Mark Fell is a multidisciplinary artist based in Rotherham (UK). His practice draws upon electronic music subcultures, experimental film, contemporary philosophy and radical politics. Over the past 30 years Fell’s output has grown into a significant body of work - from early electronic sound works and recorded pieces, to installation, critical texts, curatorial projects, educational systems and choreographic performances. The diversity and importance of Fell's practice is reflected in the range and scale of institutions that have presented his work. He has worked with a number of artists including: Yasunao Tone, Laurie Spiegel, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Okkyung Lee, Luke Fowler, Will Guthrie, Peter Gidal, Terre Thaemlitz, John Chowning, Ernest Edmonds, Peter Rehberg, Oren Ambarchi, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff and Mat Steel (as SND).

Mohammad Reza Mortazavi was born in 1979 in Isfahan, two months after the revolution in Iran. He has been living in Germany for 20 years as a musician and composer. The diverse sound of tombak and daf has always fascinated Mortazavi. He describes finding a balance between concentration and letting go as the core element of his musical work: a constantly changing movement in which the boundaries of body and mind dissolve into one another. He has performed in concert halls such as Philharmonie Berlin, Pierre Boulez Saal, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

Pat Thomas began playing piano at age eight. He studied classical music and had an early interest in reggae. He was inspired to take up jazz at 16, after seeing legendary pianist Oscar Peterson on television. By 1979 he was performing seriously as an improviser. He has played with Mike Cooper, Geoff Hawkins, Lol Coxhill, Tony Oxley, Steve Beresford, Alex Ward, Derek Bailey, Eugene Chadbourne, Jimmy Carl Black, Evan Parker, John Zorn, Joe Gallivan, John Butcher, Okkyung Lee, Bill Dixon, Roy Campbell, Marshall Allen, Moor Mother, Luke Stewart and Matana Roberts amongst many others. He received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers in 2014.

Julia Reidy makes music for processed and acoustic instruments (mostly guitars). Their recent work can be described as a series of non-traditional song forms which combine unstable harmonic territories, rhythmic elasticity and abstract narrative over stretched and episodic forms. Their recent records include In Real Life (Black Truffle, 2019), Vanish (Editions Mego, 2020) and World in World (Black Truffle, 2022), They have recently performed at Tectonics Festival, Send/Receive Festival, Sydney Festival, Berlin Jazz Festival, Angelica Festival and Mona Foma.

Judith Hamann is a cellist and performer/composer from Narrm/Melbourne. They have “long been recognised as one of Australia’s foremost contemporary-music cellists” (RealTime Arts), and as a composer who “destroys the fiction of the musician who lives and works outside conventional parameters and puts in its place a series of compositions that are fundamentally humane” (WIRE). Their work encompasses performance, improvisation, electro-acoustic composition, site specific generative work, and micro-tonal systems in a process based creative practice.

Cora Venus Lunny is an improvising violinist, violist, vocalist and composer with extensive performing, touring, and recording experience in contemporary, classical, improvised, and folk musics. A member of Yurodny and Fovea Hex, they frequently perform with Crash Ensemble, solo as a free improviser and in free duo with Izumi Kimura. A fascination with consciousness, groove, and the social realities of music drives their compositional curiosity.

Sharon Phelan is a Dublin based artist, musician and writer specialising in digital media and sound. Her artistic practice and research has been presented in print, radio and at various conferences and festivals, most recently in: Voices of Memory, 2021; Scoring the City, 2020; Sound & Fiction, 2020; Songs and Soil, 2020; Murmuration #2, 2019; Sonic Urbanism, 2019; Radio Cause Commune, 2018; Loud Objects Moving Air, 2018; and The Sound of Memory, 2017. Sharon is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design (BFA in Fine Art Media and History of Art and Design) and Trinity College Dublin (MPhil in Music and Media Technologies & PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities).

Phil Maguire is an artist and composer from Scotland working with sound. Maguire produces music and sound works for synthesiser and computer that explore emptiness and emergence, of self and of machine. These works are informed by his experience composing, performing, and presenting works across the gamut of Minimalism. They place timbre under the microscope; examining fine details of sound over extended durations. Informed by intuitive use of feedback, chaos, and chance, these sounds are simultaneously static, yet always in motion. Maguire lives and works in Cork, Ireland.

Rob Casey is a pianist, composer improviser and researcher based in Derry/Donegal. Since relocating to the Northwest his music has been performed at a range of festivals in Derry including Illuminate the Walls; Northern Ireland Science Festival; Derry Jazz Festival; Walled City Music Festival. He runs the experimental ensemble IPO and co-founded Derry Sound Factory with composer Peter O’Doherty. Previously he has worked on original experimental music projects in collaboration with David Lacey, Conal Ryan, Aonghus McEvoy, Alex Petcu-Colan, Colm O’Hara, Cora Venus Lunny amongst others. His compositions have been performed at a range of festivals in Ireland and abroad.