Taylor Burton is a multi-instrumentalist from Richmond, VA. A former student of Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier, he has spent the greater part of the past twelve years developing alternative methods of composition and creating experimental musics and performing with various Balinese and Javanese gamelan ensembles in the US and Indonesia. More recently he has lived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he has worked with several local musicians and delved into Khmer traditional musics, with particular interest in the one-stringed lute, kse diev.