DEREK HOLZER (NL/US) is a sound and radio artist with a background in free radio, net.radio and streaming media technologies. Recently, his work has focused on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations [Karosta Project, w/ Sara Kolster], and on the electromagnetic resonances in our everyday environment [OZONE Project, w/ Bas van Koolwijk], as well as the use of free software such as Linux and Pure-Data.
http://www.umatic.nl/
SARA KOLSTER (NL) is a video and new-media artist with a background in web / graphical design and webbased-projects. Recently, the focus of her work shifted more towards video and film; capturing details from urban locations, visualizing fragments of stories of these environments. She uses different strategies, from time-based media (video, film) to appropriated research methods belonging to different observational disciplines (journalism, documentary & archeology).
http://www.umatic.nl/
PAULO RAPOSO (PT) is a sound and media artist based in Lisbon, Portugal. Despite having studied cinema and philosophy, he has been working in the medium of live electronic and computer sound since the early nineties, performing, exhibiting installation works and recording throughout Europe and the US. He is the founder and director of SIRR records, a label dedicated to new and experimental forms of music.
http://www.sirr-ecords.com/
http://www.sirr-ecords.com/pauloraposo/
ANTONIO DELLA MARINA (IT) Italian electronic composer Antonio Della Marina focuses on sequencies, frequencies and phase of sine waves and the essential characteristics of sound itself. His work exploits sound's physical property, its causality with human perception and mathematical dianoia as music, time and space. Since 1998 he has been active in sound art through concerts and sound installations.
http://www.fades.net/
JOHN GRZINICH (EST/US) media artist (mostly electronic, sometimes not) and MoKS Media Lab coordinator working with sound for over 10 years and with video for 5. has constructed various permutations of sound and video individually and together in compositions, installations and performances. He has released CDs on a host of independent labels internationally such as CMR (NZ), Elevator Bath (US), Staalplaat (NL), Intransitive (US), Erewhon (BE) and others...
http://www.kaon.org/jgrzinich/
:KI WA (EST) situational meta-media artist who expresses himself through painting, sound, video, text, performance and social sculpture. He has been involved with numerous artistic and curatorial projects throughout Estonia and abroad.
http://www.looming.org/
TAAVI TULEV (EST) is currently studying architecture and has been working with electronic music since 2000. He has released works on Ulmeplaadid and the net labels Audiobulb and Autoplate. He considers his musicstyle to be APM (abstract party music / abstraktne peomuusika).
http://taavi.kalale.ee/
ALT-CTRL-DEL (Kurt Korthals, US) Kurt recently received a degree in computer science yet he has released several full length works as an electronic musician under the name 'The Buddy System'. Alt-Ctrl-Del is a side project for exploring abstract electronic soundscapes that range from ambient to edgy. Kurt often accompanies his sounds with original video work.
http://notenuf.net/
AUDUMS (Kiril Lomunov, Janis Bikis, Maxim Shentelev)
MAKSIM SHENTELEV (LV) is a multimedia artist from Latvia who works in field recording under name my-ym. Activity of my-ym is focused on perceptional nuances of informative environment. Field recording, collage and musique concrete are the main genres. Scope borders are set for research of audio visual sensual field, especially for analysis of phantasmal dimensional structures. He is also the cofounder of AUDIOT, a Riga based net label that develops and publishes the sharpest audio design from Latvia and neighbouring countries.
http://www.audiot.lv/
KIRIL LOMUNOV (LV) is a Riga based sound designer who has worked with the duo OLOOLO and the ambient music project “ssvaa-faa”. In 1997 the project “Ayahuasca “ was founded on a conception thatwent far beyond habitual borders of ambient music. From 1997 – 2000 he worked on sound design collaborations with Ugis Vitinsh, Android, Denis Verushkin. In 2004 collaborating with Maksim Shentelev (my-ym) and Janis Bikis (mutal) formed trio project “audums” . Kiril is also the cofounder of AUDIOT, a Riga based net label that develops and publishes the sharpest audio design from Latvia and neighbouring countries.
http://www.audiot.lv/
JANIS BIKIS (LV) started his video designing activity with shortcut “Dimensions” 12 min. 2001. From 2001 to 2004 works as one of the organizers of youth multimedia festival “2annas”. In 2002 shortcut “Get woozy!” came to light. 2003 - shortcut “Photo session”. In that period collaborates as a vj with local club scena dj’s. Participates in festivals, club events and performances. In past couple of years artist focused on experimental merging of analog video and digital processing. From 2003 works together with ambient, electro acoustic and field recording sound designers Maksim Sentelev and Kiryll Lomunov in trio project “audums”
