Adriana Tampasis, Hudson, NY, USA
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.
Aidan Coutts, Windsor, ON, Canada
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, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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.
Austin White, Brooklyn NY, USA
Austin White is a producer and musician based in Brooklyn, New York. He focuses primarily on improvised music using electric bass and modular synthesizers.
Ben Townsend, North River Mills, WV, USA
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.
Ben Swisher, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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”.
Coraline Seksinsky, Keene, N.H, USA
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.
Dave O Mahony, Limerick, Ireland
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, Montreal, QC, Canada
Edward Enman is a pianist and composer whose music warmly embraces story-telling, multi-media, collaboration, and innovative performance experiences.
Ellie Jakes, Eugene, OR, USA
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.
Jack Hui Litster, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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.
Kathryn Patricia Cobbler, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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.
Kyle Hutchins, Montreal, QC, Canada
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…”
Laura Millar, Dayton, OH, USA
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.
Leah Levinson, Altadena, CA, USA
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.
M Denney, Iowa City, IA, USA
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.
Maddi Baird, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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.
María Paula Vásquez, Bogotá, Colombia
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.
Marie Jocelyn U. Marfil, Manila, Philippines
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.
Matt Mason, Iowa City, IA, USA
Matt Mason is a composer and pianist that likes to create buoyant constellations of sound in space.
Matthew Lyons, Austin, TX, USA
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.
Michael Cloud Duguay, Kingston, ON, Canada
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.
Rachel Epperly, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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.
Rafael Luna, Stockton, CA, USA
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.
Ralph Lewis, Urbana, IL, USA
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.
reina, Austin, TX, USA
reina is a sound artist, meditation synthesist, conjurer, & alchemist exploring impermanence, connection, & liminal space using synthesized sounds, field recordings, & amplified acoustic objects
Sarah Jo Kirsch, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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.
Shannon Lewis, London, ON, Canada
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.
Shoshanah MazelTov, Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal, QC, Canada
Shoshanah is an improvisatory saxophonist and tie-dye enthusiast. She is passionate about rest, beauty, playfulness, and compassionate curiosity.
Smee Wong, Honolulu, HI, USA
Smee Wong is a composer, jazz vocalist, and music educator. He is specialized in cross-genre compositions and intercultural compositions. Smee Wong is currently finishing up his PhD in composition at the University of Hawai'i.
Stephanie Henry Princeton, MN, USA
Stephanie Henry is a classically trained pianist and composer from Minneapolis, MN. She has performed with classical and theatrical ensembles, as well as with rock bands. She composed original works for film, musical theater, orchestras, quartets, and solo piano. Her music has been applauded for its originality and charismatic charm.
Surbhi Mittal, Delhi, India
Pale Blue Dotter is a sound artist, writer, and DJ based in India. She dislikes boxed descriptions and moves fluidly between genres and personas. Much like it has been in her own life, she hopes to further sound as art that corrects many skewed perceptions of the world.
Ting Luo Fremont, CA, USA
Ting Luo, pianist, and director of New Arts Collaboration. She has performed and lectured in prestigious venues in China and U.S., advocating contemporary and new music. Her interdisciplinary art project New Arts Collaboration has been featured in many contemporary music and film festivals around the U.S. and internationally.
Walter Wright, Lowell, MA, USA
Walter Wright is an interdisciplinary artist, his practice includes computer programming, electro-acoustic music, and video performance. His focus is on “improvisation as a way of being present in the world.”
