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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.