Freeform pianist and electronic musician Anja Lauvdal (born 1987) has an inimitable ability to conjure multiple sonic moods, reflecting on the fragility of the natural world while exhibiting a positive stillness.

She's an established force on the Norwegian scene, with her playful and textural playing running the All Ears festival and collaborating with Jenny Hval, Hamid Drake and William Parker, among others.

‘From A Story Now Lost,’ marked her first solo album. The album was produced by Berlin-based electronic musician Laurel Halo. In July she released ‘Farewell to Faraway Friends’, a collection of improvisations on Wurlitzer. She has written commissioned works for Next Festival Bratislava/INA GRM, Fosseprisen, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter & Ultima.

Heida Karine Jóhannesdóttir Mobeck is an improvising musician (tuba), composer and artistic initiator with a musical practice that spans jazz, improvisation, experimental pop and art music.

Mobeck's artistry is strongly rooted in a philosophical and relational approach to music, where social interactions, visual media and text play an important role in the creative process. Through this, Mobeck explores how different perspectives can function both as inspiration and a starting point for purely musical and aural investigations – a dynamic movement where music influences and is shaped by ideas outside of itself.

Mads Forsby is a composer, drummer, musician and sound designer working across interactive audio, improvisation, and performance. Rooted in drumming, his practice moves between composition, recording, sonic research, and collaborative projects, exploring rhythm, texture, and the material qualities of sound.

His work spans film, games, installations, and live performance, often combining composition and improvisation through experimental and interdisciplinary approaches. Alongside his artistic practice, he works as a sound designer and is a founding member of the label and art collective Aar & Dag.

Edward George is a writer and broadcaster. Founder of Black Audio Film Collective, George wrote and presented the ground-breaking science fiction documentary Last Angel of History (1996). George is part of the multimedia duo Flow Motion, and the electronic music group Hallucinator. He and hosts Sound of Music (Threads Radio), Kuduro – Electronic Music of Angola (Counterflows). George’s series The Strangeness of Dub (Morley Radio) dives into reggae, dub, versions and versioning, drawing on critical theory, social history, and a deep and a wide cross-genre musical selection.

Edward George lives and works in London.

During the late noughties Crystabel Efemena Riley toured Japan and Europe using drums, electronics and make-up in power-noise trio Maria and the Mirrors. This was the start of her interest in patterns on skins — human and drum. An interest in dimensional patterns existing on (and off) different skin surfaces, exploring the idea of 'care and uncare': layered skins, recycled drum skins, smetled sculptures, other metallics and electronics.

Crystabel has been a long-term collaborator with Sue Lynch who welcomed her into the Horse Improvised Music Club and later played in the London Improvisers Orchestra.

She is currently working on the multi-format duo project @xcrswx with Seymour Wright, together they created the sounds for Edward George’s Black Atlas film at the Warburg Institute.

Seymour Wright is a saxophonist. His work is about the creative, situated friction of learning, ideas, people and the saxophone – music, history and technique ­– actual and potential.

Seymour's solo music is documented on four widely-acclaimed collections - Seymour Wright of Derby (2008), Seymour Writes Back (2015) , Is This Right? (2017) and RITES (2023).

Current projects include: @xcrswx with Crystabel Riley; abaria with Ute Kanngiesser; [Ahmed] with Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip and Pat Thomas; GUO with Daniel Blumberg; XT with Paul Abbott; The Creaking Breeze Ensemble; a trans-atlantic duet with Andy Guthrie, and, with Jean-luc Guionnet a project addressing an imaginary lacunae in Aby Warburg's Atlas Mnemosyne.

www.seymourwright.com

@xcrswx