Calgary-born computer programmer and drummer Hugh Sicotte and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan-born pianist Jon Ballantyne met in Brooklyn in 1995 at a jam session in Jon's apartment. The two musicians immediately hit it off musically, and have played and recorded together ever since. With extensive backgrounds in jazz improvisation, these musicians exemplify the open-minded nature of the generation of jazz musicians born in the 1960s, many who have been equally informed by music other than jazz, their whole lives. Hugh has collaborated with some of the most adventurous artists in music: Dave Douglas, Bill Carrothers and Kevin Hayes. His interest and growing expertise in computer generated music and computer programming (as well as computer generated 3D graphic design), began in the ‘90s and continues to this day. Jon was a member of the great saxophonist Joe Henderson's quartet in the ‘90s and has also played and recorded completely free improvisations with fellow Canadian pianist and innovator Paul Bley. Jon's interest in and study of 'new music' of the electronic kind became invigorated in New York, when he began to regularly tune into the program Afternoon New Music, broadcast daily on the revered Columbia University radio station, WKCR.