J. Mark Inman is a violinist, visual artist, keyboardist, composer, and artistic visionary. As a member of several performance ensembles including the BENJAMINJAMNINMAN Violin Duo, the synth rock keyboard based band Secret Handshake, the Sohio Martin Ensemble, The BIAS Ensemble, and the Egalitarian String Quartet, Mark has performed extensively in a wide variety of venues such as Auer Hall at Jacobs School of Music and at Zuzu's which is a part of the Middle East Club in Cambridge, MA.
As a Violinist, Mark offers a unique look into what is possible with violin technique. Mostly self taught, Mark began playing violin at age 15 and began developing this technique while goofing off with his friend DJ during off moments of orchestra rehearsal during high school. In 2001, Mark began exploring this technique seriously with his "Music for Composer Alone" series which is a s eries of multi-tracked classical improvisations. When Mark and composer Ben Jacob formed the BENJAMINJAMINMAN Violin Duo in 2003, Mark and Ben worked together to bring much of the technique to fruition. Mark continues to expand the technique through uses of electronics.
Seth CluettSeth 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:
Newton Armstrong
Newton Armstrong is a composer and improviser working with various electronic instruments. He has recently performed, recorded, or worked in some less specific capacity with Tim O'Dwyer, Cor Fuhler, Clayton Thomas, Chris Abrahams, Steve Heather, Joel Stern, John Butcher, Melissa Madden Gray and Chris Mann, among other interesting people. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, he currently resides in scenic New Jersey.
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.