Born in Macao, Lam received a Ph.D. in Music Composition from the University of California, San Diego in 1981. She has studied with Robert Erickson, Pauline Oliveros and Bernard Rands. Recently awarded a Rome Prize, Lam has also been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and Meet the Composer. Among her commissioned works are Sudden Thunder for the American Composers Orchestra, Last Spring for Ursula Oppens and the Arditti Quartet, Impetus for Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and Klang for Swiss Percussionist Fritz Hauser.

A poet who has been involved with listening to sounds without pre-conceptions, Lande usually writes, often in a most personal manner, about the relationship of human sound-making to silence and the relationship between a technical approach - to one of complete attention. His attention to music of the blues and jazz traditions often permeates his writing. Tom lives in Spokane, Washington.

A composer and performer, originally from Vermont, who has lived in New York since the mid-1970's. Her compositions explore the physicality of sound and she carefully works with the timbres of instruments, exploiting the unique characteristics of each instrument, creating combination, difference and interference tones. Her compositions have been performed throughout the world. She has received grants from the NEA, New York State Council for the Arts and the Cary Trust. On the radio, her music has been featured on First Art, NPR, CBC (Canada), Radio Cultura in Sào Paulo, Radio 3 in Brussels, Radio Bremen and Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Germany.

Richard Lerman recieved an undergraduate degree in film studies from Brandeis College, where he also studied composition and ran the electronic music studio. There he began working with piezo-electric transducers, the basis of almost all his work, and had many opportunities to work with various electronic music pioneers like Gordon Mumma, David Tudor, David Behrman, and Alvin Lucier. He went on to teach in the Boston Museum School, working in the film department. Lerman concentrates on revealing the sonorous qualities of what are commonly regarded as silent or static objects.

An improvising violinist, vocalist, composer, educator, radio producer and the author of three books (Blues Fiddle, Improvising Violin and You Are Your Instrument), Lieberman has performed all over the United States at venues ranging from New Music America to Omega Institute, La Mama to Carnegie Recital Hall, The Philadelphia Folk Festival to productions on Broadway.

A composer with an unusual sensitivity to the poetic potential of sound, particularly the rich and unpredictable nature of acoustical sound, Lockwood's work frequently blends sound with movement and images to create philosophical and sensual explorations of the natural world. Born in New Zealand, Lockwood moved to England in 1961, where she studied piano at the Royal College of Music. She attended summer courses in New Music at Darmstadt for several years, and completed her training with a year in Germany and Holland, studying electronic music and instrumental composition. She lives in Crompond, New York and is professor of music at Vassar College.

Norman Lowrey is a mask maker/composer, Chair of the Music Department at Drew University with Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music. He is the originator of Singing Masks, which incorporate flutes, reeds, ratchets and other sounding devices. He has presented Singing Mask ceremony/performances at such locations as Plan B and SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe New Mexico, Roulette and Lincoln Center in New York, and at the site of pictograph caves outside Billings, Montana.

Born in Nashua, New Hampshire, Lucier attended the Portsmouth Abbey School, Yale and Brandeis universities. He lived in Rome for two years on a Fulbright Scholarship. He has performed extensively in the United States and Europe in solo concerts and with the Sonic Arts Union, which he co-founded with composers Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. He is currently professor of music and former chairperson of the music department at Wesleyan University. Lucier has pioneered in many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of performers' physical gestures, the use of brain waves in live musical performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media, and the evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes.

Eric Lyon is a composer of experimental electronic and computer music, with an emphasis in automation, digital signal processing and extreme sample manipulation. He also compose works for performers of acoustic instruments as opportunities arise and time permits.