Brooklyn-based songwriter and producer, Cosmo Bayes, has been writing music for as long as he can remember. His obsession with production started in high school, recording and releasing music from his bedroom as a solo artist and half of the indie-folk duo Sliced Bread. Currently a student at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Bayes is developing his craft and getting to know himself better in his creative and collaborative endeavors. Exploring the crossroads of his tastes for modern and traditional folk, electronic pop, alt-rock, and country music, he hopes to satisfy his desire to build something new with anyone who shares his passion for experimentation. This excitement around newness often drives his desire to create, while his traditional and lo-fi sensibilities inform the basis for his production and writing styles. He cites artists like Elliott Smith, MJ Lenderman, Bob Dylan, and Adrianne Lenker as recent touchstones for his writing— a good story and a guitar is quick to capture his attention. He often looks to incorporate his sense of humor in his writing by planting outrageous or ironic details in the stories he tells— hoping to encourage emotional investment and maybe an amused exhale. When it comes to production, Bayes' influences range from Pixies to Field Medic to Aphex Twin to This Is Lorelei but he pulls ideas from many other projects that fall within the bounds of his eclectic taste. When reflecting on why he creates, Bayes notes that he simply feels he has no other choice and, as he thinks about his future, he stresses that he’d just like to have fun with friends/collaborators while he does.