Peter M. Traub received a graduate degree in Electro-Acoustic Music from Dartmouth College, and is currently working at an Internet start-up in the San Francisco bay area. bits & pieces had its first showing at ZKM (Center for Technology in the Arts and Media), in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Experiments in indeterminacy by composer John Cage, as well as the found-object collages of early twentieth-century artist Kurt Schwitters -- whose work presaged the gritty pop paintings of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns -- are the influences which bits & pieces has extends into a new technology and artistic medium. A sound installation that searches the Web looking for audio files and then re-processes them into compositions that slip toward progressively greater randomness, bits & pieces never stops re-inventing itself out of the Internet's raw material.