Will Swofford is a composer/improviser, filmmaker, writer and curator living in Brooklyn, NY, and is the founder of Saturnalia, a media consultancy and outsider publishing label dedicated to digital collaborations with artists, composers and experimental filmmakers. In the present time cycle he has been devoted to a continuum of solo performances and collaborations known as anahata: the rituals of akasha.

He has studied with noted composers Anthony Braxton, La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier, Pak Sumarsam and B. Balasubrahmaniyan. In 2004, Will received a three-year Deep Listening Retreat certificate and is an active workshop leader in the Deep Listening practice. At Wesleyan, he organized the student forum Deep Listening, Improvisation, and Ritual, a credited undergraduate tutorial introducing listening meditation and experimental music to a large group of academically diverse students.