Paul Pinto is a composer, writer and multi-disciplinary performer. He founded the music collectives @thingNY and Varispeed with whom he creates immersive, durational and dramatic chamber and electronic music. His latest albums include Patriots with Jeffrey Young, Empty Words with Varispeed and @Robert Ashley's Improvement. As a vocalist, Paul works on a diverse array of new projects, including performing Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King, originating the role of “Balaga” in the Broadway musical @Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, and in his own work including the opera Thomas Paine in Violence with @Joan La Barbara, and the Resonant Bodies Festival commission of 15 Photos.