Justin Peake is a sound composer, media artist, and creative technologist exploring the communication of information and ideas through developing tools for interactive composition, performance, and education. Justin received his Master’s Degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he focused on building software for variably structured improvisation in performance. He is the main developer behind AETHER, a new music software for improvised conduction as well as MANTIS (the Mutually Adaptive Neuro-Tonal Interface System) which is a biorhythmic musical instrument incorporating realtime analysis of and reaction to an individual’s heart-rate.