My work attempts to elicit organic action from deterministic systems. As such, it typically deals with the design and manipulation of a system (a program, an algorithm, an approach) rather than with an outcome directly. Thus, it always retains the possibility of surprise, of the unexpected.

While some of the systems are simply graphic programs, others utilize photography and video for virtually remapping time and space, while still others are more robot-like: responsive devices that react to one another as well as to the environment.

The question of free-will in a deterministic universe is no longer religious or cosmological. It becomes practical or perhaps aesthetic: can beauty emerge from a deterministic system?

In 1990 Lucas Kuzma opted to give up the immediacy offered by muscle control for the intellectual freedom proffered by technology and sold his drum kit to help pay for his first drum machine. Within a few years, his work with the Goth/Indstrial pioneers bath brought Kuzma to the forefront of the Cleveland industrial scene, opening for international acts like Test Dept. and Lestat.

While he was performing and composing Psychedelic Industrial mayhem, Kuzma also acquired a BS in Computer Science along with a BA in Philosophy from Case Western Reserve University. There, he concentrated on Artificial Intelligence during the day, while spending nights in the school's darkroom.

Seeking broader horizons, Kuzma relocated to San Francisco in the late 90s, where his music became heavily influenced by the flourishing House scene as well as the far darker Tech-Step parties. Before the San Francisco laptop circuit surfaced, he was lugging a bulky CPU and CRT to dank warehouses, playing improvised music using Generator patches he had developed.

Turning briefly away from electronic music performance, Kuzma went on to get his MFA at UCLA, building sound installations and video-controlled audio pieces while simultaneously studying African drumming, Taiko, and composing music for modern dance. Here he also acquired a taste for the Processing programming language and worked under the tutelage of Casey Reas, its creator.

Currently residing in Barcelona, Kuzma is working with the Music Technology Group, developing interfaces for a real-time concatenative synthesis performance and composition system. With his old bath partner Textbeak, Kuzma is releasing deep maximal techno, progressive hip-hop, and free electro, under the moniker Claus Muzak on his own Philtre label.