creative producing team

Performers

Aaron Lazansky-Olivas

United States, Bronx, NY

SpazeCraft is a seasoned NYC sound artist & visual artist, Spaze has been teaching digital music production & media arts for over 20 yrs in NYC & has shared the stage with luminaries such as Pauline Oliveros, Gil Scott Heron, Otomo Yoshihide, StereoLab & many others in a variety of musical and performance styles. SpazeCraft's recent sonic output can be heard in his genre-defying project Children Ov Jupiter with the songstress Albany Solaris. http://childrenovjupiter.bandcamp.com

Abby Savell

United States, Santa Clarita, CA

A multi-genre percussionist based in Los Angeles, Abby Savell loves sound, improvising, and artistic collaborations. She also thrives on humor.

Adam Korman

United States, Laguna Niguel, CA

Aiyun Huang

Canada, Toronto

Aiyun Huang is a percussionist based in Toronto. She holds the position of Associate Professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Aiyun is known for her work in percussion theatre and her collaborations with composers. Currently, she co-directs Centre for Brain, Performance and Music Creation with neuroscientist Michael Thaut and composer/technologist Eliot Britton.

AJ Layague

United States, Laguna Niguel, CA

AJ Layague has degrees from Stanford University (BA), CalArts (MFA), and UC San Diego (PhD), and studied gamelan in Yogyakarta, Java. Her works have been performed in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and she has received grants from Frau Musica (nova), Center for Cultural Innovation, American Composers Forum, Durfee Foundation, Centrum Arts, and the Getty Foundation, among others. AJ has published and presented research on code-switching, creativity, Chinese film music, and Asian-American hip hop, and has been a guest lecturer at National Taiwan University, Freie Universität Berlin, USC, UCI, and Mills College.

Alexandria Boddie

United States, Atlanta, GA

Alexandria Boddie is a Dallas-born, LA-based performance artist, model, and creative director. She attended the University of Southern California, studying Fine Art Photography and Animation. Upon graduating and beginning her performance art career, she found herself being cast in local runway shows and music videos. Alexandria began formal acting training after being booked in her second commercial. To date, she has trained in Meisner acting technique, performance capture acting, Suzuki Method, and Viewpoints. After a lifetime of tinkering, Miss Boddie began seriously writing and releasing songs in 2018. She draws inspiration from several musical genres that have influenced her through the years, writing lyrics for bluesy metal and rock and roll songs. You can find Alexandria’s music on Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music, Amazon Music, TIDAL, and more.

Alexis Macnab

United States, San Jose, CA

Alexis Macnab is a multi-media director, devisor of live performance, and curator of interactive arts. In the before days, her work was often tactile, site-specific and invited direct collaboration with its audience. In the future... who knows? But she hopes Pauline Oliveros (and others) will continue to guide us through.

Alia Thabit

United States, Vermont

Alia Thabit, a Levantine-American dancer, artist, writer, and teacher, is the author of Midnight at the Crossroads, a book about the heart and soul of belly dance. Alia celebrates belly dance's cultural ideals of feeling, playfulness, and joy. An international and online instructor with decades of experience, she believes that each of us is filled with our own unique beauty and magic, treasure waiting to be found.

Amanda Schoofs

United States, Milwaukee, WI

Amanda Schoofs' music embraces presence and spontaneity while exposing the raw and intimate qualities of sound and the performing self. Infused with melody and full spectrum timbre, her compositions are stunning in their visceral coherence. Her artistic practice extends through experimentalism and exists in the space between new music, hybrid arts, poetry, and DIY punk and noise practices. As an artistic activist her work challenges social justice disparities: sexism post #metoo, motherhood inequity, self-identity, and gun violence.

AñA Wojak

Australia, Lismore, NSW

AñA Wojak is an Australian trans genderfluid multi disciplinary artist. They have performed at festivals in Australia, Europe and Asia, including: Interakcje14 Poland, DIAF Beijing, Xplore Festivals Sydney & Berlin, undisclosed territories Java x 2, MAP Delhi, Pelem Festival, Java x 2, MAP Festival Malaysia x 6 and MoNA FoMA Hobart. Collaborations have included senVoodoo (co-founder), Tony Yap Co, Pacitti Co, La Pocha Nostra, Felix Ruckert, Cloudbeard & Textile Audio amongst others. With a particular interest in site-specificity, durational performance, ritual and altered states, they create visually poetic work that resonates with a visceral depth.

Andreas Levisianos

United Kingdom, London

Andres Gutierrez Martinez

United States, San Diego, CA

Andrés Gutiérrez Martínez - Born in Guanajuato Mexico in 1984, is a composer, sound artist, and electronic music performer currently studying his PdD in Composition at the University of California in San Diego.

Anna Harreveld

United States, Charlotte, NC

Anna Harreveld has performed a variety of genres in a variety of places over the years. Her main focus in the past few years has been performance for the sake of connection around a conversation on mattering. What is it to contribute and how do all of our contributions matter and connect us?

Anna Libbie Grossman

United States, Los Angeles, CA

annais linares

United States, Cathedral City, CA

Annais is a vocalist and play//sound facilitator in her community. originally from Palm Springs, California, Annais attributes her enthusiasm for playful sound creation to childhood memories of hot summer suns, sleepy resort scenes, and desert wildlife - all moments of resilience and stillness.

Anne LeBaron

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Anne LeBaron’s compositions have been performed worldwide. As a Fulbright Scholar, she studied with György Ligeti and Mauricio Kagel. Awards received include the Alpert Award in the Arts, a Fromm Foundation commission, a Guggenheim, and NEA grants. Her seven operas celebrate legendary female figures, including Marie Laveau in the opera Crescent City. She is currently completing LSD: Huxley’s Last Trip. She teaches composition at CalArts, and serves as Board chair for the American Composers Forum. Her new recording to be released later this year on Innova, Unearthly Delights, will feature chamber works from the last decade.

Anne Rhodes

United States, New Haven, CT

Annie Nikunen

United States, Northport, NY

A NYC-based flutist, composer, dancer, writer and radio broadcaster, Annie studies composition/music theory at Barnard College, Columbia University, and flute performance at Manhattan School of Music. She performs contemporary, classical, jazz, Taizè and film styles, and is a founding member of Blackbox Ensemble. Annie has written for International Contemporary Ensemble and Fonema Consort, among others. A ballet dancer of many years, she loves researching sound-body connections. Annie is a DJ and former Business Manager/Classical Head at WKCR, hosting a show highlighting contemporary ballet music of New York City Ballet and lesser-known orchestral/choral/flute repertoire.

April Dawn Guthrie

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Arlene & Larry Dunn

United States, Oberlin, OH

Arlene (she/her) and Larry (he/him) Dunn are pure amateurs of adventurous music in a broad range of styles and practices. They avidly follow, support, and promote many music ensembles and artists. They are Contributing Editors for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, the online journal of contemporary music, and audience-perspective bloggers (and occasional performers) for International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). Arlene and Larry are founding members of the Advisory Board of New Music New College in Sarasota, FL. Larry is a former trustee and current Advisory Board member for the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra (NOYO).

Armando Romero

México, Salamanca

Armando Romero is a musician from Salamanca Guanajuato focused on film score, sound desing and electronic performances using analog and digital media. Carpyro is a project based on the simbolic presence of a bird named Papamoscas Cardenalito, and it is based on mexican folklore, art rock and trip hop.

Atticus Korman

United States, Laguna Niguel, CA

Audrey Babcock

United States, Culver City, CA

AVISHAG COHEN RODRIGUES

United States, Brooklyn, NY

Avishag Cohen Rodrigues is an Israeli musician currently living and creating in Brooklyn and she's an MFA student of the Sound Art at Columbia University.

Ben Richter

United States, Amherst, MA

Ben Richter is a composer, accordionist, and director of Ghost Ensemble. In his music, sound worlds of constant transformation emerge from shifting timbre gradients and microtonal fluctuations, peering into quantum and geologic time: chamber work Wind People, “a massive drone of lapidary detail", "thrums, throbs, and glides with surging and ebbing density” (Peter Margasak, Bandcamp Daily). A student of Pauline Oliveros, Ben explores the microtonal potential of the accordion; immersive just-intonation accordion album Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean was hailed by Stephen Smoliar as “likely to offer a profound impact on the very nature of listening”.

Benjamin West

United States, Denver, CO

Benjamin West is a composer, guitarist, and sound artist currently studying at Brown University. Mr. West works in encouraging sound to provoke listening experiences. Trained as a classical composer Mr. West has written for ensembles such as New York Philharmonic, The Akropolis Reed Quintet, The Neave Trio, The Playground ensemble, Quartetto Indaco, and many others. He actively performs with live acts ranging from soul-pop sounds to experimental rock outlets. Mr. West also tackles larger projects surrounding climate literacy and environmental activism.

Bidi Le Strange

United States, New York City, NY

Blair Logwood Jones

United States, Greenwood, VA

C. Lavender

United States, Brooklyn, NY

C. Lavender is a multi-disciplinary sound artist, sound healing practitioner and educator whose work spans through live performance, recordings, installations, videos, compositions and workshops. C. Lavender has performed, lectured and hosted workshops at MoMA, The Guggenheim, Hirshhorn Museum, Issue Project Room, The Rubin Museum, The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Fridman Gallery, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute among other venues. In 2016 she taught a ten-week class for children about the scientific and artistic aspects of sound.
C. Lavender's third full-length album "Myth of Equilibrium" will be released on Editions Mego in May 2020.

Carmen Maldonado

México, Guanajuato

Maldonado is an active solo, chamber and orchestral percussionist based in México and has been performed in different cities around the country. She has been benefited twice from PECDA of Performers category recognized for her expressive interpretations and dedication of arts. In 2019, was part of CROSS-WIRED project from University of California, San Diego with Steve Shick like a host. She holds a bachelor degree from Vida y Movimiento Music School in Mexico City with Gabriela Jimenez. Currently, she´s studying Master of Arts (research in music) at the University of Guanajuato, with Dr. Ivan Manzanilla and Dr. Alfonso Perez.

Carmina Escobar

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Carmina Escobar is an extreme vocalist, improviser, performer, sound, and intermedia artist from Mexico City. Her practice focuses on sound, the voice, the body, and their interrelations with physical, social, present and memory spaces. Her work includes pieces of performance, installation, multimedia, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary works. Her work has been presented at festivals, biennials, experimental spaces, museums, galleries, concert halls, living rooms, basements, and theaters of the Mexican Republic, Europe, Cuba, and the United States.

Carol Stakenas

United States, Brooklyn, NY

Carole McCurdy

United States, Chicago, IL

Carole McCurdy is an artist whose movement-based work addresses grief and anxiety, duty and resistance, and the absurd mysteries of embodiment. She has performed at spaces including the Chicago Cultural Center, Epiphany Dance, Links Hall, Hamlin Park, High Concept Laboratories, Defibrillator Gallery, and Movement Research (NY). She received a 2016 Lab Artist award from the Chicago Dancemakers Forum and was a Fall 2016 Sponsored Artist at High Concept Laboratories, Chicago. She created and directed an ensemble piece, WAVER, with support from CDF, HCL, and 3Arts Chicago.

Carolyn Benjamin

United States, North Riverside, IL

Carolyn Benjamin is proud to be a frequent collaborator and performer with the incomparable Sean Griffin. Based in Chicago, Carolyn has performed in Griffin’s To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation at REDCAT in L.A., Cold Spring at EMPAC, Troy, NY, and Opened House in Taipei, Taiwan. Carolyn has also performed in multiple installations composed and directed by Griffin and written and directed by Catherine Sullivan, including The Chittendens, D-Pattern, and Triangle of Need.

CASSILS

Canada, Salt Spring Island

CASSILS is a visual artist working in live performance, film, sound, sculpture and photography. Cassils has achieved international recognition for a rigorous engagement with the body as a form of social sculpture. Drawing on conceptualism, feminism, body art, gay male aesthetics; Cassils forges a series of powerfully trained bodies for different performative purposes. It is with sweat, blood, and sinew that Cassils constructs a visual critique around ideologies and histories.

Celeste Landeros

United States, Miami, FL

Celeste Landeros is a lyric soprano and contemporary performing artist based in Miami. She is the director of Carnival Arts, a performance collective that fuses the drumming, dance, and masquerade traditions from carnivals across Europe and the Americas in contemporary urban processions.

catherine hoffmann

United Kingdom, Folkestone

Catherine explores the intersection between performance, absurdity and music – working solo and collaboratively. She creates interactive performances as well as staged pieces for venues, festivals, galleries, cabaret, club settings and varied sites in the UK and Europe. She has been described as an elemental weather system; her work is irreverent and what could be described as a ‘hot mess’. This is intentional and political. She attempts to address complex issues relating to who we are and the constraints in our contemporary lives. Gender, class, well-being and extreme mental states are interrogated using the body as site, with absurd humour playing an important role.

Cellista

United States, San Jose, CA

Cellista is an American cellist, interdisciplinary artist & the artistic director of the performing arts company Juxtapositions. She is known for her collaborations with artists across various media, and for self-producing live performances in unconventional spaces that incorporate elements of classical music, theater, improvisation, and visual art across a range of genres including pop, hip-hop, classical, and more. These performances often feature a carbon-fiber cello and loop station.

Cha Tori

United States, Fort Worth, TX

Cha Tori is an artist, technologist, and arts organizer whose work considers the abstract systems that underlie our materially, culturally, and digitally mediated lives. Drawing connections between the steps of walking, the repetition of breathing, and the iterative prototyping of object design and fabrication his work seeks a shared ground to understand our rapidly changing times and our ever changing relationship to the earth. Through utilizing strategies from object design, computer programming, Fluxus art, and outdoor recreation, his work creates layers of meaning, accessible from perspectives as varying as child-like play, aesthetic appreciation, modern art history, and design thinking.

Charlotte Mundy

United States, Brooklyn, NY

Chelsea Czuchra

Switzerland, Basel

Cherie Dong

Canada, Markham, ON

Cherie Dong is a young cellist from China. She began her musical studies at the age of four. Currently, Cherie is pursing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Toronto with Professor Shauna Rolston Shaw. Cherie completed her Bachelor of Music degree in cello performance at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and her Master of Music degree at the University of Cincinnati under Professor Yehuda Hanani.

Chloe Levaillant

France, Lourmarin

Chloe Levaillant is a French-British singer-songwriter, vocalist, improviser, composer and performance artist. Born in London, she spent the early part of her childhood in England before moving to France where she grew up. She studied opera at the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix en Provence. She received her BA in Contemporary Performance Practice from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2016 and an MFA in music from California Institute of the Arts in 2019. Chloe focuses on the voice in different performance contexts, also engaging with dance and visual art mediums.

Chris Tyler

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Christin Hablewitz

United States, Burbank, CA

Christine Tavolacci

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Christine Tavolacci is a Los Angeles based flutist and educator specializing in contemporary and experimental music. She has traveled across the United States and Europe to study and perform and has had the pleasure of working in closely with many celebrated 20th and 21st century composers. Christine is active as a soloist, improviser, curator and chamber musician both in California and internationally. She is co-founder and co-­director of Southland Ensemble, member of the Dog Star Orchestra annual festival of experimental music, and featured flutist and composer in the 2015-2018 Listen/Space Commissions. She is a frequent performer in the Monday Evening Concerts series in Los Angeles, and has also performed with The Industry, Ojai Festival, LA Phil Noon to Midnight, the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, and Microfest. She is also the principal flutist in the avant jazz large ensemble Gurrisonic, who was featured at the 2016 Angel City Jazz Festival. Her playing has been released on Orenda Records, Slub Music(Japan) and Tzadik.

Christopher Everingham

United States, Missoula, MT

Claudia Maria Huiza

United States, Culver City, CA

Claudia Maria Huiza is a Salvadoran performance artist, curator, writer, educator and activist based in LA. Her work focuses on building alliances and coalitions among diverse communities internationally. Her performance projects have been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally. She most recently curated one of seven venues for the Sur Biennial 2020 and is co-curating the 2021 Festival de Arte y Acción, which will take place in both CDMX and LA. She hopes to develop an amazing retreat in Tulum, Mexico, which will welcome creatives from all over the world to convene and develop large-scale collaborations because another world is possible.

Conner Simmons

United States, Denton, TX

Conner Simmons is a composer and double bassist out of Denton, Texas, currently pursuing his undergraduate degree at the University of North Texas. His music is diverse, but overall addresses ideas of very slow and gradual change and development.

Conrad Tao

United States, New York City, NY

Conrad Tao is a pianist and composer based in New York City. His newest album, AMERICAN RAGE, featuring music by Frederic Rzewski, Aaron Copland, and Julia Wolfe, is out now on Warner Classics.

Cordelia Szaton

Spain, Barcelona

Seamstress art surgeon helping midwife the hydra of a new earth into existence one comment box at a time. Generalist artist: I paint, move, sew, fix, recycle, sing, touch, dance, heal, write on an ad-hoc, as-needed basis.

Crispin Lord

United Kingdom, London

Crispin Lord is a multi-disciplinary performance maker based in London. Having performed in operas as a child as both a soloist and chorister, he began directing opera whilst at university. He is interested in deconstructing and queering the repertoire as well as devising and supporting new work. He is also a Staff Director at English National Opera. Alongside directing, he creates multimedia installation and performance works that investigate queer structures, the body in motion, disability access, and insidious violence. His work has been shown in gallery spaces and queer sex clubs and parties in both London and Berlin.

Cristy Michel

Canada, Remote Island, BC

Cristy Michel is an LA based queer producer, dominatrix and multi-instrumentalist. She is committed to producing uncompromising visions that challenge conventional paradigms and her work in all disciplines explores themes of consent vs. coercion of consent and abusive power. You Can Call Me Sir is Michel’s musical / visual art project. The first video from her latest EP, This Love Is On Fire, recently premiered at the MOCA Grand as part of Outfest Platinum Program in July 2019.

Cy Ozgood

United States, Milwaukee, WI

Cy Ozgood is a poet and witch living in the midwest.

Dana Reason

United States, Corvallis, OR

Dana Reason is a Canadian-born composer, sound artist, performer and researcher working at the intersections of twenty-first century musical genres and intermedia practices. Reason was part of The Space Between trio with the electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros; and is documented on over 18 recordings. Reason is the pianist for Roscoe Mitchell’s composition: “Nonaah Trio available on Wide Hive Records (2020). Reason created several original film scores for the historical Alice Guy Blachet project Vol. 2 on Kino Lorber, 2020. Reason is the Director of Contemporary Music and Research at Oregon State University, and teaches composition, musicology and sound art.

Daniel Schlosberg

United States, Chicago, IL

Pianist Daniel Schlosberg enjoys a multifaceted relationship with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where has appeared as soloist, and in numerous chamber and new music concerts. He gives frequent solo recitals at Bargemusic and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and chamber recitals at the Austrian Cultural Forum (New York), National Gallery and Phillips Collection (D.C). He appears frequently on radio stations nationwide. His most recent recordings are of Lei Liang’s “Inkscape,” with Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion (New World), and Julius Eastman’s Gay Guerrilla (Jacaranda Live).
He has been on faculty at the University of Notre Dame since 2005.

Daniel Vega

United States, Columbia, SC

Daniel Vega is a composer and saxophonist gleaning the intersections between contemporary music, nonviolent conflict resolution, and humor. He conveys messages about global citizenship through juxtaposition of diverse musical ideas and styles and is eager to understand the role of music in civil-resistance movements. Drawing from the late Pauline Oliveros, he believes that improvisatory audience participation music for large crowds of people can be applied to interrupt oppressive regimes and facilitate unity among people.

Danielle Jagelski

United States, Portland, OR

Danielle Jagelski began her conducting studies at Conservatorium van Amsterdam after earning an undergraduate degree in music composition from Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is currently the Music Director of Renegade Opera and Director of Music at Saint Cyril Catholic Church. Danielle’s musical interests include opera, choral-orchestral works, along with new and experimental music. At home in both choral and instrumental realms, Danielle has recently assisted conductors Paul Thompson at the 2019 Idaho Music Educator's Conference, Jason Moody at the University of Idaho, and Barbara Day Turner at Aquilon Music Festival in Le Nozze di Figaro and Die Zauberflote. Danielle is a fierce advocate for equity in musical spaces, and has presented research in mixed-race studies and diversity in the music classroom throughout the US and Canada. An active administrator, Danielle has worked for Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Utrecht, The Netherlands, Minnesota Chorale in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and currently Oregon Symphony in Portland, Oregon.

DARREN SNAPPER

United States, Long Beach, CA

I am a non-professional vocalist who has performed with several choirs and vocal performance groups, as well as some theater.

Deirdre Harrison

United States, Chicago, IL

Deirdre Harrison has worked for years as an actress, singer, director, producer, educator and non-profit administrator in London, NYC, Rome, and Chicago. She currently serves as Director of Development for Snow City Arts, who deliver arts education to children and youth in hospitals and is Co-Artistic Director of The Lucky Trikes, a children's literacy chamber band. She is a longtime champion of new plays and music, interdisciplinary performance, fostering of non self-identified artists and unexpected arenas for bringing artists and audiences together. She is an Eire/US dual national, mother of artist Bea Tabacchi, and lives in Chicago with her partner Eric Leonardson and their cats Oona and Thumper.

Diego Alfonso

México, México City

Diego Alfonso is a musician specialized in percussions, dedicated to create and share new music with resources as new technologies, performance, improvisation and exploration with every-day life objects. He has worked as a percussion soloist since 2016 focused on collaboration with composers from Mexico and Latin America for the development and dissemination of new music for solo percussion, with special interest in multi-disciplinary experimentation and performance. Performing as a soloist at different festivals and contemporary music concerts in Mexico and premiering numerous original works by young composers. Actually he’s studying his Bachelor in Music at the National Autonomous University of Mexico at Mexico City.

Diniz Sanchez

India, Irinjalakuda

Dance-Theatre performer, choreographer and stage director born in Portugal, consider himself to be a versatile artiste, interested in exploring new ways of expression. After dancing with repertory and independent companies in Portugal, France, Belgium and India, he started working in the Opera world, collaborating with different directors and directing his own projects. A citizen of the world, is currently living in India where he was investigating about Kutiyattam (Sanskrit Theatre) and traditional Kerala performing and ritual forms. He is a LGBTQIA+ activist and has a performativas heteronym SPICY TUTUBOY, with whom he tries to question identities and other pertinent questions in today's world.

Dominique Go

United States, Santa Clarita, CA

My work focuses on ecology/hierarchy/survival/subject hood/cuteness/play/humor. through sculpture, installation, and drawing, i examine the connections/parallels/curiosities between found objects, materials, and myths. i’m currently studying (remotely) at CalArts.

Dominique Zeltzman

United States, Baltimore, MD

A performer and video installation artist, Dominique Zeltzman researches concepts of objectification and power through the metaphor of the container as a social construct. After a 15-year dance career in San Francisco where she had a baby by herself and made Girl Under the Table—a queer coming of age video that toured festivals around the world, she returned to Baltimore where she’s made art with dirty-dishes, dryer lint, and Baltimore City surveillance footage. She’s stood on her stove, toilet, and sink; balanced on a ladder while reading the warning labels in her home; and continues to make hundreds of tiny paintings with Paula Cronan in their mail art collaboration cdpzfd. She got an MFA in Intermedia and Digital Art from UMBC and teaches video, photography, and intersectional art.

Don Nichols

United States, Long Beach, CA

Don Nichols is a percussionist, improviser and composer. He is the Music Director for the Department of Dance at Cal State Long Beach.

Donald Lee

United States, Brooklyn, NY

Donald Lee is a bilateral amputee dancer with Heidi Latsky Dance, an integrated dance company featuring atypical bodies as sights/sites to address the ideas of beauty, physicality, and authenticity. His own creative practice explores the aesthetics of damage, loss, and wounds. He is particularly interested in the infinite (and often irreversible) process of repair in connection with social institution, cultural tradition, or personal history. He recently toured with Heidi Latsky Dance in Armenia. He received his BA in Art History from Clark University and is an artist based in Brooklyn.

Dongpu Ling

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Dongpu Ling is a Shanghai-born, Los Angeles-based intermedia artist. She has always been fascinated by the unseen and how they can be represented in a visualized way. The unseen does not mean the “ghost”, instead, it is our feelings and senses, which does not have a physical form. Her recent works explore the notion of time and the notion of we are living in a simulated world, and span a variety of media, including interactive installation, sculpture, performance, and video. She believes that time does not exist without souls and art does not exist without viewers.

Donovan Gale

United States, Seattle, WA

Drew Boles

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Drew Boles is a singer, songwriter, performer, composer, sound designer, programmer, and producer who makes video game sounds by day and avant pop sounds by night.

Drew Corey

United States, Sherman Oaks, CA

Drew Corey is a composer, performer, conductor and performance artist. Her practice focuses on human connectivity and the visceral nature of certain physical and sonic stimuli. She creates works for choir, chamber ensemble, solo performance, as well as interdisciplinary works for dance, orchestra, and theater. In 2016, Drew co-founded C3LA: The Contemporary Choral Collective of Los Angeles, a collectively-run choral ensemble which she composes, conducts and sings for. She has an ongoing series, Funerals, which involve performative rituals of burying trauma with the aim to create a cathartic experience for both performer and audience. She received her BFA in Composition from the CalArts in 2016.

DUOCU

Brazil, São Paulo

Duocu was born from the partnership (at work, in life and in love) of artists Bruno Novadvorski and Chris, The Red. The couple acts in the field of photography, visual arts, videoperformance, performance and others to talk mainly about sex, sexuality, identity, gender and post-pornography. Bruno is an student of Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts from the Institute of Arts of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (IA-UFRGS) and Chris is a graphic designer, visual artist, photographer, writer, performer, multimedia artist, founder of The Red Studio.

Edwin Days

United States, Chicago, IL

Chicago based musician, performer, artist. Introspection, non conformity and ever evolving are prevalent subjects in my craft .

Edwin Torres

United States, New York City, NY

Edwin Torres has performed his multi-disciplinary bodylingo poetics worldwide. His books of poetry include, "XoeteoX: the infinite word object" (Wave Books), "Ameriscopia" (University of Arizona Press) and "The PoPedology of an Ambient Language" (Atelos Books). He is editor of the inter-genre anthology, "The Body In Language: An Anthology" (Counterpath Press). Edwin is currently on a world tour, in his apartment, and thrilled to participate for such a distinguished audience.

either or

United States, Tucson, AZ

either or manifests a bathetic ascent into theatricality.

Elias Brown

United States, Santa Monica, CA

Elias Brown is a curator of sound and space. He works as a conductor, composer, improviser, and educator to create thought-provoking and boundary-pushing musical programs in and out of the concert hall. He is artistic director of the London-based 412 Collective, and has conducted Ensemble musikFabrik, Zafraan Ensemble, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra. Recent work has been featured at the Prague Quadrennial, Yale University Art Gallery, and at Kintai Arts Residency. He is a recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, and currently quarantining with his sourdough starter in Los Angeles.

Elijah Joseph Weber-Han

United States, Ithaca, NY

Elijah Joseph Weber-Han is an Ithaca, NY based artist, performer, and impresario. He is a founding member and key planner of the the recurring arts and music series the ElectroZone. Elijah’s work is a celebration and exploration of the collaboration of human and machine and the joy of the unexpected. His solo musical project is Kompyootur Muhsheen, and he is a member of the bands ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)fog and Criminally Repaired. Elijah wishes he was a cartoon.

Elizabeth McNutt

United States, Denton, TX

Elizabeth McNutt primarily performs contemporary and electroacoustic music. She has premiered countless works and performed in Europe, Asia, and throughout the U.S. McNutt has received awards including Arts International Fund, Astral Career Grant, Open Meadows, Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute Fellowship, and Neodata Fellowships. She frequently performs in the Calliope Duo; she also directs the Sounds Modern series in Fort Worth. She is on the faculty of the University of North Texas, where she teaches flute and directs the new music ensemble Nova.

Elizabeth Short

United Kingdom, Sheffield

Elizabeth Short is a writer, sound and performance artist based in the North of England.

Ellen Burr

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Since her solo debut at age 15, Ellen has been a featured performer/clinician at universities festivals and symposiums across North America and Europe. Her improvisational card game Ink Bops is included in the graphic score anthology Notations 21, ed. By Theresa Sauer, pub. 2009. She appears on over 25 CD’s. Ms. Burr hold a BM, in flute performance, from Wichita State University, an MFA, in composition, from CalArts, and the Certificat de Stage from the Academie Internationale D’Ete in France. Ms. Burr regularly performs and teaches in the Los Angeles area. She is a Yamaha Artist.

Elliot Reed

United States, New York City, NY

Elliot Reed is an internationally exhibited performance artist based in New York. Elliot is a 2019 danceWEB scholar, 2019-20 Artist In Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and recipient of the 2019 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Recent exhibitions include a commission with JACK Quartet (2020), MoMA PS1 (2020), The Getty Museum (2018), The Hammer Museum (2016), The Dorthy Chandler Pavilion (2018) The Broad (2017), University of Southern California (2016), and performances at MoonStep Tokyo (2017), MNSKTM Osaka (2017), VFD London (2017), and MOOI Collective Mexico City (2017).

Emily Call

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Emily Call is an adventurous violinist: recent performances have led her to play the violin with two bows, experiment with scordatura, throw ping pong balls, place mini alligator clips on her strings, and play into a fan. She is a founding member of the Isaura String Quartet and has performed with ensembles across Southern California that specialize in new and experimental music, including wild Up, the Dog Star Orchestra, Opera Povera, Wordless Music, Now Hear Ensemble, Equal Sound, San Diego New Music, and Synchromy.

Eric Edward Hurst

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Eric Edward Hurst is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, audio engineer, voice-over director and voice-over coach. For the past 12 years, Hurst has served as both voice-over director and engineer for Abrams Artists Agency Los Angeles located in the Pacific Design Center. From and early age, Hurst studied the spectrum from classical music theory to avant-punk. Hurst also has his own recording studio, Big Arm Recordings at SGV Sound in Alhambra where he offers analog and digital recording, mixing and mastering.

Eric KM Clark

United States, Lon Angeles, CA

Eric KM Clark is a violinist, composer and artist located in Los Angeles. He is co-founder and co-director of Southland Ensemble, and co-founded the wulf. in 2008. Hello.

Ericka Sance

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Estefania Miranda

Mexico, Valle de Santiago

Studied digital art at the University of Guanajuato. Right now she's studying oboe at the Music Department of the University of Guanajuato. She has been focused on writing film score & contemporary music. She has been part of the Banda Sinfónica de las Americas as 2nd oboe, principal oboe at the Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil del Estado de Guanajuato and principal oboe at the Banda Sinfónica Juvenil Valle de Santiago. She has worked with international directors like Juan Manuel Arpero and Luis Serrano Alarcon. She has participated on the 1st edition of the "Premio Estatal de Composición para Banda Isaias Barron" and some other contests.

Evan Sutterfield

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Flo Toch

United Kingdom, Leeds

A queer drummer making do with what's to hand.

Francis Schwartz

United States, Sarasota, FL

B.S.& M.S. The Juilliard School; Ph.D, Université de Paris X. Composer-performer-educator.

Frauke Huhn

Australia, Byron Bay, NSW

Frauke Huhn is an independent, cross-disciplinary artist, scientist and social pedagogue and has trained and worked in Performing Arts, Science, Education and Social Arts. Frauke has been involved with productions, projects, training and coaching for various institutions in Europe, Africa, Asia, the U.S. and Australia. In the past she was a lecturer for Applied Theater and Theatre Pedagogy at The Institute for Economic and Social Sciences at the University in Tuebingen, Germany, She is now based in Australia and currently works for the companies Public Act and NORPA ( Northern Rivers Performing Arts). Most recently she performed at Venice International Performance Art Week 2020.

G Douglas Barrett

United States, Brooklyn, NY

As a practitioner and scholar, G Douglas Barrett works on postwar art music and contemporary art. His book, After Sound: Toward a Critical Music, was published in 2016. His next book, Experimenting the Human: Experimental Music and Technological Posthumanism, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. He is currently Assistant Professor of Communication at Salisbury University.

Georgia Kalogeropoulou

United Kingdom, London

I’m an artist and researcher in philosophy. I explore time through concept, painting, sound and performance.

Gloria Yehilevsky

United States, Evanston, IL

International percussionist Gloria Yehilevsky presents an immersive practice with improvisation, composition, and education. Her work is rooted in the philosophy that music is communication. She was selected as an artist for the World Percussion Group in 2017, received the highest awarded prize in the Italy PAS International Vibraphone competition, won the PAS/Armand Zildjian Percussion Scholarship, and is a Musical Merit Foundation protégé. Her accolades include recording for NAXOS, airing on BBC Radio 3, performing in the International Symposium at PGVIM in Bangkok, performing at PASIC and earning the Fred Sanford Award with Santa Clara Vanguard. Gloria endorses Black Swamp Percussion.

Gregory Hatch

United States, Cleveland, OH

With background in art history and a passion for personal narrative ritual, Gregory Hatch is a fiber and performance artist who explores how pattern, texture, and material sit within our memory (individual and collective). Born and raised in Akron, Ohio and currently living in Cleveland his work currently work explores the nature of desire, obsession, voyeurism, and longing. Recently his practiced returned to using narrative and storytelling as a way of sharing a personal history.

Gwendolyn Brown

United States, Nashville, TN

Hannah Rubin

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Heather Gardner

United States, Philadelphia, PA

Heather Gardner is a soprano living, working and teaching in the Philadelphia and New York City areas. She specializes in singing 20th and 21st century works though she is equally comfortable singing Brahms, Mozart or Bach. She holds a Master’s degree in vocal performance from Rutgers University and a Bachelor’s degree in viola performance from the Eastman School of Music, where she also studied violin and voice. She has performed extensively with a variety of groups, including Alarm Will Sound, The Albany Symphony Orchestra, SFSound, the Dogs of Desire, the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, the Society for Ancient Instruments, and Z-ensemble. As a violist, Heather has held positions with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra and has freelanced extensively both in California and New York State. Heather is also an AmSAT certified instructor of the Alexander Technique and maintains a teaching studio in New York City and Philadelphia where she teaches voice and Alexander Technique lessons.

Helena Hartmann

Germany, Ahaus

Helena Hartmann is a visual artist/performance artist and vocalist and she studied Sculpture at the AKI in the Netherlands and the RCA in London. Her installations and performances are unorthodox, wild, experimental and often collaborative. She exhibited, performed and resided in the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany, UK, USA, United Arab Emirates, Spain, Portugal and Latvia: Camden Art Centre, AND eventSpace1,York Gate Museum RAM (London UK), Gemeindemuseum The Hague, (The Netherlands), Art Museum Reutlingen, LWL-Industriemuseum TextilWerk Bocholt, St. Bonifatius Church Mannheim, Kunsthalle Weseke (KHW), Watercastle Ahaus, Kunstort ELEVEN Artspace (Germany), Alserkal Avenue Gallery (Dubai, UAE), ARTNITCAMPOS (Campos, Spain), Stockholm Fringe Festival (Scandinavia, Stockholm,), Hamtramck Disneyland Residency (USA, Detroit) and RUCKA Artist Residency (Latvia, Cesis).

Hilary Whitmore

United States, Portland, OR

Hilary Whitmore is a Portland, Oregon based opera singer and performance artist. A graduate of Trinity College of Music, Hilary loves cross arts collaboration, boundary pushing performance art, and performing works by new and emerging composers. She is currently working and touring with San Jose based, cellist and performance artist, Cellista.

Ibuki Kuramochi

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Born in Gunma, Japan, Multi Media Artist IBUKI KURAMOCHI specializes in artworks for exhibition; and also specializes in live performances combining her live painting and her Japanese Butoh dance. She studied Butoh dance at the world renown Kazuo Ohno Butoh Dance Studio in Yokohama. She has held a deep interest and passion in painting since her childhood when she saw, for the first time, Ikuo Hirayama’s work about Silk Road Art. She works a lot with black and white, which represent the beginning and nothingness. In her paintings, we can find many themes like nature, the animal world in opposition with the human world, eroticism and things relating to the body. Ibuki has performed and exhibited her artwork in various major cities like Paris, Sydney, Italy, Taipei, New York, Kyoto, Tokyo and Los Angeles.

Ida Sophia

Australia, Adelaide, SA

Ida Sophia (Born 1989) is an Australian contemporary Artist. Through her own personal, yet universal experience with death, Ida Sophia’s themes investigate emotions related primarily to grief and states of being post loss. Working within durational performance art, sculpture, sound and digital media, Ida's works have purpose through their act of process.
“I am looking for qualities in my work that facilitate our need for ritual, contemplation and completion. I want to slow down the dilution of ceremony.”

Ingrid Jejina

The Netherlands, Amsterdam

Internationally working multimedia performance/ installation creator .. Always a tourist and always at home .. Shifting memory and dislocation relating to the Now are main themes within her performative work, between Being Here and Being There. "Rituals", "ceremonies" and "cultural artifacts" emerging from this contexts form new ground to Be. Using memory and stories to engage the audience in a dialogue of personal histories and experiences, the interaction related to a ritual itself becomes a subtext for a broader concern for finding common ground understanding shifts across cultural values within a global context, creating a map of the moments.

Isa Paganuzzi

United States, Newtown Square, PA

Performer, painter, and student in New York City.

Ivan Manzanilla

Mexico, Guanajuato

Mexican percussionist, Ivan Manzanilla is a specialist in contemporary percussion music. Ivan Manzanilla’s work centers on the exploration and dissemination of newly created music and art. His teaching practice and commissions for new works that explore sound, language and gesture reflect his commitment to new generations of percussionists, musicians and contemporary forms of art. His work has been recognized by different institutions like the Rockefeller Foundation, the National University of Mexico, Mexico’s National Fine Arts Institute, the National Fund for Culture and Arts and the Darmstadt Summer Course. Ivan Manzanilla is the head of the Percussion Department at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico and a recipient of the 2017 National Fund for the Arts’ Established Artists Grant.

Jacqueline Bell

Canada, Banff

Jake Gagne

United States, New Haven, CT

Jasmine Stade

United States, Oakland, CA

Jasmine Stade has been performing and composing as a guitarist for 15 years, drawing from influences within the classical, rock, and experimental spheres of music. She explores the timbres of the nylon string 'classical' guitar combined with electronics and pedals, as well as classical guitar techniques applied to the electric guitar. She recently has been exploring the Performer-Composer graduate program at California Institute of the Arts and involving herself in recording and self-producing an album.

Jason S. McKinney

United States, Winston Salem, NC

Jeannette Lambert

Canada, Montreal, QC

Jeannette Lambert is a jazz vocalist, poet and composer who has been singing at festivals and jazz clubs all her life. With Dutch Indonesian ancestry, raised in Canada, straddling east and west, Jeannette combines music, intuition and improvisation to create unique, artistic music.

Jeff Schwartz

United States, Culver City, CA

Jeff Schwartz is co-leader of the Decisive Instant large ensemble, principal bass of MESTO, a member of the Vicente Chamber Orchestra, the Sonic Open Orchestra, and the Santa Monica Symphony, and is very active in Los Angeles’ improvised and experimental music communities. He has also performed with artists including Anthony Braxton, Glenn Branca, Dana Reason, Nicole Mitchell, Elliott Levin, and Adam Rudolph, and attended the Creative Music Studio and the Vancouver Creative Music Institute. His day job is as a reference librarian at the Santa Monica Public Library, where he runs the Soundwaves new music series.

Jenica Anderson

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Jennie E. Park

United States, Santa Clarita, CA

Jennie E. Park is an Art MFA student at CalArts, and a writer and an attorney.

Jennifer Karmin

United States, Chicago, IL

Jennifer Karmin’s multidisciplinary work has transpired at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets across the U.S., Cuba, Japan, Kenya, and Europe. Performances have been featured at venues such as the Poetry Project, the Walker Art Center, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and Woodland Pattern Book Center. Books include the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice and The Sexual Organs of the IRS, a collaboration with Bernadette Mayer. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and is co-founder of a housing cooperative in Chicago. Since 2005, she has curated the Red Rover Series and often led ensembles of poets improvising together.

Jennifer Scappettone

United States, Chicago, IL

Jennifer Scappettone works at the crossroads of poetry, research, translation, and transmedia literary arts. Her books include /Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice/ and the poetry collections /From Dame Quickly/ and /The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump/. Her translations of the polyglot poet, musicologist, and refugee from Fascist Italy Amelia Rosselli were collected in /Locomotrix/. An interest in language’s materiality and its material consequences in our public and private lives has led her to verbal amalgamations encompassing assemblage, electronic media, painting, dance. She teaches at the University of Chicago.

Jeremy Bolen

United States, Atlanta, GA

Jeremy Bolen is an artist researcher, organizer and educator interested in site specific, experimental modes of documentation and presentation. Much of Bolen’s work involves rethinking systems of recording –– in an attempt to observe invisible presences that remain from various scientific experiments and human interactions with the earth’s surface. His work has been exhibited widely at numerous locations including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; La Box, Bourges; POOL, Johannesburg; PACT Zollverein, Essen; EXGIRLFRIEND, Berlin; University at Buffalo, Buffalo; IDEA Space, Colorado Springs; The Mission, Houston; Galerie Zürcher, Paris; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago; Soccer Club Club, Chicago; Salon Zürcher, New York; The Drake, Toronto; Untitled Art Fair, Miami; Gallery 400, Chicago; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland; Depaul University Art Museum, Chicago and Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Bolen lives and works between Chicago and Atlanta, serves as Assistant Professor of Photography at Georgia State University, is a co-founder and co-organizer of the Deep Time Chicago collective, and is represented by Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago.

JEREMY N. GRIMSHAW

United States, Payson, UT

Jeremy Grimshaw is an Associate Professor in the BYU School of Music and Associate Dean in the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications. He writes about American minimalism, music and media, and Balinese gamelan, and directs BYU's Balinese ensemble, Gamelan Bintang Wahyu.

Jeronimo Rajchenberg

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Joan Hacker

United States, Smallwood, NY

musician • artist • photographer • reiki

Joelle Lamarre

United States, Chicago, IL

Joelle Lamarre, a 3Arts “Make A Wave” Awardee, collaborated in more experimental forms with renowned composers including George Lewis, a Guggenheim Fellow, in his new opera Afterword: The AACM, an opera developed with Sean Griffin and Catherine Sullivan, constitutes an aesthetic extension of George E. Lewis’s 2008 book, A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music. Later, Joelle was thrilled to join George Lewis and Sean Griffin at the Ojai 2017 Summer Festival. Joelle continued her collaboration with multidisciplinary artist Sean Griffin in Charles Gaines’ Manifestos 2. For more info visit: www.joellelamarre.com

John Brancy

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Grammy Award winning Baritone John Brancy has been hailed by The NY Times as a “vibrant, resonant presence”. He is a premiere interpreter of art song in his generation and has performed with the LA Phil, Boston Symphony, SF Opera, Carnegie Hall, and Oper Frankfurt to name a few organizations. His recent collaborations with MacArthur Genius grant recipient Yuval Sharon have seen Brancy in a new production of ATLAS by Meredith Monk with the LA Phil and Lost Highway by Olga Neuwirth at Oper Frankfurt to great acclaim.

John Moletress

United States, Denver, CO

John (they/them) is an artist working in performance and sound. They live in Denver, pursuing an MA in somatic psychotherapy.

John Tain

Hong Kong

Jonathan Freilich

United States, New Orleans, LA

Jonathan Freilich has been an active guitarist and composer based in New Orleans for 31 years. He has composed and seen performed 4 operas, runs an experimental improvising 24 piece orchestra that plays his original compositions and has played with almost all the known players in New Orleans that were alive at the same time. He has a BFA from Calarts and is heading in for more composition study at Tulane.

Jonathan Morgan

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Jonathan Morgan is a Los Angeles-based violist immersed in adventurous contemporary music making. When not performing solo, Jonathan shares the stage with international pop stars, indie singer-songwriters, feminist heavy metal bands, professional orchestras, choirs, string ensembles, and mixed instrumental and vocal groups of all permutations. He holds degrees from the Peabody Conservatory, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and UC Santa Barbara. He has served on the teaching faculty of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and the Preparatory and Continuing Education Department of the Cleveland Institute of Music. Visit JonathanMorganMusic.com to learn more. Instagram: @homojomo

Jordan Dykstra

United States, Brooklyn, NY

Jordan Dykstra (b. Iowa, USA 1985) is a Brooklyn-based composer of chamber music and film music, arranger, violist, and improviser. His work is drawn from a familiarity with specific conceptual, avant-garde, environmental, and graphic languages. Dykstra's compositional voice influence can be heard in the film scores of It Comes At Night, Hail Satan?, and Blow the Man Down. In addition to being a session violist for bands such as Dirty Projectors and Atlas Sound, Dykstra's chamber music compositions have been programmed in Europe (the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Norway, Iceland), Japan, Brazil, Canada, and throughout America (CA, NY, WA, OR, TX, CT, RI, MA, NM, etc.).

Jose Luis Blondet

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Joseph Marchione

China, Xioajingwan

Joseph Marchione is a composer and musician now living in China. Aside from being a passionate jazz musician his musical adventures has led him to work with such illustrious artists such as Pauline Oliveros. He performed with Pauline Oliveros in Austin Texas many moons ago and feels privileged to take part in this performance of Full Pink Moon at this pivotal moment on our planet.

Josephine Wang

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Josephine Pu-Sheng Wang is a Los Angeles-based Taiwanese lighting designer/artist. She’s collaborated with theater directors Jessica Hannah, Larry Biederman, Jack Stehlin, Matthew Leavitt; artists James Franco, Edgar Arceneaux, Andrew Schneider; choreographer Heidi Duckler, composer/producer Ajay Kapur, Madeline Falcone. Presented artwork in Cuba and designed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her interactive lighting project SPECTRUM won LIT Lighting Design Awards 2018. Josephine develops unconventional design techniques for performances, installations and everything in between, embraces possibilities of new technology used in multimedia designs, dedicates to arts bridging gaps between classes and races, speaking social justice and human rights. She has a BS in Computer Science from NCU, Taiwan, and a BFA in Theatre Lighting Design from CalArts.

Josh Henderson

United States, New York City, NY

NYC based Violinist, Violist, Electric Bassist and Composer Josh Henderson leads a multi-faceted career that ranges from solo performances with orchestras to playing electric violin in Rock Bands. A player in the groups Contemporaneous, Alkali, and Warp Trio among others, he regularly performs all over the globe and loves playing music of all styles. He can be found online at www.joshhendersonmusic.com.

Juanjose Rivas

United States, Omaha, NE

Juanjosé Rivas is a Mexican sound and visual artist who uses different techniques to make a speech through translation error, obstruction, and glitches in artistic languages. He uses resources and technology as tools for change.

Juian Otis

United States, Chicago, IL

Julian Terrell Otis is a genre spanning vocalist and performance artist engaged in creative, jazz, pop, and contemporary classical musical styles. He is currently devising a series of evening length performances featuring works by living composers of color, improvisation, electronics and movement. This summer he revived Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King at the inaugural Bang on a Can All Star’s Loud Weekend! All the Pretty Flowers is his first recording project of improvised music and poetry created at the Banff International Jazz and Creative Music Workshop led by Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey. Julian originated the male soloist role in George E. Lewis’ chamber opera, Afterword has worked with Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble, Fay Victor, Lisa E. Harris, Angel Bat David, Imani Winds, and Renee Baker.Committed to community empowerment he leads an improvised jam for South Side Chicago communities called Self Care = Resistance!

Julia Steinmetz

United States, Brooklyn, NY

Julia Steinmetz is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (2017), an MFA in Photography and Media from the California Institute of the Arts (2002), and a Deep Listening Certificate (2016). Her research is organized around a central question: how are we transformed by aesthetic experience?

Julian & Liberty Carter

United States, Oakland, CA

We choreograph social dances: crafted opportunities for participants to explore changing patterns of approach and retreat, proximity and distance.

Julian Day

United States, New York City, NY

Julian Day is an artist, composer and writer/broadcaster. His work frames sound as a social and civic practice. This plays out in performance, installation and video. Key projects include Super Critical Mass and An Infinity Room (AIR).

Julian Gale

United States, Seattle, WA

Julian Gau

United State, Wilton, CT

Fortunately, Julian is a conductor and cellist based in New England. Having studied music & math at Brown University, Julian is active as a conductor of orchestras and musical theatre, a composer of various tunes, and a performer of others. In the fall, Julian will be studying orchestral conducting at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. At other moments, Julian likes to read books, cook noodles, and spend time with friends. Someday, Julian wishes to eat a vegan île flottante.

Julie Adler

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Julie Adler is a Los Angeles based visual and performance artist who uses a multitude of mediums including painting and drawing, music (composition and voice), installation, and video.

Julie Herndon

United States, Oakland, CA

Jungle

South Korea, Seoul

Life is art and art is what we create with what we've got in life.

Karen Donnellan

United States, Alfred, NY

Karen Donnellan’s makes images, sounds, objects, and installations that, paradoxically, evoke the intangible essence of things. While she uses a wide range of media, glass and sound are central to this endeavor. Glass captures light; sound captures vibration. Both mediums speak the language of the mystical. Donnellan earned a Bachelors of Design from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. She is Associate Professor of Glass at Alfred University, NY.

Kathryn Shuman

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Kathryn Shuman is a soprano, improviser & composer based in LA. She specializes in experimental voice, contemporary classical, Baroque and opera, though she’s known as a singer who can sing, or blur the lines between different styles including classical, folk and jazz music in live performance and recording work. She enjoys being an active performer and interpreter of both her own and other composers’ music. Recently she featured original music commissioned by wildUp orchestra, performed her main stage LA Phil solo debut in Meredith Monk’s opera “ATLAS” at Walt Disney, and regularly works with companies including the Industry, and Jacaranda.

Kayla Tange

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Kayla Tange was born in South Korea and adopted by a Japanese American family in Lemoore, California. After highschool she moved to Los Angeles where her love for photography slowly progressed into a conceptual performance practice which incorporated elements of exotic dancing in which physical and psychic boundaries, sexuality, ancestral trauma and identity are recurring themes.

Ken Ehrlich

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Kim ye

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Kim Ye is an artist, writer, and organizer based in Los Angeles. She is owned by a cat and worked as a professional dominatrix and educator in the pre COVID world.

Kimberli Meyer

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Kiowa Hammons

United States, Brooklyn, NY

Kiowa Hammons is multi-disciplinary performer based in New York.

Kira O'Reilly

United States, Alfred, NY

Kira O’Reilly works with ephemeral forms to consider ideas of the body, it’s mutability and limits. This includes collaborations and articulations with other species, living materials, objects, and audience. Crossing disciplinary categories her practice arcs visual art, art, science and technology, performance, live art, and dance.

Kirk Pearson

United States, Berkeley, CA

Kirk Pearson is the founder of Dogbotic, a Berkeley-based creative audio lab where creative-driven inquiry meets inquiry-driven creativity. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Kirk has written music, built installations, and designed experiences for the New Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, Museum für Kommunikation Bern, and for hundreds of films, stage productions, and new media projects. In 2017, Kirk was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, through which they spent a year traveling the world composing works for experimental instruments.

Kueiju Lin

Taiwan, Taipei

Based in Taipei, Kueiju Lin enjoys composing for concert music as well as for electro-acoustic music and interdisciplinary projects.

Laura Cocks

United States, New York

Laura Cocks is a New York based flutist who works in a wide array of creative environments as a performer and promoter of contemporary music. Laura is the flutist and executive director of TAK ensemble, and a member of the Nouveau Classical Project and the Association of Dominican Classical Artists. She has performed across the Americas and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician in ensembles such as The London Sinfonietta, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Talea Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, and Ensemble Dal Niente. Laura can be heard with TAK, International Contemporary Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, and others on labels such as Carrier Records, ECM, New Focus Recordings, Sound American, Denovali Records, Orange Mountain Music, and Gold Bolus.

Lauren Koenen

United States, Glendale, CA

Linda L. Rife

United States, Tustin, CA

Linda L. Rife is a composer and cellist with an interest in integrating music with movement, dance, visual art, and multi-media. Ms. Rife thrives on collaboration with other artists of various métiers, resulting in unique, eclectic arrangements. She is dedicated to increasing exposure to avant-garde, opera, microtonal, and world music in local communities. In her work, Ms. Rife draws on her background as a cellist, vocalist, percussionist, and dancer to inform her exploration of just intonation and microtonality, non-western theories, extended techniques, and the world of ambience through the use of field recordings. She holds a BM Summa Cum Laude in Composition from California State University, Los Angeles where she studied with John Kennedy, and an MFA in Music Composition from California Institute of the Arts where she studied with Anne LeBaron and Wolfgang von Schweinitz.

Lisa Derrick

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Lisa Derrick is a native Angeleno deeply involved with the arts.

Lisa Dethridge

Australia, Melbourne, VIC

Dr. Lisa Dethridge has produced media for web, film, television, theatre, radio, print, telecoms and virtual environments in Australia and the United States. Writer/perfomer for online collaborative environments; social networking sites; 3D virtual worlds; film, TV and print. Her digital art exhibited in New York, Dublin and Melbourne, she supervises research in Games, Robotics, Transhumanism, Virtual Environments, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Media at the RMIT University School of Media and Communication. She performs with Tony Yap Dance Theatre MAP Delhi and MAP Melaka projects. Author of WRITING YOUR SCREENPLAY. Her 80s punk synth-band Artificial Organs re-released on Domestica Records, Barcelona.

Llama Kendall

Australia, Byron Bay, NSW

StrangeDreams is the solo project of Llama Kendall who has been creating, curating and choreographing costumes, dance and performance concepts for festivals, theatres and multi media events in Northern NSW for the last 25 years.

Lloyd May

South Africa, Johannesburg

Luciana Lyons

United States, Santa Clarita, CA

Luciana Lyons (they/them/theirs) is a BFA Dance student at California Institute of the Arts pursuing both performance and choreography.

M Pertuis

United States, Dallas, TX

Mad Kate

Germany, Berlin

Mad Kate (they/them) is an electronic producer, performance artist and writer based in Berlin. Their explorations of borders between/within bodies and touch as political practice have brought them to theaters, communes, technomansions, prisons, dungeons, squats and galleries around the world. Mad Kate is one half of the producer-performer duo HYENAZ, who tour a techno ritual based in consent, touch, sound, and movement to break physical and mental isolation and to spark discourse that is both critical and utopian.

Marcus Kuiland Nazario

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Marcus Kuiland-Nazario is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist. www.everydayisdayofthedead.com He is currently an artist in residence at the 18th Street Arts Center https://18thstreet.org/artists/marcus-kuiland-nazario/

margaret schedel

United States, East Setauket, NY

Maria Elena Altany

United States, Long Beach, CA

Upon her LA Opera debut as Susana in ¡Figaro! (90210), Opera News called Maria Elena Altany "delightfully smart and quicksilver." She is a Company Member of the groundbreaking opera company The Industry, led by MacArthur Fellow Yuval Sharon. With The Industry, she has performed featured roles in Anne LeBaron's Crescent City, Chris Cerrone's Invisible Cities, Hopscotch: An Opera for 24 Cars, for which she was featured in The New Yorker, and Sweet Land. Recent appearances include the John Cage’s Europeras 1 & 2 with the LA Philharmonic and The Industry, a tribute to Yma Sumac in the Radical Women series at the Hammer Museum, and Susanna in Ragnar Kjartansson’s BLISS with wild Up!, as part of the LA Philharmonic’s Fluxus festival. Post-pandemic performances will hopefully include a tour of Mozart's Opera Tales with LA Opera Connects.

maria sideri

Greece, Athens

Maria Sideri is an artist working with performance, sound and voice. Influenced from her studies in anthropology and in different research methods, her work focuses on representations of the body through archival research. Maria has graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Ioannina and from the postgraduate department of History of Religions at the University of Geneva. In 2012 she also completed her MFA at the Creative Practice at the Laban Conservatory of Music and Dance in London. She has received sponsorship from the Arts Council of England for the Vibrant Matter/La Métachorie project and recently she was awarded the ARTWORKS Fellowship (2018). Since March 2018 she has been a PhD candidate at the University of Western Macedonia in the Department of Applied and Visual Arts.

Mariángeles Soto-Díaz

United States, Mars' Pink moon

Mariángeles Soto-Díaz began her art and judo studies in Venezuela, the promising oil-producing nation that has become one of the most violent and polarized countries in the world. Working in a range of formats, she registers the kaleidoscopic multiplicity of her own history and subject position, challenging identity constructs and drawing on Latin American feminism as well as political, experimental and abstract languages. Her work has been presented at OCMA, SUR:Biennial, MAK Center for Art and Architecture and 18th Street Arts Center. She lives and works in Southern CA, and is currently training for her black belt at Bunasawa's dojo.

Marja Liisa Kay

United States, North Hollywood, CA

Dr. Marja Liisa Kay, recognized for her fearless sense of adventure, is dedicated to the performance and promotion of contemporary classical music of living composers, and innovation in performance practice. Proclaimed a 'tour de force' by Linda Hirst, she has sung with symphonies and premiered principle roles in new operas throughout Europe and Los Angeles. In addition to cutting edge live performance, Marja works as a studio singer which has included research sessions for the feature film, Avatar with James Horner and Phantom Recording. Upcoming projects include research based performances that explore the boundaries of collaboration, found vocal production, the preservation of a dying Americana language, and communication through invented language. Dr. Kay is a founding member of ROMP Ensemble (ROugh Musical Pleasure) and teaches freelance in her personal studio.

Marta Tiesenga

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Martin Velez

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Martin combines music, sound, science and technology into a single interactive and socially meaningful experience. He has executed live performances and studio productions that range from traditional Andean music to experimental biofeedback. His latest works aim to elicit self-awareness within the audience, both at a personal, social, and environmental level. Vélez holds degrees in Music Theory and Sound Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Music Technology. His installation works have been presented in art galleries in Los Angeles and Bogotá.

Matt Carney

United States, San Francisco, CA

Matt Johnstone

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Matt Johnstone is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist with a background in modern dance, performance, experimental film, and electronic music.

Matt Petty

United States, Memphis, TN

Matt Petty is an experimental trombonist, composer, and video artist based in Memphis, Tennessee. Matt’s work often uses lo-fi gear to create music-based multimedia works involving found sound, video, and live performance. Matt's latest music/visual art project: You Can Call Me Sir was featured in HBO's OUTFEST at MOCA Grand in Los Angeles.

Max Jaffe

United States, Burlingame, VT

Hitting things with sticks. Music Technology MFA at Calarts.

Megan Moncrief

United States, Brooklyn, NY

Megan Moncrief is a musician, composer, and elementary music teacher in NY, NY.

Melaine Knight

Australia, Byron Hinterland, NSW

http://melaineknight.com/#/profile

Melinda Rice

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Mia Theody

United States, Bronx, NY

Mia Theodoratus is an improviser, teacher, composer and performer. She has plays everywhere with just about anyone ranging from CBGB’s, Carnegie Hall, LifeBall and everywhere in between. Her aesthetic blends midwestern and western music with joy.

Micaela Tobin

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Micaela Tobin is a soprano, sound artist, and teacher based in Los Angeles, CA who specializes in experimental voice and contemporary opera, composing under the moniker "White Boy Scream."

Michelle Marie

United States, Norwalk, IA

Michelle is a movement artist residing in Iowa. She seeks to understand the impetus of movement – both within and beyond the confines of the body. Michelle studied modern dance at the University of Illinois. She has danced with companies including Mark Morris Dance Group, and completed residencies with institutions such as the Des Moines Art Center. Currently, she is guest lecturing at Iowa State University and University of Tennessee. At its core, Michelle’s work is investigative and intuitive. She aims to integrate internal and external environmental information into actualized, embodied experiences. You can find Michelle at @ohmichelleyeah or @oneseconddances on Instagram.

Midori

United States, San Francisco, CA

Midori ( 美登里 ) is a multidisciplinary and social practice artist fascinated with giving shape and texture to emotion, memory, desire, beauty, repulsion, collective memory and subconscious revisions of experience. A Tokyo native and long-time San Franciscan, she’s known for her durational and interactive performances and engaged installations. Using powerful metaphors drawn from tactile experience and ancient mythology, Midori creates environments for viewers to bring and to process their own narratives.

Mika Godbole

United States, Princeton, NJ

Malavika, or Mika, Godbole is an enthusiastic performer and supporter of new music as a soloist and with the groundbreaking quartet Mobius Percussion. Recent accolades include a Grammy nomination and the 2016 Bessie Award for Outstanding Musical Composition/Sound Design. Upcoming projects involve a new music marathon, aptly titled Unruly Sounds, and premieres by underrepresented composers. Additionally, she maintains a studio of twenty students through Rowan University and Westminster Conservatory. Other activities include focusing on a GoFundMe campaign for other freelancers affected by the Covid-19 crisis along with volunteering as the Equal Sound Corona Relief Fund Manager.

Mithun P. Suresh

India, Kottayam

Miya Masaoka

United States, New York City, NY

Molly Pease

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Molly Pease is an eclectic LA-based vocal artist, composer and improviser with experience in a wide range of musical styles including folk, jazz, classical, opera, experimental, contemporary, and improvisatory music. Molly is an avid explorer of extended vocal sounds, in both her performance and composition. She leads experimental rock project ACKLAND and also creates works for voices, strings and other combinations.

Momilani Ramstrum

United States, San Diego, CA

Momilani Ramstrum is a composer, singer, PD programmer, and interface designer. As a vocal improviser she performs with live electronics using her patented MIDI glove that she designed and created. She authored a DVD-ROM entitled “From Kafka to K….” documenting and analyzing Manoury’s electronic opera K… published by IRCAM. She wrote a chapter in Simoni’s Analyzing Electroacoustic Music published by Routledge. Wave Media LLC has published her 7 music theory, musicianship and composition textbooks with interactive website drills and tournaments that create and evaluate student learning based on gaming theory rather than traditional academic models. Dr. Ramstrum is Professor of Music at San Diego Mesa College and directs the music theory, musicianship, and composition areas of the department.

Nancy Kiang

United States, La Crescenta, CA

Nancy Kiang is a U.S. filmmaker whose interests include exploring philosophy of identity. Her short films based on stories by Italo Calvino and Anton Chekov have won awards at various film festivals. She is also an astrobiologist who conducts research on habitability of exoplanets and on photosynthesis as a potential sign of remotely detectable life. She splits her time between New York City and California and is currently sheltering in place in Los Angeles. She urges everyone to wear a mask or scarf to contribute to protecting public health.

Nao Bustamante

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Nao Bustamante is an Internationally renowned artist, residing in Los Angeles, California. Bustamante's precarious work encompasses performance art, video installation, filmmaking, sculpture and writing. Currently she holds the position of Professor of Art at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. There, she also serves at the Director of the MFA in Art.

Nicholas Chase

United States, Eugene, OR

LA Times describes Nicholas Chase as "The Rite of Spring meets Metallica!" In a quest for unusual musical possibilities, Chase has played mannequin limbs, walkie-talkies, record-players, transistor radios, sitting inside a piano, riding a bicycle. His whiplash-blend of musical styles has been showcased by Kalvos & Damien and Other Minds radio, featured on KMHT Television in New York, on Salve Television, Germany. He has headlined festivals in Europe and the US integrating kinetic visuals with music performance and his chamber works have been noted by Strad and Double Bassist magazines, and American Record Guide to name a few.

Nicola L. Hein

United States, New York, NY

Nicola L. Hein (*1988) is a guitarist, sound artist, composer and researcher in the field of aesthetics. 
He plays the guitar with physical and electronic extensions, constantly pushing to transcend existing sonic paradigms. As a sound artist and composer, he works with sound installations, instrument building, conceptual composition and integrates philosophical theories into his artistic practice. Inter-media works with video art, dance, literature and other art forms constitute another focus of his practice. With the support of the Goethe Institute and many other institutions, his artworks have been realized in more than 30 countries worldwide. He worked with many of the world's most established musicians in the field of improvised music. Furthermore, he works as a researcher in the field of aesthetics, gives lectures at different institutions around the world and, following an invitation of Prof. George E. Lewis, has been a "visiting scholar" at the music department of Columbia University in New York.

Nigel Deane

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Nigel Deane is a Los Angeles-based artist who works mostly in the realms of music and sound. He has worked as a multi-instrumentalist and composer in collaboration with artists of various backgrounds, and has also done work as a dancer, actor, writer, video artist and installation artist. Recent performances include Steve Reich’s Violin Phase for four violins with wild Up, an original experimental religious ceremony called MASS, Kunsthalle for Music in Santa Barbara, and Yves Klein’s Monotone Symphony with Monday Evening Concert Series. Nigel has a B.Mus. in Composition from Rice University and an MFA as a Performer-Composer from CalArts.

Niko Solorio

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Niko Solorio is a video artist and experimental musician whose musical stylings have been described as “Neo-Medieval-Minimalist-Electro-Pop” as well as “Global-Electro-Super Corn-with 90’s Fetish". His most recent album titled ANGEL is a kind of ode to his hometown of Los Angeles which is often affectionately referred to as the 'City of Angels'. Solorio has studied at the Glasgow School of Art, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Point Blank (Los Angeles/London) and holds a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts as well as an MFA from Transart Institute. He has performed and exhibited his work both in the U.S. and abroad including shows at Transvizualia (Gdynia), Redcat (Los Angeles), X-Initiative (New York), How To Become A Cult Leader (London), Fanfulla 101 (Rome), Mudam Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Cercle Blanc (Berlin), PS1 (New York), Santa Lucia Galerie (Berlin), Hauser & Wirth (Los Angeles), Tutto Questo Sentire (London), and Ye Olde Ding A Ling / Hushe Clubbe (Los Angeles).

Norman Lowrey

United States, Mount Tabor, NJ

Norman Lowrey is a maskmaker / composer / performance / video artist and retired Professor Emeritus of Music at Drew University, Madison, NJ. He holds a Ph.D. in composition from the Eastman School of Music, a Deep Listening Certificate, and is the originator of Singing Masks.

O Zotique

United States, Hudson

O Zotique is a latinx composer, teacher, and PhD candidate living nomadically on Zotique World’s BUS17. O’s music has been performed in four countries and across three continents. Recent commissions include: CONVECTUS Saxophone Quartet, NYRB Poets, RIC Orchestra (RI), and Washington Symphony Orchestra (PA).

Oliver T. Mills

United States

Ollie Paige Linden

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Ollie Paige Linden (they/them) is a cartoonist based in Los Angeles. Their work focuses on embracing personal truths from mental health to bodily functions, celebrating life on this messy beautiful orb.

Omar Martinez

I aquired a Bachelor's degree as an instrumentalist especialized in percussion instruments in Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Morelia city in Mexico. I learned latin percussion from the Cuban artist: Roberto Vizcaíno and contemporary repertoire and orchestral percussion with Hector Garcia. I also earned a Master's grade in Universidad de Guanajuato with Ivan Manzanilla as my mentor. One of my favorite activities is playing chamber music, I have good experience doing this but I am also working as a soloist recording and doing live performances.

Pamela Madsen

United States, Laguna Beach, CA

Pamela Madsen is a composer, performer, theorist and curator of new music. From massive landscape inspired projects, intimate chamber music creations to multi-media opera collaborations and immersive deep listening works her work focuses on image, music, text and the environment. With a Ph.D. in Music Composition from UCSD, Mellon Foundation Doctoral Research Award at Yale University, Post-Doctoral Composer/researcher at IRCAM, Paris, and Deep Listening Certificate with Pauline Oliveros, her works have been commissioned and premiered world-wide. Selected as an Alpert Award Panelist, Creative Capital artist “on the radar” with awards from National Endowment for the Arts, New Music USA, Meet the Composer, American Scandinavian Foundation, Fellowships from MacDowell Colony, UCross, Wyoming, and the Women’s International Studies Center, Santa Fe, she is a frequent guest lecturer, composer-performer-improviser and invited scholar at festivals and universities. She is curator of the Annual New Music Festival, World Electroacoustic Listening Room Project, Director of the New Music Ensemble and InterArts Collaborative Projects at Cal State Fullerton where she is Professor of Music Composition.

Pamela Z

United States, San Francisco, CA

Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist making works for voice, electronic processing, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video. She has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. Her work has been presented at venues and exhibitions including Bang on a Can (NY), the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds (SF), the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. She has composed scores for dance, film, and chamber ensembles (including Kronos Quartet). Her awards include the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation residency, the Herb Alpert Award, and United States Artists. www.pamelaz.com

Paris Myers

United States, Corvallis, OR

Paris Myers is a passionate advocate and creator of interdisciplinary work and change. She joined Oregon State University’s Honors College at age 16 in 2017, as a double major in Fine Arts and Bioengineering. From 2017-18 she created and curated The Reynolds Gallery, and from 2018-19 she was the Gallery Director and Co-Curator of Truckenbrod Gallery in Oregon (which belongs to the intermedia artist Joan Truckenbrod). Paris' work has been shown in both solo and group shows at the High Desert Museum, Bend, Pitzer College, Interzone, CEI works, LaSells Stewart Center, The Arts Center, Fairbanks Gallery, The Reynolds Gallery and more. Paris was a 2018 Playa Arts and Sciences artist in residence.

Patrick Shiroishi

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Paul Regan

Ireland, Dublin

Born in 1970 in Dublin in Ireland. Background in painting, then performance.

Paula Cronan

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Paula Cronan is a painter and body worker who splits her time between Los Angeles and Baltimore. Originally from Philadelphia, Cronan received her undergraduate Certificate in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1987. In the 1990’s she played in several San Francisco dyke punk bands as a self-taught drummer and performance artist. She also works in video, animation, and installation, and has collaborated with other artists and toured in the US and Europe on various experimental opera, theater, film, dance, and music projects.

Peter J. Bowling

United States, New Orleans, LA

Peter J Bowling is a multi-instrumentalist improviser, producer, composer, designer, & collaborator based in New Orleans.

Petra Kuppers

United States, Ypsilanti, MI

Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist, a community performance artist, and a Professor at the University of Michigan. She leads The Olimpias, an international performance research collective. Her academic books engage disability performance; medicine and contemporary arts; somatics and writing; and community performance. She is also the author of a dark fantasy collection, Ice Bar (2018). Her most recent poetry collection is the ecosomatic Gut Botany (2020). She lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where she co-creates Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space, with her wife and collaborator, Stephanie Heit.

Pierce Starre

United Kingdom, Liverpool

Pierce Starre (b.1984 Liverpool) is a UK based artist with a practice situated in performance. Pierce situates his personal experiences within a broader social and political context. Their artworks provide the viewer with an opportunity to be immersed within an embodied experience, creating a platform for connection, reflection, and discussion. Pierce understands the capacity of performance art to engage the artist and the viewer in a transformative exchange both through the live performance of the work and through its documentation

Rachel Finkelstein

United States, West Hollywood, CA

Rafael Luna

United States, Santa Clarita, CA

Rafael Luna is an Artist that is always breaking the barriers of what could be. An Innovator to say the least but also a stylist that appreciates all Art and Culture. Born and raised in California. Currently resides in the Northern suburban area of LA, County Valencia. He is a recent Graduate from California Institute of the Arts, A prestigious Arts University that is always on the forefront of education and for the expansion of the arts. Rafael holds degrees, Bachelors in Fine Arts (2016) with an emphasis on Jazz Performance · Music Composition · Music technology and Masters in Fine Arts (2018) with an emphasis on Pedagogy/Education · Audio visual art · Performance.

Raquel Acevedo Klein

United States, Brooklyn, NY

Raquel Acevedo Klein is an active conductor, vocalist, instrumentalist and visual artist. She conducts for the Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus. She has premiered works by Philip Glass, John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw, Paola Prestini, Bryce Dessner, Missy Mazzoli, Shara Nova, and Aleksandra Vrebalov, to name a few. Raquel has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Town Hall, BAM, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Celebrate Brooklyn!, National Sawdust and elsewhere. She has recorded and performed with the likes of Glen Hansard, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, The National, Grizzly Bear, The Knights, NY Philharmonic, International Contemporary Ensemble and Mariinsky Orchestra among others.

Red Squirrel's Nest Materials

Canada, Huntsville, ON

A red squirrels keeps building in our home. it takes little of everything! newspaper, my cardigan, snow, entire branches, but not plastic. this is our inspiration.

Renée Thérèse Coulombe

Germany, Berlin

Renée T. Coulombe, PhD, is an artist of considerable breadth: composer, improviser, media installation artist, producer, critical theorist and publisher; founder of the international transmedia performance collective, Improvised Alchemy, the arts incubator/collaborative production space The Willows Nest in Friedrichshain, Berlin, and Banshee Media publishing. A former Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of California Riverside, she is published widely on topics of sound and embodiment in contemporary music and media in international anthologies and journals. She is an associate editor of Perspectives of New Music and contributing editor to Open Space.

Roksana Zeinapur

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Rosalyn Bataille

United States, Peoria, AZ

Rosalyn Bataille is a multifaceted collaborative artist with a strong dance base. She graduated from the CalArts school of Dance in 2019 and is in training to become a certified Pilates instructor. Rosalyn is an artist that wears many different hats: Dancer, filmmaker, director, producer, and most things in between. Recently she has been working with using the body as a transformative being - soft sculpture costumed movement, clay, textures, and textiles. She’s an interrogator if the systems around us.

Russell Pikus

United States, Burbank, CA

Sarah Elizabeth Johnston

Estonia, Tallinn

Sarah Johnson

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Johnson has been born again a few times. PDX > NYC > LA

Sarah Van Sciver

United States, Valencia, CA

Sarah Van Sciver is a professional composer, arranger, singer, pianist, and harpist – writing for film and theatre and as a singer-songwriter. She is also an avid educator, recording engineer, conductor, musical director, orchestrator, sound designer, chorister, video editor… a creative chameleon who would love to collaborate on whatever artistic concoction you’ve got cooking. A graduate of the Performer-Composer M.F.A. program at CalArts, she received her B.A. in Music at the University of Pennsylvania and a Professional Certificate in General Music Studies from Berklee.

Seamus Hubbard Flynn

United States, Saint Paul, MN

Seamus Hubbard Flynn (b. 1999), from Minnesota, is a composer, flutist and pianist whose mediums range from staff notation to text-based and graphic-based improvisation. Seamus is currently pursuing a B.A. in Music at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Sean Sonderegger

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Sean X. Quinn

Australia, Melbourne, VIC

Sean Quinn is a composer, flautist and foundist, based in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently studying Composition with Melody Eötvös and Flute Performance with Derek Jones at the University of Melbourne. Aside from his early stages of life in the industry, Sean is an active advocate for new performance practices, and holds an Ambassadorship with the local group Forest Collective. As a flautist, he has engaged with new music by composers such as Liza Lim, Cat Hope and Samantha Wolf. His works have been performed nationally by renowned artists and his catalogue of works falls in at around 25 completed. His future holds a variety of projects, including plans of a cycle of chamber music in response to the surreal and cryptic novel, ‘House of Leaves’ by Mark Z. Danielewski. His commission list includes national and international recognition, and he has been featured at events such as the 2019 International TENOR Conference held in Melbourne, AUS, where he was one of 8 Australian artists to be featured.

Shanna Pranaitis

United States, Evanston, IL

Flutist Shanna Pranaitis fearlessly expands the realm of sonic possibility for her instruments through innovative performances and educational projects, in which she integrates new and historically reimagined works with electronics, movement, and lighting to create seamless, immersive concert experiences. She is interested in exploring ways to engage and involve a wider community in the process of experiencing music. She is the co-founder of FluteXpansions, the first comprehensive e-learning platform and laboratory for composers and performers to explore contemporary flute music and techniques. She performs on a Burkart flute and piccolo and Kingma bass and alto flutes.

Sharon Chohi Kim

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Sharon Chohi Kim is a classical vocalist who specializes in contemporary opera and experimental voice. She recently performed the role of Wiindigo in the Industry Opera’s Sweet Land, and the role of Hungry Ghost in Meredith Monk’s opera ATLAS with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Other performances include the role of Lucha in The Industry’s world premiere of Hopscotch, and the West Coast premiere of Sila: The Breath of the World by John Luther Adams. She has also performed with Los Angeles Opera Company, the Broad Museum, four larks, Getty Villa, MOCA, REDCAT, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. She has toured Canada and the U.K. singing experimental music. As well as performing, Sharon recently co-composed Unseal Unseam. This opera was described as “hair-raising” and “paralyzingly beautiful” (New Classic LA).

Sheelah Murthy

China, Xioajingwan

Sheelah Murthy a.k.a. s.g. murthy chooses to work in the realm of performance with both a poetic and provocative intent. Her works are rooted in an interdisciplinary approach of critical pedagogy, sustained research, and keen observations of the cinematic within everyday surroundings. She currently lives and works in a coastal town in the southern province of China.

Shih-Wei Wu

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Shih-wei Wu is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and movement artist. With a background in Classical music and Japanese folk music, Shih-wei performs and writes music that reflects his Taiwanese heritage and the diasporic communities of Los Angeles. An experienced collaborator, Shih-wei has performed with award winning contemporary dance company, MULTIPLEX Dance, composed original music for Hyper theater company, Rogue Artist Collective, and created multiple original physical theater work premiered in Hollywood Fringe and West Hollywood Dance Festival. He has appeared in a music video alongside Rihanna and Coldplay as well as performing at the world famous Hollywood Bowl. Shih-wei’s latest project is Red Eye 2 Tokyo, and has just release his first album, Friends I Have Just Met.

Sichong Xie

Sichong Xie received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, CA. She’s currently an artist in residency at The Studios at MASS MoCA. In 2018, she was a full fellowship artist at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. In the summer of 2017, Xie was chosen to participate at Hauser & Wirth Somerset exchange residency at Bath School of Art & Design, Bath Spa University. She also did a five-hour durational performance/installation “Walking With The Disappeared” at the Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK. In 2016, she was a fellowship artist at The Watermill Center in Long Island, NY. During the 2016 Watermill Center Gala, she collaborated with five other actors and dancers, creating a piece called “Everyday Objects”, a three-hour durational performance integrating dance, experimental theatre and installations.

Simone Baer

United States

Visual and performing artist.

Snežana Saraswati Petrovic

United States, Redlands, CA

LA based video/ installation and performance artist who left country of origins due to war to currently fight underground another war against virus. Recipient of UC Regent , NEA, and CCI Grants and Awards: Ovation for costume design in Large Theater category and Gold Arena fir production design at International Pula Festival

Sofia Benitez

United States, Valencia, CA

Stacy Ellen Rich

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Stacy Ellen Rich designs, performs and collaborates to transport an individual through experience, creatively challenging the range of one’s embodiment. Rich opens the door on unexpected turns of performance and fashion both pathetic and exquisite. Her intensive quest in research, sketching, the study of archival photography, sartorial moments and pure creation, result in an evocative reality as well as period renditions. Rich implores the viewer to see a multiplied view of the characters’ gestalt, much like a cubist painter would paint an object from a series of different orientations. Rich’s art is a moving manifestation of the ways our imagination plays with desire, our sense of history, the visual pleasure of exceptional style or the humanity of a torn pant leg. Rich is a member of the Costume Designers Guild IA 892 and IA Motion Picture Costumers IA 705.

Stephanie Heit

United States, Ypsilanti, MI

Stephanie Heit is a poet, dancer, and teacher of somatic writing, Contemplative Dance Practice, and Kundalini Yoga. She is a Zoeglossia Fellow, bipolar, and a member of the Olimpias, an international disability performance collective. Her poetry collection, The Color She Gave Gravity (The Operating System 2017) explores the seams of language, movement, and mental health difference. She lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan where she creates Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space, with her wife and collaborator, Petra Kuppers.

steven chen

United States, Santa Clarita, CA

Steven Chen is an artist based in Los Angeles, California and currently lives and works with their cat and long-term collaborator, Liam Mandel.

Susan Emmet Reid

United States, Venice, CA

Susan Emmett Reid is a multimedia artist and activist who has performed, written, directed, and produced new art works for stages and spaces across America including NYC, Los Angeles, and many wonderful places in between. Her practice is rooted in the investigation of the experiential body as it encounters the sensory world. She lives in Venice Beach and Joshua Tree in California.

Susan Silton

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Susan Silton is based in Los Angeles. Her interdisciplinary projects respond to resonant political and social landscapes, often through poetic combinations of humor, discomfort, subterfuge and unabashed beauty. The work presents as performative and participatory-based projects, photography, video, installation, text/audio works, and offset lithography. Her work has been exhibited/presented nationally and internationally at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; LAXART, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum; ICA/ Philadelphia; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, among others. Silton has received fellowships and awards including Getty/California Community Foundation, Art Matters, Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles, The MacDowell Colony, Durfee Foundation, and Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA). Most recently, she was awarded an LA METRO commission for permanent installation sited in the Wilshire/Fairfax subway station.

Susie Showers

Canada, Montreal, QC

Susie Showers is a clown, an installation artist, a puppeteer and a parade leader. She lives in Montreal with her pet snake. She is fascinated by the process of collecting reflective objects to fill an empty heart. Tracy Stencil met Susie Showers in an abandoned cement factory in summer 2019, and it was a dazzling collision of sparks. They've been ablaze ever since, and are looking forward to performing together under the pink moon

sylke rene meyer

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Ted Gordon

United States, New York City, NY

Ted Gordon is a musician and music scholar living in New York, where he is a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Music at Columbia University. In 2018, he received a PhD in the History and Theory of Music from the University of Chicago. As an improviser, he performs with the viola and the Buchla Music Easel. Recently, he has collaborated with Marcia Bassett and Jeffrey Perkins as THE ETERNAL NOW.

Tereza Silon

Czech Republic, Prague

Tereza Silon is a multimedia artist and an embodied thinker with a strong performance practice. She is also a facilitator. She works with themes of natural and social ecologies, around questions of gender and labour, she creates poetic autoethnographic myths and attempts to create more space for pleasure which she believes to be a possible antidote to the economies of extraction. She is repeatedly challenged by art as a vehicle of sentience towards oneself and others (human and non-human) towards the world which ties in with Oliveros' concept of deep listening.

theo + ellen

United States, Brighton Beach, NY

Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen

Denmark, Aalborg

Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen is a Danish artist and researcher, who works in the intersection between performance art, sound, media, and matter. She has an education from the College of Arts Crafts and Design (DK), where she began studying performance art in 1999, and holds a Master of Arts in Art History from Aarhus University (DK). Madsen's research deals with theory as well as practice and how these are inseparable entities in an investigation and discussion of the body as interface and affective technology. She has presented and performed her work and research festivals and conferences internationally.

Tobaron Waxman

United States, Brooklyn, NY

Tobaron is a visual artist who sings. Tobaron composes performances for photograph, video and site-specific installation, and is also a trained vocalist in Jewish liturgical music. Their practice interrogates how citizenship makes moral and ethical claims upon our bodies, and includes elements of Diaspora, Jewish and transgender experience. Tobaron 's projects have been exhibited internationally. Tobaron is a fellow of Kulturlabor ICI Berlin and Akademie der Künste der Welt/Koln, recipient of awards from NYFA, FranklinFurnace, SmackMellon, and Jewish Museum of NewYork. In 2013 Tobaron founded The Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency as a combined curatorial, relational art, and sociopolitical praxis. tobaron.com

Tom Ertlin

United States, Long Beach, CA

Tracey Stencil

Germany, Berlin

Tracey Stencil is a certified ASMR artist. For many years she worked for a big stationary company and always paid phenomenal attention to detail and would brighten up her long working days with her love of all things stationary. Within the fabulous world of ASMR she enjoys stationery exploration, humour and storytelling, playing frequently with tactile sound production, connection to objects, soft, sharp, crinkly, crunchy sounds, opening and closing, colour, image and the element of surprise. Outside of the world of ASMR Tracey also works as a dancer, choreographer performer and sound artist. Recently, she has been heavily involved with the endless possibilities of tape, reflecting and refractions. Tracey Stencil performs both in the physical world and online, specialising in one on one personalised ASMR performances. In 2016 she co-founded the ASMR inspired project, Carlos Whisper and is a part of the "Feminist ASMR" channel. Tracey hosted a workshop at the Easter Conference Berlin on BDSM, kink and sound. Tracey Stencil met Susie Showers in an abandoned cement factory in summer 2019, and it was a dazzling collision of sparks. They've been ablaze ever since, and we are looking forward to performing together under the pink moon.

Tricia Park

United States, Chicago, IL

The recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, Violinist Tricia Park has performed on five continents and is the producer and host of the podcast, "Is it Recess Yet? Confessions of a Former Child Prodigy.” She is the Artistic Director of MusicIC, a music festival exploring the connections between music and literature and is the founding member of the award-winning Solera Quartet. She also plays in the violin-fiddle duo, Tricia & Taylor. Tricia is a graduate of The Juilliard School and received an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Tricia Van Eck

United States, Chicago, IL

Tricia Van Eck is Founder of 6108North, an experiment in challenging who, what, how, where, and why to connect through art. Named after its Chicago mansion’s address, 6018North is also itinerant. Its In Flux: Chicago Artists and Immigration exhibition is quarantined at the Chicago Cultural Center. Previously she spent 13 years at MCA, Chicago organizing 70 + exhibitions and programs with artists such as Mark Bradford, Tania Bruguera, Theaster Gates, Jan Tichy, Kerry James Marshall, and Tino Sehgal. Her shows, from large group exhibitions to small one-person shows, were experimental and audience engaged, all at the core of 6018North’s work.

Tyler Araujo

United States, Chicago, IL

Vanessa Tomlinson

Australia, Brisbane, QLD

Vanessa is an artist dedicated to exploring how sound shapes our lives. With a long history in experimental music, Vanessa uses this body of knowledge to consider how we listen through site-specific explorations of space and place, and our potential to explore new ideas through sound. Trained as a percussionist, Vanessa relies on this sonic investigation of objects to build compositions, create contexts for improvisation, and collaborate across art-forms and disciplines. She is currently Professor of Music at Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University and co-director of Clocked Out.

Ver Ireta

Mexico, Mexico City

Mexican digital artist and filmmaker, likes cats and to explore with video and visual effects.

Viola Yip

United States, New York City, NY

A Native of Hong Kong, Viola Yip is a New York-based experimental composer, performer, sound artist, and instrument builder. Her recent interest falls on creating performances based on an intermedial conception of music as well as creating sound pieces that are created through playing around unconventional relationships of objects. Viola's instruments and performances have been presented in major music festivals and concert series in New York, Missouri, Chicago, San Diego, Boston, Bowling Green (Ohio), Pittsburgh, Ithaca, Saratoga Springs, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Dublin, Belfast, Manchester, Huddersfield, Madeira, Ghent, Amsterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Berlin and Darmstadt.

Warren Enström

United States, Milwaukee, WI

Wheeler Bills

United States, Tujunga, CA

William Nedved

United States, Los Angeles, CA

William Nedved is a Los Angeles-based playwright and writing teacher. Recent projects include the musical MEDUSA, which was workshopped by Deaf West Theatre Company at The Getty Villa and the opera THE PASSION OF MCQUEEN, presented in concert at Boston Court Theatre. He is the co-founder of The Gift Theatre Company of Chicago, a 19-year-old Equity ensemble.

Yixuan Shao

United States, Ontario, CA

Yixuan Shao is a multidisciplinary artist. Her works explore the notion of archive as a collections of things and beings, and the impact of the Institution on the cultural, social, economic space we take up. Her practice uses sound and sound- studies as an all-encompassing atlas, and intimate and interior listening as an approach to build relations outside of the frame of time. She is currently undertaking an MFA in Sound Art at Columbia University in New York.

Young Joo Lee

South Korea, Seoul

MOONtage is a collection of stories, rituals and songs about the moon.

Yunuen Rhi

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Yunuen Rhi is a two-spirit martial artist, anthropologist, performance artist, and healer. Our roots are in Mexico, the United States, and Korea.

Zach Jacobs

United States, Allendale, MI

Zachary Kenefick

United States, Thousand Oaks, CA

Zachary Kenefick is an artist usually located around Long Beach, California. He has studied poetry, sculpture, and composition at CSU Long Beach. His artistic output is often centered around the tension between virtuosity and amateurism and the role the institution and canon has on both. He enjoys working with music technology and collaborative processes. He often works with dancers and visual artists, and enjoys large scale collaborations. Recently, he has been writing for a lot of dance. For his day job, Zachary teaches kindergarten music at Music Rhapsody. He plays the saxophone decently well and the banjo endearingly poorly.

Zachary Nicol

United States, Chicago, IL

Zeina Baltagi

United States, Davis, CA

Zeina Baltagi is an artist and educator. Baltagi was born in Stockton and raised between California and Lebanon. Her work explores and exposes the tensions with in identity and social politics. The work reveals intimate transformations in relation to lived experiences with physical, emotional, economic and cultural mobility. Baltagi has exhibited her work in collaboration with; Museo de la Cuidad de Mèxico, LADOT, Union Station, Los Angeles Road Concerts, PØST, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Torrance Art Museum, bG gallery and Klowden Mann. As well as numerous University galleries including; University of Southern California, Claremont Graduate University, California Lutheran University, California State University, Northridge and University of California, Davis.

Zulma Aguiar

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Aguiar is an Electronic Artist who studied Improvisation and Experimental Art with Pauline Oliveros from 2004-2006 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2006 “AB-TIME,” was a collab with Pauline Oliveros Video, Sound, Dance Online Performance with Marseille, France and Vancouver, Canada and Troy, New York. Aguiar has employed various arts practices, disciplines, and technologies to investigate issues critical to the advancement of our culture. She is interested in interdisciplinary studies such as the Fine and computer based Arts, Engineering and the Sciences. Her practice centers around many topics, but continues to explore the aesthetics of border politics in New Media Art.