Adriana Tampasis is a composer, flutist/clarinetist/saxophonist, and poet influenced by the industrial-natural landscape of the Hudson Valley. She specializes in chamber jazz ensemble composition and improvised music.

www.instagram.com/adriiana_t/

Aidan (he/him) is a singer/actor/composer and a recent graduate of the St. Clair College musical theatre performance program. In September, he will be finishing his degree at I.T. Sligo in Ireland.

Alex Hawthorn is an artist, composer, and technologist based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn. Their work in both physical and digital media interrogates notions of archive, memory, and time.

www.AlexHawthorn.com

Austin White is a producer and musician based in Brooklyn, New York. He focuses primarily on improvised music using electric bass and modular synthesizers.

Born and raised in Hampshire County, West Virginia, multi-instrumentalist, Ben Townsend, has studied traditional Appalachian music extensively. Currently, he is working with software and hardware synthesizers to re-imagine the sounds of his home.

www.youtube.com/channel/UC1n65qXXpkSK-J1TZT4XB4w

Ben Swisher is a music-sound “person” based in Salt Lake City, whose work often explores the magical tension of limitation and intuition. He has recently focused on textural dance scores but has also written several albums of “songs” about birds and vacuums, among other “things”.

www.benswisher.bandcamp.com

Coraline Seksinsky is an improvising musician and prominent nobody from New England, who uses guitars, drums, and synthesizers in her explorations of the wilderness of self.

www.filmdungeonmusic.bandcamp.com

shan-uh-kees is comprised of Dr. Dave O Mahony (Limerick, Ireland) and Dr. Ralph Lewis (Urbana, IL, USA). They make and perform radio art, live electronics, and video art.

Edward Enman is a pianist and composer whose music warmly embraces story-telling, multi-media, collaboration, and innovative performance experiences.

www.edwardenman.com

Ellie Jakes is a composer and synthesist based in Eugene, Oregon. She works primarily in modular synthesis and jazz big band, incorporating elements of contemporary jazz, classical, avant-garde, ambient, and dance music.

www.soundcloud.com/user-895817615

Jack is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and educator working in genres including opera, orchestral, electronic, and groove-based. Jack began as a jazz drummer, and recently completed his MA thesis analyzing Tan Dun's film score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

www.soundcloud.com/jack-hui-litster

Loop pedal violist, composer, & educator Kathryn Patricia Cobbler has crafted a singular niche in music improvisation & classical performance. She explores the link between music & community connection.

www.kathrynpatricia.com

Experimental Kindness is the alias of drummer/percussionist Kyle Hutchins. Hutchins weaves a tapestry of iPhone voice memos and field recordings, blissfully blooming sound collages, and sampled wind chimes blended with raw performances, all liberally processed. “A journey through an extraterrestrial kelp forest of elastic bands, some giving way, others bending and retracting…”

www.experimentalkindness.bandcamp.com

Laura Millar is a trumpet player and composer. Classically trained, she enjoys working in an ambient-inspired style to write and perform highly expressive music.

www.youtube.com/channel/UCXsWkJqRISlKbaprMh0gsSg

Leah is a musician, poet, and writer based in Altadena, CA. Her work often rests in a queer space between camp, the surreal, and the sincere.

www.calibellow.bandcamp.com/

M Denney is a composer, electronic musician, guitarist, and sound artist. She works with feedback, the (mis)use of physical media, and extended tunings and intonation.

www.linktr.ee/maxdenney

Maddi Baird is a composer, sound artist, and dj using performance and installation-based works along with empirical forms of research to explore the multifaceted ways in which humans relate to themselves, each other, and the natural world.

www.maddibaird.com

Jazz Singer, composer, and improviser. Her works experiment with electronic and folk Colombian music. She has collaborated with scenic artists and improvisers. She is now interested in artistic collaborations with interactive media artists and electronics.

www.soundcloud.com/mar-a-paula-v-squez-sep-lveda

Marie Jocelyn Marfil is an Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines, College of Music. She is a performer-composer specializing in bandurria. Currently the Artistic Director of UP Rondalla.

www.music.upd.edu.ph/Marfil_Marie_Jocelyn.html

Matt Mason is a composer and pianist that likes to create buoyant constellations of sound in space.

www.matt-masonmusic.com

Matthew Lyons is a composer and performer from Austin, Texas. He strives to write music that strikes a balance between accessibility and complexity, finding influence in jazz and popular styles as well as the classical canon.

www.matthewlyonsmusic.com/

Michael C. Duguay is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, poet, and punk whose work focuses on site-specific ensemble recording, radical DIY collaborative practices, community-building, and the recording process as a document of lived communal experience. This summer, he will be recording his friends performing saxophone inside of lighthouses using an off-grid, solar-powered mobile studio as he develops a more environmentally sustainable recording practice.

www.insidepocketmusic.com/artists/michael-c-duguay/

Rachel Epperly is a composer, improviser, and performer who strives to achieve new levels of vulnerability with each new work. She is interested in accessing vulnerability through the voice, movement, and text, as well as through embodied themes such as queerness, gender, and nature.

www.rachelepperly.com/

Rafael Luna is a Multi-faceted Flutist, Composer and Educator. A creative artist who wears many hats whose work involves multidisciplinarity through a transdisciplinary narrative.

www.rafaellunamusic.com

shan-uh-kees is comprised of Dr. Dave O Mahony (Limerick, Ireland) and Dr. Ralph Lewis (Urbana, IL, USA). They make and perform radio art, live electronics, and video art.

www.ralphlewismusic.com/bio-3/

reina is a sound artist, meditation synthesist, conjurer, & alchemist exploring impermanence, connection, & liminal space using synthesized sounds, field recordings, & amplified acoustic objects

www.idkreina.carrd.co

Sarah Jo is a soprano/vocalist and art music pundit exploring the primal nature of vocalization, the organization of sound, and the distillation of language.

www.sarahjokirsch.com

Shannon Lewis is a flutist, artist, and composer based in London, Canada. Her most recent projects include multimedia works for flute and electronics exploring her experiences with synesthesia.

www.shannonklewis.com

Shoshanah is an improvisatory saxophonist and tie-dye enthusiast. She is passionate about rest, beauty, playfulness, and compassionate curiosity.

Guelph, ON, Canada

Ben Finley is a performer-composer specializing in acoustic bass and electric bass (in multiple tunings and with effects).

www.benfinley.ca

Guelph, ON, Canada

Raised in the Coachella Valley, annais linares is a Residency Facilitator of Westben's Performer-Composer Residency. Sonically, she is a vocalist, improviser, and collaborator. She is currently working on co-creating musical playground installations.

www.annais.space

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Davy Sumner is a Residency Facilitator of Westben’s Performer-Composer Residency. He is also an installation artist, composer, improviser, and Maker based in Los Angeles

www.davysumner.com

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Sarah Belle Reid is a Residency Facilitator of Westben’s Performer-Composer Residency. She is a Canadian performer-composer, active in the fields of electroacoustic trumpet performance, intermedia arts, music technology, and improvisation

www.sarahbellereid.com

Buffalo, NY, USA

Luke is the designer of the new Westben Digital Venue. Luke is an endlessly curious musician and creative coder. His work is playful and play-full, spanning games, sound tools, data visualization, and browser art.

www.lukewilliamsmusic.com

Kelowna, BC, Canada

Gao Yujie is a media artist and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia. Her generative participatory performance work studies the materiality of duration and explores the elasticity of space and time in rule-based interactive environments.

gaoyujie.me