"One thing about Dave Soldier is that coming to new works with any expectations about style, form or language is fruitless." -NY Times. Soldier founded the Thai Elephant Orchestra, for whom he built giant instruments and projects with children in Guatemala (Mayan Mountain Music) and East Harlem (Da HipHop Raskalz). In the 1980s, his Soldier String Quartet ushered hiphop, R&B, and punk to classical music. His Delta punk band, the Kropotkins, features Lorette Velvette and Charlie Burnham. He composed "The People's Choice Music: the most wanted and unwanted songs" from poll results of likes and dislikes of Americans with Komar & Melamid; pieces with Kurt Vonnegut; and chamber music and opera including "The Eighth Hour of Amduat" from a 5000 year old Egyptian score. Zajal explores the beginnings of pop song in Arabic, Hebrew, and Spanish from the 900s. In the Brainwave Music Project, he created music from EEGs. He has two CDs of duos with on violin and Jonthan Kane, co-founder of Swans. He worked with Bo Diddley, John Cale, Van Dyke Parks, Eliza Carthy, Pete Seeger, David Byrne, Tony Williams on over 100 albums and films on violin, guitar, banjo and arranger. He produced CDs for Robert Dick, Vince Bell, Pedro Cortes, jazz musicians John Clark, Jason Kao Hwang, and William Hooker, often on EEG (formerly Mulatta) records. He studied composition with Roscoe Mitchell and Otto Luening. As his given name, David Sulzer, he wrote "Music, Math and Mind" (Columbia Press, 2021).