Marcus Pal (b. 1991) is a musician-sound artist-composer who writes about sounds and minds in a theoretical-philosophical manner. Much of their work is motivated by a deep fascination with listening experiences in which harmonic sound presents with very high degrees of intensity and clarity. Pal is interested in how our ways of conceptually making sense of harmonic sound and the nature of experience more generally limit and shape our phenomenal worlds.

Their main writing project, “Enacting Harmonic Sound,” is on the epistemology of harmonic sound, concept formation, modality, and wonder. In this project, Pal is thinking with various Sanskrit philosophies, particularly tenth and eleventh-century Buddhist and Pratyabhijña Śaiva epistemology and philosophy of mind. They are also drawing heavily on contemporary work in enactive cognitive science such as the literature on participatory sense-making.

In 2013 and 2014, Pal studied with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela while living in the Church Street Dream House in New York. Since 2014, they have worked regularly with Catherine Christer Hennix.

Ellen Arkbro is a Swedish composer and sound-artist primarily working with intervallic harmony in just intonation.

Susana Santos Silva is a Portuguese trumpeter, improviser, composer and performer based in Stockholm, Sweden renowned for her innovative approach to music.

‘One of the most exciting improvisers in the world’ (Downbeat), Susana has a singular artistic approach that comes out of a comprehensive spectrum of influences. She draws inspiration and works with other artistic expressions like image and body movement. She is interested in expanding the sonic possibilities of her instrument, and creatively exploring the dissolution of boundaries of perception, genre and media.

Whether performing solo, leading her own ensembles, or collaborating with other artists, Santos Silva’s music often transcends conventional boundaries, inviting listeners into new sonic territories.

Much in demand she has been playing with an array of different projects and with musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, Joëlle Léandre, Mat Maneri, Paul Lovens, Hamid Drake, Mats Gustafsson, Lotter Anker, Sten Sandell, Catherine Christer Hennix and the Ictus Ensemble, and choreographers/dancers such as Vera Mantero and Némo Flouret.