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

Domenico Sciajno

Born in Torino Italy in 1965, double bass player and composer, studyed 'Instrumental and Electronic Composition' with Gilius Van Bergeijk and Double bass in the 'Royal Conservatory' of Den Haag in Holland. In summer 1991 follows the course of High musical specialization in Siena. In 1994 he follows a masterclass in Bruxelles for double bass in contemporay music helded by the specialist Stefano Scodanibbio. His interest for improvisation and the influence of accademic education, bring his research to the creative possibilities given by the interaction between acoustic instruments, indeterminacy factors and their live processing by electronic devices or computers. From 1992 he has been present in some of the most important festival as musician improviser or composer in the contemporary and experimental music scene and some of his work is documented by some independent labels of experimental and electronic music (Leo Records - UK, Fringes, Bowindo, Takla - ITA, Ersthwhile - USA). The wide spectrum of his experiences (that leaded to works like Terra, King Cycle and Objectable) brings him very close to the concept of performance, where he use texts and electronics as in previous works in combination with a coreografic use of the scene space and the projection of visuals made by himself. From 1994 he is assistant and collaborator of the american composer of electro-acoustic music Alvin Curran. Since 1999 he lives in Palermo. In 2002 Steim (center for developement of interactive systems for the performance located in Amsterdam, Holland) commissioned him a composition for a multi channel spazialization system offering him a composition residency. He made Interactive Sound installations for art galleries and exhibitions (among these the remarkable Espiral premiered at the Stuttugart FilmWinter festival 2004). Activist in the developement of experimental arts, in 1995 founded the association Antitesi, from 1995 and 1998 organized concerts and little festivals (Antitesi in musica Œ95/Œ96, Folk it out! Œ97, i(n)terazioni Œ98, Inaudito! Œ99), in 1997 he collaborated to give birth to the Fringes record label, in 2003 started toghether with other musicians the label Bowindo and founded the national collective iXem (italian eXperimental electronic music).

Al Margolis

Al Margolis was one of the prime movers in the legendary cassette underground scene of the 1980s (between 1984 and 1991 his Sound Of Pig label released over 300 cassettes of music by the likes of Merzbow, Costes, Amy Denio, John Hudak and Jim O'Rourke) and is the eminence grise behind twenty years of music under the name If, Bwana. He is the man behind the Pogus label, as well as label manager for Deep Listening, XI Records, and Mutable Music. He has recorded and/or performed with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Joan Osborne, Adam Bohman, Ellen Christi, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jane Scarpantoni, Ulrich Krieger, David First, Dave Prescott, Hal McGee, Sarah Weaver, Hudson Valley Soundpainting Ensemble, and Amoeba (Raft) Boy, among others.

A recent review of Margolis's work says: "Let it be declared that Al Margolis/If, Bwana is some sort of evil genius working with raw materials which are never adapted to a genre or a context, because they create one in that very moment. Those sources are radically altered up to an utterly unrecognizable state, anarchic manifestations moving in compact determination." (Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes)

Monique Buzzarte

Monique Buzzarte is an avid proponent of contemporary music, commissioning and premiering many new works for trombone alone, with electronics, and in chamber ensembles. A former student of Stuart Dempster and Ned Meredith, she holds B.A. and B. Mus. degrees from the University of Washington and a M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music and is certified to teach the meditative improvisation practices of Deep Listening. She has been a guest artist at the International Trombone Festival (2005) and the Eastern Trombone Workshop (2004). Ms. Buzzarte composes and performs electro-acoustic chamber music for Zanana, and is also is a member of the New Circle Five with Pauline Oliveros and Ekko!, a contemporary music quartet of mixed instrumentation. She can be heard on Zanana's Holding Patterns (Deep Listening 30), John Cage's Five3 with the Arditti Quartet (Mode 75: John CAGE: Vol. 19 - The Number Pieces 2), and Dreaming Wide Awake with the New Circle Five (Deep Listening 20). Sorrel Hays' Wake Up and Dream and John Cage's Thirteen and Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning with Essential Music are forthcoming. Since 1983 her New Music from Women: Trombone project has supported the expansion of the trombone repertoire by commissioning new compositions from women composers in a variety of genres. An author, activist, and educator as well as a performer/composer/improvisor, Ms. Buzzarte has published research on the brass music of women composers and coordinated advocacy campaigns for women in music, including efforts that led to the admission of women members into the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1997.

Katherine Liberovskaya

Katherine Liberovskaya is a Canadian video and media artist based in Montreal and New York. She has been working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many single-channel videos and video installation works, some of which have earned awards and mentions in Europe and North America. Her works have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around the world. She has held numerous grants and arts awards in Canada and in France where she studied media arts. In addition to her art practice she has concurrently been involved in the programming and organization of diverse media art events, notably with Studio XX in Montreal (of which she was programming coordinator from 1996-98 and president from 2001 to 2003), Espace Videographe, Montreal, Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005 & 2006). In recent years her work mainly revolves around collaborations with new music composers, notably Phill Niblock ('Babel-On', 2004, 5-channel video-audio installation, 'Painting the Painting', 2003, single-channel video, 'Topolo: de Passato a Avvenire', 2005, multiple projection & sound installation), as well as Al Margolis/IF BWANA, Margarida Garcia and David Watson. In 2003 she began exploring live video mixing, using MAX/MSP and Jitter, in improvisation with live new music/sound. Since, she has performed live video at a variety of venues in NY, Montreal and Europe with a number of music/sound artists including: o.blaat, Toshio Kajiwara, Shelley Hirsch, David Watson, Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblat, Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi + Shoko Nagai), Mary Halvorson, Tiziana Bertoncini, Thomas Lehn, Urkuma, Angelica Castello, Micheal Delia, Antonio Della Marina, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Martine Crispo, TV Pow, Boris Hauf, Matt Pass, Richard Geret, Gil Sanson, Gill Arno, Ben Owen, Andre Goncalves...