Cohen completed his M.F.A at the California Institute of the Arts and Ph. D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Cohen was an early advocate for digital media on the Internet. He organized the NewMusNet Conference of Arts Wire with Pauline Oliveros and later worked for Arts Wire as their Systems Coordinator. Currently he is on the composition faculty of the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music / CUNY.

Greg Bartholomew’s music has been performed across the United States and in Canada, Australia and Europe. His Suite from Razumov, for clarinet and string quartet, was recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic for the Masterworks in the New Era CD series. Capstone Records has released the Ars Brunensis Chorus recording of From the Odes of Solomon on their Society of Composers CD series. The Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium commissioned his String Trio for George Crumb, which was premiered by the Third Angle New Music Ensemble and reprised by Accessible Contemporary Music of Chicago. “No, George, No” first occurred to me as spoken text for a music composition in early 2005, and the words have only grown more appropriate with the passage of time. I was inspired to use spoken text as a musical collage element by John Adams’ brilliant early work, Christian Zeal and Activity. With the voice element as the starting point, I then created a backdrop musicscape. The vocal parts were performed by two amazing Seattle attorneys.

The works of Montreal-based Tsabary are decidedly inspired by the concepts of constant motion and fluidity and have been presented worldwide in events and venues such as Carnegie Hall, ISCM, and CCRMA. His music was recorded by the Bulgarian Philharmonic and published by Editions BIM. Tsabary is a professor at Concordia University's music department in Montreal. He is the 2006 winner of the Harbourfront Centre New Canadian Sound Work competition and a third prize winner of the 2006 ZKM international electroacoustic music competition (Shortcuts: Beauty).

CDZabu for the dactylographically disinclined, is a growing collective of musicians form across North America that compose collectively using the Internet. Its mission is to write music that is cathartic, engaging, and free form commercial aspirations. CDZabu’s very nature is based on the exploration of genres and how they can mutate in the presence of various influences. Every month, the members collectively produce a new batch of pieces using a specific theme (pop music, classical instruments or Christmas carols, for example). Each artist adds a track of his own and so on. Egos are set aside as the piece passes hands, careening wildly into uncharted musical territory. The collective is continually accepting new members.

George Brunner is a composer and performer, researcher/writer, recording engineer/producer and teacher. He is a recent recipient of a research grant from the American Scandinavian Foundation and the Svenska Institutet of Sweden. Brunner is the founder of the Brooklyn College Electroacoustic Music Ensemble, which produces an annual CD under his direction. He is the founder and coordinator of the biannual International Electroacoustic Music Festival at Brooklyn College, New York City.

Paul Burnell was born in 1960, Ystrad, South Wales and now lives and writes in London. His music often utilises relentless repetition and pulse within a structure that can be easily perceived as a process. Sometimes humour and spoken word elements are featured. Performances include 'Open Wide' for Chris Brannick and EnsembleBash 2006, 'Voices Losing Reality' for Frances M Lynch at the 2005 London All Ears Festival and 'I, Cog' for Jane Chapman at the SPNM Sound Source 2006.

Dr. David Berlin is a composer, music educator and educational content developer. He took two bachelors and two masters degrees at Carnegie Mellon University and his doctorate at West Virginia University. In addition to the MENC, PMEA and numerous other professional organizations for educators and composers he is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the Society of Composers and was one of the founding composer members of the Pittsburgh Alliance of Composers. For thirty four years he was a full-time member of the music faculty at North Allegheny where he taught music theory, composition, electronic music A.P. music, multi-media arts and instrumental music.

"One of new music's truly free spirits," (Village Voice) and a "remarkable experimentalist," (NY Times) Eve Beglarian is a composer, performer, and audio producer whose music has been described as "an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements." (LA Times) Tell the Birds, a new CD of her music, will be released by New World Records in spring of 2006. “My Heart is Trembling” uses a text by one of the founding brothers of Methodism, Charles Wesley, set to one of the myriad tunes it has been sung to over the years, and counterpoised with an electronicized fragment of a medieval Armenian song about trembling. It's a short exploration of how I might want to use Methodist hymns and songs in the Stephen King opera I'm working on.

Having spent the majority of his life as an advertising art director/graphic designer, Eden decided to open his ears, as well as his eyes. The resulting sound pieces have been presented on/at Sound Poets Exposed (Resonance FM, London, UK), art@radio (Baltimore, MD), Discreet Music (KPFA, Berkley, CA), the Subtropics Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, New Music Circle, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. In November, 2006, his sound collage, "Cremation Science", was included in the compilation "The Art of the Virtual Rythmicon" on the Innova label of the American Composers Forum.

Courtney Brown has long harbored aspirations of becoming an Edward Gorey heroine, but her attempts have thus far been foiled. In lieu of her unlikely but tragic demise, she makes strange dark music and fiddles with electronics. She is a founding member of Electrocab, a trio of performers/composers who invent new musical spaces with two soprano voices, an accordion, and a DJ. Her compositions have been featured in the Chosen Vale Trumpet Seminar, the Festival of New Musics, the Boston CyberArts Festival, and more. She is the founder of Seductivism, an art movement based on the play of appearances.

Originally from Bogota, Colombia Lucio Edilberto Cuellar C., began musical studies at the conservatory of the National University of Colombia in his native city. In 1979 he moved to the United States, where he completed a Bachelor degree in piano performance at Kennesaw State University in Marietta, GA and a M.M. in music composition at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. Mr. Cuellar holds a DMA in composition from the University of North Texas. Mr. Cuellar works with sound synthesis, multimedia video pieces and music for acoustic instruments. His compositions have been performed in several International festivals of contemporary music in South America, Central America, North America, and Europe.

Since 1990 Ramón Gorigoitia has worked as a music editor for various German radio stations (Deutsche Welle, WDR, DLF, HR, SFB, SWR & SR), and as a lecturer and director of workshops at several music academies and universities in Germany and Chile. His compositions have been performed in Germany, France, Holland, Italy, and Switzerland. USA, Argentina, Poland, Litauen & Chile. He has had chamber music commissioned by numerous Art foundations and other institutions such as the Stiftung Kunst & Kultur NRW, Deutsche Welle, Catholic University of Valparaiso-Chile, Gaudeamus Foundation, Ensemble Bartok, Anacrusa-Chile, Largo Camino Dance Company, and Helios Theater. He was recipient of composition prizes from Gaudeamus Foundation in 1985 for his choral work Tres Elegias and from Anacrusa-Chile for Acuerdos in 1989. “Twin Days is a 59 second long collage from different fragments of electronic music and chamber music pieces composed from me over the last 15 years. I put these elements together as a musical background to emphasize the character of the central idea of the piece. It is based on the military putsch against the Chilean Government from Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. I have put fragments from the last speech from the Chilean president during the attack form the militaries against the Chilean government palace, in which the President from general Pinochet, who leads the attack against the government palace. It is symbolic, that 28 years after the cowardly attack against my country, New York was the object of a similar attack from terrorists. Hence the title of the piece to remember that all forms of aggression must be halted in order to leave future generations a better world to live in." - Ramón Gorigoitia

Rodney Waschka II is best known for his algorithmic compositions and intermedia pieces such as his trilogy of operas on the lives of Ambrose Bierce, Sappho, and Hiroshige II. His works have been performed throughout the world and recorded on the Capstone, IRIDA, AUR, PeP, Ama Romanta, Plancton, and Centaur labels His music is published by Borik Press (Raleigh) and American Composers Editions (New York City). His most recent compact disc contains his music for strings and has recently been released on the Capstone label. He teaches at North Carolina State University.

Serban Nichifor, born in Bucharest, received his Ph.D. at National University of Music, Bucharest. He have received many international composition prizes – at Amsterdam (The Gaudeamus First Prize), Toledo, Tours, Trento, Birmingham-Alabama,, Koln, Karlsruhe, Newtown-Wales, Bydgoszcz, etc. He is the cellist of the Duo Intermedia and co-director of the Nuova Musica Consonate - Living Music Foundation Inc. Festival. He is presently a professor at the National University of Music, Bucharest. "Animal Farm" is inspired by the work of George Orwell, but also by the Romanian reality. This is a little satirical allegory against the so stupid and criminal (neo-) communist society.

A native of Turkey, Cenk Ergün is a San Francisco based composer and improviser who produces music for chamber ensembles, live electronics, dance performances, and installations. Ergün has collaborated with artists including So Percussion, Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Jeanrenaud, William Winant, Alarm Will Sound, Janus, Ossia, and Musica Nova. Ergün's music has been heard at venues including the Merkin Hall, Symphony Space, Deep Listening Space, The Stone, Babylon, Muziekgebouw, Yerba Buena Gardens, Theater Artaud, ODC Theater, and The Lab; at events such as John Schaefer's New Sounds Live, Bang on Can Marathon, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, San Francisco Tape Music Festival, Other Minds Brink Series, Yerba Buena Choreographer's Festival, CEAIT Festival at CalArts, Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2006), Gaudeamus Music Week 2006, and the 16th Akbank Jazz Festival.

John was born in August 1960 in Bolton. He fell in love with music at a very early age; he remembers going to a fairground when he was 3 and being thrilled by the music blaring from the rides. John considers himself fortunate to be able to make a living out of his hobby – to spend his days practising his first love, music. He loves the variety of his work, and is constantly seeking to develop his talent in new directions and to take on new challenges.

Aaron Drake (b.1976) is a composer based in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Drake began studying piano at age five and has a rounded repertoire that includes both classical and modern music. Drake earned his Bachelor of Music in Composition from San Francisco State University. His studies have also taken him to the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Trossingen, Germany. Aside from his compositional work, Mr. Drake’s experience includes an interest in interdisciplinary projects such as kinetic sculpture, sound installation and video. His projects have included improvisational composition for theater and collaborative art pieces with visual artists. Currently, Drake is working towards a Master’s of Music degree at California Institute of the Arts under the direction of Mark Trayle et al. “Etudes for Balloon” is a set of pieces that can help a performer develop virtuosic balloon playing techniques. Like other sets of Etudes (Chopin, Ligeti, etc.), each balloon etude employs at least one technical or compositional gimmick. The instruction for Number 4 is to inflate the balloon to normal capacity, pinch and stretch the neck of the balloon evenly to produce a consistent multiphonic until the balloon completely deflates. In this etude, the performer can determine the balloon’s color and size.

Frank J. Oteri, a New York-based composer and music journalist, is the Composer Advocate at the American Music Center and the founding editor of its web magazine NewMusicBox. Oteri is also a frequent pre-concert moderator and master of ceremonies for new music events around New York and hosts his own series, 21st Century Schizoid Music, at the Cornelia Street Café. Oteri's own musical compositions range from full-evening stage works to chamber and solo compositions. His performance oratorio MACHUNAS, created in collaboration with Lucio Pozzi and inspired by the life of Lithuanian-American Fluxus-founder George Maciunas, was staged in Vilnius, Lithuania in August 2005. His most recent composition, Imagined Overtures for rock band in 36-tone equal temperament, has been performed at major alternative rock clubs in the NYC-area including Tonic, the Cutting Room and Galapagos. “Beyond Sevenfold” is an acoustic experiment which explores the thresholds of both MIDI detune commands and human aural perception. It is inspired by paper folding. For some reason, it is impossible to fold a sheet of paper (of any material) more than seven times. It's just too thick to fold. Try it. So, I wondered, might there something analogous in sound to this paper folding phenomenon? Can a sound be folded? And what happens after it is folded seven times over? Can sound become too thick to be perceived? Is that why white noise, a simultaneous sounding of all frequencies, seems unpitched? Beyond Sevenfold begins with a major third, one of the most consonant of musical intervals, and then subdivides it into whole tones, semitones, quartertones, eighth-tones, 16th tones, 32nd tones and finally to 383 simutaneous pitches tuned a 64th of tone apart. These intervals are merely 3125/100,000ths of a semitone apart from each other.

Tony Higgins is a 23 year old composer from Galway City, Ireland. He has just completed a Master's in Music Technology at the University of Limerick, for which he wrote "I'll be there in ten minutes", for drum kit and tape. He had his first concert performance this summer with the premiere of "The Notes of a Piano" at the Cortona Contemporary Music Festival. He has also performed around Ireland with his rock project, junior85. His influences include coincident lines in perspective and The Road Signs of Our Age.

Peter Swanzy (1980) was born in Seattle, Washington. He earned his BFA in performance and composition from the College of Santa Fe. As a multimedia composer, he focuses on a variety of electronic and acoustic media for performance. Mr. Swanzy's work has been commissioned by Ebb and Flow Arts and Santa Fe New Music and is performed around the world. Since 2004 he has been living and working in Hawai'i as a film editor, composer, and educator. He studied with John Kennedy, Steven Miller, Robert Pollock, David Dunn, Kevin James, and Oliver Prezant. When I hold my breath for one minute, I feel my heart accelerate and the muscles in my lungs trying to salvage what little oxygen there is. In this automatic neuromuscular response, the body fails to realize that survival is a process of control and submission. In this work, we hold our breath for one minute and let our body feel panic as it struggles to maintain its own life. Eventually we submit to our need, and the minute ends. Primal Violets is a progressive textural development illustrating this gesture with granular synthesis algorithms in CSOUND.

Eric Lyon is a composer specializing in computer music, who has authored POWERpv, BashFest, and EricCMIX computer music tools. Prior to joining the faculty at Dartmouth in the spring of 1999, he composed, taught, researched and performed in Japan for four years.

Leslie de Melcher holds a PhD. in philosophy from the Universitie of Paris, Sorbonne and a first prize in composition from the Ecole Normale de musique de Paris. He studied with Pierre Boulez and Todd Machaover at the IRCAM, where he became a guest composer. His string quartet and brass quintet have been published by Symphony Land. His latest works include award winning Xtreme Digital Opera: the Crystal Dome, for digital music (5.1 Dolby surround sound), choir, actors and digital animations and Alone, for digital electronics, mixed choir and computer animation, premiered in June 2004 in Toronto, Canada

Mary Jane Leach is a composer/performer from Vermont who has lived in New York since the mid-1970's. Her work reveals a fascination with the physicality of sound, its acoustic properties and how they interact with space. In many of her works Leach creates an other-worldly sound environment using difference, combination, and interference tones; these are tones not actually sounded by the performers, but acoustic phenomena arising from Leach's deft manipulation of intonation and timbral qualities. Critics have commented on her ability to "offer a spiritual recharge without the banalities of the new mysticism" (Detroit Free Press), evoking "a visionary quest for inner peace" (Vice Versa Magazine), and "an iridescent lingering sense of suspended time." (Musicworks Magazine)

Killick born 1972, Red Bank, New Jersey, plays guitar and H’arpeggione, a sympathetic stringed instrument. Recent recordings include Appalachian Trance Metal and a solo rendition of Slayer’s Reign in Blood. Erik has played with Chris Cutler, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, the Eastern Seaboard, Lisle Ellis, the Georgia Guitar Quartet, Vinny Golia, Frank Gratkowski, Carl Ludwig Huebsch, Harald Kimmig, Peter Kowald, Larry Ochs, Brian Osborne, Ravi Padmanabha, Dave Rempis, Roger Ruzow, Blaise Siwula, Sandor Szabo, Ken Vandermark, Erik Zinman, and his own SS Puft Quartet among others. Erik lives in a solar powered house with his wife and dog. He runs Solponticello Records.

Paul Clouvel is an electroacoustic and contemporary music composer living in France. He studied orchestra conducting, then he graduated twice in electroacoustic composition at the National Music Conservatory in Bourges (France) and studied composition and computer music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon. He also studied sound design, music management and computer music (Ircam, Berklee College of Music) He received several prizes, including Russolo International Electroacoustic composition prize. Paul Clouvel works as a freelance composer, editor, and is the artistic director of Elektramusic.

Born 1960 in Vienna, Essl’s studies includes composition with Friedrich Cerha, electro-acoustic music with Dieter Kaufman, double bass, and musicology (1989 doctoral thesis on Anton Weber) Besides writing instrumental music, Karlheinz Essl also works in the field of electronic music, interactive, real-time compositions and sound installations. He is developing software environments for interactive algorithmic composition in real-time that he uses for his own live performances and also in collaboration with artists from other fields. From 1990-94 Essl is the composer-in-residence at the Darstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik. From 1992-93 he was commissioned at IRCAM, Paris. Teaches “Computer Aided Composition” at the Anton-Bruckner-University, Linz blurB is based on the chamber recording on the chamber piece blur for alto flute, vibraphone and cello. By using techniques of granular synthesis, a recording of this piece was compressed to fit exactly into 60 seconds of time. This condensed structure was filtered digitally with the beginning of the trio where all three instruments commence from the same tone: the note D that functions as an Ariadne’s thread for the entire piece. blurB can be perceived as the aurartic essence of blur: as if the original chamber music composition was played 15 times faster through one key of a vibraphone.

Robert Fanelli began studying classical harp at the age of five. At the age of thirteen, switching to jazz and pop, he took up the vibraphone. From age fifteen through college he worked professionally with bands in New York City and nearby New Jersey. After college, he left music to study graduate physics and to teach it at Brooklyn College. Some years later, he returned to music, composing with the harmonic series (just intonation), computers and mathematical algorithms. He has been affiliated with the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music since 1999.

Currently Jennifer is collaborating with librettist Estela Eaton on a new buffa about transvestism in opera and in our time. The work is inspired in part from her experience with the American Opera Projects-sponsored 'Composer & the Voice' workshops in 2004. Her chamber opera Dream President was presented in New York City Opera’s VOX 2004 and again at the National Opera/Opera Index/Manhattan School of Music’s Opera Theater presentations in 2005. Jennifer is also finishing a doctorate degree in composition at the CUNY Graduate Center where she has studied with David Del Tredici and Tania León. Her dissertation is on the works of Charles Mingus that explore his debt to New Orleans jazz. She earned a masters degree in composition at Smith College and has also studied piano and performed in the U.S. and abroad. She occasionally sings jazz at NYC venues. Her bestiary “A Little Beastliness for Guitar” can be heard on Oren Fader’s cd First Flight. “Calling G.B” is written for the 60x60 project and my first electronic venture, was inspired by George Brunner’s work Within/Without, so I called his name.

Raised in Warm Springs, Georgia (population <475), Alan Shockley holds degrees in composition and theory from the University of Georgia, Ohio State, and Princeton (MFA, Ph.D.). He’s held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Centro Studi Ligure, and the Virginia Center for the Arts, among others. Recent performances include candlepin bowling deadwood by the California EAR Unit and cold springs branch, 10 p.m. by pianist Guy Livingston. In 2005 his the night copies me in all its stars was released on CD in a recording by the Kiev Philharmonic.

Juan María Solare: Nice Noise, Sonoclip is based only on sine waves. The main layer consists of three glissandi: two central making a long glissando, converging in unison; a moaning glissando descending in frequency; and an ascending glissando of two notes separated by approximately a semitone. Juan María Solare studied piano, composition and conducting at the Conservatorio Nacional. Besides his compositional activities he also writes for diverse publications and for the radio Deutsche Welle. He gives courses and lectures on contemporary music. He obtained prizes and awards in Argentina, United Kingdom, Austria and Germany. His pieces are broadcasted regularly on Radio Nacional de España, Deutsche Welle, Radio Bremen, Radio Fabrik Salzburg, and Radio Universitaria Sao Paulo.

Bob is a recipient of Bachelor and Masters of Music Degrees from Manhattan School of Music. His private studies were with Armen Boyajian, pianist to Beverly Sills. He has been a performer/composer/teacher in the New York area for the past thirty five years.

David Gamper moves freely among the worlds of composition, improvisation, and electronic instrument design and construction. These passions merge in his performer controlled sound processing environments for improvising acoustic musicians. Recordings include many with Deep Listening Band. "At the Ijsbreker" CD has been described as “the pinnacle of the Oliveros-Gamper collaboration, music that through its depth, reveals ever more profound expression.” His solo piece Conch was in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2001 BitStreams. His current primary focus is SeeHearNow, a collaboration with photographer Gisela Gamper, which performs immersing music and video live improvisations in site specific installations. "Conch Call Evolution is a recording of a live performance in its entirety using my customary performer controlled sound processing environment. A blast from my conch shell is fed around a matrix of delays, which are modulating in just tuned fifths while I control several feedback loops." The original 5 channel surround spatialization has been mixed to stereo.

Ron Coulter is currently Lecturer of Percussion Studies at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. He has previously taught at Clarion University of Pennsylvania and the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University. In 2006 Ron became an Educational Endorser with the Pro"Mark Corporation and Black Swamp Percussion. Originally from Hermitage, Pennsylvania, Ron Coulter earned M.M. and B.M. degrees in Percussion Performance from Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. His principle teachers include Dr. Glenn Schaft, Tony Leonardi, Feza Zweiful, Fred Morris, and Nina DeCiancio.

Douglas DaSilva is a composer, guitarist and educator in New York City. He composes in a multitude of styles including Jazz, Brazilian and pop. His most recent efforts have focused on chamber music including a sonata for Harp, Oboe, Viola and Guitar.

Born in Detroit, Sean Hickey's music education began with an electric guitar, a Peavey amp, and a stack of Van Halen records, the early ones of course. He studied jazz guitar at Oakland University, later graduating with a degree in composition and theory from Wayne State University. His instructors were James Hartway and James Lentini, and studied further with Leslie Bassett and Justin Dello Joio. He has composed orchestral, choral, chamber and solo works for a variety of individuals. 2005 saw the Billboard-charting release of several of his chamber and orchestral works on Naxos. He is an ASCAP member. Composed in 2004, “Rumble Strip” more or less conforms to a work made to order, in this case a work lasting 60 seconds or less. Scored for a rather unorthodox combination of instruments, the piece highlights not the range and agility of each instrument, (which is a byproduct nonetheless), but rather the ability of the Finale Notation Software program to accurately - and somewhat crudely - play back the line given to each instrument. Ranges jump, meters change and the group manages to stay together. Though never quite derailing, “Rumble Strip” makes for a short and bumpy ride.

Born in Tennessee, with degrees from Yale, NEC, and the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands, pianist Guy Livingston released his successful “Don’t Panic” CD three years ago. Featured on NPR, The New York Times, Le Monde and Sports Illustrated, this CD was the winner of the “Coup de Coeur” award from Piano Magazine, and was described by the Atlanta Constitution as the ‘party record of the year.’ Livingston is based in Paris and tours internationally as a contemporary pianist. Infamous composer George Antheil claimed that his magnum opus, Ballet mécanique, was inspired by a dream of the future. “I dreamt that I stood in the reeking smoking ruins of a battlefield. Standing sadly among these ruins was a girl with dark short hair...” The sounds in this remix, Antheil’s Dream, are derived primarily from the drumming, xylophone and piano ostinati in Ballet mécanique, with also a nod to Stravinsky’s Petrouchka. This piece attempts to capture the haunting atmosphere of a De Chirico painting.

Dwight Winenger was born into a farming family in Indiana in 1936. He worked his way through Indiana State University as a motion picture projectionist. Winenger earned his B.A. in 1958 and his M.A. in 1959. He also did post-graduate work at Montana State University. In 1995 Minuscule University Press, because of its increasing role in international musical activities, became The Living Music Foundation, Inc. Founder and former Chief Executive Officer, Winenger is now the Publisher of LIVING MUSIC and the Webmaster of the Living Music Foundation Web Site.

Charles Norman Mason won the 2005 Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellowship in composition. Mason’s other awards include International Society for Bassists Composition Competition, Premi Internacional de Composició Musical Ciutat de Tarragona Orchestra Music prize, National Endowment of the Arts Artist Fellowship, Dale Warland Singers Commission Prize, BMI Young Composers Award, and Bourges Electro-Acoustic Composition Competition. His music has been performed throughout the world including the Aspen Summer Music Festival, Foro Internacional de Música Nueva, and new music festivals in Prague, Bucharest, Bulgaria, and Sao Paulo. Mason is executive director of Living Music Foundation and professor of music at Birmingham-Southern College. “The Starling Clock Wound” was composed while I was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome. It uses only two sounds: a single chirp from a starling and the sound of a flock of starlings.

Robert Dick is best known for being the composer/performer who is the leading light in the world of new music for flutes. He's an old hand at free improvisation and has performed and recorded with many of the best. His compositions have been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Composer Fellowships, a Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, two Meet the Composer Commissions and many more grants, fellowships and commissions. In addition to his flute music, Dick likes to write chamber music and has a lifelong interest in low-tech musique concrete. Clifford J. Simak was an influential master of 1950s and 60s science fiction. His atmospheric, philosophical works include the masterpieces City and Way Station. This little piece, created with tiny sound toys, is meant to conjure the apparitions floating about in the magical dusk at the shore of a pond, on Earth, but in Simak's special land, where memory, sentiment, conjecture, fear and joy all play together where this and other dimensions overlap.

Critics have called Dorothy Hindman's (b. 1966) music 'intense, gripping, and frenetic', 'sonorous and affirmative' and 'music of terrific romantic gesture'. Each piece explores her ongoing interest in issues of musical perception, beauty, timbre, contextual meaning, and profundity. Her work has been performed extensively in the U.S. and throughout Europe, receiving numerous awards. Recent commissions include "Tapping the Furnace" for Evelyn Glennie, Scott Deal and Stuart Gerber, "three small gestures" for Duo 46 and "Nine Churches" for the Corona Guitar Kvartet. Hindman teaches music theory and composition at Birmingham-Southern College. "Bathtime" is the second musique concrete work in a documentary series based on source material recorded during typical family rituals, in this case bathtime for two young boys. 81 separate sonic events, each two seconds long, were chosen from the source recording. These were combined and processed using Adobe Audition to create a stereo file that moves from aggressive chaos to a zen-like contemplation of meaning, reflecting the soothing, cathartic qualities of the bath. Bathtime was composed and realized at the Birmingham-Southern College Electronic Studios in June, 2007.

Composer Stan Link is married to a musicologist Melanie Lowe. Somehow managing to put those tribal differences aside, they have produced one offspring, a now two year old daughter named Wednesday, who joyfully indifferent both to her father’s music and her mother’s –ology. Nevertheless, her parents indulge her inexplicable lack of concern for anything but music’s most immediate pleasures and continue to support her by teaching at Vaderbilt University. Stan’s music tends to keep to itself, but after years of hand feeding and cold compresses, some of his pieces were recently released from voluntary captivity by Albany Records. “Land of Heart’s Desire, Where beauty has no ebb,decay no flood, But is wisdom, time an endless son.” William Butler Yeats.

Graduated suma cum laude in "classical" composition, SUNY Purchase, under the guidance of Dary John Mizelle and Joel Thome. Charter member, lead trumpet, featured soloist and contributing composer, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, DROID; founder, Fire of Space, Piano Music and Song Trio; trips to 20 countries and 40 U.S. states for dozens of major jazz, rock, world music, and cultural festivals over the last decade. Most recent recordings include Fire of Space's album, HANDBASKET, on 482music and a studio recording of concert works for solo piano, percussion quartet and Seeking Celestial Frequencies, for string quartet.

He is director of the Electronic Music Studio and Percussion Department at Washington University, music director of the St. Louis New Music Circle, was principal percussionist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra until he retired in 2002. As an instrument builder, he has produced many original instruments including: sphrahng, aqua-lips, koto-veen, tubalum and XR-drums. He has received NEA and Mid-America Arts Alliance/Meet the Composer grants for his work. He has combined large wooden sails with electronics for outdoor installations, and his music for George Greenamyer’s burning ice sculptures were featured in annual events at Laumeier Sculpture Park. These 60 seconds reflect a life of composing electronic music, playing and inventing percussion instruments. The sound sources, (except for the Tibetan bowls), are all of percussion instruments created by O'Donnell. There is no signal processing except for a bit of transposing using ProTools.

David D. McIntire was born in upstate NY and was trained on the clarinet. He became fascinated with electronic music at an early age and later wore out many razor blades in pursuit of that discipline. Also played in a series of eccentric and overly idealistic musical groups, most notably the Colorblind James Experience. He is a D.M.A. candidate in composition at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

Jay C. Batzner is an active composer, copyist, and teacher in the Kansas City area. He is currently completing a D.M.A. in composition at the University of Missouri — Kansas City. Prior to his D.M.A., Jay received an M.M. in theory from the University of Kansas and an M.M. in composition from the University of Louisville. Jay is a sci-fi geek, an amateur banjoist, a home brewer, and juggler.

Howard Hughes, The Associates, Peter Murphy and others, years ago. Now Vachement Bath.

Eugene Marlow has composed over 160 classical and jazz pieces for solo instruments, small ensembles, and big band to date. Dr. Marlow completed a B.A. in Music Composition at CUNY, followed by a M.A. in Music Composition at Hunter College in 2001. He has since completed doctoral level work at the CUNY Graduate Center. In the course of these studies, Marlow has worked with Dr. Poundie Burstein, Dr. Richard Burke, Dr. Shafer Mahoney, Professor Maurice Peress, and Prof. Bruce Saylor.

John Biggs was born in Los Angeles in 1932. His father was organist Richard Keys Biggs, and his mother was singer Lucienne Gourdon. He was number 8 in a family of 11 children.. During his youth he received training in acting, singing, piano, bassoon, and violin, and was a member of his father’s church choir. As a performer, he founded the John Biggs Consort, which specialized in vocal chamber music from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century. As a composer, his output is varied, and includes chamber music, vocal music, choral music, orchestral music, and music for the stage. "As director of the John Biggs Consort, which specialized in music of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, I often included krumhorns in our instrumentation. They are a double reed instrument where the reeds are sheltered within a cap, much like the chanter of a bag pipe. The wood body travels down, then bends back up in a crook (krumm), and looks like an upside down walking cane. Their tone might be likened to a raucous modern day oboe. They were popular from c.1400-1600 in Europe. The piece is for soprano, alto, tenor, & bass instruments plus voices, all performed by yours truly. "

Laurie Spiegel, composer, software designer, and banjo player, is known widely for her pioneering works with many early electronic music systems, including the GROOVE system at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and for Music Mouse, a software-based musical instrument. She founded New York University's Computer Music Studio. Her music has been performed and broadcast throughout the world and she has produced and participated in several CDs. She is currently living and working in New York.

Since co-founding the Group of the Electronic Music Studio (GEMS) in 1983 (Montreal), Oliver has written, performed and conducted music with live electronics, tape and instruments. He was active with the ensemble until 1987. From 1991 to 1993, Oliver played MIDI guitar with the Vancouver group MORE (with Sergio Barroso, Lori Freedman, and Peter Hannan) and since then has been developing personal repertoire for his own performance project involving guitars, MIDI guitar, computer, and electronics, and increasingly writes chamber music integrating his instruments.

Jane Wang is a composer/multi-instrumentalist living in the Boston area who was born on August 24th, 1957 in Oxford, England. She started playing double bass and composing in her early thirties after careers in the computer and film industries. She has composed/performed several scores for performance artist Hanne Tierney's Obie award-winning Theater Without Actors, Renita Martin's 5 Bottles in a 6 Pack, and chamber works for the Human Connection, a new music group. Two of her double bass chamber pieces were performed in the U.K, Summer 2007. She studied composition with Ben Schwendener and Joe Maneri.

Leonard Lehrman was born in Kansas, on August 20, 1949, but grew up in Roslyn, NY, becoming the youngest (and longest) private composition student of Elie Siegmeister. He has a B.A. cum laude in Music from Harvard. a masters and a doctorate in music composition from Cornell, and a second masters in Library & Information Science from Long Island University, where he founded the Long Island Composers Archive. He also served as the youngest U.S. delegate to the International Music Congress in Moscow in 1971, and one of the oldest delegates to the International Youth Festival there in 1985.

Alexandra, born in Bucharest, is a professor at the National University of Music of Bucharest. She is a member of Duo Intermedia and co-director of the Nuova Musica Consonate-Living Music Foundation Inc. Festival. She has received many prizes including: Prize of the Union of Romanian Composers, Gaudeamus Prize,- First Prize "Carl Maria von Weber", Dresden, and Prize of Beer-Sheva, Israel. “Liana Alexandra is regarded as the leading Romanian composer of her generation. Her compositional vocabulary is wide,ranging from cluster and aleatoric technique to broad lyric melody based on folk elements from her native culture"(Grey Youtz,The Michigan University,USA) “Liana Alexandra's music is full of warmth and original melody elements,side by side with a broad wonderful dramatic spirit. Her ineffable and imaginative orchestration has been amazing" (Arbetarbladet,Gevle,Sweden)

Jeff Morris is an Assistant Lecturer in computer music and coordinator of technology facilities for the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University. He has studied at the Florida State University and the University of North Texas, where he served on the staff of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia. Dr. Morris gives improvised performances with interactive electronics in addition to composing for traditional instruments and electronic media. His works have been performed internationally and include multimedia works and collaborations with dance artists.

German composer Moritz Eggert has covered all genres in his work - his oeuvre includes 7 operas as ballets and works for dance and music theatre, often with unusual performance elements. 1997 German TV produced a feature-length film portrait about his music. Recently premiered was the large opera The Snail for the opera Mannheim, a collaboration with Hans Neuenfels. Currently he is working on several orchestral pieces including a concerto for double bass and orchestra It should be noted that The One Minute Piece That Took Me Ages To Do And Which Is Really Impressive for 60x60 only uses natural sounds produced by the mouth of the composer without any electronic tinkering or modulation.

"Language is the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better than I do. (Where 'I' is defined by those changes for which I is required)." Poet, writer, performer, improviser, Chris Mann's works for voice are based on complex texts, freely composed to allow a play of wit and humor. He explores the textures and gestures of Australian speech, with its rhythms and qualities of color, pitch, intonation and emphasis.

Although Dwight Ashley has been a composer and recording artist for more than 25 years, Ashley made none of this work public until 1991, when his first collaboration with Tim Story, “A Desperate Serenity,” was released on Multimood label. A second project with Story, entitled “Drop”, followed in 1997. In 1997. In June 2004, Dwight made his solo debut with Discrete Carbon, released on the Nepenthe Music label, followed by Four in 2005 and a third Ashley/Story project Standing and Falling in 2005.

Douglas Geers is a composer who works extensively with technology in composition, performance, and multimedia collaborations. He particularly enjoys manipulating sound color, both in instrumental and electronic music media. A former guitarist, the laptop is now his primary instrument, and he uses this during all stages of composition and performance. Currently, Geers is a Professor of Music at the University of Minnesota, where he founded and is Director of the annual Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. “Verbosity Ore” Follows one short path unpacked from a thumbprint of music. Nearly all the sounds of the piece were created by manipulating a recording of one vocalist singling one word.

Christian McLeer is artistic director and founder of Remarkable Theater Brigade (RTB), a company that creates and produces new musical works. His musical success began as a youth, winning piano competitions and commissions while still in high school. He received his first commission at the age of 14 for the American Cancer Society for which he wrote and performed HOPE, later included on the CD Encores 2 by the renowned pianist Anna Marie Bottazzi. He attended Julliard Pre-College and worked his way through Manhattan School of Music where he acquired his Bachelor’s degree, composing and performing professionally for classical, jazz and rock ensembles.

Sideshow is a collection of "ear-movies" based on oddities, real and imaginary, from turn-of-the l9th century dime museums. Sideshow may be played as a collection, or as individual works. Does a sound have a shadow? Involved with music technology since the middle 1960's, Allen Strange has remained active as a composer, performer, author, and educator. His 1972 text, Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls, appeared as the first comprehensive work on analog music synthesis. With his wife, Patricia, he co- founded two electronic music ensembles: BIOME, a pioneering live-electronic music ensemble with Frank McCarty in 1969 and The Electric Weasel Ensemble with synthesizer designer Donald Buchla in 1976. He is Professor of Music Composition Emeritus from San Jose State University in California and currently lives on an island in the Puget Sound.