Alejandra (Lima, Peru, 1993) is a researcher in the fields of philosophy of art, phenomenology and philosophy of the body. She has been part of several musical projects in Lima and lives in Berlin, where she is currently developing her solo project and research in sound art.
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Aural artist, sound designer, media maker and university lecturer with a career that encompasses various forms of media, music and sound creation, with an emphasis on performing arts, time-based arts, digital media and creative research in sound, media and performance practices with a focus on creative expressiveness, narratives and languages. Currently developing the experimental lofi songs project ‘Lunileptik’. http://www.davidagudelobernal.com/
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Chuck Johnson is a composer and musician residing in Oakland, CA. He approaches his work with an ear towards finding faults and instabilities that might reveal latent beauty, with a focus on pedal steel guitar, experimental electronics, alternate tuning systems, and composing for film and television.
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Suzanne Thorpe is a composer/performer, researcher and educator who lives at the foot of the Catskill mountains, on the banks of the Hudson river in New York. She creates compositions with a variety of media and technology, and performs primarily with electroacoustic flute and electronics. Her work, in all its forms, listens for and performs our cultural and material navigations and transformations in sound. Thorpe holds an MFA in Electronic Music & Media from Mills College, and a Ph.D. in Integrative Studies from the University of California, San Diego. She is also a Deep Listening instructor, having studied in depth with American composer and Deep Listening founder Pauline Oliveros. Through an interdisciplinary method that combines creative practice with feminist and ecological theory, her research focuses on sound events that emphasize principles of inclusion, relational knowledge and coalition building.
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Doug Van Nort’s work integrates electroacoustic music and collective improvisation with machine agents, immersive sound, embodied listening and networked performance practices. Recent projects range from composition for his Electro-Acoustic Orchestra, soundscape piece for ancient Chinese bells (Smithsonian), a large-scale interactive ballet piece (National Ballet School of Canada), and an evolving, solar-powered environmental sound installation (Fieldwork). Van Nort is founder of the Dispersion Lab and is currently Canada Research Chair in Digital Performance at York University in Toronto.
Edward Schocker is a composer and performer who creates music with made/found materials and alternate tuning systems. He holds an M.A. in composition from Mills College, where he studied with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, and independently with Lou Harrison. At Mills, Edward founded The Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival, an annual event in The Bay Area devoted to unusual instruments and tunings..
Joseph Clayton Mills is a musician and multimedia artist who works at the intersection of language, composition, and archival practice. His text-based paintings, assemblages, and sound installations have been exhibited in the United States and Europe. Since 2013, he has curated the micro-label Suppedaneum, focused on releasing scores and their realizations.
Nancy Beckman studied the shakuhachi at Myoanji Zen temple in Kyoto where she received her license to teach the traditional solo Zen Buddhist meditational pieces. She has been inspired by studying Deep Listening with composer Pauline Oliveros and the Four Fold Way with Angeles Arrien. Based in Berkeley, California, she teaches Myoan shakuhachi, and is engaged in experimental music. She is also a Certified Music Practitioner in the Music for Healing and Transition Program. She is a member of the ensembles Cornelius Cardew Choir, Gusty Winds May Exist, and Dream Down Duvet.
This score is self-contained and may be performed by anyone who cares to do so, in any manner they deem appropriate, given the required seasonal conditions.
Tim Bushnell is a musician, and a mature student of retirement age who is studying part time for a postgraduate MA in music at Oxford Brookes University.
From “Vowel Strings,” for multiple voices. Strings are to be read as long as the performer’s breath will hold; the first performer to gasp for air will say the first consonant of the consonant cluster, signaling the string’s end to the other performers. Select, divide, and distribute the consonants among performers as seen appropriate.
Michael Peters is the author of Vaast Bin (Calamari Press) and other assorted sound, visual, and text-based works. Peters explores the periphery of the real in old and new media, utilizing sound-imaging strategies as something like a poet, a visual poet, a sound poet, a fictioneer, a musician, an essayist, and a sound environment programmer. In addition to online and print journals, his works are scattered in special collections and avant-garde libraries like The Sackner Archive, as well as anthologies like The Last Vispo Anthology (Fantagraphics) and Resist Much/Obey Little (Spuyten Duyvil).