Research & Development is a music series focused on nurturing new sounds, experiences and atmospheres while exploring the music and culture it was born or mutated from.While R&D is known for techno, they encourage their guests to indulge in various electronic music genres and beyond. Jordan Lieb, aka Black Light Smoke, is a songwriter, composer and producer of many stripes. His music draws on the raw house sound of his native Chicago, while at the same time expanding to electro, disco, post-punk, and beyond.