwinds & Electronics (Vinny Golia + Mark Trayle) | Ninewinds | NWCD0243 |
| Transmigration Music (compilation) | CDCM/Centaur | CRC 2490 |
| Light Upon Light (Wadada Leo Smith) | Tzadik | TZ 7046 |
| The Extended Flute (Maggi Payne) | CRI | CD 807 |
| State of The Union (compilation) | Atavistic | ??????? |
| Wreckin' Ball (The Hub) | Artifact Recordings | ART1008 |
| Etudes and Bagatelles (solo) | Artifact Recordings | ART1010 |
| Computer Network Music (The Hub) | Artifact Recordings | ART1002 |
| Imaginary Landscapes (compilation) | Elektra/Nonesuch | ???????? |
The Artifact Recordings discs are available at Electronic Music Foundation.