Seth Cluett is a visual and sound artist whose work includes photography, drawing, sculpture, video, sound installation, performance, and concert music. A native of Troy, NY he is currently pursuing his doctoral studies at Princeton University.

His work is a comment on perception and nature. It is an examination of sound, light, weather, geology, and cognition. He uses dust, pigment, glass, sand, water, paper pulp, air pressure, and oxidation exposed to sound or light to show the potential of our senses. How does sound direct our gaze? How does light change how we listen? How do people use this knowledge for power and communication?

His work has been shown/performed at galleries, festivals, sound art venues, and concert spaces both traditional and alternative throughout the Americas and Europe. Seth's work is documented on Errant Bodies Press, Sedimental, Crank Satori, Boxmedia, and Wavelet records as well as upcoming releases on Kissy and Televaw records. For more information: http://www.onelonelypixel.org

Scott Smallwood

Scott Smallwood was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up at 10,000 feet in elevation in the Colorado Rockies. Currently based in the New Jersey, Smallwood's work exists in the world of real and abstracted sound textures based on a practice of listening, improvisation, and phonography. Ranging between sonic photographs, abstracted studio pieces, improvisations, and composed structures, his work attempts to deal with the puzzle of pulling signal out of noise. His work has been released on Autumn Records, Deep Listening, Televaw, Simple Logic, Static Caravan, and Webbed Hand Records, and has been presented nationally and internationally in festivals, conferences, galleries, clubs, coffee shops, swimming pools, rooftops, and dive bars. He is currently a doctoral fellow in the music department of Princeton University.

A composer, bassist, and improviser based in Queens, New York, Andrew Lafkas has been active as a musician for most of his life. He has worked with Milo Fine, Bill Dixon, Davu Seru, and Brown Rainbow among others. He is currrently working on compositions for strings and continuing his development as a solo artist with the doublebass and electronics.

His worked has been recognized by the Jerome Foundation for the Arts and he recently completed a composition for 100 cassettes.

For audio see http://www.rasbliutto.net/artists/andrewlafkas.html

Bryan Eubanks

Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977) is a musician from the Pacific Northwest who works with the process of improvisation and plays soprano saxophone and open circuit electronics, in addition to ongoing studies of specific frequencies in both the acoustic and electronic realms of sound.

Formative collaborations began with Jean Paul Jenkins and Jospeh Foster in Portland, Oregon in the late 1990's and he began the electronic duo GOD with fellow Portland musician Leif Sundstrom in 2004.ÊÊOn the East Coast he works solo and in a duo with Andrew Lafkas, as well as consistent collaborations with other musicians in the northeastern corridor and Europe. He lives in New York City.

audio is available at http://www.rasbliutto.net/artists/bryaneubanks.html

Wade Mathews

American improviser, composer and author, Wade Matthews, has been living in Madrid, Spain, since 1989. Besides his solo concerts, he performs in duo with Toulouse-based dancer ValŽrie MŽtivier and with Norwegian percussionist, Ingar Zach, as well as one-offs with innumerable improvisers in concerts and festivals throughout the world (New York, Paris, Madrid, London, Berlin, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Beirut, Montevideo, Los Angeles, Oslo, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Toulouse, etc.). Recent activities include two performances at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Annual Festival of the International Society for Computer Music, and at the Reina Sof’a Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid.

Electronic music influences all of his work, including his purely acoustic use of woodwinds, which he approaches as acoustic synthesizers, emphasizing the nature of sound as matter unto itself rather than as simply material from which to generate phrases. He is especially interested in the permeability of sound and sonic discourse to its surroundings and has extensively explored numerous aspects of site-specific improvisation, both musically and in his essays. His electronic work is generated purely through the use of synthesis, with no recourse to sampling, a decision based not so much on aesthetic criteria as on a particular sense of how he wants musical process to interface with instrumental praxis.

Matthews earned his Doctor of Musical Arts from Columbia University in New York, where he studied composition and electronic music with Mario Davidovsky, writing his dissertation on improvisation guided by electronic sounds. Previous studies include woodwinds with Joe Allard at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In 2003 he received a commission from the French Government (Commande d'Etat) to create a work exploring the possible relations between acoustic instruments and various techniques of phonography. The work, titled Lieux, was premiered at the festival Rencontres de Musique et Quotidien Sonor in southern France in May, 2004.

please see http://www.arrakis.es/~wade/index.html for more info and audio samples