John C.S. Keston

AudioCookbook.org founder, John C.S. Keston, is an award winning composer of electronic, experimental, and instrumental music. His compositions parallel indeterminate improvisation activating what remains immutable within traditional forms of notation driven music. Performers are empowered to use their phonomnesis, or sonic imaginations, to contribute to the work.

John has performed and exhibited original work at Northern Spark (MN); the Weisman Art Museum (MN); the Montreal Jazz Festival; the Walker Art Center; the In/Out Festival of Digital Performance (NYC); the Eyeo Festival (MN); INST-INT (MN); Echofluxx (Prague); WMC (Miami); and Moogfest (NC). His music appears in The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012) and he composed the music for the short Familiar Pavement (2015). He has appeared on more than a dozen albums including two solo albums on Unearthed Music. His latest release, Isosceles (2016) has drawn comparisons to the Stranger Things soundtrack.