Mark Trayle studied at the University of Oregon and at Mills College with Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and David Rosenboom. He was an artist-in-residence at S.T.E.I.M. (Amsterdam) and at the Lab and collaborated with Maryanne Amacher at the Capp Street Project (1985). Trayle created the soundtrack for Menagerie, a virtual-reality installation shown at Centre Pompidou in Paris. His article, Nature, Networks, Chamber Music, was published in the Leonardo Music Journal.