<div>‘Jonathan is a musical polymath.’ – Lukas Ligeti, 2017</div><div> Northern Irish by birth, South African by life, Crossley is a versatile musician, performer, educator and composer with a specialised interest in contemporary musical cultures and technologies. <br></div><div> His musical practice ranges from classical guitar to improvisation and jazz through to electronic music and experimentation. His outputs have included albums such as the chamber jazz album ‘My Friends and I’ (2004) to the rock/funk albums ‘Funk for the Shaolin Monk’ (2007) and ‘Got Funk Will Travel’ (2009) to his most recent experimental album ‘What if the Machines Spoke Back to You’ (2018).</div><div> He has relentlessly pursued innovation in not only the use of the guitar and technological systems but in the application of these technologies in recording and looping practices. His PhD research led to the development of an extended guitar system or hyper-instrument, the Cyber-Guitar, which extended the capacities of the traditional electric guitar beyond the use of the hands, encompassing the joints of the upper body through the use of a mechanical exoskeleton. </div>