Jonathan Reus is a Dutch-American artist, composer, and researcher whose work sits at the intersection of music, mathematics, and machine culture. Born in Manhattan and raised between Amsterdam and Florida, he grew up absorbing the American folk-art scene before eventually returning to the Netherlands. Reus' work is distinct in his approach to extending music making into the realm of software and dataset creation: what he calls "upstream music making". Trained formally in electronic music composition, mathematics, and computer science, he crafts eccentric electronic instruments for live perfor...