JAY CLOIDT is a composer, performer and audio engineer whose music has been performed at the Venice Biennale, New Music America, and Lincoln Center. He has also worked as sound designer and engineer for many Bay Area companies, including the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and the Kronos Quartet. Cloidt created the sound design for the Robert Woodruff productions of THE TEMPEST and FIGARO GETS A DIVORCE at the La Jolla Playhouse in 1986 and 1987. His work on the Paul Dresher Ensemble’s SLOW FIRE won a Bay Area Critics Circle Award, and he received an Isadora Duncan Award in 1989 with Rinde Eckert for the sound design of Eckert’s DRY LAND DIVINE. In 1989 he also completed two compositions for dance: LOVE IT TO DEATH for the Gary Palmer Dance Company, and LIGHT FALL, for the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. Current projects include KOLE KAT KRUSH, for amplified string quartet and tape, for the Kronos Quartet; and SECRET HOUSE, which he is co-composing with Paul Dresher for the ODC-San Francisco.