TheBufferZone is Jonathan Hornik an underground electronic artist from Tel-Aviv, Israel. Jonathan Hornik was born in Albany NY USA in 1981. He moved to Israel when he was 3 years old. got his first nylon string when he was 6 but started playing only at the age of 13 because the guitar was to big for him. Jonathan started out as a Doom Metal and death metal player with the Jerusalem band Hesped (1995-1999). he was preforming all over Jerusalem at the age of 16 and had female fans :) Jonathan Joined The Song Writer Tamir Gidon as Bass player In 2004 and then became the lead guitar player of the band Darbejin. Jonathan prefomed on stages all over Israel for 5 years with Darbejin. In july 2009 Jonathan Hornik Was Chosen to be Steve Vai's personal translator on the Alien Secrets Guitar Masterclass preformed in Israels most important music hall by Steve Vai himself. Jonathan didn't have much work as a translator but he had the rare chance to change Steve Vai's batteries on the stomp pedals that kept dying and of course the amazing minute and 30 seconds of fame when Jonathan Hornik And Steve Vai Jammed together live with a playback in D!!! since that evening Jonathan decided to devote his life to guitar and he is now practicing very seriously with several amazing guitar heroes from Israel. Jonathan is going to upload many vids so you can see the progress. Jonathan has a mastar piece Album in his head as a solo player and will be recording in the next few months . then Jonathan will be touring preforming worldwide. Jonathan Hornik is also known as the mainstream trance music artist TheBufferZone and can be found in Last FM Facebook and Myspace. Jonathan is also a proud brother of Itamar Hornik a Hard Core guitarist and a concert Classical pianist. Proud to be the brother of Sarah Hornik the well known world wide famous lamp-work artist. Jonathan is proud to be the son of an amazing blues jazz piano playing dad and very cool bass player mom! Jonathan is proud to be the first cousin of Alisa Weilerstein one of the worlds best solo cellist. " A natural virtuoso hailed for her impassioned musicianship and expressive range, cellist Alisa Weilerstein is internationally renowned as one of the premiere soloists and chamber musicians of her generation." Jonathan is very proud of his cousin Josh Weilerstein Alisa's younger brother for his amazing work and great success as a conductor. Who I'd like to meet: Guitar fans, guitar players,guitar teachers,bass players,pianists, electronic musicians,trance artists,producers,bands,labels,musicians,fans.