Jerry Paper

{{Short description|American songwriter and producer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Use American English|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Jerry Paper | image = | caption = | image_size = | birth_name = Lucas Nathan | alias = {{flatlist| *Zonotope™ *Jerry Paper }} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1990|8|7}} | birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | instrument = | genre = {{flatlist| *Electronic *synth-pop<ref name = "Fader">(June 2019). [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lucas-nathan-jerry-paper/id1162386297?i=1000435212035 "Lucas Nathan Jerry Paper"]. ''Live To Tape with Johnny Pemberton''. Retrieved July 7, 2020.</ref> *easy listening<ref name = "Fader"/><ref name = "Decoder"/> *lounge music<ref name = "Decoder"/> *muzak<ref name = "Audiofemme">Bloom, Madison (June 23, 2016). [http://www.audiofemme.com/noise-weird-world-jerry-paper/ "Only Noise: The Weird World Of Jerry Paper"]. ''Audio Femme''. Retrieved December 2, 2017.</ref> *lo-fi<ref name = "ImposeInterview">Geffen, Sasha (September 8, 2014). [http://www.imposemagazine.com/tv/jerry-paper-chameleon-world "Jerry Paper, “Chameleon World”"]. ''Impose''. Retrieved December 2, 2017.</ref> }} | occupation = {{flatlist| *Musician *singer *songwriter *producer }} | years_active = 2009–present | label = {{flatlist| *Orange Milk *Hausu Mountain *Stones Throw }} | associated_acts = | website = }} '''Lucas Nathan''' (born August 7, 1990),<ref name = "Fader"/> best known by the stage name '''Jerry Paper''', is an American musician, singer, songwriter and producer. They began releasing music in 2009, with their first projects being Zonotope™ and the noise music project Diane Kensington Devotional Band. They subsequently created the persona-based project Jerry Paper, and has been releasing music under the name since 2012.

==Early life== Nathan said that as a child, they were influenced to learn music by the fact that "all [their] friends were making music."<ref name = "Blaagh"/> They learned how to play "''The Simpsons'' Theme" on the piano when they were five, played bongos for their school band, and were a drummer.<ref name = "Blaagh"/> They learned how to play the Misfits song "London Dungeon" on bass guitar (in eighth grade), made psychedelic folk recordings in their bedroom with Sony Acid, and performed in various bands at school.<ref name = "Blaagh"/> The first group they were in was a comedy rock band named The Corrupt Ice Cream Vendors.<ref name = "Blaagh"/> They got into several noise and psychedelic acts like Growing and Devendra Banhart in their teen years after being exposed to them via the magazine ''Arthur'', and later got into free jazz and krautrock.<ref name = "Blaagh"/> Nathan originally wanted to perform in the "cool band[s]" they saw at school and their summer camps, but they were turned down by all of them due to their "nerdy" look, which influenced them to become a solo artist.<ref name = "Blaagh"/>

==Career== ===2009–2012: Zonotope™ and Diane Kensington Devotional Band=== Nathan stated that as a "pretentious teenager", they "refused to listen to anything that wasn't 1966 to 1968." Therefore, it was "part of [their] personality" that they despised electronic music. However, they experimented with their friend's Roland HS-60 synthesizer, finding the sounds it produced fascinating. This inspired them to make electronic music as a way of taking the "challenge" of "find[ing] a way to like" the genre.<ref name = "Blaagh"/> Nathan began producing music in 2009,<ref name = "Fader"/> and their first project was Zonotope™, a four-album "propaganda series" promoting a Southern California-based "alternative spiritual community"<ref name = "Blaagh"/> named the Temple of Pure Information and Mainframe Devotion.<ref name="Adhoc">Gallego, Miguel (February 11, 2014). [https://web.archive.org/web/20180220092324/http://adhoc.fm/post/jerry-paper-interview/ "To Be An Ironist is a Beautiful Thing: A Conversation with Jerry Paper"]. ''AdHoc''. Retrieved December 17, 2017.</ref> They also had a noise project named Diane Kensington Devotional Band, which depicts Nathan as the eponymous female who starts a fictional religion based on traveling into the "space between the 1 and the 0" through the ritual of "Trance Channels".<ref name = "Editorial"/><ref name = "Adhoc"/>

===2012–2015: Jerry Paper===

The name of Jerry Paper first appeared in the credits of the Zonotope™ album ''Excellent Realms'' (2010), where Paper was given a "special thanks" for "building The Mainframe."<ref name = "ExcellentRealms"/><ref name="Blaagh">{{Cite web|last=Vargas|first=Mauricio|date=June 27, 2015|title=Interview with Jerry Paper|url=http://www.theblaaahg.com/interview_jerry_paper/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218121602/http://www.theblaaahg.com/interview_jerry_paper/|archive-date=2020-02-18|access-date=November 25, 2017|website=Blaaah}}</ref> The story of the project involves Paper quitting from the spiritual community setting of Zonotope™ to find a "less orthodox alternative spirituality."<ref name = "Blaagh"/> Nathan described Paper's music as "slightly less abstract" than their works for Zonotope™, and the project's titular character is caused by a "ritual" that transforms Nathan into Paper.<ref name = "Fader"/> Paper often wears a garland and a silk robe<ref name = "Fader"/> and acts like a "weirdo" who does "whatever the hell [they want]," such as become "romantically involved with a giant chameleon" and dance "like someone who just discovered movement five minutes ago," Koen van Bommel stated.<ref name = "SubbaCultcha">Van Bommel, Koen (July 17, 2015). [http://subbacultcha.nl/2015/07/17/jerry-paper/ "Lucas Nathan on Jerry Paper"]. ''Subbacultcha''. Retrieved December 22, 2017.</ref>

Nathan explained that they wrote ''International Man of Misery'' (2013), "a cartoonish version of depression," as a way to poke fun on the "ridiculously melodramatic thoughts" they went through at the time.<ref name = "Decoder"/> ''Fuzzy Logic'' (2013) is about how modern living is complicated by technology and politics.<ref name = "Decoder"/>

''Feels Emotion'', released on February 11, 2014,<ref name = "FeelsEmotion"/> involved Nathan taking on, as ''Decoder'' magazine put it, more "ambitious" production techniques than their previous albums such as in sampling, an example being the cat sounds on "Holy Shit."<ref name = "Decoder">Pavlovic, Dwight (February 4, 2014). [http://www.secretdecoder.net/features/2014/02/04/how-do-i-feel-what-im-thinking-a-conversation-with-jerry-papers-gracious-host-body/ "How Do I Feel What I’m Thinking: A Conversation with Jerry Paper’s Gracious Host Body"]. ''Decoder''. Retrieved November 26, 2017.</ref> The LP also has some tracks where Nathan focused on non-repetitive pop structures instead of the typical verse–chorus form, including "I Feel Emotions," "Unless It’s," "Other Please," and "Heartbreak Module #3."<ref name = "Adhoc"/>

On August 24, 2014, Nathan released what they considered their "first successful concept album," the Jerry Paper LP ''Big Pop For Chameleon World'',<ref name = "BigPopForChamelonWorld">[https://jerrypaper.bandcamp.com/album/big-pop-for-chameleon-world "Big Pop For Chameleon World"]. Jerry Paper Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> a soundtrack for their Unity game ''Dr. Javer's Genneheigen's Chameleon World''.<ref>[http://bozoendeavors.solutions/download/ "Download World"]. Bozo Endeavors. Retrieved 24 November 2017.</ref> The album explores simulacra, looking for "the dividing line" between a real object and a simulated version of it.<ref name = "Fader"/> In doing so, it uses synthesized replications of acoustic instruments, such as a square wave keyboard sound meant to be a harpsichord texture.<ref name = "Fader"/> According to ''The Fader'', the use of these sounds gives the album a more "uncanny" vibe than Nathan's previous releases.<ref name = "Fader"/>

===2015–present=== The same palette of instruments were later used on their next album ''Carousel'' (2015).<ref name = "Blaagh"/>

For making ''Carousel'', Nathan wrote the songs in the same manner as for their previous release; however, the analog keyboard Nathan usually used for creating their music had broken, meaning they had to rely on digital synthesizer sounds for ''Carousel''.<ref name = "Blaagh"/> they said the album consisted of a bunch of "hilarious sounds."<ref name = "Blaagh"/> As they described making the LP's lead single, "I was just trying to come up with the funniest sounds to go together – like tubular bells, and standup bass, and harpsichord, and then it goes into disco funk."<ref name = "Blaagh"/>

''Toon Time Raw!'' was recorded with the band BadBadNotGood at their studio in Toronto.<ref>{{cite web |title=REVIEW: Jerry Paper - Toon Time Raw! |url=http://www.thrdcoast.com/read/2016/6/23/review-jerry-paper-toon-time-raw/ |website=Thrdcoast |date=June 23, 2016 |accessdate=19 November 2018}}</ref> The band acted as Nathan's anonymous backing band, being billed as "Easy Feelings Unlimited". ''Toon Time Raw!'' involves anthropomorphic animals dealing with human issues.<ref name = "Blaagh"/> The record was performed with a record release party on June 19, 2016, at Brooklyn's art gallery place Secret Project Robot.<ref name = "Audiofemme"/> It was Nathan's first headlining performance that they performed with a backing band, a contrast from their previous live performances where they sang with machines performing the backing tracks.<ref name = "Audiofemme"/> As Madison Bloom of ''Audiofemme'' covered the event, "it was an evening of undeniably odd birds, but what a wonderful thing to see when so many modern bands are required to be ultra slick and fronted by supermodels," and the band's setup had "great versatility via keyboards, guitar, pedal effects, and flute."<ref name = "Audiofemme"/>

On September 15, 2017, American rapper Kari Faux released "Gotta Know,"<ref name = "Earmlik"/> a track from her extended play ''Primary''.<ref name = "XXL"/> Nathan produced the track under the Jerry Paper pseudonym and also received a "featuring" credit on the song.<ref name = "XXL"/> Faux noticed Nathan's work via the "suggested artists" feature on Spotify, and, as she explained, she "was stuck on [their] music for a good three months, that was all I was listening to, and I would catch myself rapping to [them]."<ref name = "Highsnobiety">Carvalho, Mariana (November 21, 2017). [https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/kari-faux-interview/ "Kari Faux Is the Rapper You’ll Regret Sleeping on This Year "]{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}. ''Highs Nobiety''. Retrieved December 2, 2017.</ref> This led her to contact Nathan via Twitter before the two came together personally in Los Angeles to collaborate.<ref name = "Highsnobiety"/> ''Like a Baby'' was released in 2018. "Your Cocoon" and "Grey Area" debuted on the website Bandcamp as promotional singles for the album, which features Weyes Blood and Charlotte Day Wilson as collaborators. According to the Stones Throw Records website, the album delves into existential topics pertaining to "the endless human cycle of desire and satisfaction".<ref>{{cite web |title=Jerry Paper - Like a Baby |url=https://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2018/10/jerry-paper-like-a-baby |website=Stones Throw |accessdate=19 November 2018 |archive-date=November 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120140055/https://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2018/10/jerry-paper-like-a-baby |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the same year, Nathan also featured on Tyler, the Creator's debut extended play ''Music Inspired by Illumination & Dr. Seuss' The Grinch'' on the track "Hot Chocolate".

On May 15, 2020, Nathan released a new album titled ''Abracadabra''. The song "Quicksand" was teased first while "Puppeteer" and "Cholla" were released on their Bandacamp profile and Spotify. Two years later, Nathan announced the release of their new album ''Free Time'' with first single "Kno Me". The album centers around Nathan's coming out as non-binary and was released on April 15, 2022, on Stones Throw Records.

==Musical style and philosophies== {{Quote box | quote = "<nowiki>[</nowiki>Richard Rorty<nowiki>]</nowiki> wrote this excellent short book that I think everyone should read called ''Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity''. In it he talks about how philosophy is futile and an outdated vocabulary to try to get things that we can’t get. What he proposes is narrative as an alternative-- to philosophy, to religion, an alternative to basically all moral or philosophical constructs. And I am heavily invested in this idea. I focus a lot on, instead of trying to explain mystical experience, to try to create a context and a vocabulary that maybe gets at it slightly more. And I feel that way with music as well." | source = — Nathan on the philosophy they use to produce their music<ref name = "Adhoc"/> | width = 20% | border = 1px | align = left }} During their teen years living in Los Angeles, Nathan hung around several Scientology and Mormon centers. They were curious about fervent believers and it felt foreign and interesting to them as they was raised in an atheist household.<ref name = "Fader"/> It was during this time that they got into direct experience, the idea that language cannot clearly state what someone gains via sensory perception.<ref name = "Fader"/> This, as well as their love for the "ritual" of religion, would later become the basis of how they develop their music: "Musical sounds act as symbols, but they carry information that can bypass linguistic processing. That was my main focus. I wanted to investigate that freaky idea."<ref name = "Fader"/> They explained that "instead of trying to explain mystical experience," they "try to create a context and a vocabulary that maybe gets at [a philosophy] slightly more."<ref name = "Adhoc"/>

Nathan is into the idea of fuzzy logic, or what goes on between the binary numbers of zero and one. Their Diane Kensington project and the title track of the Jerry Paper album ''Fuzzy Logic'' are based on the concept.<ref name = "Editorial"/> As they opined, "Binaries are a very helpful way to deal with things. They’re a pretty good tool when it comes to categorizing the world and figuring things out. But it’s not actually how the world works."<ref name = "Editorial"/> Another primary purpose for Nathan making music is to keep "put[ting] [them]self in uncomfortable situations."<ref name = "Adhoc"/>

Nathan's reason for producing and performing music under alter egos like Jerry Paper is that they help them figure out more about their actual self: {{blockquote|I feel like having the alter ego allows me to be even more of myself, whereas I feel like Lucas Nathan, who I am in everyday life, changes based on the scenario and who I’m talking to. I have to be polite, I have to be a normal member of society. But with Jerry, he’s not real, he can be anything.<ref name = "SubbaCultcha"/>|author=|title=|source=}}

[[File:Henry Cowell portrait NYPL 4002097 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|The works of Henry Cowell ''(pictured)'' inspired Nathan to play with the limitations of pop music.]] "What...is more human than a computer? That doesn’t happen outside of humans. Electronics are purely human tools", Nathan discussed in an interview with ''The Editorial Magazine''.<ref name = "Editorial">Mallet, Whitney. [http://the-editorialmagazine.com/jerry-paper/ "Jerry Paper"]. ''The Editorial Magazine''. Retrieved December 17, 2017.</ref> This translates into Nathan's musical style, which Bloom described as "genre-less" but compared to Daft Punk in that it combines the "coldness of technology with the foolproof warmth of human music."<ref name = "Audiofemme"/> Nathan explains that musically, their works play around with the limitations of pop music.<ref name = "Adhoc"/> This limitation aspect of their works was inspired by the piano-only works of Henry Cowell: "He has that piece, "The Banshee," where he's scraping his finger nails on the piano strings. Fucking incredible. He used the piano in a different way."<ref name = "Adhoc"/> This is why, until ''Toon Time Raw!'',<ref name = "Blaagh"/> they didn't use MIDI software because they would've otherwise "ha[d] a huge amount of choices."<ref name = "Adhoc"/>

==Themes== Nathan, in both their songs and the music videos for them, takes on comic views of real life because, in their words, the "world isn’t so serious."<ref name = "SubbaCultcha"/> All of Nathan's music attempts to get a view of alternate universes,<ref name = "Blaagh"/> and "because I feel that music isn’t really the arena for truth, I often write lyrics focusing on the irrational," they said.<ref name = "Decoder"/> In terms of live stage performances, Nathan dances in comic yet profound routines and delivers, in a deadpan tone, indifferent aphorisms that are also in the lyrics of their songs.<ref name = "Audiofemme"/> As they said while performing live at their release party for ''Toon Time Raw!'', “It’s great to be alive. But having a body is sooo annoying. But you are a body, so…fuck it."<ref name = "Audiofemme"/>

A common major theme in Nathan's records is anxieties, how they "feel very immediate and true in the moment but in hindsight often register as products of absurd logic."<ref name = "Decoder"/> The lyrics of their works represent feelings of hopelessness and concern of where to go in life in the future, which are translated "into a subtly self-aware revision of easy listening," ''Decoder'' analyzed.<ref name = "Decoder"/> As Bloom stated, "Though wearing the guise of empathetic AI and employing tools of the Muzak genre such as keyboard saxophone and elevator synths, they manages to make sincere, and more importantly good music that is relatable to humans and algorithms alike."<ref name = "Audiofemme"/>

==Personal life== Born and raised in Los Angeles, Nathan moved to Manhattan where they attended The New School in 2008 to study sociomusicology and philosophy of religion.<ref name = "Fader"/> They lived in Brooklyn as of 2014,<ref name = "Fader"/> but relocated back to California in 2016.<ref name = "Audiofemme"/> They are married. Nathan is non-binary and uses ''they/them'' pronouns.<ref>{{Cite instagram|postid=CEAfz9FDjX8|user=jerrypaper_reality|date=2020-08-17|access-date=2020-11-26|title=Ten days ago I turned 30 years old, [...]. I have outgrown the use of my Man Costume and will now live openly and freely as the non-binary person that I have always been. I would deeply appreciate if you would refer to me with ''they/them'' pronouns going forward. [...]|first=Lucas|last=Nathan}}</ref>

==Discography== {{organize section|date=December 2018}}

===As Jerry Paper=== ==== Studio albums ==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+ List of studio albums with details |- ! scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Title ! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Album details |- ! scope="row"|''Vol. I'' | * Released: January 25, 2012 (Worldwide)<ref name = "Vol1">[https://jerrypaper.bandcamp.com/album/vol-i "Vol. I"]. Jerry Paper Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Digitalis Limited * Formats: Cassette, digital download |- ! scope="row"|''Fuzzy Logic'' | * Released: October 17, 2013 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://jerrypaper.bandcamp.com/album/fuzzy-logic "Fuzzy Paper"]. Jerry Paper Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Digitalis Limited * Formats: Cassette, digital download |- ! scope="row"|''Feels Emotions'' | * Released: February 11, 2014 (Worldwide)<ref name = "FeelsEmotion">[https://jerrypaper.bandcamp.com/album/feels-emotions "Feels Emotions"]. Jerry Paper Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Patient Sounds * Formats: LP, digital download |- ! scope="row"|''Big Pop For Chameleon World'' | * Released: August 20, 2014 (Worldwide)<ref name = "BigPopForChamelonWorld"/> * Label: Orange Milk * Formats: LP, digital download |- ! scope="row"|''Carousel'' | * Released: March 31, 2015 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://jerrypaper.bandcamp.com/album/carousel-2 "Carousel"]. Jerry Paper Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Bayonet * Formats: CD, LP, digital download |- ! scope="row"|''Like a Baby'' | * Released: October 12, 2018 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://jerrypaper.bandcamp.com/album/like-a-baby "Like a Baby"]. Jerry Paper Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 19, 2018.</ref> * Label: Stones Throw Records * Formats: CD, LP, digital download |- ! scope="row"|''Abracadabra'' | * Released: May 15, 2020 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://jerrypaper.bandcamp.com/album/abracadabra "Abracadabra"]. Jerry Paper Official Bandcamp. Retrieved May 10, 2020.</ref> * Label: Stones Throw Records * Formats: CD, LP, digital download |- ! scope="row"|''Free Time'' | * Released: April 15, 2022 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://jerrypaper.bandcamp.com/album/free-time "Free Time"]. Jerry Paper Official Bandcamp. Retrieved February 2, 2022.</ref> * Label: Stones Throw Records * Formats: LP, digital download |}

==== Collaborative albums ==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+ List of collaborative albums with details |- ! scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Title ! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Album details |- ! scope="row"|''Toon Time Raw!'' (with Easy Feelings Unlimited) | * Released: June 17, 2016 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://jerrypaper.bandcamp.com/album/toon-time-raw "Toon Time Raw!"]. Jerry Paper Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Bayonet * Formats: CD, LP, digital download |}

==== Mini-albums ==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+ List of mini-albums with details |- ! scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Title ! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Album details |- ! scope="row"|''International Man of Misery'' | * Released: September 17, 2013 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://jerrypaper.bandcamp.com/album/international-man-of-misery "International Man of Misery"]. Jerry Paper Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Orange Milk * Formats: Cassette, digital download |}

==== Split albums ==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+ List of split albums with details |- ! scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Title ! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Album details |- ! scope="row"|''The Now Sound For Today's Lovers'' / ''Turn Of The Century'' (with Andy Boay) | * Released: April 22, 2014 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://jerrypaper.bandcamp.com/album/the-now-sound-for-todays-lovers "The Now Sound For Today's Loversy"]. Jerry Paper Official Bandcamp. Retrieved 24 November 2017.</ref><ref>[http://hausumountain.com/?page_id=1374 "TAPE: Jerry Paper / Andy Boay"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220152136/http://hausumountain.com/?page_id=1374 |date=February 20, 2018 }}. Hausu Mountain Official Website. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Hausu Mountain * Formats: Cassette, digital download |}

==== Remix albums ==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+ List of remix albums with details |- ! scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Title ! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Album details |- ! scope="row"|''Big Pop Traveler's Delight'' | * Released: December 24, 2014 (Japan)<ref>[https://birdfriend.bandcamp.com/album/big-pop-travelers-delight "Big Pop Traveler's Delight"]. birdFriend Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: birdFriend * Formats: Cassette, digital download |}

====Singles==== =====As featured artist===== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1" |+ List of singles as featured artist, showing year released and album name |- ! scope="col"| Title ! scope="col"| Year ! scope="col"| Album |- ! scope="row"| "Gotta Know" {{small|(Kari Faux featuring Jerry Paper)}}<ref name = "Earmlik">Tulay, Rasheed (September 15, 2017). [https://earmilk.com/2017/09/15/kari-faux-collaborates-with-jerry-paper-for-gotta-know-video/ "Kari Faux collaborates with Jerry Paper for "Gotta Know" [Video]]". ''Earmilk''. Retrieved December 2, 2017.</ref><ref name = "XXL">A. Berry, Peter (September 26, 2017). [https://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/09/kari-faux-primary-ep-stream/ "Stream Kari Faux’s ‘Primary’ EP"]. ''XXL''. Townsquare Media. Retrieved December 2, 2017.</ref> |2017 |''Primary'' |}

====Music videos==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |+ List of music videos, with director |- ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Director |- ! scope="row" |"Chameleon World"<ref>D. McDermott, Patrick (September 9, 2014). [https://www.thefader.com/2014/09/09/jerry-paper-chameleon-world-video "Watch Synth-Pop Oddball Jerry Paper’s “Chameleon World” Video"]. ''The Fader''. Retrieved December 2, 2017.</ref> |2014 | Misha Spivack, Hunter Steinman |- ! scope="row" |"Real. Now. Love."<ref>Mashurova, Nina (January 7, 2015). [http://www.imposemagazine.com/tv/jerry-paper-real-now-love "Jerry Paper, “Real. Now. Love.”"]. ''Impose''. Retrieved December 22, 2017.</ref> |2015 | Campbell Logan |- ! scope="row" |"Kno Me"<ref>Phillips, Nicola (February 1, 2022). [https://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/press-play-jerry-paper-kno-me/ "Press Play: Jerry Paper – ‘Kno Me’"]. ''KALTBLUT Magazine''. Retrieved February 2, 2022.</ref> |2022 | Alan Resnick |- ! scope="row" |"Just Say Play"<ref>Evans-Jesra, Toby (March 23, 2022). [https://www.themostradicalist.com/article/list-pick-jerry-paper-just-say-play/ "List Pick Jerry Paper ‘Just Say Play’"]. The Most Radicalist. Retrieved May 9, 2022.</ref> |2022 | Dan Streit |- ! scope="row" |"Duumb"<ref>Major, Michael (March 29, 2022). [https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Jerry-Paper-Releases-New-Single-Duumb-From-Upcoming-Album-20220329 "Jerry Paper Releases New Single ‘Duumb’ From Upcoming Album"]. ''BroadwayWorld''. Retrieved May 9, 2022.</ref> |2022 | Steve Smith |}

===As Zonotope™=== ====Studio albums==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+ List of studio albums with details |- ! scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Title ! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Album details |- ! scope="row"|''Excellent Realms'' | * Released: November 9, 2010 (Worldwide)<ref name = "ExcellentRealms">[https://zonotope.bandcamp.com/album/excellent-realms "Excellent Realms"]. Zonotope™ Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: The Curatorial Club * Formats: Cassette, digital download |- ! scope="row"|''Zero Gravity'' | * Released: January 3, 2011 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://zonotope.bandcamp.com/album/zero-gravity "Zero Gravity"]. Zonotope™ Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Hobo Cult * Formats: Cassette, digital download |- ! scope="row"|''Human Unity'' | * Released: October 12, 2011 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://zonotope.bandcamp.com/album/human-unity "Human Unity"]. Zonotope™ Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Ruralfaune Synth Series * Formats: CD, digital download |- ! scope="row"|''MAINFRAME'S Tetralogy'' | * Released: December 21, 2012 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://jerrypaper.bandcamp.com/album/mainframes-tetralogy "MAINFRAME'S Tetralogy"]. Zonotope™ Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Dœs Are * Formats: Cassette, digital download |}

====Extended plays==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+ List of extended plays with details |- ! scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Title ! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Album details |- ! scope="row"|''Cruising Through the Hypersphere of Resonance'' | * Released: July 21, 2010 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://zonotope.bandcamp.com/album/cruising-through-the-hypersphere-of-resonance "Cruising Through the Hypersphere of Resonance"]. Zonotope™ Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Self-released * Formats: Digital download |}

====Split albums==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+ List of split albums with details |- ! scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Title ! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Album details |- ! scope="row"|''I Fell in Love With a Cyborg'' (with Panabrite) | * Released: July 15, 2011 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://zonotope.bandcamp.com/album/i-fell-in-love-with-a-cyborg "I Fell in Love With a Cyborg"]. Zonotope™ Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: MABA Tapes * Formats: Cassette, digital download |}

====Reissue albums==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+ List of reissue albums with details |- ! scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Title ! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Album details |- ! scope="row"|''MAINFRAME'S Tetralogy'' | * Released: July 1, 2015 (Worldwide)<ref>[http://music.samlingrecordings.com/album/zonotope "Zonotope"]. Samling-Recordings Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Samling * Formats: Cassette, digital download |}

===As Diane Kensington Devotional Band=== ====Studio albums==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+ List of studio albums with details |- ! scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Title ! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Album details |- ! scope="row"|''Worship and Festival Music for MAINFRAME Devotees Vol. 37'' | * Released: July 15, 2011 (Worldwide)<ref name="zonotope.bandcamp.com">[https://zonotope.bandcamp.com/album/worship-and-festival-music-for-mainframe-devotees-vol-37 "Worship and Festival Music for MAINFRAME Devotees Vol. 37"]. Zonotope™ Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Self-released * Formats: Cassette, digital download |- ! scope="row"|''34 Wordless Mantras For Augmented Ascension Meditation And Silencing Your Inner Monologue'' | * Released: February 23, 2012 (Worldwide)<ref>[https://zonotope.bandcamp.com/album/34-wordless-mantras-for-augmented-ascension-meditation-and-silencing-your-inner-monologue-now-vol-1-deep-listening-party-32-wordless-mantras-for-augmented-ascension-meditation-and-silencing-your "34 Wordless Mantras For Augmented Ascension Meditation And Silencing Your Inner Monologue NOW! Vol. 1: Deep Listening Party + 32 Wordless Mantras For Augmented Ascension Meditation And Silencing Your Inner Monolgue NOW! Vol. 2: Immersion In "Secret Harmonics""]. Zonotope™ Official Bandcamp. Retrieved November 24, 2017.</ref> * Label: Self-released * Formats: Cassette, digital download |}

====Extended plays==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+ List of extended plays with details |- ! scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Title ! scope="col" style="width:20em;"| Album details |- ! scope="row"|''...And Her Ministry of Digital Devotees'' | * Released: September 30, 2011 (Worldwide)<ref name="zonotope.bandcamp.com"/> * Label: Self-released * Formats: Digital download |}

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