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Zemi17 (or the human known as Aaron Taylor Kuffner), is a composer, musician, and media artist. In the 1990s, Zemi17 brought his studies in new physics, technology, mixed media installation and experimental performance into the underground art scenes of New Orleans and San Francisco. In 1997, he moved to New York and formed the experimental multi-media performance group Ransom Corp. This group hosted events and performed in warehouses, on boats, subways and streets throughout New York and Europe. Kuffner founded the 23 Windows Collective community arts studio in Brooklyn in 2001 and co-created and curated The Resonant Wave Experimental Multi Media Art Festival in Berlin in 2002. He was a guest composer at Theater Thikwa for mentally disabled adults in Berlin in 2003. From 2004 through 2006, he lived and worked in Indonesia with the support of scholarships and grants from the Indonesian Foreign Ministry. He collected extensive field recordings of nature and researched classic gamelan music, performing with professional groups in Yogyakarta and Bali. His study focused on two archaic forms of gamelan: Sekatan from the courts of Central Java and Selonding from the Bali Highlands. His audio recordings and notation in System Notasi Nusantara were compiled into a summary report for the Indonesian Dharmasiswa Council for the propagation of Indonesian Arts. For the last three years Kuffner has concentrated on synthesizing his knowledge and experience with new compositional and techn