Anthony Jay Ptak is an artist and a composer born in Brooklyn, NY 1970. An inviolable autodidacticist, he has studied with Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, Lydia Kavina, Peter Campus, and Herbert Brün. He performed at the First International Theremin Festival. He was a guest artist at the historic Experimental Music Studios at the University of Illinois. He has presented at Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, Roulette, the Kitchen, the Stone, Media Lab Madrid, and at the first Points in a Circle series at Issue Project Room. He is a founding member of the New York Theremin Society. His graphic scores have appeared in the Notations 21 and in Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music.