Composer Dave Soldier’s projects include the Thai Elephant Orchestra consisting of 14 elephants in northern Thailand, the cult Delta punk band the Kropotkins, The People’s Choice (The World’s Most Unwanted Music), the Soldier String Quartet, the Brainwave Music Project, and coaching children to compose their own music in Harlem, Brooklyn, and Guatemala. He has performed as violinist, guitarist, and composer/ arranger with Bo Diddley, John Cale, Kurt Vonnegut and many others, appearing on over 100 CDs, including 20 featuring his compositions for classical and jazz musicians. His day job under the name David Sulzer is a professor of neuroscience at Columbia University, and his new book, Music Math and Mind: the Physics and Neuroscience of music, is published by Columbia Press.