Addison Bird is a composer and performer from rural Ohio. Her current focus is on experimental computer music, she also has a past in and passion for film, classical, and rock music. Addie’s prior pieces were usually easy listening and primarily concerned with melody and harmony. Currently, her music sounds aggressive, dark, and noisy; or as others have said “nightmare trip fuel”. Addison is exploring DSP and video FX and trying to figure out how to share her unique brand of weird. She’s in love with stories, particularly video games, and comics, and would love to one day work in that world.

Addison’s music lives here - https://linktr.ee/janeisnotacoustic

I am a California-based composer and performer. At the core of my artistic practice lies a profound curiosity and fascination with the world around me. I see my work with sound and sight as an expression through which I manipulate the material of experience itself. I embrace the impermanence of sound and the role of memory in shaping our perception. My work is a reflection of my curiosity about what it is to be human and how we interact with the world around us. I'm co-founder of the MaXaS duo and am always open to new collaborations or performance opportunities.

http://davidplandon.com/

Boris Allenou is a sound artist and creative technologist who explores the limitless forms of Sound Art and Sound Ecology by investigating the social role of sonic Eco-systems surrounding us.

Boris Allenou’s research use interactive sound installations, talks, workshops, music, radio creations and sound exploration events as mediums to reflect on, propose and conceptualize possible roles, places, meanings, interactions and aesthetics of sounds in our societies.

boriallenou.com

Currently living in New York City, DJ primarily makes algorithmic sound and digital multimedia collage with live aspects. Their past works involve hyperconcepts grounded in speculation; jam sessions between cognitive domains; love-hate relationship with structure; world-building through partials; aesthetic politics of failure; disassembling/reassembling identity aspects; time-persona-agency relations; politics/sociologies/materialities of Internet; virtuality; post-media; live-ness; affect; fluidity-anchor-word relations; collectivity; poetics of space; and interfaces between scales. They additionally get joy from interpreting spatial music. In terms of collaboration, they're most interested in synthesizing knowledges/techniques, new-to-them and internally viable logics, insightful transfers to their practice, and passion.

I am a multimedia artist and sound designer with a love for interactive storytelling. In my practice, I enjoy exploring the process of bringing daydreams and the wild reaches of imagination to life through experimentation, technology, immersion, and play. In addition to dreams, I like to draw inspiration from video games and the natural world. My favorite artistic collaborations in the past have included theater productions, free improvisations, and video game-inspired multimedia projects. Sound is my primary medium, but I also dabble in visual art, scriptwriting, and coding. I am currently based in Buffalo, NY and Baltimore, MD.

Valeriia Starosek is a Ukrainian artist based in the United States. Shaped by her diverse lived experiences and her background in law and computer science, Valeriia’s vision is interdisciplinary by nature. An expressive artist, she uses sound as her main artistic medium, combining it with programming and other digital tools, while drawing and painting remain her core self-healing and self-care practices. Valeriia is fascinated with the human psyche and creates abstract works that are resonant and trigger thoughts/questions/feelings/anything - but always something.

Graham Keeton is a composer, producer, and guitarist based in Oakland, California. They are a writer of music largely about finding love and hate in the minutiae of everyday life, and attempting to weave cursory and undefined emotions into art. They have worked on chamber, electronic, and multimedia works that have taken the form of scores, recordings, performances, and music for video games. They are forever interested in spontaneity in collaboration, indeterminacy, and improvisation, as well as new paths of expression through media, technique, and technology. Graham hopes to transcend their carnal form and become a one-dimensional point in space-time.

Ivan Law is an African American Cellist originally from Los Angeles, California. His background is based primarily in classical music; however, his curiosity has always led him to explore new music for the instrument. He has also delved into composition and cinematography. He is a proponent of collaboration across art forms, believing that art, when not confined to one mode of expression has the potential to express more than words can. Working towards this idea, Ivan has had the opportunity to collaborate with composers, film directors, choreographers and photographers.

Zheqin is a Chinese singer-songwriter, composer, and ethnomusicologist currently based in Middletown, CT. Embracing the fluidity of her artistry, she resists being confined to one space and instead explores multiple boxes while blurring the lines in between to create her unique shapes. Influenced by experimental, world, and popular music, and inspired by nature's gifts, her past works are imaginative endeavors that attempt to connect different elements and ideas. Zheqin also enjoys taking notes and staring at the moon. She seeks collaborations that foster genuine relationships and truly connect souls through the artistic vessels.

Amanda Hergn, a composer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, delves into various music genres, exploring contemporary, experimental, and ambient styles, drawing inspiration from nature. Her classical background in piano shapes expressive and melodic musical works with cinematic storytelling, reflecting her love for visual arts, seen in acrylic and watercolor paintings as well as photography.

In the past, Amanda has collaborated with composers, vocalists, instrumentalists, dancers, choreographers, and painters. As a composer, she hopes to continue growing through unlikely collaborations, thriving and finding greater responsibility and engagement when working with artists from different disciplines.

Tristan Turner is an actor and singer/songwriter in Los Angeles, CA. He has created short films, sketch comedy shows, music and short plays during the beginning of his career. He also plays guitar and trumpet when he can, and has become fascinated by video editing as of late. He’s most interested in film, music, and multimedia-based collaborations. He hopes to inspire others to invest in deeper conversations about themselves, so we may all aspire to raise in vibration to achieve a more loving society!