Ian Power is a composer and performer in Los Angeles and Baltimore. He has been commissioned by Wet Ink, Heather Roche, Mariel Roberts, and performed in the US, UK, Germany, Denmark, Israel, Japan, and New Zealand. He has three albums: Diligence on Edition Wandelweiser Records; Maintenance Hums on Carrier Records; and Ave Maria: Variations on Theme by Giacinto Scelsi, on Carrier in October 2023. In April 2023, his piece BYE BYE LOVE was premiered by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow. He has a music video coming out on Music for Your Inbox in Fall 2025.

Ian is Associate Professor and Director of Arts Production & Management at the University of Baltimore. His writing on rhetoric in new music and reviews of CDs and performances are published in Cambridge University Press’s TEMPO Journal, and he has lectured at conferences and universities in the US, UK, and Turkey.

Ian studied primarily with Chaya Czernowin, as well as with Steven Takasugi, John Luther Adams, Antoine Beuger, Anthony Burr, Robert Morris, and Dana Wilson. He grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and plays traditional Turkish music on the oud.

Batya MacAdam-Somer is a violinist, violist and vocalist specializing in collaboration and experimentation. Her work spans across classical, avant-garde, folk, and popular music practices, taking her to venues throughout the United States, Mexico, The United Kingdom and Europe. She lives in San Diego and performs often with local ensembles and organizations including Project [BLANK], Art of Elan, San Diego Baroque, Camarada and Bach Collegium San Diego. Batya received her DMA in contemporary violin performance from the University of California, San Diego in 2014. She writes about anxiety, self expression, and the culture of classical music on her Substack account, "Lester Bangs Lives."

Jonathan Piper is a San Diego-based tubist and technologist. His work as a tubist centers on the exploration of sonic and gestural possibilities found at the limits of both the instrument and the performing body. Supported by extended techniques and live electronic processing, he combines elements of drone, doom, noise, free jazz, and contemporary idioms. He performs as a soloist and in a variety of duo projects, including with Ryan Ebaugh (1515), Michelle Lou (go by land), vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Meghann Welsh (Codex Confiteor), percussionist Eric Derr (Company Culture), drummer Nick Lesley, and more. Jonathan has also worked as a museum curator, recently guiding a multi-year renovation of and developing interactive exhibitions for the NAMM Museum of Making Music. As a scholar, he has researched and presented work on ontologies in digital media, online fandom practices, and embodiment in heavy metal music. Jonathan received degrees in musical performance at UC Los Angeles and music at UC San Diego, where he completed his dissertation Locating Experiential Richness in Doom Metal.