ARTIST INFO

Ian Helliwell
Helliwell`s musical output ranges from analogue electronics with self built instruments, audio collage using radio, electronics and tape loops, and instrumental music with guitar, bass, drums and synthesizer. All these facets can be heard on his latest double cdr `Workshop of the World`. After writing and playing music in several groups during the 1980s, Helliwell`s interest in electronic sound led to experimentation at the start of the 1990s with building and modifying 9v circuitry. He has gone on to construct a series of Hellitron tone generators, all housed in uniquely customised boxes, and used to make the soundtracks to all his own experimental super-8 films. Living in Brighton since 1985, Ian has produced and developed music, super-8 films, installations, electronic instruments, film and live music programmes and light-show projections for concerts and club nights. Self- taught, operating alone and without funding, he has worked with second-hand and home-made equipment and produced over 40 short films since the early 1990s. Many of these have been screened at international festivals, and are distributed by LUX in London.

Andrew Bucksbarg with Michele Darling and Terry Golob
Andrew Bucksbarg is a cyber-artist, interaction designer, audio-video/VJ performer and a professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University.  Bucksbarg’s work and interests reverberate in the space of new media art, technology and theory.   Michele Darling and Terry Golob use artifacts of sound generated by digital and analog processes in conjunction with a variety of interactive technologies to compose and design audio environments for film, installations and music performance.  Darling and Golob perform under the name Aerostatic.  For more information visit aerostaticmusic.com  

arcangel constantini
arcangel constantini ( mexico city ) 1970.71.72.73.74.75.76.77.78.79.80.81.82.83.84.85.86.87.88.89.90.91.92.93.94.95.96.97.98.99.00.01.02.03.04.05.06 /........ produces work of a marked ludic-experimental nature , strongly influenced by fortutous chaotic processes of the big city as reflected in the sistematic use of error aesthetics. his work and artistic practice explore the dynamics of visual and soundworks , low-tech installations, propaganda action, visual / sound performance and technological hacking. independet curator programin the cyberlounge museo rufino tamayo holder of a number of awards as primer lugar festival vid@rte 1999, first price for atari-noise.com festival Interference francia 2000, becas jovenes creadores 2000, rockefeller and macarthur 2002 media Grant , sistema naciona de creadores FONCA he is part of hell.com , iglooo and khora colectives

Beatrix*Jar
Beatrix and Jar met at a boarding school in Canada. Jar gave Beatrix a cd of his music. Beatrix gave Jar a video inspired by one of his songs. Beatrix + Jar immediately thereafter.

Benjamin Goldstone AKA George Lazenbleep
I'm Benjamin Maxwell Goldstone AKA George Lazenbleep AKA Lazy b and I've been playing records since i got my dansette player aged 5. I'm into music full stop. I attempt to play most styles of music that i like. I have made music for most of my adult life. From my play/pause radio shows with my sister, four track noodlings with my guitar, to clunky beat making and the very clangy milkteeth project. I'm interested in bass so i manage a soundsystem. I like childrens electronic instruments and percussive objects. I work with children and music technology and one day we will make a concept album. My bedroom used to contain a soundsystem but now its full of keyboards. Top5 Keyboards that I own Selmer Clavioline Reverb Roland SH101 with guitar grip Casio MT400v wurlitzer ep200 casio vl-tone

Bubblyfish
Haeyoung Kim relocated to the US from Korea in 1992. With a background in classical piano, she has been focusing on experimental electronic music since 1997. Currently, under the name Bubblyfish, she creates “lo-fi”, 8 bit sound works and minimal electronic compositions. Based in NYC, Haeyoung has worked as a composer, sound designer, and audio engineer. Haeyoung’s work has been presented in various art venues, clubs, festivals, and galleries including Centre Pompidou, The American Museum of the Moving Image, Eyebeam Atelier, The New Museum, and Lincoln Center’s Walter Read Theater.

Burnkit2600
Thom Uliasz and Justin Emerson have been experimenting with electronic music together since 1997. Combining circuit-bending and other modifying techniques with more traditional instruments, Burnkit2600 represents the duo's evolving interest in creating exotic soundscapes and chunky distorted grooves for adventurous ears.

Caitlin Berrigan
Caitlin Berrigan is an interdisciplinary media artist in video, sculpture, performance and interactive art. Her pieces have been alternatively characterized as disturbing, sexy and even smelly. Invoking the history of science and pop culture, her works address the ruptures and confluences of the body's grotesque form, its medicalization, and many variations as object of desire. The results are quietly disturbing works of subtle humour and irony that speak to our violent and conflicted relationship to the body. The installation "La Specola: medical examination & archetypes of the vagina dentata" (2004) employs video narratives, surveillance cameras and a computerized, 3D interactive vagina to address the mingling of myth and medicine in gynecology. Jiggly, tactile latex sculptures and cloying beeswax panels position viewers' bodies within the installation, provoking visceral responses to reveal our cultural conditioning to the abject, the pleasurable, and the taboo. The site-specific boutique in collaboration with Delphine Bacri, "À la peau confite" in Paris (2003), featured a five-foot marzipan tampon, erotic chocolates molded from my body, and a prosciutto dress sold off the body of a model by the slice; engaging consumer culture's anthropophagic drive to devour the female body in media images. "c(h)arta" (2002) creates an immersive environment from 100 pounds of honey, video projection, and ink and beeswax drawings to address the peculiar process of fixing the body's dynamic interior flux into visual representation. Her work has shown internationally at L.A. Freewaves, Anthology Film Archives, Women in the Director's Chair, Real Art Ways, Waywood Gallery Newcastle, Stuttgart New Media Festival and the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv among other venues and festivals. A Northern California native, she recently relocated to Brooklyn after living in France and Massachusetts.

Chiara Passa
I was born in Rome on 1973. I studied at Salerno’s Artistic Lyceum and at Fine Arts Academy of Naples and Rome. After, I’ve done a Master at Salerno’s University ( Faculty of Communication’s Science ) in “New Audiovisual mediums”. At the moment I’m living and working in Rome. The limit between abstraction and the search for image composition is indefinite and borderline in my artwork. Using the animation and the videoinstallation, the same theme explores different formal solutions. My animations are characterized from a constant study on the shape, geometric and often essential, joined to a three-dimensional and dynamics vision of the virtual space. The videoinstallations force the spectator to confront himself with another ‘oddity space’. A performance idea is the base of my artwork and people, can see a place which moves naturally beyond its functionality. Others ( net art ) work, that, I've created for public space, like, "Art calling-Digital art stories", propose people to listen to stories about digital art through phone booths used as a communicative medium. My web's project, ( like ideasonair.net ), put in argument concepts like: identity/sharing, space/time, medium/message. I use the new technologies to comprise its intrinsic language. I experiment in rigorous and personal way on the unknown creative possibilities who they offer to me.

Dafna Naphtali, Alex Waterman and Benton-C Bainbridge
Dafna Naphtali A singer, sound artist/improviser and composer, coming from a genuinely eclectic background of music-making as singer/guitarist/electronic musician, She performs and composes using her own custom Max/MSP programs for sound processing of voice and other instruments. This she does in improvised projects and with the digital chamber punk ensemble, What is it Like to be a Bat?, that she co-leads with Kitty Brazelton (see www.whatbat.org http://www.whatbat.org/. She's received commissions and awards from NY Foundation for the Arts, NY State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, a commission from American Composers Forum (for pianist Kathleen Supové) and a residency at STEIM (Holland). And gives workshops/teaches at universities including New York University, where she earned degrees in voice and Music Technology (BM, MM), at Bard College and the School of Visual Arts. She also teaches, programs and consults about Max/MSP at Harvestworks since 1996, and was a programmer for two years for many artists and her own projects at Engine 27 (a multi-channel sound gallery). She has done sound design and/or programming work for the projects of Jin Hi Kim, Shelley Hirsch, Pamela Z, Fred Frith, Jim Staley, Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman and Chico Freeman. Dafna can be heard with Mechanique(s) on a forthcoming release on In-situ ('05) and as featured vocalist on José Halac's CD 'Dance of 1000 Heads' (Tellus), as well as on her acclaimed release with What is it Like to be a Bat? on Tzadik/Oracles.
Alex Waterman studied cello at the New England Conservatory, and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He is a founding member of the Plus Minus Ensemble, based in Brussels and London, specializing in avant-garde and experimental music. Alex has worked with musicians such as Richard Barrett, Keith Rowe, Axel Dorner, Tristan Honsinger, Ned Rothenberg, Mark Helias, Steve Heather, Cor Fuhler, Gert Jan Prins, Andy Moor and members of <>, Yannis Kyriakides, Mary Oliver, Michael Moore, Anthony Coleman, Phil Niblock, Pauline Oliveiros, Robert Ashley and Michael Finissy. He has performed as guest musician with numerous ensembles, including Trio Event Berlin, Champs d'Action, Q-O2, and Black Jackets Company.
Benton-C Bainbridge is a Bronx-based artist working with video as a painterly and performable medium. Using custom digital, analog and optical systems, Benton-C seeks to capture music's human abstraction in moving images. Benton-C Bainbridge has VJ’d, performed, screened, streamed, broadcast and installed video world wide over the wires and airwaves and in museums, galleries, planetariums, clubs, colleges and festivals including the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the Hayden Planetarium (NYC), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Teatro Colón CETC (Buenos Aires), Mercat des les Flores (Barcelona), American Museum of the Moving Image (NYC), The Kitchen (NYC), Boston Cyberarts Festival, Sonic Light (Amsterdam), Dallas Video Festival, Madison Square Garden (NYC), Wien Moderne (Vienna), Inventionen (Berlin), CELCIT (Managua), MTV Networks (worldwide) and Hotwired (World Wide Web). Bainbridge co-founded the live video ensembles NNeng, The Poool, 77 Hz, Lord Knows Compost, and Stackable Thumb to compose and improvise cinema. Benton-C has collaborated with Abigail Child, Bill Etra, Beastie Boys, 99 Hooker, Hoppy Kamiyama, Johnny deKam, and Venetian Snares amongst hundreds of other artists and performers. Currently, Benton-C Bainbridge is designing video for RGB LED displays and live spectacles on stage and TV with FUEVOZ, a company he cofounded with V Owen Bush.

Daniel Cashin
Daniel Cashin is working on his second documentary, yet untitled. The video follows an Army Medic upon his return from Abu Ghraib, Iraq, as the new veteran finds guitar performance gigs.

George Lazenbleep 'dusty toy space-funk'
I'm Benjamin Maxwell Goldstone AKA George Lazenbleep AKA Lazy b and I've been playing records since i got my dansette player aged 5. I'm into music full stop. I attempt to play most styles of music that i like. I have made music for most of my adult life. From my play/pause radio shows with my sister, four track noodlings with my guitar, to clunky beat making and the very clangy milkteeth project. I'm interested in bass so i manage a soundsystem. I like childrens electronic instruments and percussive objects. I work with children and music technology and one day we will make a concept album. My bedroom used to contain a soundsystem but now its full of keyboards. Top5 Keyboards that I own Selmer Clavioline Reverb Roland SH101 with guitar grip Casio MT400v wurlitzer ep200 casio vl-tone

Gunung Sari
Gunung Sari was conceived around November 2005, and we played our 1st ever wonderful noise gig last December 10 at the Phi Phenomena fest - at the lucky cat in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. The duo behind this seminal group is Nick Lesley and Stanley Ruiz, who are classmates at Brooklyn College's Performance and Interactive Media Arts Graduate Program. Nick also plays thunder drums in Necking and Jazzhandzz, and is now becoming fond of computer music using Max/MSP, while Stanley used to play guitars and scream in some ill-fated crust punk bands in Manila. Occasionally, he also makes his own musique concrete on the side, and builds analog electronic musical instruments. The common denominator here is the duo's love for gamelan music and rituals, hence the name: gunung sari means mountain's essence in Bahasa Indonesia. As a band, we are interested in the similarities and differences regarding the physicality of manipulated circuits and more traditional instruments such as percussion, and using these opposing means in interplay of the intentional and interference. Gunung Sari is interested in topics like collaborative performance, multimedia events, spatial treatment of sound, and the raw power of noise.

Jacqueline Gordon
jacqueline is an artist based out of oakland, california. sometimes she preforms under the name japjap.

John Morton


Josh Tobin
I am a musician and have played in many bands for over 8 years. I >was getting bored with doing the same basic things with music over and over >again. I found out about circuit bending about 2 years ago and was >completely inspired. Since then I have been performing noise shows, under >the name Consumet, using my circuit bent instruments.

Justin Jordan of 3Xfx
Justin Jordan started circuit bending in 2004. Since then he has started his own company called 3Xfx, which specializes in original designs in effects pedals, synthesizers, and guitars. 3Xfx produces the only commercially available instruments that come circuit bent right from the manufacturer!

kingcapitolpunishment
we live in brooklyn and perform shows sporadically when the moment is right for it.

Kyle Buza
Kyle Buza is an embedded Java Virtual Machine designer at Sun Microsystems. He has spoken at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on the design of multitasking Java virtual machines, and has been writing Max/MSP/Jitter externals emulating video game sound hardware for the past three years. Most recently, he has designed the manipulatable Max/MSP/Jitter emulation externals jit.atari2600 and jit.intellivision.

Lorin Edwin Parker
Lorin Edwin Parker specializes in the creation of performance art, sound and music composition, sculpture and interdisciplinary arts. He is also renown as an instrument builder and designer of interactive technology. Although most of Lorin's instruments are designed from the ground up, circuit bending, with its characteristic unpredictability and fragility, plays a large part in the realization of his designs. Parker has just finished the second "Insanium" abstract synthesizer which will be available as an open source project and / or a kit with printed circuit board. Among his other instruments are an all steam powered synthesizer, various kinetic metal sculptures, a restored tube telegraph machine, various theremins and custom built cellular phones including the "Two by Phone" - a mobile phone constructed from 100% american pine 2x4 with a coat hanger antenna. Parker's aesthetic is an anachronistic confluence of the cultural and technological past, present and future. He draws extensively from Victorian and Edwardian culture and design, blending his historical tilt to re-contextualize modern technology and arts. On stage, Parker often plays a character. Thusly, his performances integrate aspects of theater with his music and technology. Parker also teaches electronics, methodology and technology in the arts in Los Angeles and has taught for The California Institute of the Arts, Machine Project and The Electro-Telharmonium Society. Lorin is currently a member of the Los Angeles electronic duo, .Pe-eL.. Parker has performed his works throughout the United States and Europe and hopes to travel through time for a concert someday...

Loud Objects (Kunal Gupta, Katie Shima, Tristan Perich)
Tristan Perich : http://tristanperich.com
Katie Shima : http://katieshima.com
Kunal Gupta: http://godof.org

Luke Dubois with Matthew Ostrowski
R. LUKE DUBOIS is a composer, programmer, and video artist living in New York City. He is currently completing his doctorate in music composition at Columbia University, and teaches interactive computer music at Columbia's Computer Music Center and in the Music Technology Program at New York University. He has done interactive installation and music production consulting for artists such as Toni Dove, Elliott Sharp, and Michael Gordon. Mr. DuBois was one of the resident programmers at Engine27 for their Artist-In-Residence program, and he performs regularly as a laptop musician and video projection artist. His music with his band, the Freight Elevator Quartet, is available on Caipirinha, Liquid Sky, and Cycling'74 Music.

Maggie Ens and Marc Sloan


Maikko (Otolab)
Maikko has been developing his practice in electronic music for the past 10 years around such issues as minimal approach, relationship with visuals and, lately, improvisation. Maikko is one of the cofounders of the Otolab audiovisual collective laboratory in Milano, Italy. Since Otolab was founded (2001), his activity as an electronic music composer and performer has primarily been that of contributing to Otolab's audiovisual projects and livemedia performances. Maikko is also cofounder of Newtone2060, an electroacoustic trio with Cristiano Calcagnile (drums, percussions, objects) and Mimmo (vynils).

MHCrispo
Sound artist Martine H. Crispo has been working in live radio art since the mid-1980s, including hosting a biweekly radio show in Montreal to present live performances. She has participated in numerous performance festivals in Canada and in Europe. Most recently, she has collaborated with dancer Martine Viale to create and present Ostéoblastes, a live installation with sound performance. This work has been presented at The Festival Off Avignon, The International Performance Festival Odense (IPFO) in Denmark. as well as in festivals in Toronto, Vancouver, and Spain.

Mystery Circuits by Mike Walters
Mike Walters is a keyboardist and instrument builder from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He plays synthesizers for Jett Rink, and organ with Dexter Romweber and The New Romans. His creations are called Mystery Circuits. Zeno Gill will be performing with Mike. Zeno plays guitar and sings for The Sames and runs Pox World Empire.

Mystery Palace (FoodTeam / James Buckley / Joey Van Phillips)
There's no guide or manual for what Mystery Palace does, no easy clockwork formula hidden in the Minneapolis-based trio's agenda. Sequenced electronics-plus-live instruments offer a tough enough row to hoe on their own; when the former come from a pair of heavily circuit-bent Yamaha mid-pro keyboards, opportunities for disaster multiply exponentially.  Luckily, so do opportunities for the sorts of disastrous successes the band enjoys regularly, largely thanks to founder Food Team's aptitude for riding his profusely toggle-switxhed brainchildren's outputs like a porn star. Granted, the artist sometimes still known as Ryan Olcott has had practice galore, having built and mastered the instruments with the sort of diligence usually enountered only in fantasy novels and large-scale government operations. Only after countless hours of woodshedding and a healthy slew of live dates did he enlist ex-Poor Line Condition bassist James Buckley and veteran Vertiform drummer Joey Van Phillips in what must have seemed like a very Quixotic endeavor at the time.  Olcott got lucky. Not only does his rhythm section provide the perfect complement to the remarkably varied profusion of colors and textures he wrenches from his Frankeninstruments (imagine an exceedingly fluid Warp + Mego fusion); like Olcott, Buckley and Van Phillips are actually capable of responding to the digital critters' powerful surprise-generating capacity so gracefully, you'd never guess the extent of their vigilance. Or maybe that part is all a shuck of sorts. Lately, the whole operation has proceeded so smoothly onstage and in the studio (where the band has proceeded well beyond improvisation, recording elegantly structured songs, complete with vocals) that you can't help but wonder if the keyboards, having grown minds of their own, are merely doing their best to keep the fellas alert. God knows, they are.

Nic Collins
Nicolas Collins, an active composer and performer of electronic music, is a Professor of Sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has led Hacking workshops around the world, from Beijing to Brussels, and has worked with John Cage, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor and many other masters of modern music.

NIES-DeVEGA-TAMMEN
Joker Nies - omnichord, circuit-bent instruments
Mario de Vega - SPK®, glitch sampling
Hans Tammen - endangered guitar, realtime live sound processing

Joker Nies (Cologne) modifies or builds his instruments to his needs. Apart from other techniques, he acts as a connector of circuits not intentualy related. He touches and combines the circuitry of the instruments through skin-resistence, creating spontanious and delicate music with subtle control. www.klangbureau.de

Mario de Vega is a sound and visual artist who lives and works in Mexico City. His work is related with incidental events between spaces and objects, real-time signal processing, video-frame manipulation with digital devices and site specific projects. SPK® is an own designed software-interface for glitch sampling using proximity sensors via Teleo™ devices, circuit bent instruments, game controllers and field recordings in search of ambiguous sound situations. His work has been exhibited in UK, Spain, US, Quebec and Mexico.

Hans Tammen (New York) works with a wide collection of mechanical devices on his "endangered" guitars, and uses an interactive software of his own design to rework his sounds in realtime. His music has been described as a journey through the land of unending sonic operations, his playing as reverse engineering of the guitar. www.tammen.org

Noah T. Vawter
Musician and engineer Noah Vawter (a.k.a. Shifty) is best known for inventing the audio synthesis technique combyops and the 1-Bit Groove Box. In each of these designs, he created music and new, open source instruments with unique sounds, directing the field of digital signal processing toward the unusual.

Patrick Bobilin
Herscheltronics Patrick Bobilin, creator/owner of Herscheltronics, is a student at Hampshire College where he teaches weekly electronics workshops. His work focuses on experimenting with electronics and combinations of electronic circuits and devices. Initally a student of Peter Edwards, the two currently teach a circuit-bending course at Hampshire College. Outside of Patrick's work in experimental electronics and education, he fronts a band called The Government. His musical output often integrates his homemade electronic instruments with more traditional folk music. These two interests come together with his recent work of modifiying electric guitars. For more information see herscheltronics.com and http://littledeathrecordings.com

Peter Blasser
Peter Blasser lives in Baltimore MD, where he maintains his own building/workshop/compound. There he makes electronic sound instruments, explorations into chaotic sounds controlled by direct body contact. In these instruments, he has pioneered what he calls "sandrodes"- androgynous nodes within the continous weave of resonances, they are neither inputs nor outputs. In a plane of sandrodes, any one will make some sort of sound, as well as receive other signals to cross and tangle the web of circuitry. Thus, his synthesizers can achieve the wide ranging sounds of the classical patched synthesizers of the 60s, but with the intuitiveness and non-heirarchy associated with current trends such as circuit bending. He has toured the US and Canada several times with his band Sejayno, which combines the chaotic brains with vocal confessions folded by his ambrazier series of digital delays. In 2001, Funded by the Fondation Daniel Langlois, he toured the U.S. demonstrating his Shinths, instruments that make sound purely by human touch.

Peter Edwards
Peter Edwards is an artist, musician, inventor currently living in New Haven CT. Edwards studied sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design andgraduated in 2000. Shortly after graduating he began exploring his interest in electronics and music. He was soon introduced to the art of circuit bending and began buiding and selling modified Texas InstrumentsSpeak&Spells. A few months later he started the business "casperelectronics". Over the past 5 years Edwards has modified hundreds of different electronic devices ranging from "Tickle Me Elmo"s to talking bathroom scales. Edwards specializes in designing custom instruments rather than offering a selection of pre made pieces. “I have a hard time building the same piece more than once” Edwards admits, “Making pieces that are specifically suited to a clients needs keeps me constantly working with new ideas. I end up making things that I may have never come up with on my own.” Edwards has worked extensively with several high profile musicians including Mike Patton (FaithnoMore, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Ipecac Records), Kevin Rutmanis(the Melvins), Danny Elfman(film score composer), Mark Hosler (Negativland) and Rahzel (The Roots). Edwards also performs using his creations under the name “Vorpal”. Venues he has played include The Knitting Factory(main stage and basement. NYC), Tonic (main stage and subtonic. NYC), The Tank (NYC) , Toads Place (CT), and a variety of colleges, coffee houses, bars and basements throughout New England.

Petko Dourmana
Petko Dourmana is a new media artist, working on projects in the area of art and technology. His artistic research and activities are mostly on the cutting edge of communication and information technologies. He is chairman of InterSpace Association and director of InterSpace Media Art Center. His works have been shown at exhibitions as: On Difference - Wurttembergischer Kunstverein/ Stuttgart, Free Bitflows – K-haus/Vienna, banquet. Metabolism and Communication – ZKM/Karlsruhe, Web 3D Show – ICA/London and festivals as ISEA, Next Five Minutes, VIPER et

Pixelform
Phillip Stearns (a.k.a.- Pixelform) has been circuit bending since the winter of 2004. His projects quickly moved from modifying sound making devices to glitching out vintage graphics generating devices. Most notable of his experiments are those dealing with the Texas Instruments TI99/4a computer, which he's managed to convert into a visualization device for sound. Recently, he’s become obsessed with analog and digital feedback and is usually wasting most of his time plugging outputs into inputs. This typically results in a fantastically horrible lot of racket and/or video art that some would describe as “epilepsy inducing”. At present, Phillip is studying how to better integrate normally into society at the California Institute of the Arts.

Receptors
RECEPTORS is electronic artist Jeremy Kolosine (aka Ksine). After moving from London to the Miami area in the '70's, he founded the early electro-punkers FUTURISK (1979-1984). In the '90's he was synth/guitar/vocalist for the experimental dreampop/shoegazer group SHAKESPACE . He has released several recorded works over the years, including two 7 inch vinyl releases with FUTURISK , and 3 CDs with SHAKESPACE and 4 CD's as Ksine. In 2003 Ksine formed RECEPTORS to create music & video using various 8-bit sound chips(primarily thru the use of Gameboy/Atari synths & circuit-bending). Receptors/Mommy Was an asteroid split 7" was sold out in 2005, and a full length CD is due out in May 2006.Jeremy Kolosine's current project is the '8-Bit Operators' Various Artist Lo-Bit Microchip Kraftwerk Covers Comp , due out in Spring 2006.

Sarah Bogner & Aylin Langreuter
Aylin langreuter Studied art at the academy of fine Arts Munich/Germany and studies now philosophy in Vienna/Austria. Is doing in installation, sculpture, literature and the passion of objects. Sarah bogner Studies media art at the academy of fine Arts munich/germany and electonic music in vienna/austria.Is involved in radio art,sound installation,some music projects and theatre.

Shotaro Nakano


Tablebeast
Jesse Mesa-Savage, better known to the bending world as Tablebeast, has been hard at work modding and recycling by using electronics as his medium of choice for over 6 years now. In that time he has sold instruments to some of the biggest names in the music business and has built mod synths that have appeared on countless records, movies, tv shows, and game soundtracks. The Circuit-Bent Project is specifically an endeavor of Jesse's with which to make music. Their debut album, Slow Children Playing is the culmination of many years of recording and experimenting with circuit-bent devices and has evolved into a spectacular live show featuring Tim Wright and Nigel Gilmer. Tablebeast produces this project and many more, working with a tight-knit group of musicians from the Asheville, NC area. All of Tablebeast's records, instruments, and the very sounds themselves are contantly evolving, what's next?

The Bemus Point
THE BEMUS POINT is an electronic-music duo from upstate New York. JAMES SPITZNAGEL is a lifelong musician and composer, best known for his solo electronic music under the name SPITZNAGEL. His music can be heard and purchased at www.levelgreen.com. INVERSE ROOM is the musical alter ego of novelist J. ROBERT LENNON. Visit www.jrobertlennon.com for music, writing, and other information.

The Circuit Bending Orchestra
spunky toofers- an aspiring yet failed '65 coltrane one man dense noise cover act with predominantly circuit bent instruments. http://www.myspace.com/spunkytoofers
Derek Sajbel received a B.A. in cinema-television with a minor in Japanese studies from the University of Southern California in 2002. He has been producing albums, videos, art, resides in Silver Lake, LA. Performing: Hanger1018.com, CannibalFlower.com and Infinite Complexity (www.icomplex.org), 2004 Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology festival, (www.thetanknyc.com/bent2004/)...... Curated the Video Art program and Electronic music evening at the multimedia art event Humanitarian Superpower in spring 2003, released on Phthalo Records Infinite Complexity compilations and the I.D.E.A. #7 (http://absurdity.biz/CircuitBending/Bent.htm/)
marc sloan total eclectic works as musician and composer. Bass driven music, ornamental and chaos electronics with optic nerve textures. Audio Plasma effecting the viscosity of air. He has recorded and toured internationally for 20 years. Friend of Reed Ghazala since '72...... discography at www.TREES OF NERVE ENDINGS.com
Jeff Boynton, a resident of California, recently attended this years NYC Tank Festival featuring Circuit Bending. His instruments are fantastic He works with Derek in an ever-changing circuit bending/acoustic ensemble called Zef Renirhs with regular sessions of horn/string/keyboard/percussion players at California Institute of the Arts. Jeff also is involved also with community events such as "The Highland Park Thursday Evening Gentlemen's Society Circuit Bending Marching Band And Ladies Auxiliary" recently participating in the Cinco de Mayo parade, L.A. Jeff's additional goals are to start developing individual performance also utilizing Poetry/Dance/Sign Language. More info here: http://www.blankstare.biz/

The Circuit-Bent Project presents Slow Children Playing
As The Circuit-Bent Project, Tim Wright and Nigel Gilmer create their music in collaboration with not just each other but with the actual modified machines themselves and is all put together live by using the modified circuits and samplers to help write the songs right alongside the musicians. Part electronic, part rock, and all experimental: Tim and Nigel put together some of the most original live music you've heard! Tim and Nigel's debut CD, Slow Children Playing is available now, but is nothing compared to the live show. Man and machine creating music like never before. Prepare yourself for something truly different.

The Tour Company with Dan Tombs, Phil Archer, Luke Abbott


Travis McCoy Fuller
Travis McCoy Fuller is a visual, sonic and performance artist practicing in and around the Boston area. He is one of the founders, curators and organizers of TEST, a bi-monthly performance art event held in Boston.

Vic Rawlings
Vic Rawlings (prepared/ amplified cello, circuitry) is active as an improviser, educator, and instrument builder. His performances focus on the meta-musical potential of unstable sounds and silences, and he has developed instruments that are specific to this compositional aesthetic. As an instrument builder he specializes in modifications of existing instruments, and has developed extensive cello preparations. He also continually develops an electronic instrument from extant circuitry, producing, in effect, a modular analog synthesizer with a highly unstable interface. This electronic instrument is paired with a flexible array of exposed speaker elements, chosen for their often unpredictable and idiosyncratic acoustic qualities.

WATFIV aka Christopher Sorg
Christopher Sorg is a sound and visual artist based in Chicago. His work includes site-specific sound and multimedia installation, studio-based sound explorations for radio and CD, and improvisational performance utilizing laptop, radio, field recordings, custom-built and circuit-bent electronics. His work has been recently seen and heard live and on the radio around the country, most recently at a variety of venues in Illinois, Washington, Texas, and Ohio. Christopher Sorg was awarded an artist residency at Experimental Sound Studio in 2003. He currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College.