Since its foundation in 2009, Chicago-based Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer have departed from bellows and electronics to create original compositions, installations, discography, instruments, arrangements for performance, software, and sculptural objects.
Strom Varx (b. 1979) is a composer, visual artist, photographer, graphic designer and producer based in Paris.
Christoph “Kris” Limbach (born in 1978) is a sound artist residing in Berlin. Limbach graduated in applied physics from FU-Berlin and his physical knowledge merges into his sound and art work. His emphasis is always on exploring sound and image in an experimental way.
Z’EV is a conceptual artist, poet and sound sculptor. After studying at CalArts with concrete Poet Emmett Williams he concentrated on producing visual and sound poetries, and was included in the “Second Generation” show at the Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco in 1975. He has been one of the progenitors of the ‘industrial movement’ since the end of the 1970’s, through his work with catacoustic (reflected sound-based) metal percussion.
Marc Behrens works on several cerebral and physical levels. His works mainly consist of concrete electronic music, installations, and occasionally photograph or video. Recent activities include field recording trips to remote western China and the Amazon rainforest, founding an incorporated company as a social art work, and staging a rite of passage for an investment banker.
Kasper T. Toeplitz is a composer, electric bass player and musician who has developed his work in the no man’s land between “academic” composition (orchestra, ensembles, opera) and electronic “new music” or “noise music”.
Francisco López is internationally recognised as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world.
This duo, formed in Barcelona by Juan Matos Capote and Alfredo Costa Monteiro in 2010, employs modified domestic appliances as sound sources.
Theo Burt uses computer sound and image in live performance, films and installation work. Over the last four years his audio-video work has concentrated on perceptual relationships between sound and image, setting up tensions between the intelligibility of processes and the intuitive experiencing of their results.
Marinos Koutsomichalis (Athens, 1981) is an artist and researcher. Via sound and a wide range of other media he interrogates the specifics of site, perception, technology and material. His work has been widely presented internationally in museums, galleries, festivals, music halls, academies, industrial sites, churches, research institutions, conferences, underground venues, scientific journals, independent music labels, and elsewhere.
Nikos Kyriazopoulos works on environmental recordings in a wide range of interest, from the sound of human invention, urban landscape, machinery and radio waves to the natural landscape and hydrophony. He also designs atavistic soundscapes using filters, microphones and self made electronics. Experiential hearing and the bodily felt sense is what characterises his live performances.
John Cage (1912 – 1992) was an influential American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist.
Batuhan Bozkurt mostly lives in the digital domain, programming his own little tools, intrigued by chaotic systems and chaotic behaviour, non-linear dynamics, physical modelling of non-linear systems, sonification and visualisation of stochastic processes and corresponding real life data.
Giorgos Poulios works alone, dealing mostly with granular sounds, synthesisers and micro-sound synthesis.