Sylvan Talavera is a Midwest-based improviser, musician, and composer.
He currently focuses on computer music, instrument building, and sound design,
and in the past has worked with graphic scores, acoustic chamber music, and
group improvisation. His work often functions as a form of sound studies,
and revolves around feedback systems, the exploration of distinctions betweensynthetic and acoustic sounds, microsounds, the inner sounds of electronic
instruments and software, improvisation, alternative tuning systems, and topographical
sound design through the use of code, sampling, and hand built, repurposed, misused,
or altered electronics.
He is one half of dance music duo Aulphon Logistics, and holds a BM in Composition
from the University of Michigan. He is currently pursuing an MFA in
Art and Technology/Sound Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.