Jakub Ciupinski

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Jakub Ciupinski is a Polish composer living in New York City. Although his music is often associated with electronics and interactive performances, he has written numerous pieces for traditional acoustic forces, varying in scope from solo miniatures to symphonic works. Jakub has collaborated with Metropolis Ensemble since 2009.

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Molly Joyce

Molly Joyce was recently deemed one of the “most versatile, prolific and intriguing composers working under the vast new-music dome” by The Washington Post. Her music has additionally been described as “serene power” (New York Times), written to “superb effect” (The Wire), and “unwavering” and “enveloping” (Vulture). Her work is concerned with disability as a creative source. She has an impaired left hand from a previous car accident, and the primary vehicle in her pursuit is her electric vintage toy organ, an instrument she bought on eBay which suits her body and engages her disability on a compositional and performative level.

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Jenny Beck

Jenny Beck is a composer of chamber, orchestral, electronic, vocal, and found-sound music, as well as music for dance. She grew up in rural Pennsylvania where the sounds of the woods stirred her imagination at a young age, and has gone on to write music that invites listeners into alternative modes of awareness. Working in an intensely distilled musical language, her work reflects her interests in nature, meditation, ambience, and ambiguity.

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Elizabeth A. Baker

Eschewing the collection of traditional titles that describe single elements of her body of work, Elizabeth refers to herself as a “New Renaissance Artist” that embraces a constant stream of change and rebirth in practice, which expands into a variety of media, chiefly an exploration of how sonic and spatial worlds can be manipulated to personify a variety of philosophies and principles both tangible as well as intangible. Elizabeth has received international recognition from press, scholars, and the public for her conceptual compositions and commitment to inclusive programming. Fanfare Magazine proclaimed in Fall 2019 “Perhaps Baker will be the Pauline Oliveros of her generation, and perhaps she will be more than that.”

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Mike LaDouceur

Mike Ladouceur is among the most exciting and significant talents emerging today‚ with many high-profile film and TV projects to his name. Renowned on both sides of the Atlantic, his musical style blends orchestral and ambient electronic textures, and has been described as “like listening to a beautiful impressionist painting”. Mike’s distinctive sound is constructed from many intricate lines and textures that combine to create a rapturous force. He employs a diverse sonic palette which allows the listener to become entranced in a meditative state, often triggering deeply emotional responses.

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Omri Cohen

Based in Germany, Omri Cohen fell in love with the modular environment and modular synthesis through his work with VCV Rack, a free and open-source virtual modular synthesizer.

Combining virtual and hardware, Omri adds also acoustic instruments into the mix like a flute, kalimba, piano, field recordings, and more.

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Phong Tran

Phong Tran is a Brooklyn-based composer, electronic musician, and visual artist. Much of his work is developed through late night wikipedia dives while obsessing over things like simulation theory, abstract story structure, Dungeons & Dragons, and vaporwave eccojams. Phong actively performs in MEDIAQUEER, a synthesizer and violin duo formed in 2018 with Darian Thomas. His work has been released through people | places | records and slashsound.

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Ryan Francis

Portland-based composer Ryan Francis spent most of the 2000s composing piano music, and most of the 2010s composing with synthesizers. Francis has collaborated with Metropolis Ensemble for over a decade, most recently as a co-curator of the Free Assembly online festival. Other collaborations include 2 ballets with choreographer Pontus Lidberg, the video piece I AM NOT TAME with artist Nancy Davidson, and the score for the video game Namco High with artist/writer Andrew Hussie. His piano music performed by Vicky Chow is available from Tzadik Records.

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Paula Matthusen and Olivia Valentine

Paula Matthusen (live-electronics) & Olivia Valentine (live-textiles) have collaborated for the past five years under the project between systems and grounds. The project exists through shared space and time, in which sound and textile are woven together simultaneously. The materials presented here are short loops from excerpts of durational events, traversing field recording, multiple layers of feedback, idiosyncratic synths, and, of course, weaving. For more information, please visit https://betweensystemsandgrounds.com

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Darian Donovan Thomas

Darian Donovan Thomas is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist interested in the intersections of medium, genre, and audience. He uses violin, electronics, and extra-musical materials in his works to discuss matters of racism in the US, uphold ancient indigenous stories, and create abstract nature-scapes. Darian is currently touring with Moses Sumney and Balùn, and is a Bang on a Can Summer Festival Composition Fellow, Sō Percussion Summer Institute Fellow, and New Amsterdam Records Composer Lab Fellow.

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Alessandro Apolloni

Alessandro is an Italian composer, musical sound designer and music editor based in London, working in Film, Tv and Advertising. In the last few years he worked on a number of projects ranging from short films to
advertisements, animations and documentaries that have been broadcasted by the BBC, ITV, Netflix, Sky, the Italian national television, and shown in countless festivals around the world.
He is also assisting composer Carly Paradis on BBC’s Line of Duty. He graduated from the Royal College of Music in 2015 with a master’s degree in Composition for
Screen.

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Impromptuo

Combining training in European classical music with influences from free jazz and electroacoustic music, Impromptuo is an improvisation-focused duo of violinist Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim and pianist Joey Chang. They are recipients of Chamber Music America’s Ensemble Forward Grant and currently are mentored by Tyshawn Sorey.

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Nnux

Nnux is a composer, producer and keyboard player from Mexico City. Her music is based on the digital processing of found sounds, voices, instruments, electronic beats and synthesizers. Influenced by pop, experimental and electronic music, Nnux creates music that aims to be emotional and vulnerable while being experimental and imaginative.

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Adam Cuthbert

Adam Cuthbert (b. 1988) is a Detroit-based composer, mix engineer, and sound designer whose sometimes spare, sometimes brutal music has been described as an “eerie dreamscape” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) and “the lead-footed revving of double decker buses” (Acid Ted).

Their work fuses acoustic instruments with control voltage to create immersive sonic environments, drawing inspiration from the infinite palette of synthesized electronic sound, and the flow-state experience of open-world video games, garnering notice from The New York Times, NPR, Backstage Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle, which finds it “hard to resist the vigor and inventiveness of his writing.”

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Kirsten Volness

Smart, transcendent, and immersive, Kirsten Volness’ emotive soundscapes integrate electronics and modern composition techniques with jazz and pop influences. “Irresistible” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “nothing short of gorgeous.” (New York Arts), each of her compositions reveals “an exquisite sound world” (New Classic LA) inspired by nature, myth, spirituality, and environmental and sociopolitical issues. With commissions from the World Future Council Foundation, ASCAP/SEAMUS, BMI Foundation, and The American Opera Project, Volness received MacColl Johnson and RISCA Fellowships. She holds composition degrees from the Universities of Michigan and Minnesota, and is Visiting Assistant Professor at Reed College. • kirstenvolness.com

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Cassie Wieland

Cassie Wieland (pronounced ˈkæ-si ˈwee-lənd) is an Illinois-born and Brooklyn-based composer. Praised by The New York Times as “sweetly shimmering,” Wieland masterfully experiments with timbre and texture by exploring intimate and fragile sounds to achieve the “hand-made” sound she is often looking for: imperfect, but intentional.

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David Bird

David Bird is a composer and multimedia artist based in New York City. His work explores the dramatic potential of electroacoustic and multimedia environments, often highlighting the relationships between technology and the individual. He is a founding member of the New York-based chamber ensemble TAK, and an artistic-director with Qubit New Music, a non-profit group that curates and produces experimental music events in New York City.

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Adam Holmes

Adam Holmes is a Brooklyn-based musician and artist who makes music for humans and computers. He is an avid percussionist, drummer, and composer interested in creating and discovering sounds for himself and others.

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Adrianne Munden-Dixon

Adrianne Munden-Dixon is a violinist, improviser, and composer based in New York and Montreal. Her work explores timbre and texture and she often incorporates electronics and field recordings to expand the sonic and expressive capabilities of the violin.

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Arone Dyer

Arone Dyer is a musician, composer & founding member of duos Buke and Gase & Mistresses, the producer of Dronechoir (Patreon), a project which examines social dis/comfort through long-durational choral performance, and a non-stop collaborator with an extensive resume of appearances.

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Jeremy Ajani Jordan

Critically acclaimed, “a clear technical virtuoso”, “a rare talent”, and “a true Wunderkind,” Chicago born Jeremy Jordan burst onto the music scene at age 9 playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in a live televised performance. Jordan was born into a musical family where his mother and father were his first instructors. They ensured that his burgeoning talent was nurtured by providing a strong foundation in classical training and also encouraged his study of improvised music and composition. Jordan went on to appear on the acclaimed radio program From The Top and From The Top: Live from Carnegie Hall performing Liszt. Since then Jordan has made his solo Carnegie Hall debut performing Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, and Wagner.

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Erika Dohi

Osaka-born and New York-based pianist Erika Dohi is a multi-faceted artist with an eclectic musical background. From highly polished traditional classical to bold improvisation, she is a dynamic performer whose timeless style and unidiomatic technique sets her apart in contemporary NYC avant-garde circles. Dohi’s vast repertory is impressive, but what makes her truly such a barrier-defying artist is what lies ahead.

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Jack Gjaja

Jack Gjaja (b. 2005) is a composer and pianist from New York City. They currently study piano and composition at Manhattan School of Music Precollege and previously studied at the Preparatory Division of Mannes School of Music. During the summer of 2020, they joined composers from around the world at the Virtual Young Women’s Composers Camp, where their piece Icy climb with a side of Mockingtrack was premiered by saxophonist Kristen McKeon. Jack draws inspiration from Ravel, Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, Scriabin, Kelly Moran’s Don’t Trust Mirrors, and playwrights such as Ionesco and Martin McDonagh. Their works include small ensemble acoustic works, pieces for voice, solo works, electronic soundscapes, and pieces for period instruments. They've studied composition and piano with the following wonderful people: Mary Kouyoumdjian, David Bird, Tamar Muskal, Elena Leonova, Adrienne Kim. In addition to composition, they've performed in Montreal, Rovinj, Cremona, Bennington, and New York.

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Susanna Hancock

Susanna Hancock is an Asian-American composer whose music explores color, process, and acoustic phenomena. Plurality, ambiguity, juxtaposition, transience, and impermanence are currents that move throughout Susanna’s work as a reflection on identity and “place” - or lack thereof.

Susanna’s compositions have been performed by the JACK Quartet, ZAFA Collective, Metropolis Ensemble, and members of the LA Philharmonic and St. Louis Symphony, among others. Susanna’s work has been recognized by such organizations as ASCAP and United States Artists, and has been featured in concerts and festivals across the world including the Bang on a Can Marathon and the Dimitria Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Ricardo Romaneiro

The New York Times describes Ricardo Romaneiro's work as “a blissful and compelling mix of minimalist-derived rhythmic ecstasy and nightclub beats”. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Ricardo’s music synthesizes his major musical influences & passions: classical music & electronic music. His music has been featured, performed and commissioned in eclectic range of ensembles, institutions, festivals, & film. His work has been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Vice/Creators Project, Esquire Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, Untapped Cities, Vogue & Edible Manhattan.
Recent works include Nat Geo & Disney+ commission for “Secrets of The Whales” live performance at National Sawdust, and Kennedy Center’s live scoring of Thomas Edison’s silent film “A Christmas Carol” performed by Metropolis Ensemble.

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Grey Mcmurray

Guitarist and singer Grey Mcmurray has been called “simultaneously chilling and moving”(The Deli Magazine), “sublimely odd”(New York Magazine), and “the world’s least obtrusive guitarist”(The Guardian). He has performed/recorded with artists including Gil-Scott Heron, Meshell Ndegeocello, Tyondai Braxton, Alarm Will Sound, Du Yun, Skuli Sverrisson, Beth Orton, Colin Stetson, Sam Amidon, Ali Sethi, John Cale and Laraaji among others. He released his solo debut, Stay Up, on Shahzad Ismaily’s Figureight Records in September 2019. The new collaborative quartet of Grey, Melvin Gibbs, Greg Fox and Sasha Frere-Jones, Body Meπa, released their “transient oasis, heady but cautiously optimistic”(Robert Christgau) debut in December 2020. He hopes everyday to provoke joyful tears in strangers' eyes.

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Tristan Kasten-Krause

Tristan Kasten-Krause is a bassist and composer living in Brooklyn, NY, praised for providing his “low-end authority to vital New York institutions” (The New Yorker) such as Argento Chamber Ensemble, Wet Ink, Ensemble Signal and Contemporaneous. As a composer his music has been described as “heavenly” (the Guardian), “beguilingly frictionless” (Steve Smith) and full of “beautiful, unearthly soundscapes” (WNYC’s New Sounds). As a bassist he has performed and recorded music with artists such as Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich, Caroline Shaw, Kid Millions and David Lang. His most recent album, Potential Landscapes, showcases transcendental, sample-based collaborations with artists such as Eliza Bagg (Lisel), Jayson Gerycz (Cloud Nothings), Matt Evans, Brendon Randall-Myers and Carol Johnson.

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George Cory Todd

George Cory Todd is a multimedia artist and engineer based in the Bay Area. Combining programming, audio and video frameworks, and other experimental practices, he explores an array of approaches to digital production, from sound and visual design & engineering to installation work, performances, and composition. His experience has lended him to national and international tours with renown artists of various disciplines, collaboration in a multitude of settings, and extensive studio work. Projects have been featured in Pitchfork, NPR, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus, NTS Radio, Dublab, and more.

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Cristina Spinei

"Composer and performer Cristina Spinei (pronounced spin-AY) has written for orchestra (Racine Symphony Orchestra, Lafayette Symphony Orchestra) and chamber ensemble (New York Piano Quartet, Intersection) but she is most known for her work with dance, having been commissioned by Nashville Ballet, the New York Choreographic Institute, Parsons Dance, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, and many more. Growing up with dreams of becoming a ballerina, Spinei has channeled her love for dance into a devotion to musical movement, resulting in a style infused with “lyricism and rhythmic vitality.” (Nashville Scene)

Cristina has made her home in Nashville since 2014, and has since established herself as one of Music City’s most versatile, forward-thinking musicians: Nashville Arts dubbed her “gifted and engaging”, while The East Nashvillian praises her “adventuresome imagination.” Self-described as “minimalish,” Cristina anchors her musical ideas in melody, movement, and loops."

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Clara Warnaar

Clara Warnaar is a NYC based drummer, percussionist and composer. Clara performs regularly with the International Contemporary Ensemble and American Modern Ensemble, and has guest performed with So Percussion and Yarn/Wire. Recent premieres and recordings include: Ted Hearne (PLACE), Missy Mazzoli (Proving Up), Steve Reich (Reich/Richter) and Ellen Reid (Run/Playground). Clara’s own compositional style merges field recordings, classical music and electronics. She is the curator of the series “A New Age for New Age” which aims to re-imagine and critique New Age music. Clara plays drums in the post-rock band Infinity Shred, and the antiphonal chamber metal band Real Loud.

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Sonya Belaya

Sonya Belaya is a Russian-American pianist, singer, composer, and improviser, who divides her time between Michigan and New York. Committed to multiplicity, she is a diverse music-maker invested in vulnerable art and the development intimate, meaningful collaborations. Her work explores the integration of women’s trauma and the immigrant experience as musical narrative by centering power-sharing and storytelling as a symbol of vulnerability. Sonya’s awards include the 2021 American Composers Forum Create Award and the 2020-2021 Resident Artist at Roulette Intermedium, made possible by the Jerome Foundation.

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Hallie Smith

Hallie Smith is a musician based in the Bay area. Her practice is oriented towards building soft circuits/sensors, coding, installations, and emotional music. Hallie’s pieces have been featured in festivals such as the Yellow Barn Young Artists’ Program, Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice, the SPLICE Institute, and the Valencia International Performance Academy.
Previous and upcoming collaborations for Hallie include: the Eco Ensemble at UC Berkeley, Splinter Reeds, the SMASH ensemble, saxophonist Drew Whiting, The Boston Conservatory Contemporary Performance Ensemble, and producer Felix M. Hallie currently produces and releases music on New York -based Geryon Label.

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Sam Nester

Sam Nester is a trumpet player and composer. Nester has performed for Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival & Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Beijing Modern Music Festival, Paris Opera Ballet, Wordless Music Orchestra, Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, Mark Morris Dance Group and the Festival of New Trumpet Music among others. For these ensembles and others, Nester has premiered works by Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Luther Adams, John Cale (Velvet Underground) and John Zorn.

He has been the artist-in-residence for Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, and Bruny Island (Australia). He has received commissions for the creation of site-specific sound installations from George Mason University, Colby College, and EcoArt Project.

He currently serves on Music History faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, as well as trumpet faculty for The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program.

The recipient of numerous awards, Nester has been a Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of the Australian Music Foundation Award, a Brian Boak Outstanding Performer Award, an EcoArt Project Prize winner, and an American Australian Association’s Dame Joan Sutherland Fund grantee. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music Studies from the Queensland Conservatorium and Bachelor of Music from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (First Class Honors). He received a Master of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of Music, earning the Helen Cohn Award for his dissertation reexamining the life and work of Giacinto Scelsi in contemporary contexts.

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Juraj Kojš

My name is Juraj Kojš, and I am an artphibian artist from Slovakia and USA, exploring the fields of music, sound art, theater, poetry, mixed media, multimedia, bioacoustics and technologies as a maker and performer. Collaborating with artists and scientists, producing other people’s works, doing scholarly research and teaching also give me joy, as does living in Miami, FL. Miami New Times described my muscle-powered multimedia Neraissance as "striking and unforgettable," MiamiArtzine called Signals "enthralling and immersive," and Miami Herald praised Bang for the Train as "the most profound…unexpected and enjoyable.”

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Weston Olencki

Weston Olencki is a musician, composer, and sound artist. They are currently making work centered around questions of instrumental music and its contexts/constructs, various mediated practices of listening and improvisation, and the technological, material, and cultural histories of rural space/time. Weston has performed and presented work at the Borealis Festival, ISSUE Project Room, REDCAT, bludenzer tage zeitgemäßer musik, Ghent Jazz Festival, Blanton Museum of Art, philharmonie luxembourg, Squeaky Wheel, Festival Musica, the American Academy in Rome, Frequency Festival, Indexical, and the OPTION series, and was awarded the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis from the 2016 Darmstadt Ferienkurse. Various recording projects have been released by HatHut, Not Two, Sound American, Parlour Tapes+, Carrier Records, New Amsterdam, Clean Feed, Anticausal Systems, SUPERPANG, Dinzu Artefacts, Creative Sources, and their first solo brass release SOLO WORKS, which featured on Bandcamp Daily’s Best Experimental Music of 2020. Weston is an active member of RAGE THORMBONES, Ensemble Pamplemousse, the Wet Ink Large Ensemble, and performs regularly as a soloist and ensemble member on low brass instruments and various electronic media.

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Christina Vantzou

Christina Vantzou is a Kansas City native of Greek descent who resides in Brussels, Belgium.  Her practice has evolved over the past decade to encompass composing, recording, performance, installation, and filmmaking.  Her work deals with space, sound, time-expansion, atmosphere and harmonies through electronics and acoustic instruments. Her work has been describes as 'feeling music;' She often works in a group process, inhabiting the role of composer while the entangled nature of collaboration takes its course. Space left for chance and improvisation alongside rigorous periods of research and experimentation mark the work as both personal and about the space and time of its making.  Her releases include four albums on Kranky, 2020's Multi-Natural–a foray into abstract electronics, hybrid, hallucinative chamber music and field recording on the Belgian label Edições CN, two full-length albums with John Also Bennett as CV & JAB, and many collaborative works.  Recent collaborators include Minna Choi of Magik*Magik Orchestra, ACME, Echo Collective, Félicia Atkinson, Steve Hauschildt, Holland Andrews, Lieselot De Wilde, and Heinrich Mueller, among many others.

Photo Credit: John Also Bennett

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Isabel Lepanto Gleicher

Flutist and sound artist Isabel Lepanto Gleicher has been called “excellent” by The New York Times. Isabel is an artist member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, Wild Up, new music sinfonietta Ensemble Echappe, the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival, and the band ShoutHouse. She is also a founding member of Song Sessions Collective: a collective of four improvisers who create an ever-changing work based on the structure of whale songs through the use of flutes, clarinets, sine-tones, and an LED light installation. Isabel has had the opportunity to premiere works by Steve Reich, George Lewis, Missy Mazzoli, John Zorn, Augusta Read Thomas, and Dai Fujikura among others. Isabel has been called a “rising talent and stand out performer in the new music scene” by Miller Theatre. In 2018, she was featured in a solo recital on Miller Theatre’s Pop Up series. In 2020 Isabel has presented several solo performances that included original works: Experimental Sound Studio's The Quarantine Concerts, International Contemporary Ensemble series Tues@7, ChamberQUEERantine Virtual Festival, Recital Stream and George Mason University’s Mason Arts at Home. You can hear Isabel on Wild Up’s latest album Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine, The Bells Bow Down: The Music of Ilari Kaila, Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Aequa, and San Fermin’s The Cormorant I. Isabel has earned an MM in Contemporary Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, an MM from the Yale School of Music, and a BM from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music. To learn more please visit isabellepantogleicher.com

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Florian Herzog

Florian Herzog, (1989) bassist and composer, is a pioneer of the German and international jazz and avant-garde scenes.

After living and working in the Netherlands, Cologne and finally New York, he now writes for projects that are avant-garde jazz, pop or electronic, but also always all of the above. His bass playing has been described by the press as "emancipated, spirited and sensitive."

His collective projects such as Just Another Foundry, Turn, and Trillmann have won multiple awards (e.g. Young German Jazz Award, Avignon Jazz Award) and released over a dozen albums between them. As a leader, Herzog's projects such as Moon Tree, his quartet and his soon-to-be-released solo album are peppered with international collaborations. He has worked with established greats like Theo Bleckmann, Jim Black and Nils Wogram but also with the new generation and musicians like Anna Webber, Elias Stemeseder and Nick Dunston.

He has previously worked with Metropolis by contributing a biome to the "Biophony" project, is also active as a sideman in Germany and the U.S. and has curated the "Monday Meetings" series at Loft Cologne for over four years.

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Claire Dickson

Claire Dickson is a creative vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Medford, Massachusetts currently based in Brooklyn. In addition to her solo work improvising with voice and electronics, she co-leads the duo Myrtle (with singer/songwriter Camila Ortiz), and collaborates Chase Kuesel, Grey Mcmurray, and Lesley Mok, among others. Her music has been featured on numerous Spotify playlists including Dummy’s Best New Artists. She is a Presidential Scholar in the Arts and has studied music at Harvard, the Banff Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music, the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and Esperanza Spalding’s Sonic Healing Lab.

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Shayna Dunkelman

Shayna Dunkelman is a musician and percussionist based in Brooklyn, NY.

Dunkelman is known for her versatile and unique techniques, and use of electronics to access a sonic pallet not found in acoustic percussion.

In addition to solo performances, Dunkelman tours Balún, Emily Wells, Attacca Quartet, Ali Sethi, and her percussion duo Nomon with her sister Nava.

Born and raised in Tokyo to an Indonesian mother and an American father, Dunkelman became a multi-instrumentalist performing alongside her mother. Dunkelman is currently working on the piece Answer to (XX), a performance and documentary film exploring relationships and power dynamics between “band leaders” and “band members.” This is made possible by the support of Franklin Furnace and is the musician in residence of Pioneer Works for September, 2020.

Dunkelman was recently a soloist in the latest orchestral piece by Pulitzer Award-Winning and Grammy nominated composer Du Yun, titled Where We Lost Our Shadows (2019). Dunkelman became increasingly active in the alternative music scene as a member of the band Xiu Xiu, touring the world for 6 years. As part of Xiu Xiu, Dunkelman shared stages with Genesis P-Orridge (Psychic TV), Sun Ra Arkestra, Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails) to name a few. Dunkelman has recorded and performed with pioneers of avant-garde experimental musicians such as Yuka C. Honda, John Zorn, Yoko Ono, and Thurston Moore and performed at The Broad, Centre Pompidou, The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, HAU, Lincoln Center, The MET, Pioneer Works, STUK,, Tanzquartier, Terminal 5, QAGOMA among others.

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Alicia Enstrom

Alicia Enstrom is a classically trained violinist, composer, producer and reformed circus runaway (Cirque du Soleil) who plays high and loud, tinkers with tech, and loves to use music to stir the pot of your subconscious. She is a unique artist who’s work spans that of classical, orchestral, pop and ambient electronic.

Alicia has performed on stages throughout the world as a soloist, for blockbuster movie soundtracks and video games (Call of Duty, Madden NFL, Harriet), alongside Billboard 100 artists (Willie Nelson, Paul McCartney, Dolly Parton), on TV awards shows and with the most recognized symphonies in the world.

She has released numerous self recorded/produced projects of which she performs live with looping pedals. In 2018, Alicia won The Ear Classical Composition Competition in New York City with multiple performances at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music via her looping pedals and with orchestra. Similarly, she was just named the 2021 Winner in the Instrumental Category of the Unsigned Only Music Competition with the first movement of her Looping Concerto for Violin, Electronics and Orchestra.

Her compositions can be seen in short films, commercials, interactive video art and installation, and commissioned orchestral and dance performances.

Alicia was nominated for an Academy of Country Music – Specialty Instrument Player of the Year Award 2021 and is currently performing with the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
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Sam Torres

Sam Torres (he/him) is a musician and audio engineer based in Troy, NY. He is also a founding director of Organ Colossal, a nonprofit presenting music in the New York Capital Region. He grew up in the Bronx listening to and playing salsa, jazz, and Bach, and then received degrees in jazz performance and computer music composition. All of these musical interests continue to live and evolve through his own work, which is itself striving to be as honest and simple as possible. His debut full length album of music for saxophone and live electronics will be released sometime in the next several years. Learn more at samtorresmusic.com.

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Maria Takeuchi

ÉMU aka Maria Takeuchi creates sonic and visual poems, merging organismic soundscapes with generative art and illuminating objects inspired by nature.

Using piezo microphones attached to wood bark wound or bamboo with guitar strings and porcelain bowls carefully tuned with water measurements, Maria plays and conducts the sound objects with a delicate yet intentional focus. The subtle sound textures created solely with touches by hand, stones, leaves, sandpaper, and shells on the handmade instruments, processed for added aesthetic atmosphere.

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Raquel Acevedo Klein

Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Raquel Acevedo Klein is an active conductor, vocalist, composer, and instrumentalist. Raquel has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Town Hall, BAM, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Celebrate Brooklyn!, the Guggenheim, Rockefeller Center, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, WNYC, and elsewhere.

Recently, Raquel was commissioned by Little Island to premiere Polyphonic Interlace: a surround-sound music experience she composed using 40 layers of her own singing voice. Polyphonic Interlace went on to be performed by American Composers Orchestra in their first concert since the pandemic. As part of NY PopsUp, Raquel curated the four-week festival entitled NYC FREE, to celebrate the opening of Little Island. Her performances and curations have caught the attention of publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and Time Out New York.

Raquel conducts for the Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra among other projects. She has premiered works and operas by Philip Glass, Caroline Shaw, John Adams, Nico Muhly, Paola Prestini, Bryce Dessner, and George Lewis to name a few. She has recorded and performed with artists including Glen Hansard, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, The National, Grizzly Bear, Cory Smythe, Sufjan Stevens, The Knights, NY Philharmonic, and International Contemporary Ensemble among others.

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Ledah Finck

Ledah Finck is a violinist, violist, improviser, and composer who currently resides in NYC. A passionate creator, performer, and curator of contemporary classical music, she is a member of the contemporary-music string quartet Bergamot Quartet, currently the Graduate String Quartet in Residence at the New School where the group is mentored by the JACK Quartet. Her pursuit of contemporary music is strongly supplemented by performing and collaborating in other genres such as jazz manouche, Appalachian and Celtic folk, and experimental music. Compositional projects include commissions by Imani Winds, Alarm Will Sound/Now Hear This, the Bridge Ensemble, The Peabody Community Chorus, and a work for the Bergamot Quartet and percussionist Terry Sweeney, which received a New Music USA grant. She released her first solo album, Mayfly, in 2020 and is at work on her second.

She has completed studies at the Banff Centre, the Lucerne Festival, Ensemble Moderne’s Klangspuren Academy in Austria, the Aspen Music Festival, and Bang on a Can among others. She holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in violin performance and composition from the Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Herbert Greenberg, Oscar Bettison, Judah Adashi, and Mike Formanek.

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Marc Alberto

Euro-Caribbean artist Marc Alberto (they/them) is a musical polyglot whose work seems to escape categorisation.
Besides developing a personal language as a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist, as well as composing, improvising and performing electro-acoustic chamber music – they have been working in a continuous carrousel of interdisciplinary collaborations as a sound artist, lyricist, arranger, producer, director and performer.

Marc is currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Shara Lunon

Shara Lunon is the product of the evolution of Black American musical traditions. As a poet, vocalist, composer, and improviser, her art finds the ethereal in the chaotic. With voice as the foundation, Shara’s music is an exploration of text and sound that seamlessly weaves through the ceaseless relationship of struggle, resilience, hope, and resolution. She has performed with leading improvisers including Darius Jones, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. Shara’s work has been featured in The Gothamist, and can be heard in collaboration with Marisa Tornello in the spring of 2021 at Roulette Intermedium.

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Kristina Teuschler

Kristina Teuschler performs classical music, makes electronic music, and creates spaces for contemporary music.
With clarinet and bass clarinet as her primary instruments, she joined the West Point Band full-time in 2019. She is also an active freelancer, performing with professional orchestras, contemporary ensembles, and indie bands in New York.
She co-directs Madison New Music Festival, a weekend-long event in her hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, and curates the Wisconsin Composers Project.
Kristina’s original music combines clarinets, found sounds, vocals and synthesizers. Her debut album is currently in production, which combines original works with electroacoustic works for clarinet by others, including a commission by Morgan Henderson (Fleet Foxes, Blood Brothers, Cave Singers).
Learn more at kristinateuschler.com

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Topu Lyo

Topu Lyo is a Brooklyn based multi-disciplinary electronic and acoustic experimental cellist. He has performed/recorded with artists such as: Emily Wells, Caroline Polachek, Ruth B, and performed at venues such as MOMA, LA Natural History Museum amongst many others.

His band Live Footage has composed and produced many tracks for: HBO, BMW, VICE and most currently a 3 part documentary on Kanye West called Jeen-Yuhs set to be released on Netflix in February. They have also held a 10 year residency in Chinatown’s Apotheke.

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Charlotte Greve

Charlotte Greve is a Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist, composer, and singer originally from Germany. She has released eight albums as a leader, two of which received the ECHO Jazz Prize (German equivalent of a GRAMMY).

Charlotte’s Brooklyn-based indie-pop influenced band Wood River released their Debut LP in 2015 and released their second full length album “More Than I Can See” on Yellowbird Records in 2020. Her large scale multi genre piece “Sediments We Move” was released on New Amsterdam and Figureight Records in October 2021 and received significant attention-

“Best 25 classical tracks of 2021” - The New York Times
"Greve is definitely her own artist, and the blend of approaches here manages to surprise while also feeling carefully thought through … Greve displays a tight focus on arrangement and composition, with all the aesthetics at her disposal."– The New York Times, 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now
"A stirring composite of choral hymns, progressive rock, and free jazz … rich in detail, but never overwrought. Instead … a fluid cycle of matter as sound: building, dissipating, and crystalizing once again.” – Pitchfork, 7.5

Further projects in New York include the trio "The Choir Invisible” and the ambient duo “Sooner”. As a side-woman, Charlotte continues to collaborate with different artists such as Chris Morrissey, Marta Sanchez and Vinnie Sperrazza.
Charlotte has been granted several awards for her work, including the 2012 and 2018 Echo Jazz, the 2010 JazzBaltica Award and the 2008 Praetorius-Musikpreis.

Since 2010 Charlotte has been touring with her own projects in the US, Europe, and South Asia and played at several major jazz and pop festivals such as Jazz Baltica, Jazzfest, Berlin, Haldern Pop, and Jazzfest Kolkata.

Born in 1988, Greve began playing classical flute at the age of eight and picked up the saxophone at age the age of sixteen. She received her undergraduate degree at the Jazz Institute Berlin in 2012. The same year, she moved to New York City to pursue a graduate degree at NYU Steinhardt.

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Marisa Tornello

Marisa Tornello is a composer, vocalist, performance artist, mover, and maker from and based on Staten Island. From bodypaint to projection art, Tornello cultivates a platform for dialogue around the human psyche through the dual lens of trauma and healing. Their works have been shown at Roulette, the Tank, Jack, La MaMa ETC, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Vital Joint, Invisible Dog Arts Center, and Judson Church, and have been featured in the Exponential Festival and Ladyfest at the Tank. Tornello recently received a Jerome Commission at Roulette Intermedium for Spring 2022 and is a member of ECHO Ensemble.

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Theo Walentiny

Pianist, composer, producer and improviser Theo Walentiny grew up in an artistic home. His world of influences includes Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus, Toru Takemitsu and Henri Dutilleux. Along with performing across top venues in New York City, Theo has performed globally including places such as Israel, Switzerland and China. He is an alumnus The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and The Banff International Jazz Workshop. He released his debut album “Looking Glass” (a collection of solo piano improvisations) in April of 2021, to critical acclaim. Theo is currently developing an electronic-oriented project for a subsequent album release.

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Eli Greenhoe

Eli Greenhoe (b. 1994) is a composer, songwriter, and guitarist hailing from Brooklyn, New York. His works have been commissioned and performed by such artists and ensembles as loadbang, Bergamot Quartet, Aki Takahashi, S.E.M. Ensemble, and George Manahan, among others. His music has been programmed at the Bang on a Can, Chatter, Yellow Barn, Ostrava Days (CZ), and Tokyo to New York (JP) festivals. In 2018 he was awarded a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Recently, he was selected as a finalist in the Beth Morrison Projects “Next Generation” program.

As a performer, Greenhoe has led bands in New York City and elsewhere nearly his entire life. Currently he performs as a solo artist, as well as with his duo Airborne Charlie (with Hans Bilger), and his cabaret act Bergman & Bloustein (with Natasha Thweatt). He is also active in interdisciplinary collaboration: his film music has been featured in Vogue Magazine and the 2020 Maryland Film Festival. Greenhoe is currently a doctoral candidate at the Yale School of Music, where he completed his M.M. in 2018.

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Kaitlyn Raitz

New York-born Nashvillian Kaitlyn Raitz grew up surrounded by a wide array of musical genres, finding each one more exciting than the next. These curiosities have led her to a career as a multi-style cellist, composer, and songwriter. In October, she released her debut album “Me, Myself, Myself, and I,” an album of classical-crossover cello quartets and quintets. She is also the cellist for country singer-songwriter Brandy Clark, one half of her own folk/Americana duo Oliver the Crow, and the cellist and creative director for the Atwood Quartet.

Kaitlyn holds a Bachelor of Music degree and a Performer’s Certificate from Purchase College, State University of New York where she studied with Julia Lichten and a Master of Music degree from McGill University where she studied with Matt Haimovitz.

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Jordan Lehning

From Hendersonville, TN. Writes Music.

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Larissa Maestro

Larissa Maestro is a cellist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer originally from Ithaca, New York. Her resume is broad and varied, a testament to her deep love of creation, expression, and collaboration. Since her arrival in Nashville, TN in 2007, Larissa has co-founded a community orchestra (The Nashville Concerto Orchestra), joyfully screamed 90s covers to thousands of people with My So-Called Band, started a Star Trek podcast (Into the Wormhole with Larissa and Lauren), created countless string arrangements for recordings and live performances, and appeared on stages big and small, in person and on network television. The list of artists with whom she has collaborated and/or performed is as diverse as her interests: Eminem, Margo Price, Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings, Mickey Guyton, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Jake Wesley Rogers, H.E.R. & Daniel Caesar, Toni Braxton, Cam, Brandi Carlile, and more. She is currently writing and recording a solo pop project that she has named MZTZA, and touring with 3x 2022 Grammy award nominee and magical human, Allison Russell.

As a composer, Larissa has used chamber music to express her rich inner world, relationship to her neurodivergence, and identity as a Filipinx woman. Her compositions have been performed by Julian Schwarz (cello), Patrick Dailey (countertenor), ALIAS Chamber Ensemble, Lockeland Strings, La Vie Quartet, The Nashville Concerto Orchestra, and members of the Nashville Symphony. Her first work for dance, Fortitudine, a collaboration with choreographer Mollie Sansone, premiered in February 2022 with the Nashville Ballet.

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Sequoia Sellinger

Sequoia Sellinger is a composer and collaborative theater artist based in New York City. She is invested in new work that functions as a vehicle to reimagine the possibilities of what the world could be. She is a graduate of SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music where she studied classical composition under Laura Kaminsky and Du Yun. She has been a composer at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and the New Dramatists Composer Librettist Studio. She is a member of Maestra and the Dramatists Guild. Recent works include: Earth First (Macdowell Fellowship), Impossible Green (The York Theatre), Silent Springs (BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop), History of Traitors According to Sydney (The Wild Project) and is currently being supported by the Shubert Organization’s Artistic Circle. and Gravity of Me Gone (Ars Nova). www.sequoiasellinger.com

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Amelia Brey

Amelia Brey’s music has been described as possessing “haunting beauty” and “a deep, disquieting power” (National Sawdust Log). Her wind quintet, AR(i/e)AS, was the recipient of a BMI Student Composer Award; her orchestral work, Two, was premiered by the Juilliard Orchestra under the direction of Jeffrey Milarsky as a winner of the Juilliard Composers’ Orchestra Competition. Other accomplishments have included premieres by Ensemble Dal Niente, National Sawdust Ensemble, Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, and members of Ensemble Intercontemporain and the New York Philharmonic, in addition to commissions from Essential Voices USA, Metropolis Ensemble, and New York Virtuoso Singers. Brey serves as the Composition Coordinator for zFestival, a virtual new music summer course for composers, performers, and audio engineers, as well as the chief editor of the Charlotte New Music Opportunity Newsletter. Hailing from Tallahassee, Florida, Brey studied with Michael Slayton and Stan Link at Vanderbilt University as the Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Honor Scholar in Music; she is currently a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at the Juilliard School, where she studies with Robert Beaser. Her works are published by Hal Leonard and Harp Column Music.

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Geoff Pynn

Geoff Pynn is a philosophy teacher, occasional church musician, and electronic music hobbyist in the Midwest. He started playing the piano at age five, guitar at 14, and ukulele at 42. An aesthetic gourmand, Geoff's compositions include minimalist piano loops, lo-fi ambient drones, mangled sample-based experimental noise, glitchy beats, shimmery blissed-out synth chorales, and bleep-and-bloop modular improvisations. His Flamekeepers contributions incorporate field recordings made in a local toy shop, samples of classic Italian giallo scores, AI-generated text-to-speech readings of ancient philosophy texts, sequenced tape hiss, piano, and a variety of inexpensive electronic instruments.

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Patrick Burke

Patrick Burke writes music for piano, film, orchestra, and chamber ensembles, including NOW Ensemble, which he co-founded in 2004. His music, while deeply spiritual, is also “glittering fun…at once very sophisticated and instantly accessible” (Third Coast Digest). Patrick likes to collaborate with musicians from other genres and traditions, as he did in the Independent Music Award-winning album Rounder Songs, which was co-composed with his wife, old-time musician and songwriter Emily Pinkerton.

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Ted Reichman

Ted Reichman was born in Aroostook County, Maine in 1973. He began studying jazz piano at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School in 1987 and went on to study experimental music and ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University with Alvin Lucier, Sumarsam, and his most important early mentor, Anthony Braxton. At Braxton’s urging, Reichman began playing accordion, the instrument that would become the basis of his work in music. After beginning his professional career with Braxton while still a student, Reichman moved to New York City where he worked with a panoply of musical greats in styles ranging from improvised music and jazz to rock and roll and various forms of Jewish music. In addition to his work with Braxton, which includes the first recordings and performances of “Ghost Trance Music,” he is best known for his ten-year-plus tenure with John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet. He also founded the music series at alt.coffee which would evolve into Tonic, one of the world’s most crucial venues for avant-garde music. He has been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory for over ten years and spent four years as an Assistant Professor of Film Scoring at Berklee. He currently lives outside Boston where he records, produces and mixes records and composes music for films. Photo by Lisa Rinzler.

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Jacob Rudin

Jacob “NTHNL” Rudin is a classically trained composer and pianist turned multi-flutist, producer and sound-healing practitioner. Having created electronic and acoustic music in a wide variety of contexts since 2012, Jacob works in both the healing and contemporary music worlds, drawing on a rich sonic practice that involves experimental sound design, field recording, and virtuosic performances on a wide range of instruments. He currently lives in Queens, NY, where he teaches piano lessons, hosts regular soundbaths throughout the city and gigs with his band, NTHNL.

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Anna Roberts-Gevalt

Anna RG is an artist whose work moves outward from her immersion in communities of traditional music, and a decade of apprenticeships with elder masters of banjo and fiddle and ballads in rural Appalachia. Her eight year multimedia collaboration with ballad singer Elizabeth LaPrelle was heralded “a radical expansion of what folk songs are supposed to do” by the New Yorker, and culminated in a release by Smithsonian folkways of re-imagined New England ballads. Performance highlights include Carnegie Hall, Newport Folk Festival, Cafe Oto, Big Ears Festival, NPR’s Tiny Desk, Hirshhorn Museum, The BBC and The Stone, and residencies at the Smithsonian and the MacDowell Colony. As a fiddler, she has worked with musicians from a broad span of genres, from free improvisation to songs to Kentucky square dance bands -- including Glen Hansard, Henry Jamison, Timo Andres, Sarah Hennies, Susan Alcorn, Carlo Costa, Jim White, the Aizuri Quartet and Ellen Fullman. She is currently working on an MFA in Sculpture at Bard College, in addition to her daily work of care as an artist living with chronic illness. She is a proud member of RAMPD—Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities, and lives in Lenapehoking (Queens.)

Image description: black and white photo of Anna, in profile. she is a white woman with messy light brown hair in a bun and a grey t-shirt. her eyes are closed and she is playing the fiddle, on a stage.

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Jonathan Starks

Jonathan Starks is an active drummer, producer, and improviser based in Boston, MA. He plays drums in several bands, including the acclaimed Birthday Ass, and produces club adjacent soundscapes on his computer.

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Andrew Yong Hoon Lee

Andrew Lee was born in Winnipeg to Korean ancestry and currently lives and works in New York. His various activities encompasses sound, performance, video, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. He writes, records and performs music as Holy Hum.

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Alec Toku Whiting

Alec Toku Whiting is a composer and improviser from Yokohama, Japan, currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. He makes music on the koto, electronic instruments, and the computer. His work results from the investigation and synthesis of intuitive structures and abstract formal processes in pursuit of a multiplicitous musical event. Alec has collaborated with musicians including Mark Fell, Wendy Eisenberg, Lina Tullgren, and Ted Reichman. His album with Lina Tullgren, "Unfamiliar Ceilings", was released on Astral Spirits in April 2022.

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Elias Stemeseder

Elias Stemeseder is a pianist, electronic musician and composer working in a wide-ranging variety of contemporary musical idioms. He has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Craig Taborn, Ingrid Laubrock, Peter Evans, Joe McPhee, Anna Webber, Hamid Drake and Christian Lillinger, among others. Elias’ debut album Piano Solo was released by the acclaimed Swiss label Intakt Records in 2022. Elias Stemeseder is a longtime member of acclaimed drummer Jim Black’s piano trio (with Thomas Morgan on bass) which has released four critically acclaimed albums. He appears on over 30 recordings released by labels such as Intakt, Winter&Winter, Clean Feed and Pirouet Records, and has performed at the Village Vanguard, Elbphilharmonie, The Stone, Jazzfest Berlin and Copenhagen Jazzfestival among others.

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Sydney Spann

Sydney Spann, originally from Baltimore, MD, is a sound artist and musician based in New York. She works with synthesis, chance operations, recursive compositional processes and voice to intervene within a personal archive of field recordings, culminating in long form compositions and improvised performances. Her music engages the private experiences that shape public spaces, and the affective dynamics within childcare work. She has released albums with Ehse Records (Baltimore), She Rocks! (NYC), and Reading Group (NYC), with a full-length release forthcoming on Recital in 2022. She has performed at the High Zero Festival of Experimental Free Improvised Music, Bar Laika by e-flux, Performance Space New York, Center for Performance Research, Cafe OTO (London), KM28 (Berlin) and in diy spaces and galleries throughout the US. Recent works for streaming include Sending up a Spiral of on Montez Press Radio and Attached/Detached (partial disappearance) for ISSUE Project Room’s With Womens Work Series. She is a 2022 Artist in Residence at ISSUE Project Room and an MFA candidate in Music/Sound at Bard College.

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Maya Keren

Maya Keren is a pianist, vocalist, composer, and songwriter from Philadelphia. They are interested in the process of environing people, voices, instruments, and sounds in ways that invite connection with one’s erotic instinct, embody compassionate and queer relations with the self and the collective, and destabilize learned systems of domination.

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Aliya Ultan

Aliya Ultan (b. 1996) is a composer/improviser, cellist and vocalist from Brooklyn, NY. Born into a family of artists and musicians, Ultan was immersed in a variety of creative mediums and environments. Ultan grew up, periodically homeless with her mother and sister traveling across the U.S. and Canada. At age 12, Ultan fell in love with the cello turning it into her way out of poverty. Emerging from a unique yet challenging childhood, Ultan participated in the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composer’s Program where her music was both workshopped and performed at the Lincoln Center. Throughout her classical training, Ultan maintained an interdisciplinary approach to creating art which has led to performances with artists such as Douglas Ewart (Chicago Art Ensemble) and Katinka Kleijn of the International Contemporary Music Ensemble, among others.

Ultan primarily performs as a singer-cellist, using both instruments to contort pitch centers and embrace a kind of noise based maximalism. This approach has led to the development of techniques such as particular ways of detuning the cello to expand its range, allowing it to cross instrumental bounds. In addition to her sound focused research, Ultan has created works for film that involve breaking, burying, and submerging cellos underwater. These performance pieces aim to detail a new perspective on the anatomy of the cello through playful experimentation.

While studying Cello Performance and Composition at the Oberlin Conservatory, Ultan often performed with Aaron Dilloway of Wolf Eyes as well as other local noise artists in Ohio. While living in the midwest, Ultan founded a circus group (Les Filles Circus) with her sister Taiga Ultan, in collaboration with the Heart of the Beast Puppet Theater and Minneapolis Institute of Art. With a passion for physical theater, circus arts, and opera, Ultan has won numerous awards for multimedia works including From the Top’s Jack Kent Cooke Award, YoungArts, and XARTS.
Ultan holds a BM in Composition from the Oberlin Conservatory and a Masters in Composition with Dr. Tyshawn Sorey at Wesleyan University.

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Sivan Cohen Elias

Sivan Cohen Elias is an electroacoustic experimental composer and intermedia artist, originally from Israel, who seeks to create new mixed-media experiences with the aim to sharpen the connection between our senses. She received numerous international awards, residencies, and commissions including Akademie Schloss Solitude residency, Stuttgart, Music Theatre Competition Staatstheater, Darmstadt, and most recently she received the Fromm Commission Award. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University. This summer she is relocating from New York to Minneapolis, MN, where she has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of composition/music technology emphasis, starting in Fall 2022.

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Keisuke Matsuno

Keisuke Matsuno is a guitarist & sound / noise maker in the realm of composed & improvised music. His own aesthetics in music have been described as »salt of the earth« (Bird is the Worm) & »most extravagant, mind-blowing, & unheard-within-the-unheard« (Blow Up). He is the founding member of the post-krautrock band »Trio Schmetterling«, is currently a core member of bands such as Jim Black's »Smash & Grab«, Charlotte Greve’s »Wood River«, Sana Nagano’s »Smashing Humans«, Briggan Krauss’ »The Need Trio«, Lukas Akintaya's »Hues«, Andrej Ugoljew's »3ZvoVII«, & John Zorn’s »Bagatelles«, & has further collaborated with artists such as Chris Speed, Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston, Tommy Crane, Ted Poor, Marja Burchard, Hans Tammen, Greg Cohen, Stefon Harris, Grey McMurray, Talibam!, & Red Baraat. Besides having performed in over 30 countries on five continents & contributed to over 30 records, he has also collaborated in dance, theater, & film. Born in the divided Berlin, Keisuke grew up in the reunified city and relocated to New York City in 2010. Photo by Katya Vlasova

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Skyler Hill

Skyler Hill is a sound maker, performer, and improviser who is deeply interested in dissolving sonic, social, and performative boundaries. Currently, they are pursuing research into interactive musical spaces and creating a new form of musical game, titled House, which questions the audience-performer binary and allows for experimental forms of participation. Under the name Wavy Enneper, they also recently completed a concept EP which documents the process of trans becoming through the musical embodiments of anxiety, euphoria, and self acceptance. With backgrounds in jazz and improvisation, the making of sound in particular moments and environments is a lens through which many of their projects are focused. However, they are also active as a producer, electronic/electroacoustic artist, and mixing and mastering engineer, working with sound in unique ways through analog and digital means. A recent piece of theirs which combines many of these methods is Mood, Irrealis, for string quintet, saxophone, voice, and electronics. Written, arranged, recorded, mixed, and mastered by them, this piece shows the beginning-to-end process of music making that they’ve grown to enjoy, as well as the combinations of song and experimentalism that informs much of their work.

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Arlo Tomecek

Arlo Tomecek works to combine creative expression with activist work. They are an audio engineer, dancer, choreographer, poet, and musician. Arlo’s work has been shown in Berlin, Edinburgh, New York, Oaxaca, and Tulsa. Their podcast series, Poetry Walks, airs every Tuesday 6PM EST on Radio Kingston. Their work controlling the UNcontrollable, a written work, was published in April 2021 by the Smolny Institute and later presented the work as a Guest Speaker for the RAW Conference for UNT Dallas, Texas in 2023. Their poetry was recently published by the Pink Moth Collective in Minnesota. Arlo strives to cultivate practices that reimagine possibility where there once was obstacle; finding power in the powerless, control in the uncontrollable.

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Teddy Tawil

Teddy Tawil aka TEDTEDTED is an multi-instrumentalist and electronic artist from Beirut, residing in Berlin. His artistic journey started out as a drummer who was fascinated by the possibilities of imitating electronic music with his body. His exposure to jazz music from an early age influenced his perception of time in music, as he found himself drawn to complex rhythmic structures. Eventually, electronic music became his main focus, as it grounded his virtuosic needs while providing him with a wide spectrum of expression alleys, influenced from IDM to electronica, breakbeats and experimental dance music.

TEDTEDTED's work is heavily focused on exploring the intersections of political struggle, noise, sound design, dystopia, dysphoria and catharsis by way of designing soundscapes and decorating time with frustrated beats and nervous transients. In his work, he attempts to rebuild what is constantly destroyed in a deteriorating world.

TEDTEDTED’s first album was released in collaboration with Ruptured Label, an independent experimental music label based in Beirut. His second album was released independently. He also co-wrote two of Kinematik’s most recent albums, a Lebanese experimental ensemble.

Currently, TEDTEDTED is delving into a science fiction project of resistance, vulnerabilities, humanoid warring machines and brain deconstructions. The project is a continuation of his exploration of dystopian themes, highlighting the resilience of the human spirit in face of adversity and hegemony.

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Garrett Wingfield

Garrett Wingfield is a Miami based performer and composer who moonlights as an anti-genre activist. His compositions “…demonstrate his unique skills as a writer and instigator of group improvisation…” (Free Jazz Blog) and are “…equally informed by disparate influences — as much Ellington as it is Berio, as much Ornette as it is Zappa…” (Nextbop). He is currently developing a new sonic language involving various liquids interacting with reed-based instruments. His structural integrity is at times questionable.

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Grettch

Grettch is a singer songwriter and Berklee College of Music alumna based in Berlin. Raised within the landscapes from the Northern Patagonia of Chile, her music journey started with learning classical piano performance. Her music is a blend of powerful and ethereal sounds influenced by the nature and landscape from the south of Chile, rock music and classical piano. Her curiosity in culture and music exploration has led her to perform song arrangements from different music traditions including Brazilian, Hindustani Indian classical, music from the Balkans and Contemporary Classical music. has credits as a singer for Grammy nominee Album Shuruaat, in the category of best global music album ‘23 as part of BIE. Grettch currently is an MA student from Catalyst Institute of Creative Arts and Technology where she is exploring spatial audio composition.

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Cole Blouin

COLE BLOUIN (*1994) is an American composer interested in memory, desire, sound, place, and time. In their work, material and form are stretched, smeared, compressed, and exploded through the interplay of developmental linearity and non-linearity, degrees of familiarity or abstraction in both timbre and figure, and a treatment of duration which welcomes both the “too short” and the “too long” with all of their experiential, poetic, and conceptual power.

Since 2022 their creative practice has been oriented towards collaboration and community, treating fixed and open notations, improvisation, and DAW-oriented production work as vehicles for communication between individuals with strong sonic personalities - but always shaped, across time, through the approaches described above. Local-level material may be generated according to many separate logics of communication, and may be the expression of one or multiple artists; the experience across time bears the weight of a personal compositional style, replete with the clarity and intensity carried within that word: ‘composer’.

Recent projects include Torso, an experimental pop record [2017-2023], and Mundiglossia/Bloom (‘ patiently…’), a 41-minute soprano saxophone solo composed for saxophonist Thomas A. Giles [2020-2021]. Ongoing investigations include work for the large ensemble Clouds Happening and a handful of improvised music projects: a duo with Cenk Ergün; a trio with Sivan Cohen-Elias and Lauren Siess.

Their mentors have included Trevor Bača, Anthony Coleman, Victoria Cheah, Gleb Kanasevich, Joe Morris, Stratis Minakakis, and Julian Lage.

With Thomas A. Giles they run the artist’s initiative Fall Line, which has presented work by musicians and sound-artists including Lea Bertucci, Joshua Alvarez Mastel, Weston Olencki, Hypersurface (Drew Wesely, Lester St. Louis, Carlo Costa), Dominic Coles, Lucie Vítková, Michael Foster, Kelley Sheehan, and others. They have attended Oberlin College, New England Conservatory (B.M. Contemporary Improvisation, Pi Kappa Lambda, minor in Music Theory, capstone paper “Sound Plasma in the Music of Horatiu Radulescu between 1969 and 1982”) and contributed research on music and cognition at MIT Media Lab under the direction of Nataliya Kosmyna.

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Mobéy Lola Irizarry

Mobéy Lola Irizarry (they/she) is a genderqueer composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, painter, and transdisciplinary artist. Based in Brooklyn, they hail from the Puerto Rican diaspora in Hartford, CT, and are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She makes within the lineages of decolonial uprisings, collections of tiny mirrors at queer clubs, and things that come from trees. Mobéy is a cofounder and composer for Las Mariquitas, NYC’s Queer and Trans-centered Salsa band, and a member of the experimental performance trio Dendarry Bakery and the Latin Rock outfit AVATAREDEN. In 2023 alone she has performed at the Denver Art Museum, the Shed, was a resident artist at CEPA in Puerto Rico, established Las Mariquitas’ “Salserx Futurism” residency in collaboration with the bar Cmon Everybody, and is co-composing a ballet with Dendarry Bakery and choreographer Arthur Aviles for the New York Theatre Ballet and the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. Lola’s solo album Seka’s Dream will release May 2023 on Panapen Records and Funnybone Records.

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Sam Forst

Sam Forst (he/him) is a musician and artist based in Portland, Oregon. His long-term practices include playing improvised saxophone music in outdoor spaces and home recording under the name Sage Rats. He is the author of a poetry chapbook titled Free Jazz Vanity Plate. His work concerns themes of memory and time, and incorporates influences from the musical traditions of the Southeastern United States, where he grew up.

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J. Mordechai

J. Mordechai is a Brooklyn based composer-producer who uses sound to investigate the space between protest and pleasure. Since 2016, he has released music that spans genres of pop, folk, noise, and club music.

He has contributed scores to projects with choreographers Olivia Burgess, Liana Kleinman, Alice Pan, Evan Sagadencky, Rosie D’Angelo, and Max Stone.

J. is a current performing member of Aisle Knot and Crosslegged in addition to previously serving in Beshken, Fast Preacher, and Slumberjack.

His latest release ‘Reveries’, a five-track EP recorded between 2021-2022 planted the seeds for the two full-length albums forthcoming in 2023.

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Sofía Salvo

Sofía Salvo is a saxophonist, improviser and composer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Based in Berlin since 2019, her career today focuses on experimentation and improvisation, either with the baritone saxophone or with samples and different electronic media. Her work combines acoustic and electronic sounds, melting in a personal noise-textured language that contains darkness and mystery, but also humor. As a passionate supporter of the alternative music scene, she is not only a performer, but also a curator of various events in Berlin.

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Mike Haldeman + Alfredo Colon

mike haldeman spends much of his days searching and learning, trying to extract and uncover unexpectedly joyful and emotionally potent sounds from unexpected places and methods. mike takes the raw materials of guitars and clarinets, and through a labyrinthine course of cables and computers, sculpts sound-worlds that may resemble anything from howling gusts of wind, to gentle cascades of water, to a room full of quietly glittering miniature music boxes, to unsettling industrial clamor and clanging metal. he is grateful to be contributing to the flame keepers space, and particularly excited to be reuniting with friend and collaborator alfredo colon for this round of sound explorations in a new context together.

Alfredo Colon is a New York City native. The saxophonist was born to immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic and grew up in Washington Heights. He studied under musicians such as Lee Konitz, Jason Rigby, Steve Wilson and Jacob Sacks

Colon has performed alongside musicians such as Henry Threadgill, Moses Sumney, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Nduduzo Makhathini, Amirtha Kidambi, Harish Raghavan and many others. He has performed at esteemed spaces such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Roulette Intermedium, BAM, The Jazz Gallery, The Stone, National Sawdust and a myriad of others.

Colon was awarded the Jazz Coalition Commission Fund Grant in early 2020. His piece ‘A Witch Gets Married’ premiered online on October 2020. The performance can be viewed here. He is also one of the recipients of Roulette’s Van Lier Fellowship for 2022.

Alfredo plays P Mauriat instruments and D’Addario reeds.

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Rachel Weaver

Rachel Weaver is a writer, environmental educator, mixed media artist, creative collaborator, and community organizer who works in various mediums to understand our environmental imaginations. They perform as blendways, expressing mixed media multisensory ecological reveries including soundscape ecology, sound collage, ambient music, field recordings, zines, fiber arts, future news, & nous news. Rachel has performed and produced mixed media performance art showcases at KUZU Community Radio, Denton Zine & Art Party, dallas contemporary museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Interference Fest, Sonic Murals, Thin Line Festival, Speedbump lil d, University of North Texas, Texas Woman’s University, Denton-Dallas-Ft. Worth galleries and venues.

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Olivia W-B

Olivia W-B is a guitarist, vocalist, and composer based out of Boston. Their work is about tension and anxiety between the personal and the political, exploring pleasure, pain, and the brutality of the mundane. Current projects include vocals for noise punk band Rong, compositions for sextet Premium Velvet Headache Pillow, solo guitar, and experimental art and music event series FIND OUT.

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Guido Kohn

Guido Kohn works with the sonic possibilities between instrument, preparations, digitallity and analogue effects. Raised in Buenos Aires, now based in Berlin, he considers himself an “expanded strings player”: classical education as a cellist first, later developed a fixation on the electric bass, eventually started playing electronic devices and no-input pedals. His performances are usually centered on improvisation, with experimental and noise aesthetics. He presents himself either solo or in diverse constellations, both stable (“El Segundo Es Terrible”, duet with Sofia Salvo, the trio with Edith Steyer and Samuel Hall, “Müller’s Revenge” with Dr. Nexus, Marcello Busato Utku Tavil, Isabel Rösler and Antti Virtaranta, as examples) or also inedit formations. Parallel, he is half of the LatinElectroPunk group Las Migrañas.

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Lester St. Louis

Lester St. Louis (b.1993) is a New York born and based Composer, Improviser, Cellist, Sound Designer and Curator. His work traverses through performance, installation, curation, artistic research and recording. His works are rooted in dynamic environments of improvisation both sonically and socially, ecstatic sound worlds. flow and interaction. He has performed internationally throughout The U.S, The E.U, Canada, China and in South America; and collaborates with artists such as Chris Williams [under the moniker HxH], Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die, Ben Lamar Gay, Yaeji, Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, Miho Hatori, Dré A. Hočevar, Charmaine Lee, Isabel Crespo Pardo, TAK Ensemble, Random International, Irreversible Entanglements, Superblue, Terence Nance, Found Sound Nation, Wet Ink Ensemble and many more. As a composer, Lester has been commissioned by artists such as The JACK Quartet, RAGE THORMBONES, Jennifer Koh, String noise and Ghost Ensemble among others.

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Isabel Crespo Pardo

Isabel Crespo Pardo (they/them) is a NYC-based latinx vocalist, improviser-composer, and interdisciplinary artist. Rooted in conceptual clarity, their work actively entangles music, visual art, text and performance, always evolving to reflect the intra/interpersonal spaces they inhabit. Reveling in soft chaos, they embrace openness and specificity to create poetic work(s). Learn more at isabelcrespo.com

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The Growth Eternal

The Growth Eternal is the primary creative project of Tulsa-born, LA-based multi-instrumentalist ghalani. Conceived in 2018 as a necessary expressive outlet following years of rigorous jazz bass guitar study, the Growth Eternal (true to its name) provides ghalani with the consecrated space to intuit, evolve, and explore beyond the confines of genre and influence, operating, all the while, with humility and intention— a state akin to the Buddhist Shoshin (“beginner’s mind”).

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Ben Garnett

Ben Garnett is a Nashville-based acoustic guitarist & composer interested in possibility, composition, and connection. After majoring in jazz guitar performance (2016) at the renowned University of North Texas, Garnett moved into the world of contemporary American acoustic music, where he’s since made his home as an internationally touring artist.

In March 2023, Garnett released his debut solo LP “Imitation Fields” produced by Chris Eldridge (guitarist of the band Punch Brothers), on Padiddle Records. Described as a “vivid dreamscape of acoustic immediacy and electronic fantasy,” the album has since been written about in Premier Guitar, and has received recognition across the acoustic world. Acclaimed acoustic guitarist Bryan Sutton calls the work “…a beautiful record. Songs that are modern and musical, bringing out the best in every musician involved. I’ll be listening to this for a long time.”

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Ivan Decoud

Ivan Decoud is a trombonist and visual artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Focusing on the intersections of improvised music, composition, physical processes of instruments, noise, movement and electronics, Daniel explores the diversity of sound and technique in diverse contexts. With a passion for media, nature, and technology, Daniel has created a large body of experimental work that evokes both human instinct and industrial innovation. Daniel continues to research ways in which he can deconstruct instrumental functions to find an individual identity as a soloist, collaborator, and sideman.

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Abbie from Mars

Abbie is from Mars (PA). Based in New York City since 2020, she makes and performs experimental pop music with a penchant for improvisation, noise, and performance art. Her act is unique for incorporating electroacoustic tap dance with processing in Max/MSP between raw, impassioned, highly physical performances of her songs. Abbie plays regularly in NYC and has also toured in California, the Midwest, and Canada. She has performed at cultural institutions including Elastic Arts; Stanford University’s CCRMA Stage; Joe’s Pub, a Program of The Public Theater; and National Sawdust. A champion of the underground, Abbie is the host of RadioActivity, a weekly radio show at freeform station WFMU.

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Marté

Marté is a non-binary Argentinian composer, electronic artist, and visual artist based in Buenos Aires. They explore the creation of abstract and emotive atmospheres generated through FM synthesis and the use of pop influenced micromelodies, creating through their compositions small sonic stories. Her musical production falls within the worlds of ambient and sound + timbral design.

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Ivan Klomp

Ivan Klomp is an Argentinian producer, percussionist, and educator. Starting on the drums at age 13, he has studied symphonic percussion, musical production, and improvisation and currently works as an audiovisual music producer. He has a solo set titled "Magiclick" in which he plays drums, triggers samples, and manipulates synths simultaneously, and is also the drummer for various artists in the Buenos Aires music scene.

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Griffin Brown

Griffin Brown is a composer, poet, drummer, songwriter+vocalist, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and photographer. Described by The Wire as “impressive” and “original,” his music has been featured at venues and festivals throughout the US, EU, and Canada. His poems appear in The Paris Review, Plume, Poetry Northwest, Prelude, and elsewhere.

His sonic work has been premiered and commissioned by the S.E.M. Ensemble, Opera Elect, and YCBA, among others, and he collaborates with a range of established and emerging international luminaries across genres—both onstage and off.

Griffin studied composition and poetry at Yale, who awarded him the Clapp Fellowship in Poetry.

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David Mirarchi

(b. 1996) David Mirarchi is a Queens-based saxophonist, composer, and poet from Peckville, Pennsylvania. David's artistic practice aims to combine his ever-developing process of manipulating written word-- mainly in the form of poetry-- into melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and structural materials, with a deep love for unrestricted improvisation. Throughout the course of his education, David has studied with luminaries of the New York Jazz and Improvised music scenes, including David Bixler, Jason Rigby, Ed Neumeister, David Liebman, Tony Malaby, and Gary Smulyan. In 2021 David was named a Fellow of the Ravinia Steans Music institute, lead by Steve Wilson, Billy Childs, and Rufus Reid. In 2023, David received an honorable mention in the Herb Alpert Young Jazz composers awards for his 2023 recording Ink Folly Orchid Gleam (Unbroken Sounds).

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Maga Clavijo

(b. 1994) Maga Clavijo is a musician, composer and sound artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a violinist and sound designer she focuses her work around noise (analog and digital), theater, poetry and performance. She explores the dialogues between light, sound and movement.

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Ariel Vera

Ariel Vera is a vocalist, improviser, composer and rapper from Brooklyn, NY. Ariel’s music is a direct result of her processing and reaction to her daily life, relationships, environment, and personal growth. By infusing her eclectic work with various elements of popular music and free improvisation, Ariel aims to attract a diverse audience. She is committed to making her music relatable and accessible despite its oddities. Alongside her debut collaboration with drinkabir, other projects Ariel has on the forefront include avant-pop drum-voice duo PuriKoko, creative music collective ETM, and her solo recording project: eriomarie.

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David Leon

David Leon is a Miami-born saxophonist, woodwinds player, composer, and improviser living in Brooklyn, New York. His work is guided by a persistent search for vitality through autonomy, contradiction, hyperbole, and humor. His work with the saxophone investigates alternate methods for producing a tone, refinement of these techniques, and development of a distinct vocabulary using these sounds; he melds this timbral approach with melodic and rhythmic phrasing from Cuban folkloric traditions, narrative playing, Free Jazz & avant-garde esthetics, and microtonality to reveal a personal conceit.

David's current projects include Bird's Eye, a trio with Doyeon Kim and Lesley Mok which will release its first recording this March 8, 2024 on Pyroclastic Records, and a double horns-guitars-percussion trio co-led with Adam O’Farrill, Locomotive. He is a core member of multiple ensembles including Lisa Hoppe’s Third Reality, Lesley Mok: The Living Collection, Adam O’Farrill’s For These Streets & Bird Blown Out of Latitude, William Brittelle MetaSimulacrum, Vicente Hansen’s Orlando Furioso, Tal Yahalom Quintet, Aaron Quinn’s Sunchoke, and others.

His debut album, Aire de Agua (released August 2021 on Out of Your Head Records) has been praised as “a splendid debut from a young saxophone player who, starting with the right foot, promises to make a name for himself in the creative jazz scene” (Felipe Freitas, JazzTrail). He has also released two albums in the Current Obsession series that documents improvisations with current collaborators. In addition to his work as a composer and performer, David is interested in exploring irony and dissonance through puppetry and other mediums. These explorations will be documented in his upcoming performance as a Roulette 2024 Jerome Commission artist at Roulette Intermedium.

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Violeta García

Violeta García (1990) is a cellist, composer and curator from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She studied at the “Conservatory Astor Piazolla”. She graduated in Composition at “Conservatory Manuel de
Falla” with Ricardo Capellano and she has a Degree on Musical Arts specializing in violoncello at “Universidad
Nacional of Arts (U.N.A)”. She is currently based in Bern, Switzerland doing a Master in Composition at the
University of the Arts Bern (HKB Hochschule der Künste Bern).
She is a performer in many art forms, including free improvisation, contemporary and trans-media experimental
repertoire in violoncello and electronic music.
In 2015 she founded a digital label and music series called TVL-REC, which is devoted to publishing new music,
experimental groups and collectives from Latin America and other countries and making music series and
festivals of noise and extreme music in Latin America and Europe.
She collaborated with different artists from all over the world as: Uri Caine, Tristan Honsinger, Tony Malaby
Quartet, Hank Roberts, Jacques Morelembaum, Stanimir Todorov, Jorge Perez Tedesco, Brandon Lopez, Chris
Pitsiokos, Weasel Walter, Joelle Leandre, Leila Bordrieul, Dasom Baek, Tamio Shiraishi, Carlos Quebrada,
Camilo Angeles, Camila Nebbia, Emilie Girad Charest, among others.
She worked in various companies and ensembles: Compañía Nacional de Danza Contemporary from Buenos
Aires, Reverso theater company from Uruguay, Dominga Tango & the ensemble Nicotina es Primavera.
She played at Fusion Festival (GE), Spielact festival (CH), Welcome to the Village Festival (NL), Valkhof Festival
(NL), Norðanpaunk Festival (ISL), Antwerp Queer Arts Festival (BEL), KEXP (US), CCK (ARG), Gran Teatro
Nacional (PE), Universidad de los Andes (COL), WORM (NL), among others.
Internacional residencies: Art Omi (NYC), Konvent Zero (ESP), Art Basel in Faena Art Center (ARG), Fondo
Nacional de las Artes (ARG), Fundación Williams, Ibermusicas, Artists in Residency at Jazz Festival in Lima,
Perú, among others.
She tours annually playing a repertoire of current contemporary music, Solo set, free improvisation and with
several projects (Blanco Teta, Tortuga Alada, duo whit Chris Pitsiokos, duo with Camilo Angeles…)

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Chatterbox

Chatterbox is a Brooklyn-based crunchy-pop vocal trio consisting of Jolee Gordon, Priya Carlberg and Isabel Crespo Pardo. Twisting and bending and humming and screeching, their songs are like yanking that tiny thread hanging off of your shirt and watching it all unravel.

All members are composers in their own right, informed by the creative music tradition, punk, indie, electronic music, etc. Chatterbox takes commissions as well and performs works by Frank Carlberg, Steven Long, Lily Honigberg, Ben Katz, & Shane Simpson.

https://www.instagram.com/chatttttterbox/

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Los Amantes de lo Ajeno

"Los Amantes de lo Ajeno" is a project designed to challenge prevailing ideas about musical originality and to critique a self-focused approach to music appreciation. Primarily rooted in field recordings, it seeks to uncover the musicality and beauty in daily interactions, ranging from natural settings to urban centers.

Everything around us offers a chance to listen and appreciate. As humans, we are part of the fabric of nature. Therefore, this is an invitation to attune ourselves not only to our inner sounds but also to the many others surrounding us.

https://instagram.com/amantesajenos?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

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Kabir Adhiya-Kumar

Kabir Adhiya-Kumar is a 23-year-old drummer/producer from Washington Heights. The NYC native has been gigging in his city almost his entire life, with weekly shows ranging from free improvised music and indie rock, all the way to hyper-pop.  

Over the past two years, he’s performed and/or recorded with over 40 different bands, produced for up-and-coming rappers, and has begun work at the International Student Center, as a Senior Communications Supervisor.  In 2022, Kabir graduated from the esteemed New England Conservatory of Music, where he was mentored by drumming greats like Billy Hart and Nasheet Waits.  

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Uchi

Uchi is a sound improviser based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She participates in projects as a technical and artistic assistant and works as an Operator and Sound Technician (for dance, theater, live music works). She also works as a web developer and as a member of the Expresión Corporal subject at UNA.

She is currently completing her thesis to obtain a Bachelor's Degree in Choreographic Composition, UNA. She also trained in UNA Electroacoustic Composition, took the Composition workshop taught by Ricardo Capellano, and has studied Frontend Development (ReactJS) and programming languages like Python and C#.

She continues her self-taught training in visual arts with Max/Msp as well as dedicating time to researching the possible outcomes of coupling processing.

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ARO

ARO (Ariel Invernizzi Oviedo) es argentino nacido en Cuba en 1989. Baterista, artista sonoro electrónico y compositor. Intérprete y performer. Guionista y realizador audiovisual.

Como músico se formó en distintas carreras de Buenos Aires vinculadas a la improvisación, el jazz, la composición y el arte sonoro. Participa activamente de la escena de música experimental de Buenos Aires, y colabora desde la investigación y creación con diversas disciplinas escénicas. Su búsqueda sonora se sitúa entre los tejidos de la improvisación y la composición en vínculo con el noise, la música contemporánea y la electrónica actual. Desarrolla obras y dispositivos a través de técnicas extendidas en instrumentos, procesos de audio electrónicos, y síntesis sonora digital.

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ARO (Ariel Invernizzi Oviedo) is an Argentinian born in Cuba in 1989. Drummer, electronic sound artist, and composer. Performer. Screenwriter and audiovisual artist.

As a musician, his paths have been formed through traversing unique areas of the Buenos Aires music scene including improvisation, jazz, composition, and sound art. He actively participates in the experimental music scene in Buenos Aires and contributes to the investigation and creation of diverse disciplines. His musical explorations situate themselves within threads of improvisation and composition intertwined with noise, contemporary music, and modern electronics. He develops works and tools through extended instrumental techniques, electronic audio processes, and digital sound synthesis.

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MAQ

Macarena Aguilar Tau aka MAQ is a sound artist, composer, improviser and teacher born in Argentina. She studied at the Faculty of Arts of the National University of La Plata where she obtained a university degree in orchestral conducting. Currently, her work is linked to the exploration of the sound of the environment and sound experimentation. She incorporates acoustics, electroacoustics and electronics materials. She works with field recordings, musical instruments and unconventional materials. She has created original music and sound design for films, short films, theater plays, dance, performance, installations, virtual reality and podcasts.

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Elizabeth Gartman

Elizabeth Gartman is a composer/soprano based in New York City. Her compositions explore vocalism, process in performance, and active listening and response. Elizabeth’s music has been commissioned by the Washington National Opera, New Chamber Ballet, Beth Morrison Projects, Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra, InfraSound Ensemble, Ensemble Chemie, Pax Duo, and others. Recent accolades include selection as a composer fellow with American Opera Initiative (2023), the William Schuman Prize for Most Outstanding Score with BMI Student Composer Awards (2021), and Runner Up of Beth Morrison Projects Next Generation (2022). This season, Elizabeth will premiere a one-act opera at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., a full length ballet at Mark Morris Dance Group in Brooklyn, and a choral piece with the NYC Virtuoso Singers. Elizabeth holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music (M.M. Composition 2021) and the University of Illinois (B.M. Vocal Performance, B.M. Composition 2019).

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Eli Berman

Eli Berman (she/they) is a vocalist, improviser, composer-producer and new instrument builder from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She creates electroacoustic music using extended vocal techniques that weave together khazones (Ashkenazi Jewish cantorial music), Yiddish and Appalachian folk song, and western classical repertoire for countertenor and baritone. For the past three years, Eli has been developing feedback instruments that extend the human voice using PVC pipes, metal sheets, and frame drums amplified by mics and transducers and modulated by delay pedals. In the past two years she has begun to create beats from digital samples of her voice.

Eli has premiered her music at the Watermill Center, Banff Centre, New Music On the Point, Yiddish Summer Weimar, New Explorative Oratorio Voice Festival, Atlantic Music Festival, Gender Unbound, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, and the New School. Eli recently opened the 2023 Snug Harbor Dance Festival (Staten Island, NY) with Bonita Oliver in her new work “Trans Water Stories,” for which Eli built digital feedback instruments designed for singers. Eli contributed to and performed in Anna Lublina's 2023 show Undying in Yidderland: Jargon Rituals at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt, Germany), and Eli performed her original track for the live premiere of Sanni Est's critically-acclaimed album PHOTOPHOBIA, which closed the 2022 Pop-Kultur Festival at Kulturbrauerei (Berlin, Germany). In addition to her experience as a countertenor and baritone in vocal ensembles such as C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective (New York, New York), Eli has sung as a soloist in the 2018 US premiere of John Tavener's Total Eclipse and a 2018 New York Times critically-acclaimed concert of works by Eve Beglarian. She has presented her music and creative research at the 2021 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2020 Pan-American Vocology Association Symposium, and 2019 Transgender Singing Voice Conference. Instagram: @eliberman

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El Piyi

Leonardo Piaggio (apodado El Piyi) es un cantante y artista sonoro. Co-fundador del sello Isla Visión y ha estado / está en diversos proyectos musicales. Su búsqueda estética se basa en lo-fi y grabaciones caseras (porta estudios o computadora) explorando géneros como Electrónica, Ambient y Noise.

Leonardo Piaggio (El Piyi) is a singer and sound artist. He has been part of diverse musical projects and is the co-founder of the label Isla Visión. His aesthetic world is based in lo-fi and homemade recordings, exploring genres such as electronica, ambient, and noise.

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Symi

Symi is Argentinian experimental electronic musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist,
producer and teacher Fernanda Flores.

Through concrete and electronic sound synthesis, Symi seeks to capture emotional
atmospheres. Her four albums: CR 350, CR 450, CR 570 and T 36000/2, form a
quartet that oscillates between atmospheric and ambient noise and the rhythmic
hypnotism of trance.

With a conservatory training in guitar and viola, as a teacher of composition and
musical experimentation, and as a producer for different artists over the years, she
evolved her own practice to produce soundtracks for audiovisual projects, and
began publishing her own electronic works in 2012. Today she composes,
produces, records and performs live as Symi.

In December 2021, she participated in the Artlab Artistic Residencies by Amplify
D.A.I teaming up with Brazilian visual artist and filmmaker Keila Sankofa. Their
audiovisual piece explores the notions of food and affectivity, combining
performance and video art with experimental electronic music. This work was
presented at the MAPA Contemporary Art Fair, at the Amplify Occupation in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, at the Mutek 2022 Festival from Montreal and at Mutek Argentina
2022.

Her last shows were at Festival Experimentalia, Arteba and Mutek Argentina 2023.

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Altimetry

Altimetry is the creative outlet for Brooklyn-based pianist and musician/composer Brice Edward (they/them). Their music blends organic sound with electronic sound, creating environments that feel both serene and chaotic. Their most recent album "microenvironments" was released on Nov 4th, 2022 via the New York based Label of Goods. Aside from being an active performer and collaborator, they teach piano and love to garden.

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Randall Minick

Randall Minick is an artist working with synthesis & electronics in Denton, Texas and has been active in the vibrant North Texas DIY community for the last fifteen years. He performs in groups and as a solo artist, whether it be in crumbling house venues or the Dallas Contemporary.

Minick was inspired by his research of the experimental post-war sounds of kosmische & motorik music in Germany, seeing similarities in the DIY ethos and rejection of mainstream western culture decades later in his own local scene.

Having no formal education in music, he stumbled through his own path of murky drones and electronics. He founded several projects including Wave Swinger, Demandite, and Felt & Fur; the latter of which would eventually morph into his main project up until 2021, releasing a full length record in 2018 and opening for national / international acts like Dan Deacon, Mortiis, She Wants Revenge, SURVIVE & more.

Minick currently plays modular synth in the Texas hardcore punk band Laughing Matter, electronics and synths in his EBM duo Python Potions, & makes rhythmic techno & electro under the solo guise of Formless Ocean. He also hosts “Sound Creature” on Denton’s nonprofit LPFM station KUZU 92.9, and is employed at North Texas’ finest venue for loud experimental music, Rubber Gloves.

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Alejandro Vega

Alejandro Vega is a Nicaraguan born and Munich, Germany based musician, music producer, mixer and sound designer.

Vega is also one of the co-founders of the sample pack label nu.wav, where they are constantly releasing sample packs through Splice and on their site. Lastly, he has also worked with many independent artists as a producer/mixer and he’s done scoring and sound design for film.

Vega is currently working as a music producer and sound engineer at the sound branding agency amp GmbH.

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Molto Ohm

Matteo Liberatore’s new project Molto Ohm is a sonic and visual exploration of the interplay between digital life and social decay on an emotional level. In today's alluring digital world, we are merely users, to whom health, beauty, love, and connection are promised. But at what cost? In the end, we find ourselves alone, void of purpose yet still mindlessly scrolling, pulling furtively on a pane of glass, unable to break through.

Utilizing a mixed palette of sporadic dance beats, seductive voices, synthetic melodies and environmental sound, the music deftly distills these experiences into arresting aural scenes. Liberatore’s prior prolific work in the realms of improvised and creative music is combined with his experience working as a freelance sound recordist in the advertising industry, as well as memories of dancing in nightclubs as a teenager in Italy, to assemble a work that is at once profoundly alienating and deeply intimate.

For the live experience, Molto Ohm plays next to a vertical screen projection that is complementing (or not…) the ideas expressed in the music, creating an immersive world of screen recordings, 360 footage, iPhone footage, and stock footage, in which the audience can get lost, amused, bewildered.

A third absurdist club night, a third art experience, a third movie, you won’t be disappointed. Join the Molto Ohm world today sign up for the mailing list at https://www.moltoohm.com/

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opperaddor

opperaddor is a composer and producer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied composition at the Conservatorio de Música de Morón, and electronic composition in UNA (Universidad Nacional de las Artes). He is a video game music composer, sound designer, and member of Truchotoys, where he is a music composer and programmer. He is also the founder of Canopus.EM where he teaches music production and composition.

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Joey Kinnan

Joey Machina is a musician, producer and sound engineer from Brooklyn, New York. He studied music performance at New York University. He is a member of Punchlove as a guitarist and sound designer. When Joey isn't playing guitar, he creates soundscapes with a variety of analog and digital tools.

You can find Joey on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/joeymachinaera/

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Concepción Huerta

Concepción Huerta is a multidisciplinary artist with a strong background in audiovisual media and a deep focus on the sound spectrum. Her work is developed in different practices such as: sound
design, installations, spatialized concerts, speculative narratives and immersive experiences. His approach to sound begins by reflecting on the relationship between silence-noise, political space, and the sound agent as a means of enunciation. She also investigates resonance, acoustic space and the physical and psychological impact of sound in relation to the listener.

Her sound exploration is through recordings of everyday objects (foleys) and instruments such as synthesizers, which when played and manipulated with tape recorders and processed tapes, create atmospheres based on elements of ambient and noise. She creates sound narratives, which rather than being inserted into a specific musical genre, are closer to the construction of an imagined story. Incorporating the study of synthesis, electricity, voltage, formats and materiality as part of their approach to sound. Exploring it from the most elemental level and how it can be
translated by creating technological bridges between analogue and digital processes.

Member of the experimental ensemble Amor Muere with Gibrana Cervantes, Camille Mandoki and Mabe Fratti, with whom she has collaborated in several publications. Collaborating in sound with diverse artists such as: Fernado Vigueras, Rodrigo Ambriz, Martin Escalante, CNDSD, Resonancia, Reick Reed, Tommi Keränen, Camilo Angeles, Leslie Garcia, Daniela Huerta among others.

"The sacredness of all dimensions of life" is a project of speculative and immersive narratives with Anahy Cabrera a.k.a. ZETA who is a transmedia artist with an immersive approach. Developing different projects such as: "TRAVELERS", "The Earth Has Memory" and "GRIETAS" (this last project is also conformed by the sound artists: Lucia Hinojosa and Vania Fortuna). Publications on labels: "Cueva de Cristales" Vorágine in 2018, "Internal Capacity" with Mabe Fratti 2018, TANDEM : 4 CNDSD + Concepción Huerta on ETANG BRULANT, "Personal Territories" on Static Discos in 2019, "Lost Time"on Filiae 2020, "Estática" duo with Mabe Fratti on SA Recordings and Spitfire audio 2021, "Desciende" duo with Camilo Angeles TVL REC 2022, "Harmonies from Betelgeuse" at UMOR REX 2022, "A Time to Love, A Time to Die" with her ensemble Amor Muere at Scrawl 2023, "The Earth Has Memory" at Elevator Bath 2024.

Festivals and venues where she has performed in America, Europe and Asia: VOLTA, Meditatio Sonus, Desbordamientos, Traslaciones II, Articulaciones del Silencio, UMBRAL, Aural, REMANENCIA, Matik, Coaxial Arts, Center 4 New Music, Molten Plains, MUTEK 2019, 2022, NRMAL, No idea Festival, Bucarelli 69, EXT, AUDITUM, Audio Foundation, Laboratorios Sonoros UNAM, Poesía en Voz Alta, Rewire, Roter Salon, Cafe OTO,
Beboerhuset, Volksbühne, Fylkingen among others.

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Ghost Streams

This week at Flame Keepers, the installation has been intentionally left “abandoned” with no composers maintaining the audio stems. When this happens, the system engages a fail-safe algorithm that replaces any one of the streams with one randomly selected from the historical archive of musical streams of all previous Flame Keepers. The results might be harmonious, cacophonous, anodyne, or expressive, yet always surprising. During this time, the composition will evolve continuously with unpredictable results until the next composer takes over in a following week.

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Ben Eidson

Ben Eidson is a saxophonist, computer musician and improvisor currently living in Columbia, South Carolina, where he regularly performs and organizes concerts.

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Andy Pitcher

‘Pitcher’s ears are always searching the sonic horizon for the sound of the future’ - Premier Guitar

Andy Pitcher is a brooklyn based improvising/composing acoustic/electronic guitarist. With a reactive electronic guitar style, Andy explores a duo between the instrument in hand and the electronic processing at foot. Andy has played with folks like The Armed, Ray Anderson, Motyka, & Gabriel Marin’s Social Assassins, and has lent improvised guitar sounds to producers like Joel Hamilton, Jake Alexander Miller, & Kurt Ballou.

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Omeed Goodarzi

Omeed Goodarzi is a musician and instrument builder living in Marlboro, Vermont. For his day job he works as a musical accompanist for the dance and theatre department at Amherst College as well as a private music teacher. He’s played in groups The Intangible Shirt Co, Leaf Peepers, Omeed & the Natural Scene, Romantics (with Chris Weisman), and Donkey no no. He has also released three solo albums on FEEDING TUBE RECORDS, a record label based in Florence, Mass. Omeed’s work has lately focused on composing for two replica chromelodeons (an instrument designed by Harry Partch) which he built in 2022 out of two reed organs. 

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Jazz Adam

Jazz Adam is a musician and artist born and raised in NYC. Jazz fronted Old Maybe, a solo project turned punk band, and spent many years performing live, primarily in Philadelphia and NYC. After a hiatus, Jazz is now reviving Old Maybe as a solo project once again, this time relying heavily on electronic production and loop sequencing to create a new sound. Jazz has also spent years curating live events, and a lot of her writing is subconsciously tied to her experiences in the world of live music.

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Alina Jacobs

Alina Jacobs is a writer, actor and sound enthusiast from NYC. Her favorite instruments to play are the saxophone and the no-input mixer; she has recorded and performed on guitar, synth and cassette machines as well. Alina has performed in various states, provinces, and countries. alina-jacobs.neocities.org

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Max Branigan

Max Branigan is a stop motion animator, photographer, and musician from Brooklyn. He currently is interested in digital puppetry, the tarot, and active imagination. A book of his images of performances will be released this summer. He is interested in collaboration and can be reached at maxbranigan@gmail.com or 9735085497

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Emiliano López

Emiliano López (Ciudad de México, 1994) es un guitarrista y artista de noise mexicano radicado en Boston. Se graduó en la carrera de Improvisación Contemporánea en New England Conservatory. Su música combina sonidos electrónicos con el uso de objetos y esculturas sonoras- creando un puente entre la instalación, el performance y la música. Ha presentado su música en diversos espacios de Boston, como el Jordan Hall, The Lilypad, The Firehouse, SomArt Space y la serie de conciertos Find Out, entre otros. También, se ha presentado en espacios de la Ciudad de México como el Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes, el Centro Cultural Árbol que Nace Torcido y el Vernacular Institute.

Emiliano López (Mexico City, 1994) is a Mexican guitarist and noise artist from currently based in Boston. He graduated with a degree in Contemporary Improvisation from the New England Conservatory. His music combines electronic sounds with the use of objects—sound sculptures—creating a fusion that bridges visual installation, performance art, and music. He has presented his music at various venues in the Boston area, including Jordan Hall, The Lilypad, The Firehouse, SomArt Space, and the concert series Find Out, among others. He has also performed at venues in Mexico City such as the Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes, Árbol que Nace Torcido, and Vernacular Institute.

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Qiujiang Levi Lu

Qiujiang Levi Lu/卢秋江 (they/them) is a Beijing-born, NYC-based performance artist, improviser, composer, and educator. For their solo performance art practice, Lu designs Max/MSP-based electroacoustic feedback systems with cyborg-like body augmentations inspired by Objectophilia/animism, which include special microphones and speakers placed within bodily orifices and a custom-mapped flight joystick controller. Their resulting performances consist of choreographed, ritualistic improvisations that build on ancient Chinese drumming traditions and explore body dysmorphia, sexuality, spirituality, and mortality, linking together sound, movement, and violence in divine ceremony.

As a composer, Lu writes instructed improvisation pieces for acoustic and electronic performers and improvisers. Lu’s commissioned works often take a meta, unorthodox approach to music technology, exploring human-machine relationships, audio-visual interactivity, mind-body connection, and the phenomenology of musical performance. Previous commissions have included Popebama, Luke Helker, and Ensemble Decipher.

Lu’s works have been performed and featured at festivals, conferences, and venues such as High Zero Festival, MATA Festival, IRCAM forum, DiMenna Center, Jazz Showcase, SEAMUS conference, Elastic Arts, Spencer Museum of Art, NIME conference, NYCEMF, Oberlin MMG, Rhizome DC, and NowNet Arts conference.
Lu currently works as a lecturer and recording engineer in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Max Feldman

Max Feldman is a Brooklyn musician and comedian. In 2021 he started his Spa Water project through which he has since released six albums, ranging in style from neoclassical compositions to vaporwave-metal remixes, on the online labels Slyme Records and Pedicure Records. In 2022, Max started performing live music at venues like Berlin, Pianos, Wonderville, and Trans-Pecos, where he uses his trusty SP-404 to turn sounds from his albums (and from elsewhere) into immersive and humorous collages. Also a visual artist, Max does all his own album artwork and often performs alongside his own live visuals.

Max does musical improv comedy, and has performed all around town with his indie team Hey, Handsome! which specializes in making up musical versions of popular TV shows. Max is also a company member of Eight is Never Enough, an interactive family comedy show at the Broadway Comedy Club. Often Max works as the piano accompanist for other musical improv comedy teams, which means he gets to make up the music while they make up the lyrics.

In January 2023, Max joined the bands Jenny Alien and Kiddo Pro, which have given him the chance to rock out on keys and SP-404 respectively. With these bands he has performed at venues like The Knitting Factory, Gold Sounds, and The Living Gallery.

Perhaps of greatest note is that Max once saw Chris Rock in line at a movie theater.

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Andrea Pensado

Based in the US since 2002, Pensado uses voice and electronics to make her music. She studied in Argentina and Poland where she graduated in Composition with honors at the Krakow Academy of Music. However, after extensive composition practice, her music started to gradually move away from conventional composition. Nowadays, she mainly uses digital media and live interactive systems to perform. Her voice is constantly interwoven in the performances. The approach to both programming and performance is highly intuitive. The harsh cut up noise result, mixed with the strong emotional component of her music, generates a deeply personal sonic language. Occasionally, the combination of the performance situation, the often abrasive sounds, the irrational use of the voice and the inherent uncertainty of improvisations contributes to discoveries of unknown places in her mind.

Pensado performs extensively in the US and abroad. She also produces Sonorium, a series of experimental music based in Salem, MA.

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Kelly Bray

Kelly Bray is a trumpet player, improviser, and composer. Her original compositions and improvisations explore the extremes in trumpet technique, often drawing from her relationship to perceptions of gender and femininity in the communities and aesthetics of improvisation, creative music, and trumpet playing. Her recorded electroacoustic works intuitively combine her live improvisational techniques with harsh and glitchy sounding sound manipulation.

Bray is a sought after performer in the Northeast United States and Canada, frequenting venues in Boston, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, and Montreal. She regularly performs both solo and in groups, bringing an exciting, yet sensitive improvisational style to each performance.

An alumnus of the New England Conservatory of Music, Bray earned a Master of Music in Contemporary Improvisation, studying with Anthony Coleman and Joe Morris.

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Pablo Picco

Pablo Picco records and makes music under the name of Bardo Todol. His music is a mix of various music concréte techniques that involves tapes, flutes, field recordings, noise and acoustic elements. Audio collages that are assembled through many years and many improvisations and put together on distant and lonely nights: all of them have this “natural” or “impressionistic” feeling. A new realm of sounds and colours that came out through the speakers with a ferric smell.

In all this distorted resonance, his children, Nico and Cina, have a strong presence making noises, shouting, singing and making non-child sounds.

He has released some tapes in different labels across U.S. and Europe such as Discrepant, Ikuisuus, Lal Lal Lal, Chocolate Monk, Magma Tones, Artsy Records, Dinzu Artefacts, Full Spectrum, Tsss Tapes, Falt, More Mars, Getrude Tapes and more.

He is also a visual artist that makes collage art that illustrates the front covers of his albums.
Currently Pablo is making an animation film grouping together all his music and these short stories. His filming process involves also various techniques such as stop motion, analog and digital collage, rotoscope, and more.

LINKS

MUSIC:
https://bardotodolmonofonia.bandcamp.com/

VISUAL ART:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl8xTEauL4a/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7UZ9Pu439/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqvJnEwuc9E/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CkQrPt5uHoO/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CTZw4rfriSq/
https://www.instagram.com/p/COna0nKA1vU/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2HPdxCgAiH/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxGRjVRAP-k/

ANIMATION VIDEOS:
https://youtu.be/uGZ_LRiArMw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnGpWCHld0Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v15BvxZ4Zds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK-MWPoKfbY

DOCUMENTAL FILM “Kalinga Utkal”:
https://youtu.be/Xc0sLYfpxTs

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Abdul Sherzai

Abdul Sherzai is an experimental musician creating audio that is not for the faint of heart. While focusing on themes of isolation, anxiety and redemption, his music is designed for the hard of hearing. It's for those who embrace that sound can be a full body experience. He creates music for those who understand that there's a space between self-harm and self-improvement where the two are permanently fused.

Audio by Abdul
https://scabdul.bandcamp.com/

Audio & Video by Abdul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye1_op_0hmI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r4cOLT-3_g

Audio by Abdul, Video by others (live solo sets)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ5BY3ZjA2U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb0U-ZIYMOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbfLTHW83es

Audio by others, Video by Abdul (for nonevent.org)
Instar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI3_AP8k0fg
Coralcola - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRln3YUYlKc
Lean - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNyh5O8J-Co
Cosigner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayXzpJqC3rA
+DOG+ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoogO7A0MAQ
Bastian Void - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9eGNlunRi4

w NxCx (experimental duo)
https://moonvillainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/time-funeral
https://nazicoffins.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOaAQBqZjU8

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Chris Pitsiokos

Chris Pitsiokos is a New York-born, Berlin-based saxophonist, improviser, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. He has performed extensively in North and South America, Europe and Japan. Chris has been praised by Rolling Stone for his “startlingly original vision” and “astonishingly fleet sax work.” Downbeat has identified his band CP Unit as “A persuasive combination of harmolodic jazz and contemporary noise rock.” As a soloist he has developed a unique voice on the alto saxophone: his expansion of the instrument’s vocabulary has served to multiply its emotive and formal possibilities. He has performed his own music at dozens of major festivals across the globe, including (but not limited to) Saalfelden Jazz Festival and Wels Unlimited Festival in Austria, Sapporo International Arts Festival in Japan, Moers Festival in Germany, Tempo Reale Festival in Italy, Rewire Festival in the Netherlands, Jazz Jantar Festival in Poland and Festival de Jazz Lima in Peru. In New York he has presented his work at Roulette Intermedium, ISSUE Project Room, and during a residency at John Zorn’s club the Stone. Lately, he has developed interactive, 4-channel electro-acoustic systems for saxophone and computer. He also composes music for film. His list of collaborators includes many of the leading lights of late-20th and 21st century improvised music, experimental music and free jazz: he has worked with Jaimie Branch, Luke Stewart, Peter Evans, Tyshawn Sorey, Lea Bertucci, Weasel Walter, Chris Corsano, Otomo Yoshihide, Nate Wooley, Axel Dörner, Julien Desprez, Sachiko M, and Paul Lytton to name a small few. His current focus is on solo performance, duos with Otomo Yoshihide and Tizia Zimmermann, his band CP Unit, and a collaborative band with Kalle Kalima, Ronny Graupe and Oliver Steidle called “ROKC Music.”

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Tizia Zimmermann

Tizia Zimmermann has wanted to be a musician ever since she first held an accordion in her hand. She studied classical music on the accordion at the Bern University of the Arts, where she completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Performance with distinction. In addition to interpreting contemporary classical music, she plays in various formations in which free improvisation and experimental (noise) music play an important role. She is also active in the organization of various platforms for experimental and improvised music in Zurich, such as the Gamut Kollektiv and is part of the label Wide Ear Records. She works with musicians and ensembles/orchestras such as Collegium Novum Zürich, Philharmonie Zürich, Lucas Niggli, Pablo Lienhard, Chris Pitsiokos, Jason Nazary, Chris Corsano, Christian Weber, Manuel Troller and many more and played festivals like Jazzfestival Willisau, Météo Mulhouse Festival, Jazz em Agosto Festival and Moers Festival amongst others.

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Cristóbal García Belmont

Cristóbal García Belmont is an artist, musician, and poet from Lima, Perú. His work explores sound, performance, sculpture, and poetry as they investigate the circulation of mediums and materials in complex postcolonial realities. By considering sound through materials and the built environment, as well as visual languages and poetry, he explores sound as a political phenomenon with the capacity to appropriate existing infrastructures and create spaces in which bodies may resonate, opening discussions about inherited power dynamics and proposing alternate ways to imagine the realities we collectively inhabit.

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Angel Florido

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Wes Meadows

Wes Meadows is a multi-instrumentalist from Berea, Ohio. She plays in The You Suck Flying Circus, Scorpio Death Club, i hope so., as well as many other projects. She also produces albums for others and releases them on her label, Flowerpot Records.

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Akul Kaul

Akul Kaul is a multimodal sound artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Their modes of activity currently cycle between composer, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, and producer. Akul's workflow tends to feel most organic in a state of alienation, which is the underlying sensation that their sound is rooted in: developing comfort with otherness. While alienation provides inception, Akul finds sustained inspiration from mystical elements in nature to shape sonic landscapes: outer space, the ocean, trees, and our subconscious. Flirting with sounds that live in between the musical communities they have encountered, Akul's productions currently lie at the intersection of electroacoustic and psybient, rooted in a process of layering improvised ideas together.

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Sean Stover

Sean Stover is a musician based in Brooklyn, NY. His sample heavy approach, combined with his love of music from all over the world, results in an all-genre collage of his favorite sounds, harmonies, and rhythms. He currently serves as a high school music teacher, working to educate and inspire the next generation of young musicians.

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Arturo Capur

Compositor, improvisador, diseñador sonoro y contrabajista mexicano, Arturo Capur
escribe música para contrabajo y electrónica, así como música de cámara. Sus
composiciones han sido interpretadas en lugares como la Biblioteca Vasconcelos, el
Foro de Música Nueva (Ciudad de México), la Universidad DePaul (Chicago), el
Auditorio Blas Galindo y New Music on the Point. Ha participado en talleres con
conjuntos y músicos como el Quinteto de Vientos de la Ciudad de México, Wapiti
Ensemble, Irvine Arditti, JACK Quartet y el ensemble de música creativa dirigido por
Dana Jessen en New Music on the Point 2023.

La banda sonora del documental 'Raíces' se lanzó a finales de 2021. "Cuando no
está pasando mucho todo lo que sucede importa" es una pieza para contrabajo y
electrónica lanzada en 2022. Además, "Jardín de Piedras" es un video de 30 minutos
con improvisaciones yuxtapuestas grabadas en el jardín de rocas en Mexiquillo,
Durango, también lanzado en 2022. "Mutualismo" es una pieza para ensemble de
cuerdas y solista diseñada para un edificio específico en la Ciudad de México, donde
el ensemble está distribuido en tres niveles y cada módulo improvisatorio se activa
cuando dos jugadores adicionales tiran de cintas VHS sujetas a cada cuerda. Es
exalumno de OneBeat Virtual 5.

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Mexican composer, improviser, sound designer, and double bassist, Arturo Capur
writes music for double bass and electronics, as well as chamber music. His
compositions have been performed at venues such as Biblioteca Vasconcelos, New
Music Forum (Mexico City), DePaul University (Chicago), Auditorio Blas Galindo, and
New Music on the Point. He has participated in workshops with ensembles and
performers including the Mexico City Woodwind Quintet, Wapiti Ensemble, Irvine
Arditti, JACK Quartet, and Dana Jessen's creative music ensemble at New Music on
the Point 2023.

The soundtrack from the documentary 'Raíces' was released in late 2021. "Cuando
no está pasando mucho todo lo que sucede importa" (When not much is happening,
everything that happens matters) is a piece for double bass and electronics released
in 2022. Additionally, "Jardín de Piedras" is a 30-minute video featuring juxtaposed
improvisations recorded in the rock garden in Mexiquillo, Durango, also released in 2022.

"Mutualismo" is a piece for string ensemble and soloist designed for a specific
building in Mexico City, where the ensemble is distributed across three stories and
each improvisatory module is activated when two additional players pull VHS tapes
attached to each string. He is an alum of OneBeat Virtual 5.

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Nigel Newton

Nigel Newton is a vibraphonist, composer, producer, and arranger living in Dallas, Texas. He has garnered a number of composition awards, and currently tours with a number of bands around the U.S. and Canada. His music is heavily influenced by late-90’s video games, chamber music, 70’s funk and soul, jazz, post-modern and classic science fiction literature, and the occasional kale salad.

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Athena Zenker

Athena Zenker Díaz es una artista sonora e interdisciplinaria nacida en Ciudad de México. Sus intereses oscilan entre la música antigua, la electrónica experimental y proyectos interdisciplinarios, desdibujando los límites entre tradición y vanguardia. Entre México y Alemania, Athena participa regularmente en diversos ensambles que buscan dirigir la atención a la experiencia social en el arte, repensando desde la percepción las relaciones que tejemos en la alteridad. Actualmente, desde su residencia en Leipzig, Athena transita la vivencia en diáspora desde el sonido.

Athena Zenker Díaz is a sound and interdisciplinary artist born in Mexico City. Her interests range from early music to experimental electronics and interdisciplinary projects, blurring the boundaries between tradition and avant-garde. Between Mexico and Germany, Athena regularly participates in various ensembles that aim to focus attention on the social experience in art, rethinking through perception the relationships we weave in otherness. Currently, from her residence in Leipzig, Athena navigates the experience of diaspora through sound.

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Greg Boro

Greg Boro is a Brooklyn based Composer, Curator and Performer. His work explores all forms of incidental music from scoring for film, performing cocktail piano and DJing ambient sets. He has worked with Complex Media, CNN International, 826 National and countless independent artists.

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Andrés Guadarrama

Andrés Guadarrama (Ciudad de México, 1991) es musicaminante. Tras pausar la composición, actualmente desarrolla una práctica indisciplinar errante que especula y vincula cosmoaudiciones, experiencias místicas, peregrinaje y ritualidad.

Como músico, sus composiciones se han presentado en distintos países de América, Europa y Asia, en festivales como Donaueschinger Musiktage, New Music on the Point, NUNC! 4, The 21st Century Guitar Conference, Forum Wallis, Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez, entre otros.

Fue beneficiario de la FONCA Jóvenes Creadores 2017-2018. En 2016 representó a México en la 63va Tribuna Internacional de Compositores de la UNESCO en Wrocław, Polonia.

Andrés forma parte del Programa Educativo SOMA, generación 2025. Previamente estudió composición y teoría musical en el Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música (CIEM), y de manera privada con los compositores Germán Romero y Samuel Cedillo.

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Andrés Guadarrama (Mexico City, 1991) is a "musicaminante" (portmanteau of "músico" + "caminante", spanish for musician and walker-wanderer). Currently he decided to pause composition to develop a wandering indisciplinary practice that speculates and links cosmoauditions, mystical experiences, pilgrimage and rituality.

As a musician, his compositions have been presented in different countries of America, Europe and Asia, in festivals such as Donaueschinger Musiktage, New Music on the Point, NUNC! 4, The 21st Century Guitar Conference, Forum Wallis, Jornadas de Música Contemporánea CCMC, Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez, among others.

He was a recipient of the FONCA Jóvenes Creadores 2017-2018 grant. In 2016 he represented Mexico at the 63rd UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Wrocław, Poland.

Andrés is part of the SOMA Educational Program, generation 2025. He previously studied composition and music theory at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música (CIEM), and privately with composers Germán Romero and Samuel Cedillo.

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Ghost Streams

This week at Flame Keepers, the installation has been intentionally left “abandoned” with no composers maintaining the audio stems. When this happens, the system engages a fail-safe algorithm that replaces any one of the streams with one randomly selected from the historical archive of musical streams of all previous Flame Keepers. The results might be harmonious, cacophonous, anodyne, or expressive, yet always surprising. During this time, the composition will evolve continuously with unpredictable results until the next composer takes over in a following week.

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Kelsey Gallagher

Kelsey Gallagher is a New England-based musical and visual artist. She recently completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in clarinet performance at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, where she studied with Mark Nuccio and Dr. Margaret Donaghue, and presented her research in multimedia approaches to contemporary music performance.

During her time in Miami, Kelsey served as the adjunct professor of clarinet at Florida International University, performed regularly as a member of the NODUS Ensemble for contemporary chamber music, taught annually with the Nu Deco NXT Youth Ensemble, and appeared with the New World Symphony. This summer she traveled to Panama City, Panama as a teaching artist for the Alfredo de Saint Malo International Music Festival, taught at the Summer Youth Music School in New Hampshire, and was featured as a concerto soloist with the South Florida Clarinet Choir. Her own compositions will feature in her upcoming solo performance at the 2024 College Music Society Joint National Conference.

Kelsey is currently a freelance clarinetist, adjunct faculty at the University of New Hampshire, and holds a private lesson studio in Southern New Hampshire. She regularly takes painting commissions, and her watercolor art has appeared this year on the covers for the debut albums Emigrate by clarinetist Luke Ellard, and Grasp the Sparrow’s Tail by Breana Gilcher’s LA-based improvising chamber ensemble, Petrichor. Her previous teachers include Dr. Kimberly Cole Luevano at the University of North Texas and Dr. Elizabeth Gunlogson at the University of New Hampshire.

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Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola

Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola (Mexico City, 1987) is an artist, poet and editor working with language in a variety of ways. She exhibits and performs in multiple media, fusing her poetic practice with sound, film, drawing and installation to explore the materiality and transmutation of language, archive, memory, and the ecology of sound. Her work also explores the somatic and improvisatory aspects of performance as a collective and collaborative practice. She has recently exhibited & performed at Vernacular Institute (Mexico City); Ex-Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City); Pequod Co. (Mexico City); Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City); The Poetry Project (NYC); Microscope Gallery (NYC); among others. She is the author of O (Cielo Abierto) and The Telaraña Circuit (Tender Buttons) and co-edits diSONARE, an experimental editorial platform from Mexico City.

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Dodecarmenismo

Dodecarmenismo aka Carmen Morales is a contemporary piano based musician, starting from deep research on Cage´s prepared piano during her academic studies, giving workshops and playing with contemporary ensembles, jumped into the free improvisation and nowadays is an experimental electronic musician.

She has been collaborating in projects with a lot of musicians from different backgrounds (jazz, electronics, classic, contemporary, experimental…). Few years ago, she recorded her first solo album called ¨Music for Critters¨ with the spanish label Oigovisiones. Nowadays she is part of an A/V duo called Durovino with the spanish artist Miguel Retamero.

ig: www.instagram.com/dodecarmenismo
album: https://oigovisioneslabel.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-critters

Pictures by: Miguel Retamero + Wannacry

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Conner Simmons

Conner Simmons is a double bassist, composer, and computer musician from Denton, Texas, living in NYC. Described by composer and vocalist Annika Socolofsky as “the perfect blend of soup and stew,” their music sifts through quiet sounds and fragile textures to conjure sparse, atmospheric, improvisational chamber music. Performance engagements of theirs include seasons with the Shreveport Symphony, the NY debut of Chris Cerrone’s opera In a Grove, where they performed live electronics with Metropolis Ensemble, and a run of shows as principal bassist for the Martha Graham Dance Company production of Rite of Spring. Recordings of their playing can be heard on Texas-based experimental music labels Sawyer Editions and Full Spectrum and on the world premiere recording of Julius Eastman’s Symphony No. 2 (forthcoming).

http://connersimmons.com

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Alex Koi

Alex Koi is a vocalist, composer/producer, and improvising musician. Her music is the mystical translation between the privacy of her inner world and the somatic extrication of such. Through polyphonic narrative, ecstatic release, and coy murmurs, she bends between her diverse musical influences in the avant-garde, opera, Jazz, and electronic music. She has had the privilege of collaborating with musicians, composers, visual artists, directors and dancers at venues such as Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Joe's Pub, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, Public Records, and more. She recently played the combined role of Tracy Dunn/Jillian Gilchrist in the Off-Broadway production of "Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower", Toshi Reagon's theatrical adaptation of the beloved novel.

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