Since 2009 over 300 of the most amazing artists on the planet have participated in our events.
Browse by festival: Oakland + SF 2015 / New York 2013 / Baltimore 2010 / Cambridge + Boston 2009
Artists
Aaron Henkin
Aaron is a co-creator and producer of “The Signal” on WYPR. His work has aired nationally on NPR’s “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered,” PRI’s “Studio 36″” and “The World,” and APM’s “The Story.”” Aaron can also be heard along with Wendel Patrick on Out of the Blocks. Aaron is also the creator, producer and host of the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings radio series, “Tapestry of the Times.”
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Aaron Moore
Aaron is an Englishman residing in Brooklyn, New York and was a founding member of the English experimental music group Volcano The Bear.
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Aaron Soloway
Aaron is an engineer at a Cambridge-based start-up that invents technology to reverse engineer mammals’ (humans, dolphins, bats, etc.) hearing systems for a wide variety of applications, including gunshot detection.
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Adam Rokhsar
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Al Letson
Al is a radio host, poet, playwright, and actor.
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Alex Gallafent
Alex improvises one-act plays at the PIT, plays drums for The BTK Band, and tells stories at shows including Real Characters and The Story Collider. He’s currently a correspondent for PRI’s The World.
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Alex Lewis
Alex has produced many radio features audio documentaries, and other sound works for public media outlets, podcasts, and more. He has also “performed” radio stories at the Third Coast Conference & Festival, Tape Festival, and the First Person Arts Festival.
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Alexis Bhagat
Alexis is a writer and curator based in Albany, NY.
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Amanda Gutierrez
Amanda has worked in the field of performance and sound art for over 12 years, fusing the two disciplines in installation projects. She has been exhibited internationally in museums, and contemporary art galleries, such as The Windor Gallery in Madrid, Spain, Khiasma Gallery in Paris, France, Move Forward Festival in Halle, Germany, Liverpool Art Biennale 2012 in the UK, Ex Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City, Mexico, and Action Art Actuelle in Montreal, Canada. Born in Mexico City in 1978, she completed her graduate studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently a Ph.D. student in the University of Girona, in the Doctoral Programme in Humanities, Heritage, and Cultural Studies.
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Amelia Marzec
Amelia has created several prototypes that address sound and communication. She holds an MFA from the Parsons School of Design and was a resident at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center.
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Andre Obin
Andre is a synth-pop artist from Cambridge, MA.
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Andrea Seabrook
Andrea Seabrook‘s values as a journalist and commitment to telling the whole story led her to leave NPR and start a new podcast called DecodeDC, her attempt to stop re-playing soundbites of political attacks and start talking about what’s wrong with Washington.
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Andrea Silenzi
Andrea is a radio producer and host, most recently producing the Gist with Mike Pesca on Slate.com and host of Why Oh Why? on WFMU in Jersey City, and before that was the Managing Director of the Free Music Archive. She also helped produce the first two MEGAPOLIS Festivals in Cambridge+Boston (2009) and Baltimore (2010).
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Andrew Hayleck
Andrew is a sound artist who has lived in Baltimore, MD for the past ten years. Things used to make sound include amplified gong/wire, bowed metal (scrap metal, cymbals and musical saw), and electro-acoustic feedback. His work often deals with the passing of sound through different objects, and is often improvised. Recordings include: “Two Gong/Wire Pieces” (Ehse), “Gong/Wire” (Earlids), “Various Recordings Involving Ice” (HereSee), and “The Disappearing Floor” (Recorded).
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Andrew O’Connor
Andrew is an independent radio producer and sound artist working on both a local and national scale. His work in community radio dates back to 1996 at CKMS-FM in Waterloo. Since then he has contributed to stations like CKLN in Toronto and Shouting Fire Radio in San Francisco, producing everything from hour-long radio art features to a weekly new music program called Free Music.
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Andrew Weathers
Andrew is an Oakland-based composer and improviser whose music exists in a space between improvisation and composition—equally influenced by the 20th century American minimalists and underground noise.
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Andy Cavatorta
Andy is Director of Engineering for Ensemble Robot, a robotic ensemble dedicated to commissioning and performing compositions for robot musical instruments. He has a Masters Degree from the MIT Media Lab and completed a 12-month collaboration with Bjork on experimental musical instruments.
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Angelica Piedrahita
Angelica is a multimedia artist from Bucaramanga, Colombia, with a focus on video aesthetics experimenting with the medium in different aspects as installations, sculpture, video sharing on Internet and short video pieces.
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Anis Haron
Anis is a media artist from Penang, Malaysia who is currently a graduate student in the Media Arts & Technology Program at UC Santa Barbara.
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Ann Heppermann
Ann is a Brooklyn-based, independent radio/multimedia documentary producer and educator.
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Anna Friz
Anna is a Canadian sound and radio artist who specializes in multi-channel transmission systems for installation and performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work.
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Annie Berman
Annie, a Brooklyn-based media artist, is the founder of Fish in the Hand Productions, the former President of Women in Film and Video New England, and a MFA candidate at Hunter College.
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Annie Phillips
Annie of Zoo Labs is a trained clarinet/bass clarinetist who does all she can to help realize creative visions and change her industry for the better. Outside Zoo Labs, she teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and is a co-director of Switchboard Music. She has previously worked for the SF Symphony and the Magik*Magik Orchestra and performs in settings from staged performances of Schoenberg’s ‘Pierrot lunaire’ to recording for albums by John Vanderslice and How To Dress Well.
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Arrington de Dionyso’s Malaikat dan Singa
Arrington de Dionyso’s Malaikat dan Singa creates throbbing, hallucinogenic trance-punk energy music using rock and roll cliches subverted by the kaleidescope of Tuvan throatsinging and bass clarinet. Oh, did we mention all of the lyrics are in Bahasa Indonesia using translations from William Blake and the Zohar? This festival closer was a dance party in the realm of magic!
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Audrey Chen
Audrey is a Chinese-American musician who was born into a family of material scientists, doctors and engineers, outside of Chicago in 1976.
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Avery Trufelman
Avery is a producer for 99% Invisible, a podcast about design. Before that she was the president of WESU at Wesleyan University, an NPR affiliate with nighttime programming from both students and community volunteers. She also was an organizer for the 2015 MEGAPOLIS Festival in Oakland+SF.
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Ben Lacker
Ben is a musician and software engineer based in New York. He likes to help humans and computers make sound and art.
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Benjamen Walker
Benjamen is the host of Theory of Everything, a member of Radiotopia, and an alum of WNYC and WFMU.
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Benjamin Chaffee
Benjamin received his MFA in 2011 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the Director at Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago.
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Benjamin Miller
Benjamin (brother of Mission of Burma’s Roger Miller) focuses on a textural, cacophonic amalgamation that defies standard guitar playing. With the addition of electronics and analog tape, it is difficult to discern where any one sound originates or where it is heading.
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Bhob Rainey
Bhob, a recipient of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, is a composer, improvisor, and computer programmer. He founded the seminal improv duo, Nmperign, directed The BSC, an improvising large ensemble, for fifteen years, and created a series of multichannel electronic works as Prants (with Chris Cooper). His compositions work with large data systems, chaos, and the teeming underside of everyday communication technology.
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Biceptuals
Biceptuals are Renzo Gorrio (Hydroplane) and Matthew Michael Ahern Hettich (Wake). When they aren’t busy flexing their sweet abs, they make IDM influenced hardware techno. Individually, they’ve performed alongside acts like Cylob, Machinedrum, Clark, Daedelus, and The Flashbulb. They release music solo and with other projects on labels like Circuitree Records & Proximal Records.
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Big Shed
Big Shed is Jesse Dukes, Jennifer Deer, and Shea Shackelford. They bring their combined experience and skills to bear on each project they undertake.
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Blevin Blectum
Musician and multimedia artist Blevin Blectum (born Bevin Kelley) combined sound, imagery, and costume to create eccentric and mesmerizing performances that explore topics from science fiction to ornithology. She has performed and toured extensively since 1998 with releases on Aagoo, Estuary Ltd., Tigerbeat6, DeluxeRecs, Praemedia, Vague Terrain, Phthalo, as well as a new record on the Parisian label Darling Dada (June 2017). Blevin is half of ‘Blectum from Blechdom’ with Kristin Grace Erickson, aka Kevin Blechdom, and a third of ‘The Traveling Bubble Ensemble,’ with Kelley Polar and Elise Kuder. On Ricky Katowicz’s ‘The Ricky Rainbow Beard Show’ she plays the recurring role of Doctor Sound. She holds degrees from Oberlin College, Mills College, and Brown University. Blevin designs and creates sound for Hasbro toys from her home base in Providence, RI.
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Bonnie Jones
Bonnie is a Korean-American writer, improvising musician, and performer working primarily with electronic music and text.
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Boston Typewriter Orchestra
A collective endeavor which engages in rhythmic typewriter manipulation combined with elements of performance, comedy and satire. BTO aims to entertain the masses while providing an outlet for the creative urges of its members. *BTO promises to protect customer confidentiality with the utmost vigilance while remaining irreverent at all times.
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Brad Dollar
Brad of Zoo Labs is a producer, engineer and guitarist. A Bay Area native, he has been cultivating art & community through music since his youth. His passion for merging our human connection into sonic landscapes that move people has carved out a place for Brad to help others achieve their greatest creative visions. This has lead him to elevate artists such as Bob Weir, Finish Ticket & The National to new musical heights.
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Brendan Baker
Brendan (Brooklyn NY) is a co-conspirator on the show Love + Radio: a public radio podcast featuring in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews, from the seedy to the sublime.
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Brendan Murray
Brendan has worked with electronics since 1999. He regards his music as a balance between spontaneous sound making and compositional rigor, with an emphasis on drones and repetition. He records and processes instruments and tapes until all traces of instrumentality are blurred, leaving only large blocks of pure sound. Murray has also toured extensively throughout the United States as a solo performer and as a member of various improvising ensembles. He is actively involved with long distance collaborations with musicians and sound artists such as Seth Nehil, Richard Garet and Chuck Bettis. He is also a founding member of the group Ouest, with longtime friends and collaborators Jay Sullivan and Howard Stelzer.
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Brett Balogh
Brett is a Chicago-based artist working at the intersection of objects, sounds and spaces. He is currently an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology, teaching courses in new media, architecture, digital fabrication, radio and sound. Brett is a free103point9 transmission artist and has exhibited and performed at P.S.1 (NY), Diapason (NY), Devotion Gallery (NY); The MCA (Chicago) and The Hyde Park Arts Center (Chicago) among others.
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Brian House
Brian is an artist whose performances, installations, and interventions comprise the rhythms of bodies in contact with computation. His work has been shown by MoMA (NYC), MOCA (LA), Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ZKM, Eyebeam, and Rhizome and has been featured in publications including WIRED, TIME, The New York Times.
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Britt Wray
Britt is an audio maker, radio producer, podcaster and investigative researcher of biotech from Toronto.
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Brown University’s Listening LabOratory
The Listening LabOratory is an audio performance and radio theatre group at Brown University.
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Bruce Wallace
Bruce is a freelance journalist and multimedia producer, with particular interest in international, human rights, religion, and arts-and-culture reporting.
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Bryan Day
Bryan is a improviser, instrument inventor, illustrator and installation artist based in Richmond, CA. He also was an organizer for the 2015 MEGAPOLIS Festival in Oakland+SF.
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Byron Westbrook
Byron is a sound artist working with site-specific installations and unique listening formats to activate architecture and community. He has presented work at Clocktower Gallery, Diapason Gallery, LMAK Projects, ISSUE Project Room, ExitArt, (NYC), ICA London (UK), The LAB (San Francisco), VIVO MediaArtCenter (Vancouver), O’ (Milan), among many others. He has performed in ensembles of Phill Niblock and Rhys Chatham.
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Carl Adair
Carl is a choral singer and composer. In his work, he plays with music theory and with language to create musical structures that reveal themselves through the completion of the piece.
Carlo António Ribeiro Patrão
Carlo António Ribeiro Patrão has been working in radio since becoming a member of the freeform independent radio station Rádio Universidade de Coimbra (RUC) in 2007, where he began to explore the diverse possibilities of radiophonic space through the use of field recordings, experimental music, musique concrete, drones, archived sound and live improvisation.
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Carlo Patrao
Carlo is a Portuguese radio artist based in New York City. His radio work is comprised of documentary features and sound collages exploring the fringes of science, sound, and music. Carlo’s background in the field of clinical psychology also informs his radio work on themes linking sound and the human psyche.
Cere Davis
Cere is a disciplinary artist and engineer based in Berkeley, Ca. Her background includes work and studies in computer systems architecture, physics and vocal improvisation. Her work freely crosses boundaries between playful laboratory experimentation and acousto-kinetic studies. Her current creations focus on interactive educational sculptures that viscerally demonstrate many subtle principles of Physics through sonic means. Her works encourage the observer to explore their pre-conceptions of sound and movement.
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Chelsea Stokes
Chelsea Stokes was the station manager of WFNP at SUNY New Paltz, a licensed station with an in-house news department, associated with a local television channel.
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Chief Xcel (Blackalicious)
Chief Xcel makes beats as one half of Blackalicious, a hip hop duo from Sacramento CA.
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Chris Collins
Chris is a Chicago-based new media artist who highlights the human dramas that arise when we engage with technology.
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Chris Wood
Chris is a sound artist and audio producer who is interested in hierarchies of narrative and space and developing tools to play with them.
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Christie Leece
Christie’s work merges her interests in archaeology, fieldwork, animal studies and new technologies, and frequently involves sound.
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Christopher DeLaurenti
Christopher is a composer, improvisor, phonographer, and writer. His electro-acoustic works are composed of field recordings and often deal with political issues, political protests in particular. His weekly column, The Score, appeared in the Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger from 2002 to 2010, and he has also appeared in 21st Century Music, The Seattle Times, Signal to Noise, Soundscape, Earshot Jazz, and Tablet.
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Coppice
Coppice is interactions between the capture and generation of sound and music from custom designed and prepared instruments and devices. It draws from its glossary of study in bellows and electronics, and in digitally-seeded air from physical modeling and modular synthesis. Founded in 2009 by Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer.
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Dan Conrad
Dan conceived and developed a visual medium based on perceptual responses to kinetic color in the 1970’s while in the San Francisco Bay Area. Moving to Baltimore in 1976, he continued to explore color performance with a type of light instrument which he now calls “chromaccord”. Conrad studied painting at MICA, became a high school physics teacher, performed music and invented musical instruments, and created a form of “light painting” using LEDs with automatic control circuitry. In 2010, with the help of friends, he has materialized a digital chromaccord for color performance.
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Dan Fishkin
Daniel’s ears are ringing. Composer, sound artist, and instrument builder. Completely ambivalent about music. Daniel studied with composer Maryanne Amacher and with multi-instrumentalist Mark Stewart.
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Dan Gottwald
Dan is a sculptor, instrument builder, and composer. His work often incorporates sight, sound and touch to explore points of contact in social settings. Recent work includes the CHIME SF project for the Market Street Prototyping Festival and the ongoing performance collective, The Analogous Ensemble.
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Daniel Jenatsch
Daniel (Melbourne, Australia) is an interdisciplinary artist, sound designer and composer, whose work explores the interrelation of the real and the virtual, through, installation, sound, performance and film.
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David Goren
Sonic smoosher, word wrangler. Shortwave idiot savant.
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David Kestenbaum
David is a correspondent for NPR, covering the global economy as well as science’s discoveries and its darker side for NPR’s multimedia project Planet Money.
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David Levin
David is a Boston-based freelance science and technology journalist.
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David Nunez
David is an art+technology designer and curates dorkbot-boston, a monthly gathering of people doing strange things with electricity.
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David Suisman
David is the author of Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music and is an occasional disc jockey at WFMU. He teaches history at the University of Delaware and lives in Philadelphia.
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David Weinberg
David is a radio producer based in L.A. who has been broadcast on The World, Hearing Voices, Marketplace, Wiretap, 99% Invisible, and other important places.
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Deb Todd Wheeler
Deb Todd Wheeler is on the Graduate Faculty at the Art Institute of Boston, and also teaches in the Metals Department at Massachusetts College of Art.
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Dennis Conrow
Dennis makes radio and restores houses around Kansas City, MO.
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DeTrop
DeTrop are Ryan Smith (York Factory Complaint, Hanel Koeck), Theresa Smith (Bleak Race, Home Blitz), and David Grant (Ideal Forms, Action Patrol). Based out of Brooklyn, DeTrop have been playing music made with modular synthesizers and tape loops since 2011.
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Die Schrauber
Die Schrauber produces a wide variety of dense musical textures and high-energy interaction. With veteran circuit bender Joker Nies (Cologne), Mario deVega (Berlin) on amplified objects and turntables, and Hans Tammen (New York) on Endangered Guitar and live sound processing, the trio exerts extreme control over their bizarre instruments.
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Dirk Adams
Dirk creates work in sound, installation, and performance art that explores language, memory, social dynamics, and cultural phenomena through various strategies. Since 2003, he has created several headphone-based audio works that intertwine elements of audio tour, instructional performance, and storytelling. His piece, Four Stories, Building, is featured in Aspect V19: Communication.
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E.S.P. LAB
E.S.P. LAB is a media based collaborative, formed by Victoria Keddie and Scott Kiernan in 2012, that explores sound and vision through analog methods and electronics. Their hybrid station for manipulating video signals and soundwaves is comprised of signal generators, TV monitors, video mixers, and modulators. Kiernan and Keddie also direct and operateE.S.P. TV, a live taping broadcast on MNN network.
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Easy Sonic Living
Caroline, Cathy, and Neil make experimental radio, playing with the radio medium in interesting, funny and unexpected ways, airing everything from audio collages to soundwalks to field recordings to absurd radio dramas.
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Ed Bear
Ed is an American performing artist and engineer. As a designer committed to an open source world, he researches and practices material reuse and as a civil responsibility. He has toured extensively in North America and Europe as a performer and teacher.
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Eitan Isaacson
Eitan is a long-time Open Source hacker and software accessibility enthusiast who has worked in the Mozilla accessibility team.
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Elana Gordon
Elana Gordon is a reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia and a founding member of the station’s weekly health and science show, The Pulse. Some of her most notable stories incorporate sound-rich journeys through places and history in Philadelphia, from the infamous Legionnaires’ disease mystery that went down at the iconic Bellevue hotel…to the often overlooked spot at Christ Burial Ground that launched Ben Franklin’s vehement quest to take down small pox. She holds a dual degree in music and political science from Barnard College.
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Eleanor Whitney
Eleanor is the author of Grow: How to take your do it yourself project and passion to the next level and quite your job! and is an educator, arts programmer and manager living in Brooklyn.
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Emily Cohen
Emily is an ecological designer focused on addressing social and environmental challenges in the landscape. Recent projects include green infrastructure designs for a post industrial city and coastal resiliency plan for a community along the Maine coast.
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Eric Leonardson
Eric is a Chicago-based audio artist and teacher. He is President of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Erik Spangler
Erik (a.k.a. DJ Dubble8) is a composer and electronic musician living in Baltimore, Maryland. Engaged equally with ensemble improvisation, live sample-based mixing, guerilla community sound art, hybrid electronica production, and notated chamber music, Spangler aims to dissolve cultural boundaries while drawing all corners of inspiration into cohesive sound images.
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Ernst Karel
Ernst is a musician, sound recordist, and composer, whose work has ranged from acoustic to electronic and from improvisation to installation.
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Ezekiel Honig
Ezekiel, a New York City native, is a musician and label manager for Microcosm Music and Anticipate Recordings. He is a well-known figure in the electronic music community. Honig usually follows a strict production code on all of his songs using ‘found-sound’ and warm melodies. His latest album is Folding In On Itself, called “seductive listening” and a “wild and unqualified synthetic wonderland“, can be found here.
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Fantastic Negrito
Fantastic Negrito tells one man’s truth in the form of black roots music: slide guitar, drums, and piano build bridges between Lead Belly & Skip James to a modern sound, with loops and samples and “zero concern for pop anything.”
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Felix Kubin
Felix’s makes futuristic pop, radio plays, electroacoustic music, and works for chamber orchestra that are saturated with enthusiasm for disharmonic pop, industrial noise, and 20th-century avant-garde music.
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Fereshteh Toosi
Fereshteh designs participatory experiences and hybrid objects such as oyster mushroom sculptures, audio portraits, films processed in mint tea, and guided walks about lithium. Fereshteh is an active member of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy and faculty at Florida International University in Miami.
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Flutronix
Flute duo Flutronix, Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull, have incorporated electronics into a chamber music context in a wide range of repertoire. They have collaborated with Dan Deacon, Ski Beatz, and ICE, and are preparing their sophomore album, 2.0.
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free103point9 (now Wavefarm)
free103point9 (now Wavefarm) is a non-profit arts organization from upstate NY that celebrates creative and community use of media and the airwaves. Their programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form.
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Gambletron
GAMBLETRON is a sound artist, musician, and improviser based out of Montréal, known for her noise-electronic improvisations, roving radio transmissions, experimental noise karaoke, and for curating performances in unique outdoors locations.
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Gamelan X
Gamelan X draws inspiration from the clove and incense scented air of Bali, Indonesia, Gamelan X, “The Bay Area’s own Funkadelic of ethnomusicology” (SF Guardian), explores the sonic landscape of contemporary beleganjur gamelan to offer a wildly unique expression of both East and West. From the resonating sound of the gongs to the explosive drum beats and interlocking cymbals, Gamelan X remixes the ritual of a Balinese procession with a decidedly west coast twist.
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Gang Clan Mafia
Gang Clan Mafia is Vela Phelan (turntable, samplers, knobs, transmissions, ∆.) and Dirk Adams (found sound, constructed sound, mic, effects).
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Geodesic Gnome
Baltimore’s super-group Geodesic Gnome (lead by philosopher/musician John Berndt) specializes in just three well-defined areas: 1. paradoxes as compositions, 2. “Gnomic utterances” and deliberate obscurity as content, and 3. the recreation of poorly understood historic incidents.
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George Lavender
George is an award-winning independent radio and print journalist. His radio reporting has aired on NPR, WBUR, KQED, and Radio France International. He currently works as a producer of Making Contact, a nationally distributed half-hour radio show. Follow him on Twitter @GeorgeLavender.
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Giuseppe Ielasi
Giuseppe started playing guitar in 1988, and worked for many years in the area of improvised music. He had long-term collaborations with Renato Rinaldi in the duo Oreledigneur, Thomas Ankersmit, Michel Doneda, Ingar Zach, Dean Roberts. More recently, his main interest has shifted to site-specific solo performances. He still uses guitars as his primary sound source, but integrates microphones and multi-channel speaker systems into the mix in order to create complex networks for sound diffusion in relationship to space. He has recent, critically acclaimed releases on the 12k imprint and his own Schoolmaps label.
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Grace McCreight
Grace was the general manager of WBAR at Barnard College, a non-licensed, student operated internet station that hosts a number of concerts and events on campus.
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Gregory Whitehead
Gregory writes, directs and produces radiophonic adventures for the BBC and other broadcasters.
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Hans Tammen
Hans creates sounds that have been described as an alien world of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations. He creates rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating noises, with micropolyphonic timbres and textures, aggressive sonic eruptions, but also quiet pulses and barely audible sounds.
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Harvestworks
Harvestworks has helped a generation of artists create new works using technology.
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Hauser/Quaid
Hauser/Quaid is a musical alias of New York based sound and video artist Greg Zifcak. The project examines the material artifacts of dystopian cyberspace/time travel, while advancing an agenda of rave-singularity. LOOK AT THE MUSICS
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Herbert Eckardt
Herbert Eckardt is name of the monstrous freak of a collaboration between Danish saxophonist Louise D.E. Jensen and Italian drummer/percussionist Luca Marini (the group takes its name from both musicians’ little known middle names).
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Hethre Contant
Hethre is a historian and experimental radio artist based in Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on communities that have formed in order to explore the possibilities of the radio band of the electromagnetic spectrum. She is finishing her PhD at the University of New South Wales Art and Design (UNSWAD), and she lectures about Art History, Radio, and Walter Benjamin. She also was a lead organizer for the 2013 MEGAPOLIS Festival in NYC.
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Hrishikesh Hirway (Song Exploder)
Hrishikesh hosts Song Exploder, a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Hrishikesh asks artists to deconstruct their recordings, instrument by instrument, giving listeners the chance to hear it from the inside out and get a unique understanding of how creative ideas are born and bred.
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Ian Gray
Ian is an infrequent radio producer based in Paris.
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Ian Nagoski
Ian is a music researcher and record producer specializing in early 20th century musics in languages other than English.
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James Garver
James’s music and sound designs have been heard at numerous New York City venues including Lincoln Center, The 92nd St. Y, Joyce SoHo, The Atlantic Theatre Company, Japan Society
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Jason Cady
Jason Cady is a composer of dramatic vocal works and experimental chamber music living in Brooklyn.
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Jason Sigal
Jason is WFMU’s Licensing Director, and curates the station’s contributions to the Free Music Archive.
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Jason Sloan
Jason is a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Javelin
Javelin is an NYC-based production duo of cousins George Langford and Tom Van Buskirk. Their breakout release JAMZ N JEMZ was awarded honorable mention for Pitchfork’s Albums of the Year.
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Jay Gregory
Jay is a GIS jack-of-all-trades for a small software development company, where he spends his time tracking down data and creating maps for emergency planning and response. He loves to figure out better methods for connecting people with the multitude of information that oozes from every corner of the internet. He is excited for his first foray with GIS outside the professional space.
Jay Kreimer
Jay is a musician, instrument maker, sculptor, composer, and educator.
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Jean-Michel Rolland
Jean-Michel is a French musician, painter, and visual artist who has been melding his two passions – sound and image – in digital arts since 2010. In each of his creations musicality influences image in a symbiotic relationship.
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Jeff Emtman (Here Be Monsters)
Jeff creates true stories about belief and fear for the Here Be Monsters podcast. For more motivations and back-story, read this interview. He fears the unknown, worries about the future, has night-blindness, and often is a shy person.
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Jeff Kolar
Jeff is an audio artist working in Chicago, USA who is the director of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform.
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Jeff Towne
Jeff is an audio engineer who writes and teaches about audio production. He is the co-producer and engineer of Echoes, a daily two-hour music soundscape distributed by Public Radio International and broadcast on 130 radio stations from Maine to California. He also is the “Tools Editor” for Transom.org – a Peabody Award-winning website dedicated to channeling new work and voices to public radio.
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Jenn Grossman
Jenn is a sound/experiential media artist and composer based in Brooklyn. Her work reimagines unconventional spaces and objects as acoustic vessels; and architecture and materials as sculptural molds for ephemeral interventions. Her works have been presented in public spaces, galleries, festivals, and symposiums in New York and internationally.
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Jenny Asarnow
Jenny is a radio producer who has worked for KUOW in Seattle and has reported for national programs including NPR’s Snap Judgment and PRI’s The World. Her audio and interactive work has been exhibited in Seattle, Chicago, New York, Baltimore, and beyond.
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Jesse Dukes
Jesse is a writer and radio producer with WBEZ who previously contributed to the public radio programs Backstory:With the American History Guys, Studio 360, Weekend Edition, and others. He also wrote long form travel essays for Virginia Quarterly Review.
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Jesse Ricke
Jesse is a media practitioner working in video, audio, and music, with an expertise in venue operation and event documentation.
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Joan Schuman
My audiophilia whispers into radio’s ear. I once made documentaries (1980s); now create hybrid narratives that air in festivals, cyber worlds, and on the radio. I live in coastal California, teach sound production/theory (the New School’s online MA courses), and curate sound art online at Earlid.
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Jocelyn Frank
Jocelyn is an award-winning audio journalist, media consultant and audio artist in Washington DC. Clients include CBS, Slate, Smithsonian, The Guardian and others. Frank’s a managing facilitator of the DC Listening Lounge.
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Johann Diedrick
Johann makes installations, performances, and objects that let people play with sound. He shares his work with others through workshops, listening tours, and open-source software and hardware. He is a recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Fellows grant. He has been featured in Wire Magazine and Musicworks Magazine.
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John Berndt
Best known to the public as a prolific musician, composer and improviser and as a key organizer in the scene around the international High Zero festival, Berndt’s work from the very beginning also involved the creation of coherent novelties in a broader range of media, including personal behavior, film, visual art, text, installation and a variety of non-musical performance genres.
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John Capogna
John is an artist and engineer.
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John Kreitzberg
John, originally from outside of Philadelphia, is a 20-year-old student at Macalester College in St. Paul Minnesota where he is studies Religious Studies, Classical Language, and Gender and Sexuality.
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John Roach
John deals with the misuse of objects to make sound; he teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York City where he taught a course entitled Sound Matters.
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Jordan Gray
Jordan is head of Creative Labs at Organic, a founding member of CODAME ART+TECH, producer of electronic music and video art as staRpauSe, boss at HEXAWE creative commons netaudio label, and an editor of DINOAIDS pocket paper zines.
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Joshua Marshall
Joshua Marshall is an Oakland-based saxophonist and composer/improviser whose work involves architectural innovation, narrativity, systematic improvisatory practice, and live digital media.
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Julie Herndon
Julie is a Bay Area composer and performer working with internal and external space, improvisation, text, graphics, and electronics. She is currently pursuing a M.A. in Music Composition at Mills College, where she teaches musicianship.
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Julie Shapiro
Julie is ac areer listener, thinker, innovator, encourager, and champion of story.
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Julien Clancy
Julien Clancy is a freelance radio documentary maker based in Dublin, Ireland.
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Justin Grotelueschen
Justin is the co-founder and Managing Director of MEGAPOLIS and has a long-standing interest in musique concrete, noise, improvisation, and looping. He began performing weekly on the radio in 1997 by live-mixing minuscule snippets of songs from the KRNU music library, and continued in 2003 with a weekly improvised performance on WZBC of slicing and mixing self-collected field recordings. He has been performing largely improvised music since 2004 using guitar, contact mics, field recordings, virtual electronic instruments, and various found and homemade objects. Before MEGAPOLIS he worked or volunteered for public, community, and campus radio stations and related media organizations for 13 years.
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Justin Sabe
Justin is a computer hacker who sometimes works with sounds, sometimes from cats.
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Kaitlin Prest
Kaitlin is an audio artist working in radio, performance, and installation. Her documentary work was awarded the Hearsay Festival’s Overall Prize 2014, and the National Community Radio Award’s Outstanding Achievement in Documentary 2011.
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Kara Oehler
Kara is a radio documentary maker, media artist and interactive storyteller. Her Peabody award-winning radio work has aired on shows like RadioLab, Marketplace and Morning Edition and her interactive projects have been exhibited at MoMA and SFMoMA.
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Karen Michel
Karen is a radio producer living in upstate New York.
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Karen Werner
Karen is a radio producer & sociologist. She has been an artist-in-residence in Vienna at studio das weisse haus (Fall 2016) and at the Museum Quartier/Tonspur (Fall 2017) producing episodes of Strange Radio, a project about the intergenerational impact of war and displacement. Karen teaches at Goddard College.
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Karen Westphalen
Karen is an artist, musician, and civil engineer living in California.
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Katherine Gorman
Katherine has been working in radio since high school who currently works in multi-platform storytelling. She also was a lead organizer for the 2010 MEGAPOLIS Festival in Baltimore.
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Katya Gorker
Katya is a Moscow-born, Philadelphia-based filmmaker working on a feature length documentary about mushroom foraging among the Russian diaspora. She has been collecting oral histories and shooting interviews, all the while foraging herself and poking around biology labs. She teaches at Temple and is co-founder of the Berwick Research Institute in Boston.
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Kevin Blechdom
Kristin (Kevin Blechdom), the avenging angel of pop, has brought much needed life into electronic music both as a solo artist and as a member of Blectum from Blechdom.
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Kitchen Sisters
Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva are award winning documentary radio producers who have been working together for more than twenty-five years. They are the creators of the popular Hidden Kitchens series on Morning Edition, the Peabody Award winning NPR series Lost & Found Sound, and the post 9-11 Sonic Memorial Project.
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Ladio
Ladio was a group of awesome female radio producers from NYC.
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Laura Deutch
Laura is a Philadelphia-based artist and educator, committed to using media as a tool for social justice, creative expression and community organizing. Her place-based projects employ different mediums from audio and video to public intervention and mobile participatory projects to create connections between people, places and their stories.
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Laura Kwerel
Laura is a public radio producer with a love of radio and oral history who is especially intrigued by the mysterious, mystical side of religion. She holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and studied psychology and film studies at the College of William and Mary.
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Laura Silver
Laura is a professional writer and editor living in New York City.
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Laura Vitale
Laura works with a focus on sound in a variety of media, with performance and installation, and often in collaboration. She has made commissioned sound installations for WNYC, been a Van Lier Fellow at Harvestorks Digital Media Arts Center, and received a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant.
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Laure Drogoul
Laure is an interdisciplinary artist, olfactory spelunker and cobbler of situations who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Laure works with a wide range of media including projects in which she creates sculpture, performances and events that invite the viewer to be an active participant.
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Lawrence Lanahan
Lawrence is a freelance journalist with ten years of experience reporting for newspapers, magazines, and public radio programs.
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Lea Bertucci
Lea is an interdisciplinary artist who works with Photography, Sound, Video and Installation.
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Lea Thau
Lea is a Peabody award-winning producer, and the creator and host of the “Strangers” podcast sponsored by KCRW. She was the Executive & Creative Director of The Moth for 10 years and created The Moth Podcast and The Moth Radio Hour.
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Leif Elggren
Leif is a multimedia artist from Sweden who conceives music as a soundtrack to a visual installation or experimental stage performance, presenting carefully selected sound sources over a long stretch of time and that range from mesmerizingly quiet electronics to harsh noise. King Leif l is also one of the Kings of Elgaland-Vargaland. Leif presented four pieces at the festival: a solo dance performance, a reading, a sound performance, and a group stage performance.
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Lexie Mountain
Perceived as and projecting the identity of an artist, performer, writer, and comedian living in Baltimore, MD.
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Lexie Stoia
Lexie makes multi-sensory works connecting her interests in science fiction and utopian ideas about living. She teaches at Columbus College of Art & Design and also builds interactive exhibits for science centers and museums around the world.
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Linda Gale Aubry
Linda is a multimedia artist and musician. Her creative methods encompass hand-formed and hand-painted porcelain, large and small scale painting, graphic design, dioramas, video performance, and electronic music. Her diverse work has been supported by the Pew Center; and has been presented at Vox Populi Gallery; Wave Farm in Acra, NY; and Fylkingen in Stockholm.
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Lisa Abbatomarco
Lisa is a performance artist with a c0mprehensive backgr0und in visual and perf0rming arts.
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Lisa Lee
Lisa is an interaction designer and multimedia artist.
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Live Footage
Brooklyn-based electroacoustic duo Live Footage (Mike Thies and Topu Lyo) score eclectic contemporary pieces on air, in dance, and in tune. Conceived through the art of improvisation, Lyo plays cello, incorporating the use of live loops and a handful of electronics with no pre-recorded samples. Thies plays drums and keyboards, often simultaneously. Live Footage’s songs are structured in such a way that enables them to build loops without disaster, all while keeping the music’s integrity and allowing ample room for improvisation even when covering the likes of Jay-Z, Dr. Dre and Squarepusher.
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Liz Berg
Liz has been a radio host and Assistant General Manager at WFMU radio.
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Liz Bustamante
Liz is a Master Control Engineer for WBEZ in Chicago where she writes and records music as noise&light.
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Louise Foo
Louise was a master’s candidate at The Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of New York University, where she was exploring visual aspects of sound and audible aspects of image.
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Lucky Dragons
Active since 2000 and based primarily in Los Angeles, “Lucky Dragons” means any recorded or performed or installed or packaged or shared or suggested or imagined pieces made by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, and/or any sometimes collaborators who claim the name (it also refers to a japanese fishing boat caught in the fallout of hydrogen bomb test at bikini atoll in the 1950’s).
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Matmos
Matmos is M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel (Baltimore) who have made recordings and performed live using the sounds of amplified crayfish nerve tissue, the pages of bibles turning, a bowed five string banjo, slowed down whistles and kisses, water hitting copper plates, the runout groove of a vinyl record, a $5.00 electric guitar, liposuction surgery, cameras and VCRs, and many other things since 1995.
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Matt Kane
Record dad, data plumber, music hacker from Salem MA.
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Matt Sterling
Matt has been making music for more than 10 years. He takes cues from a number of sources including the improvisational aspects of jazz, the DIY attitude of punk, and the soul-of-the-machine ethos of techno.
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Matthew Matthew
Matthew Matthew is an artist and composer whose work dances at the crossroads of music, film, art and interaction.
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Mecca Normal
Jean Smith and David Lester of the underground literary rock duo Mecca Normal intend to inspire audiences towards considering political content in their creative self-expression.
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Meg Cramer
Meg is an audio producer for BuzzFeed Audio. She has a background in participatory and crowd-sourced storytelling through her work for the Public Insight Network — a network of people who sign up to be sources for news stories by engaging with journalists through open-ended questions about their experiences and expertise — and Sandy Storyline, a series of interviews and storytelling workshops that led to to a multimedia documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in New York City.
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Melissa Moore
Melissa is a designer, educator, and community worker. She operates a design and build company called Nikuu that creates unique lighting, furniture, and jewelry using traditional and sustainable techniques. She also founded Y-LLEAD, an intensive youth leadership after-school program based on disciplines of design.
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Mickey Capper
Mickey is a radio producer, host, and sound manipulator.
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Mike Bullock
Mike Bullock is a composer, intermedia artist, and writer based in Philadelphia. He has been performing since the mid 90s across the US and in Europe, at venues such as Fylkingen; Instants Chavirés; Café OTO; ISSUE Project Room; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; and EMPAC. In June 2015, Bullock received a Performance Grant from the Pew Center.
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Moldover
Moldover is “a paradigm shift in live electronic stage acts” (New City Music). Witness his balls-to-the-wall live show at a club, experience one of his interactive jamboxes at a festival, or pick up and play the “Light-Theremin” packaging of his debut album and understand the new musical archetype that is Moldover.
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Monty Kim
Monty is a Product Designer at littleBits, and has run littleBits workshops at several Maker Faire events. He also runs and facilitates Beta Testing sessions at littleBits HQ.
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Mountains
The NYC duo called Mountains started around the Art Institute of Chicago and have been on the respected Thrill Jockey label from the start. They specialize in long-form, textural ambient musics of the instrumental variety, using processed and unprocessed analog instruments and no beats.
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Myroslaw Bytz
Myroslaw (aka Blysk, Vzaem, Tricyclic) has been producing all flavors of electronic music and audio experimentation for over 15 years. He also was a lead organizer for the 2013 MEGAPOLIS Festival in NYC.
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Naomi Lucille Kagaya
Naomi is a native of Northern Japan, is an intermedia artist and composer. She creates installation and performance art integrating sonic and visual elements, digital and organic textures, and audience interactivity.
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Neil Feather
Neil has been creating radical and unusual musical instruments since 1970 and is increasingly known outside of Baltimore as one of the most original musical thinkers of his day.
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Nelson Loskamp
Nelson has been performing Electric Chaircut, amplified haircuts, worldwide since 1989. Nelson is the original master of electro-sonic hair design, and CNN calls Electric Chaircut “A cut above”; NBC says “It’s a sidewalk sensation”; and the NY Times calls it “Cutting edge!”
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Nick Heling
Nick received his MA in Media Studies from The New School in New York City in 2010.
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Nick van der Kolk
Nick is the co-founder of the MEGAPOLIS and served as Artistic Director (2009-15). Currently he produces Love and Radio, a podcast that features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. He also is a 2012 USA Collins Fellow.
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Nina Katchadourian
Nina (NYC) works in photography, sculpture, video and sound. She installs subversive urban audio interventions, rigs cars with alarms that sound like jungle birds, documents crossdressing animals, creates telemarketing infomercials out of sound samples from John Cage, repurposes magnetic tape found in gutters, and re-edits recordings from moon walks into incomprehensible bits.
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Noé Cuéllar
Noé is a sound designer and photographer who since 2009 has been creating sound and music with air using various bellowed, pneumatic, and reed instruments like pump organs, accordions, shruti boxes, and harmoniums.
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Olivia Bradley-Skill
Olivia likes digging up old sensations to find new meaning. Her radio work is a live collage, which warps, overlaps, and extends sound and language, so as to intensify the medium’s interactive and elusive qualities. She uses radio to represent the mind, how we listen, and how we forget what we remember.
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Owen Marshall
Owen is a PhD candidate at the Cornell Department of Science & Technology Studies. He is maybe the only person currently doing NSF-supported research on Auto-Tune. He does a radio show on KDVS called I Hate Mondays.
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Pat Mesiti-Miller
Pat is an audio engineer, music producer, and sound designer for NPR’s Snap Judgment. He lives and works in the Bay Area.
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Patrick Carey
Patrick Carey is a musician and programmer who records and performs under the moniker Rare Storms. His work draws from noise, drone, and computer music. At Megapolis he integrated a series of tapes found at yard sales. A similar piece can be heard here.
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Patrick McNameeKing
Producer, Station Manager, and Disc Jockey @WNHNFM.
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Peace, Loving
Peace, Loving is a band formed from members of the Whitehaus Family who live, play, act, and perform in a large home in Jamaica Plains, MA.
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Pejk Malinovski
Pejk is a freelance radio producer, sound artist, and poet. His documentaries have aired on public radio networks around the world and his sound pieces have been shown in museums and galleries.
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Peter McQuillan
Peter is a musician, radio producer and show promoter based in New York City who graduated from the Eugene Lang The New School for Liberal Arts where he studied Music & Environmental Studies.
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Phoenix Lio(n)
Phoenix Lio(n) engages technology and artistic practice to disrupt the ways in which the physical world is invoked to justify oppression and marginalization. They rebuild their mind, their memories, and the world around them by layering media and mediums. By engaging their experiences and identity as tools for art they rework the heaviest, hardest parts of themself like pigments dragged across canvas.
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Radio Wonderland
As RADIO WONDERLAND, NYC musical trickster Joshua Fried (clang Recordings) turns live radio into recombinant funk, with boombox, Buick steering wheel and four old shoes. “Rather like Negativland remixed for a house party…undeniably fun.” —Robert Barry, The Wire
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Rebecca Bray
Rebecca is the head of interaction design and Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, where she creates new digital tools that enable visitors to creatively participate in the scientific process. Her projects have been covered by the BBC, NPR, Discovery Channel, Good Morning America and ABC News as well as in the New York Times, Wired, and ArtNews, and her work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Renato Rinaldi
Renato trained as an actor and began composing music for theatre, radio dramas, and video installations. He has produced several radio plays, documentaries and reportages for the national broadcasting radio. His music primarily focuses on the relationship between sound and environment.
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Richard Hamilton
Richard is a production sound mixer, sound designer, re-recording mixer, and fledgling composer for commercials, movies, and TV. Some of his clients include Men’s Health Magazine, Google, and the US Army. He has scaled Mt. Kilimanjaro and has been nominated for an Indie Series Award for Best Sound Design.
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Robert Van Heumen
Robert is a composer and improvising musician using an extended laptop-instrument to perform highly immersive and hyper-dynamic electro-acoustic music. As a musician, live sampling is his main tool. With a joystick and other tactile controllers, live sampled source sounds are gesturally manipulated and reworked within open ended narratives.
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Robin Amer
Robin is a Chicago-based producer whose work straddles the lines between art and journalism, including urban planning, the built environment, and the complex lives of post-industrial cities.
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Roman Mars
Roman is the executive producer of 99% Invisible, a “tiny radio show about design” that began in his bedroom, gravitated to KALW in San Francisco, and now is one of the leading independently funded podcasts of the entire InterWeb. Roman has been leading a new wave of podcasters who have obliterated the paradigm of a listener-funded “radio” show, and he does so by focusing intently on the 99% of activity that is invisible to the naked eye yet shapes our world. And he puts on a killah live show.
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Ryan Holsopple (aka 31 Down)
31 Down creates darkly themed, romantic performance work with an emphasis on sound design, imagery and mood. The works consist of live performances, installations, live networked performances and streaming works. Ryan Holsopple, founder and artistic director, develops and programs interactive systems to create and control the performances.
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Sam Greenspan
Sam is a staff producer at 99% Invisible, a radio show about architecture and design with Roman Mars. He also a lead organizer for the 2015 MEGAPOLIS Festival in Oakland+SF.
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Sarah Yahm
Sarah is an independent radio producer, oral historian, and educator living in Burlington, VT.
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Scott Allison
Scott is a freelance graphic designer and sound explorer. Scott spends a good amount of his free time making field recordings of various spaces. Scott performs solo with electronics as well as in free rock outfits Kohoutek and Sunburned Hand of the Man.
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Scott Beibin
VJ Scott Beibin is the co-founder of the Evil Twin Booking Agency which he runs with partner Liz Cole, organizing tours for Bill Ayers, Vandana Shiva, Dead Prez, and many more.
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Sean Cole
Sean Cole is a poet who has worked as a producer for This American Life since 2014. Sean contributed to the show on and off starting in 1999. His latest volume of poetry is called “One Train,” published by Dusie press. Sean has also worked as a producer at Radiolab, a regular contributor to Marketplace, and a freelance reporter for shows and podcasts including Studio 360 and 99% Invisible. His career started at WBUR in Boston where he was a news-writer, engineer, announcer, field-producer, reporter and, finally, a correspondent for the station’s award-winning documentary unit Inside Out. Sean is an ordained minister by the Universal Life Church and has officiated around 20 weddings in the past 15 years.
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Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard
The Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) is an experimental laboratory at Harvard University that promotes innovative combinations of aesthetics and ethnography. It uses analog and digital media to explore the aesthetics and ontology of the natural and unnatural world.
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Seth Guy
Seth appropriates, reconfigures and juxtaposes materials to create playful performative works which propose a discourse into the cross-modal correspondence of auditory and visual perception. Working at the intersections of language, memory and imagination, his work is experimental and idiosyncratic; often humorous and occasionally disquieting.
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Shani Aviram
Shani Aviram is the programming director for Megapolis Audio Festival as well as a composer, sound designer, and radio producer. Her first ever write-up was in Catsynth, a blog devoted to cats and synthesizers. She has worked with Reduced Listening productions and acclaimed podcasts Love+Radio and The Heart. Her work with The Heart, earned a Prix Italia Golden Award for New Radio Formats 2015. Shani holds a BA in music composition from Mills College where she studied with Chris Brown, Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell, Maggi Payne, Pauline Oliveros and Matthew Goodheart.
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Shanna Sordahl
Shanna is an American-Canadian sound artist and composer living in Oakland, CA. Her interdisciplinary interests and love of diversity cause her work to take on many dynamic forms, from composition and live performances to site-specific installations.
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Sharon Mashihi
Sharon is a New York based radio producer and screenwriter. Her audio pieces have aired on KALW, MPBN, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix. Most recently, she has been producing interview segments for Studio 360 at WNYC. She is a graduate of the radio program at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and holds a BFA in film from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Shelly Blake-Plock
Shelly (Baltimore, Maryland) is an American teacher, musician, writer, and filmmaker.
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Shira Walinsky
Shira is a multi-disciplinary artist and teacher. Her murals can be seen throughout the city of Philadelphia. In 2012 she co- founded Southeastbysoutheast through the City of Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program. Her work has also been shown at PAFA, Asian Arts Initiative, and the ICA Philadelphia.
Slope114
Slope114 is live improvised house music by Dmitri SFC & Elise Gargalikis. Elise started singing at a young age & paid her House Music dues singing over many DJ sets in the San Francisco Bay Area underground. Dmitri honed his skills while DJing San Francisco bars in the late 90s – he held residencies at The Top DJ Bar & Liquid SF with a fake ID.
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Spirograph Agnew
Spirograph Agnew is an improvising quartet, consisting of three string players and one computer audio+video performer, who make live multimedia freakouts for 3D glasses. SA is Daniel Iglesia (electronics), Jim Altieri (violin), Bob Jones (double bass), and Jessie Marino (cello).
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Stefan Helmreich
Stefan is a Professor of Anthropology at MIT, where he teaches courses in science, technology, and society.
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Stefano Giannotti
Stefano, composer, guitarist and performer whose repertoire ranges from music theatre, radio and video-art, to song-writing and chamber music.
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Stephanie Smith
Stephanie is a multiple-media artist, composer and violinist who often works and performs with massive textures, small motors, tactile objects, and light. She studied composition at the University of Chicago with Kotoka Suzuki and has earned an MFA in Experimental Sound Practices and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts, studying with Mark Trayle, Sara Roberts, and Ulrich Krieger.
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Steve Bradley
Steve’s art practice engages time-based media; sound performance/installation, and material culture. He explores the boundaries of urban and suburban culture by collecting debris, sound, and images from the consumed and littered landscape.
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Steve Teare
Steve Teare is an illustrator and art teacher living in West Philadelphia. He has illustrated for VICE, Philly Voice, WHYY, Philadelphia City Paper, Apiary Magazine, and various educational websites and children’s books. Steve also wrote and illustrated the graphic novel “Back and Forth.”
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Suzanne Thorpe
Suzanne is a composer and performer of electronic music who enjoys revealing peripheral consciousness, coexisting perspectives and concurrent realities via composition, performance and installation.
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Teresa Foley
Teresa, a conceptual artist, makes videos, performances, and public art projects. She creates scenarios in which blow up dolls drive cars, ventriloquist dummies perform material lifted from craigslist, and people make and share regionally based ringtones.
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TFPP
TFPP is the collaboration of “HipHop” (Wake) and “Plug-in” (DDB). Hip hop and Plug-in first met in Pickens, South Carolina as fierce opponents. They were contestants in the local illegal underground Magic the Gathering tournies. Much later, things lightened up considerably, and eventually, by means of Constructive Discussion technique, they were able to talk through their differences.
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The Lothars
The Lothars are an ensemble based on the theremin – often consisting of three theremins and an electric guitar – who create electronic music at its most fetal state.
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The Truth
THE TRUTH is fiction — we make short films without pictures. Movies for your ears. We’re a contemporary re-imagining of what audio drama is and can be, exploring unusual approaches to telling stories with sound. We develop our stories as a collective, and often the dialogue is completely improvised. We record on location, and then take those recordings into the studio to edit them and add music and sound design. The result sounds kind of like a movie, only the pictures are all in your imagination. Our dramatic fiction has been heard on many nationally-syndicated public radio programs, including This American Life, Studio 360, Snap Judgment, and The Story.
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Thomas Deuel
Thomas is a practicing neurologist, sound artist, and neuroscientist from Seattle WA. As a neurologist with expertise in Electroencephalogram (EEG), a practicing sound artist exhibiting works of interactive audio installation art, a PhD in Neuroscience researching music and sound processing in the brain, as well as a professor in Digital Arts and Experimental Media, he attempts to bring these multiple personalities together to create hybrid neuroscience/music devices.
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Timothy Nohe
Timothy Nohe is an artist and educator engaging traditional and electronic media in civic life and public places. He has exhibited and performed his work in a range of national and international venues: ISEA: Paris and the Baltic Sea; Ars Electronica, Linz; the Danish Institute of Electro-Acoustic Music, Århus; Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo; the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Oxfringe Festival, Oxford; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York.
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Toby Kaufmann-Buhler
Toby explores sensory perception, identity and memory through his work in image, sound and space. This involves the integration of a number of different media including video, film, found/composed sound, text and installation work.
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Trent Wolbe
DJ Trent makes the asses hit the flo with his DJ stylings and has been a writer and media producer for The Verge, Engadget, and WFMU.
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Tristate Synthesizer Coalition
The Tri-State Synthesizer Coalition consists of modular enthusiasts from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and beyond. They connect with synthesizer enthusiasts and artists in the area to organize performances and structure events geared to everyone interested in the modular experience.
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Tyler Mains
Experimental musician and beer advocate currently based in Kentucky.
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Veronica Simmonds
Veronica is a sound-oriented media hustler. Her work has aired on CBC, ABC and various podcasts. She also produces interactive documentaries, including most recently an ode to urban lake swimming called Body of Water. In Halifax, she hosts a show called Braidio on CKDU 88.1fm where she braids hair live on air.
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Vic Rawlings
Vic is an improviser and instrument builder, specializing in modifications of existing instruments to create excitingly unstable interfaces.
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Victoria Estok
Victoria is a conceptual artist based in New York. Driven by a deep seated need to uncover intentions behind everyday actions — she favors community work and public interventions because they underscore and align with her value for genuine interaction. Estok teaches sound in New Media at SUNY Purchase.
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Walker Mettling
Walker prints posters, curates story events, digs for old bottles, and teaches comics and cartooning to kids in Providence. He co-edited the comics anthology, A Guy is Fighting a Monster Out of Nowhere and publishes the monthly magazine “Comics Showcase”.
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Wendy Baker
Wendy produces Noodle Mania, a collaborative zine-making audio project. She’s also an independent radio producer and helps organize community events at Rock Paper Scissors Collective, an arts organization that fosters creativity and collaboration in Oakland.
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Xiu Xiu
Xiu Xiu (officially pronounced “shoo shoo”, also “zoo zoo,” “zhu zhu” or “schwee schwee”) is a musical collective born in San Jose, California that currently consists of Shayna Dunkelman, Angela Seo, and Jamie Stewart, the only consistent member. The critically divisive group is influenced by noise, modern classical, the dance floor, post punk, experimental, minimalism, Asian percussion, and American folk music; the films of Todd Solondz, Shohei Imamura, David Lynch and Seijun Suzuki; and the books of Elfriede Jelinek, V.S, Naipaul, Yukio Mishima, and Ingeborg Bachmann.
They record for Bella Union and Polyvinyl Records and to date have released over 50 titles including albums, 7-inches, books, film works and compositions for dance pieces. They have collaborated with artists such as Carla Bozulich, Michael Gira, Dahn Vo, Monika Gryzmala, Grouper, Larsen, These Arches, Deerhoof, John Congleton, Dirty Beaches, Oxbow and Shearwater. They currently live in Los Angeles and New York.
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XuXa Santamaria
XuXa Santamaria = PUERTO RICO + NUEVA YORK in OAKLAND = Sofía Córdova + Matthew Kirkland
We channel Chrono Trigger/So So Def All Stars/Ace of Base + The Stooges
+ YES, WE USED TO SPELL OUR NAME ‘CHUCHA SANTAMARIA’
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Zachary Kent
Zachary (Austin, TX) is a radio artist who started Dial-A-Stranger, a podcast highlighting the stories of everyday people and to be the excitement they wanted to see in the world.
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