Doug Van Nort is an experimental musician currently living in Montreal. Interested in the many facets of sound as a medium for freedom and expression, he is particularly focused on the role of technology in exploring these possibilities. His work of late manifests in the creative design of new sound technologies (sound analysis, synthesis, interactive systems) in concordance with his continuing practice of appropriating and experimenting with analog+digital technologies (from mixer feedback to time/frequency sound processing) towards compositional and improvisational ends. These inseparable research/creation practices have been presented in the past few years at various venues in N. America, Europe and Asia. Above all, Doug values the social aspect of these practices, and the inspiring collaborations that happen along the way.

Peter Van Riper has been an artist/musician right from the start, making "Sound and Light" environments in the 60s. Peter was a pioneer in bringing laser technology to the art world and received recognition as the first exhibitor of laser art and holography. Attention to space and attention to perception are the focuses of his musical works, particuarly in terms of waves and movement. Percussive hearing sounds in the Duchamp/Cage tradition pervade his music. Van Riper's music moves from western notation toward the sounds of World Music and nature. He derives inspiration for his acoustic music from the non-western traditions of Indonesia and Japan. Following graduate work at Tokyo University, he toured Japan with performances and exhibitions. He has worked extensively with dancer Simone Forti, visual artist Eugènia Balcells, and performance artist Sha Sha Higby. He has produced music for Seven Days in Space, a 90' video of NASA space exploration and has performed in Holland, Spain, Canada, and New York City.

Stephen Vitiello has collaborated with musicians, visual artists and choreographers, among them Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Constance DeJong, Nam June Paik, Scanner, Frances-Marie Uitti ... His music has been heard at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Lyon), Cheekwood Museum of Art (Nashville), Texas Gallery (Houston), The Performing Garage (an off-site event of the 1997 Whitney Bienniale), National Galerie Hamburger Bahnhoff (Berlin), New York World Trade Center, Festival of Film and Architecture (Graz), Philadelphia Museum of Art ... on WDR Radio, on the web, as part of Tetrasomia (a project of Dia Center for the Arts) ... He directed the video Nam June Paik: SeOUL NyMAx Performance, 1997 - Dress Rehearsal and The Last Ten Minutes. He curated the Sound Art segment of 'The American Century: Art and Culture 1950 - 2000' for the Whitney Museum, and organized 'Young and Restless', a video program which toured to over 40 venues internationally, for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Statement: "I am interested in the physicality of sound and its potential to define the shape, feel and color of a room. I am also interested in exploring how people receive sound and to what extent I may create a work, with no visual component, and offer an environment in which a gallery or museum viewer will be enticed into listening with the attention that they would give to a visual or audio-visual work."

As a journeyman bassist, Voigt has played in symphony orchestras, jazz bands large and small, Broadway musicals, and with many of New York's leading "Downtown" players - the likes of Billy Bang, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Bill Friesll, Joesph Jarman, Ted Jones, Oliver Lake, Jean Lee, Gunter Hampel, Jemeel Moondoc, Lawrence "Butch" Morris and Paul Motian.

Katharina von Rütte lives and works as a singer (roots in Jazz), improviser, singing teacher, composer and lyricist/poet in Basel, Switzerland. She calls her current project "Continuous Weaving." There she creates with her voice an ongoing stream of music interweaving improvisations with her compositions, jazz standards and silence. It is a slow walk from moment to moment between silence and sound. She sings solo or accompanies her voice with two differently tuned acoustic guitars or piano.