Writes Layton, "My work investigates unconscious and automatic musical impulses through the practice of free improvisation and indeterminacy. Using an EEG which can interpret and read brainwave signal in realtime, I am able to sonify and visualize this stream of unconscious data. My music involves a combination of digital and analog processes, field recordings and electric guitar played in non-standard tunings. Often controlled by brainwave impulses, these sounds interact with monochromatic computer generated video produced through complex deformations of basic geometric forms. These investigations have led towards a buddhist meditation practice and I have felt my work and thinking in recent years shift into an exploration of notions of emptiness and equanimity."

Zach Layton is a 2010/2011 free103point9 AIRtime Fellows