Jon Myers (b. 1988 in Boston, MA) is a researcher in Systematic Musicology, a programmer, and composer based in New York and San Diego. He has created music for a variety of settings, from fully notated acoustic pieces to live electronic feedback music. Much of his output has been rigorously process-based and statistically controlled, often involving repetition and cycles to shape the flow of time via mnemonic markers and temporal shifting. Lately, he has been working on quarter-tone Disklavier studies and just-intoned fanfares for arbitrarily tuned choirs of bamboo flutes.
Myers’ compositions have been performed by Orkest de Ereprijs (Netherlands), S.E.M. Ensemble (New York), Wild Rumpus (San Francisco), Now Hear Ensemble (Santa Barbara), the Lightbulb Ensemble (Santa Cruz), and the William Winant Percussion Ensemble (Oakland). He has performed with Portato Portato, produced a podcast for Indexical.
Myers completed a doctoral degree in Algorithmic Music Composition at UC Santa Cruz in 2022, working with Larry Polanksy and David Dunn. In 2014, Myers completed a Master of Arts in Music Composition from Mills College in Oakland, CA, where he studied with James Fei, Zeena Parkins, and Chris Brown. Previously, he studied with Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, where he was awarded the Gwen Livingston Pokora Prize for music composition.