Amina Hocine is a composer, sound artist and instrument creator from Sweden currently pursuing her masters in electro acoustic composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Her current work is centered around an instrument she has created, called The foghorn organ or The instrument. It’s a compressed air driven organ, built by PVC pipes and various HVAC bits, inspired by the sound of foghorns. Her compositions revolve around timbre, deep listening and narrative, and she draws inspiration from the spiritual sciences.
 
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Jessica Ekomane is a French-born, Berlin-based electronic musician who focuses on live performances and installations. Her performances are characterized by their physical effect, exploring psychoacoustics, rhythmic structures, and the interplay of noise and melody. Her work is focused on the relationship between individual perception, collective dynamics, and societal listening expectations.

John McCowen’s musical life has become an obsession with discovering a polyphonic language on a historically monophonic instrument – the clarinet. This has led him to a unique acoustic vocabulary that is similar to a shifting soundscape of electronic feedback. 

John’s multiphonic approach is based in drones, difference tones, and beating harmonics as a means to showcase the compositional potential within a single, acoustic sound source.

Praised by The New Yorker and The Wire, he transitioned from playing in the American DIY circuit to pursuing classical clarinet pedagogy with contemporary clarinet pioneer, Eric P. Mandat, now teaching improvisation in Reykjavík. John remains stubbornly dedicated to acoustic phenomena. His works do not utilize amplifier feedback or electronically-generated sounds unless specified.

Beatrice Dillon is a London-based artist and musician using sound within live performance, multi-channel installation and recorded material. Her work encompasses interests in polyrhythmic programming, spatial sound, and process-based systems of logic across both visual and sonic mediums.

Lionel Marchetti (1967) is a French composer of musique concrète, acousmatic music and improviser with various electronic instruments.

Kevin Drumm (born 1970) is an experimental musician based in Chicago, United States.

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Stephen O’Malley is a guitarist, producer, composer, and visual artist who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone and experimental music groups for over two decades – SUNN O))), KTL, and Khanate being among his best-known creations.

Wildly prolific, O’Malley’s oeuvre is defined by its remarkable breadth, complexity and multidisciplinary interests. It includes collaborations with a wide range of experimental artists, including Scott Walker, Kali Malone, Alvin Lucier, choreographer Gisèle Vienne, the authors Dennis Cooper and Alan Moore, Peter Rehberg, Fujiko Nakaya, Jim Jarmusch, Johan Johansson, experimental music research centers IRCAM, INA-GRM (Paris), EMS (Stockholm) and many others.

O’Malley is also a vigorous live performer and has toured around the world since 2000. His live performances feature a reverberating fog of electric guitar minimalism – sorcery that challenges boundaries of space and time.

Flora Yin Wong is an experimental artist and writer from London whose work incorporates field recordings and early instruments such as singing bowls, yangqin and kemence, processed through pedals, Max/MSP, together with text-based storytelling and abstraction. She cites early musical influences from the city’s diverse sub-cultures from UK garage to underground DIY bands, having grown up on council estates in Camden, to underage clubbing in Soho and Mayfair.

In October 2020, she released Holy Palm — her first record for Modern Love. Prior to that, she released on Berlin label PAN on the ambient ‘mono no aware’ compilation which she worked on conceptualising. In 2023 she launched her record label Doyenne based around the concept of the ‘divine feminine’. Her second album Cold Reading was released in 2023 by Modern Love, and her multi-channel composition for INA GRM will be released as part of their Portraits series of split LPs in 2024.

Marja Ahti (b. 1981, Luleå) is a Swedish-Finnish sound artist working in composition, installation and cross-disciplinary performance. Working with field recordings, sounds of everyday objects and materials, analog synthesis, digital processing and acoustic instrumentation she creates precise musical narratives with organically unfolding sequences of details and textures. Her patiently evolving electro-acoustic constructions suggest a poetic realm between the acousmatic and the documentaristic, between abstraction and the deeply familiar.

Ahti is currently based in Turku, Finland. She is active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner Niko-Matti Ahti, in the artist/organizer collective Himera and in collaborative projects with Judith Hamann, John McCowen, Manja Ristić and Mikko Kuorinki.

Arnaud Rivière (b. 1974) is a French experimental electroacoustic musician, free improviser, instrument designer, sound installation artist, co-founder and director of Sonic Protest Festival, and a member of ONCEIM ensemble.

Currently based in Paris and active since the late 1990s, Rivière plays on DIY-electroacoustic device (built around a repaired turntable’s pick-up), prepared mixer, and other primitive sound tools, performing solo, in groups, and with numerous improvisers.