Jack Herscowitz is a Chicago-based composer, improviser, and sound artist working across experimental music and art practices. Described as “the slow descent of the sun at twilight” (A Closer Listen), his current work centers around commitment to unadorned musical materials to reveal their complexities, exorcisms of mass-produced tech, interruptions which peel back the curtains on cultural practices of art making, noise as an activation of the full body, and relational non-hierarchical webs of listening. His practice spans instrumental composition, dramaturgy, electroacoustic improvisation, installation, landscape film, object performance, sampling, text, and communal sound making. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Composition and Sound Practices at the University of Chicago.

Wilfrido Terrazas (Willy/he/él) is a San Diego-based Mexican flutist, improviser,
composer, and educator whose work explores the borderlands between
improvisation, musical notation, and collective creation. He is a member of
Generación Espontánea and Liminar, and has performed more than 400 world
premieres, written over 80 compositions, and recorded more than 50 albums, eight
of them as a soloist or leader. Wilfrido has presented his work in 22 countries. He
co-curates the Semana Internacional de Improvisación, a festival in Ensenada, his
hometown, and is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California San
Diego.

Melissa Achten is a Los Angeles based performer and composer using the harp as a diaristic tool for channeling cathartic expression. Her compositions directly engage the listener, challenging the boundaries between body, instrument, and sound in search of nuanced meaning. Melissa's performances often employ a surrealist narrative, incorporating objects and costumes. She has premiered work in New York, Germany, Copenhagen, Montréal, and London, performing in abandoned water towers, cemeteries, haunted mansions, and other liminal spaces. Melissa is also the co-founder and Executive Director of Oracle Egg, an artist-run incubator for experimental music and performance in downtown Los Angeles, which she runs with her partner, Eli Klausner.