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Bio: Jeffrey Letterly grew up in the cornfields of central Illinois, USA. He read lots of books from the public library and taught himself all about music. When he was 18, when he went to Upstate New York to study composition and piano at a music conservatory. One magical day, he moved to Chicago (where he still lives) and got a degree in interdisciplinary arts. He has since made a few short movies, written a book about a man obsessed with desiccant, performed in experimental theater, and created various live and not live performances. His music has been performed by orchestras in Chicago and Florida, as well as by a group in Boston. He currently performs original country-tinged music with his wife under the name "Urban Inbreed."

Track: "Math lesson from a shortwave radio" is a collage of found sounds. It is what happens when Charlie Parker meets a German schoolteacher or when your French lesson suddenly turns into a lecture on the philosophy of math. The piece was created out of snippets of Charlie Parker, shortwave radio number stations, a French lesson, a lecture on the numerology of information, and a walking bass line. These sounds were manipulated in a variety of ways (stretched or shortened in time, changed in pitch, put into a small or large room) and then cut and pasted and cut and pasted again on my Mac. After an afternoon of doing this, I realized that I could no longer balance my checkbook.

Website: jaletterly@yahoo.com