Nicola Ratti is a multifaceted musician and sound designer who has been active for years in various experimental fields. His sound production creates systems that take shape from repetition and dilation, with particular attention to the construction of environments that gravitate in relation to the space and architecture we inhabit and balancing the emotional and perceptive orientations to which we are accustomed.

Born in Milan in 1978, he has performed solo or in other groups in Europe, North America, Russia and Japan and his albums have been published by various international labels. As a musician he has collaborative projects such as Bellows with Giuseppe Ielasi, NR / MA with Masato Egashira, What We Do When in Silence with Alessandra Novaga and Enrico Malatesta, Superpaesaggio with Malatesta and Attila Faravelli.

Cara Tolmie spends much of her time oscillating between contexts as an artist, musician, performer, DJ, pedagogue and researcher. Her works have been performed and exhibited widely at art galleries, music festivals, biennials, conferences and in the public space – both as solo presentations and collaborative projects. 

Her practice at large investigates the complexity of the bind between the voice and body - of how voice can traverse internal and external realities of both the sounder and listener and how it can research various qualities of embodiment, pleasurable and disjointed. Within this she often explores performative techniques that dis/reorient the listening relationship between the singer and her audience through live uses of defamiliarised, uncanny and repetitive vocalisation. 

Cara is currently a PhD candidate in Critical Sonic Practice at Konstfack, Stockholm. She also collaborates regularly with Rian Treanor, Stine Janvin, Susanna Marcus Jablonski, Em Silén, Moa Franzén and Julia Giertz.