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In this episode artist and composer Michael Theodore speaks to his early musical influences while growing up in the multi-cultural epicenter of New York City. During his discussion with Mark Amerika, Theodore riffs on his love of jazz and the interrelationship between improvisation and computational processes, deep programming, and painting. Michael Theodore was born and raised in New York City, and currently resides in Boulder, Colorado. Inspired by observations and experiences of the natural world, Theodore creates dynamic fields of color, light, and sound in a large variety of mediums. Theodore's works of interactive kinetic installation, sound, music, light, and moving images have been presented across the United States, and in Mexico, Trinidad y Tobago, Greece, Spain, Germany, Sweden, France, Australia, Japan, and China. Theodore holds faculty appointments at the University of Colorado, Boulder with the College of Music (music composition and technology), the Department of Art and Art History (by courtesy), and is Director of the ATLAS Institute's Center for Media, Arts and Performance, a venue for experimental media created with technology. Theodore received degrees from Amherst College, Yale (MM), and UCSD (PhD).