Active since 1984 under the If, Bwana name, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented compositions. Ran the cassette label Sound of Pig Music in the 1980s and co-founded and continues to run the experimental music label Pogus. Plays bass guitar in the long-lasting, legendary punk/post-punk band The Styrenes. Recordings of his work have been released on the Tellus, Anckarstrom, Ants, Absurd, GD Stereo, Odradek, Monochrome Vision, and Pogus labels. Recent projects have included a sound art commission by WDR Koln, a collaboration with video artist Katherine Liberovskaya on "Take-off", which has been shown internationally, and the premiere of "Three Songs in Search of a Voice", a "nohtopera" with MutaMYTHeatre - music by Margolis and text and voice, Lisa Barnard.

Marsh was born in Belleville, Illinois, and received his formal musical education at the University of Illinois where he studied with Tom Siwe and Jack McKenzie. After playing with Bill Russo's Chicago Jazz Ensemble, Marsh moved to California in 1968 and has been an integral part of the music scene of the San Francisco Bay Area performing with a variety of musicians. Marsh also teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz and at Sonoma State University. He is a member of the Good Sound Band.

Tina Marsh is the founder, director, vocalist and one of the chief composers of the Creative Opportunity Orchestra (CO2). The orchestra was founded in Austin in 1980. It features some 80 musicians who rotate to play gigs and have released a handful of jazzy, avant-garde, big-band CD's. CO2 has included Randy Zimmerman, James Lakey, Martin Banks, Jay Rosen, John Mills, Bob Rodriquez, Edwin Livingston, Dennis Dotson, Jay Fort, Rene Saenz, Bob Blakeslee, Paul Armstrong, Terry Landry, Larry Spencer, Chris Searles, Oliver Rajamani.

Dominique Mazeaud's passion is to put her art in service of her community and beyond. In interactive performances like “The Point of Tears” created for her 'peace through culture' tour of Colombia in 2001 and 2002, “The Sorry Book Traveling Shrine” for Peace Day in 2006 or “The Priestess of Generosity” created for the Network of Spiritual Progressives' Generosity Sunday in 2007, she creates spaces for a deep listening to the heart. Since 1979, her calling has been to find “the spiritual in art” and her journey hence has centered on uncovering the meaning of the word 'heartist.'

Kimberly A. McCarthy, Ph.D., M.M. first met Pauline Oliveros in 1979 via a one paragraph description in “Grout,” the canon of classical music history. The second meeting occurred at a conference in 1984. McCarthy zombied up to Pauline and said “This…is…an...important…meeting.” Pauline quickly looked for the nearest exit, all too familiar with the groupie psyche. In 1991 Kim was crabby. She didn’t want to go to the concert. In a huff she plopped down in the dark, third-tier seat. But something caught her eye. It was a head. Seated before her. There was…something…familiar. Shock and excitement set in as in this chance event Kim realized it was Pauline Oliveros. THIS WAS A SIGN!

Brigitte Meyer (1954)
I am a dl-certificate holder and live in St.Gallen, Switzerland.
I consider myself an improviser in life and in music making (cello and voice)
In my work with people as a counsellor, director or mentor, listening is part of my daily job. Recent collaborations took or take place with Christine Zehnder-Probst (musician); Andrea Graf (author), Helen Davey (musician).
I play in various bands, who have nice names like “Spieltrieb East”; “Bunte Hörschlaufen and “Cantastrozzi” CD: “Work in Progress”; Instant Composings for Cello and Voice (2005)

Mr. Mitchell's innovation as a solo performer, his role in the resurrection of long neglected woodwind instruments of extreme register, and his reassertion of the composer into what has traditionally been an improvisational form have placed him at the forefront of contemporary music for over thirty years.

He is a founding member of the world reknowned Art Ensemble of Chicago, and the Association for the the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

Mr. Mitchell is the founder of the Creative Arts Collective of East Lansing, Michigan, The Sound Ensemble, Space, The Roscoe Mitchell Quartet, the Roscoe Mitchell New Chamber Ensemble, and Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory. His teaching credits include the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois and California Institute of the Arts, the AACM School of Music, the Creative Music Studio, and numerous workshops and artists-in-residence positions throughout the world.

Stephan Moore is a composer, audio artist, and sound designer in New York City. He has graduated from from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Western Michigan University, and Interlochen Arts Academy. His creative work centers around the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity.

Recent performances and installation artworks make use of a large multi-channel array of his hemispherical speakers. He performs regularly as half of the electronic duo Evidence, and with a variety of musicians, live-video artists, and dancers. He has created custom music software for a number of composers and artists, and has taught courses in sound art and electronic music at Maryland Institute College of Art, Peabody Conservatory, Massachusetts College of Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Simon's Rock College of Bard.

He is currently the Sound Supervisor of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

A composer of wide range, Mostel founded the acclaimed Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble in 1983 (named after the ensemble's major instrument rather than the nationality of the players) to explore new acoustic realms. The sounds are limited to universals and the music resembles what one can hear in a dream. Acoustic demonstrations of fractals in action, the Ensemble's recordings are the next best thing to being there! His music has been commissioned by the likes of WNYC-FM, Toshiba/EMI, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and has been performed at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, The Asia Society, Alliance Francaise, among others. He has been invited to lecture at schools including Brown, Princeton, NYU, Vassar, and the New School. He has received fellowships from the Japan Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts and Vaddo. In addition to lecturing and giving workshops, he does freelance writing for publications like The New York Times. The Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center will feature an exhibition on his compositions in Jan-May, 1996.

Co-founder of the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music and the now historic ONCE Festivals of Contemporary Music (from 1966 to 1974), Mumma was, with John Cage and David Tudor, one of the three composer-musicians associated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and for which he composed four commissioned works. With Robert Ashley, David Behrman and Alvin Lucier, he was part of the Sonic Arts Union - a pioneering live-electronic music ensemble. Mumma has made concert tours and recordings in North and South America, Europe, and Japan.

A pioneer in the use of the cello as an improvisational jazz/new music instrument, Murray is also well-known as a composer, producer and curator, and has worked with a wide variety of musicians and groups, including Hannibal Peterson, the Henry Threadgill Sextet, Leroy Jenikns, James Brown, Muhal Richard Abrams, Larry Young, Archie Shepp, Oscar Brown Jr. and Craig Harris. She is involved in an ongoing collaboration with Fred Hopkins, which results include their Canadian Victo Records CD Firestorm, as well as a new release, Stringology. Murray is also featured on over thirty recordings by other musicians including the likes of Threadgill, Peterson, Abrams and Jenkins. She directs seven ensembles in addition to the Diedre Murray/Fred Hopkins Trio and Quartet, and currently curates The Rooftop Concert Series at the YMCA at 53rd, The Hearings Music Festival and the Firewall Total Arts Series at P.S. 122 in New York City.