Jon Autry

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Jon Autry began his music career playing noisy, chaotic music in garage bands on the East Side of Indianapolis. During this time he got his first drum machine (a LinnDrum II), synth (a MicroMoog) and an old reel-to-reel 4-track (actually a TEAC quad deck). Excited by noise punk and electronic music, he began trying figure out where he fit musically and started making recordings.



Eventually settling in Brooklyn, Jon has completed three full-length records so far and released two of them. In 2009 Jon had his first solo art show, showcasing his ambient sleep project "What Dream Is Worth This?" His music has appeared on This American Life on both NPR and Showtime, as well as in short features for Vimby.com and New Era hats. Later this year, several of his instrumentals will be featured in the new full-length documentary "LaPorte, Indiana".



Jon's music has been performed as a five-piece band, solo acoustic act and solo vocal/electronic act in a variety of venues ranging from DIY tours and house shows, to the Winter Music Conference in Miami and South By Southwest, to the immense honor of performing solo at Frank Lloyd Wright's estate, Taliesin, in Wisconsin.



This August he'll be touring the midwest and northeast with a four piece band.



"He sleeps in one room, and the other houses stacks and stacks of instruments and recording equipment. Every song of his that we use in the series (and trust me, there are going to be a lot) were made by him. Alone. Usually in that room. Depressing! It just seemed too perfect. And it was. In fact, that track "June 26 (for Jill)" ended up in a handful of stories before anyone knew it. We had to pull back and just let it live in a few segments, breaking some editors' hearts in the process."

-Jane Feltes, This American Life

"Finally, someone who has the balls to write

songs about what we all really feel and the

conviction to sing them with such sincerity."

-Tommie Sunshine