Ulrich Krieger is a composer and saxophone player in the worlds of noise, rock, free improvisation, classical and contemporary composition as well as a composer of chamber music and electronic music. He has been active in pushing the boundaries of saxophone playing in general and the function of the saxophone in rock and noise in particular, collaborating with Lou Reed (Metal Machine Trio, Lou Reed Band), Lee Ranaldo (Text of Light), Faust, and Merzbow, in addition to leading his own death-doom-noise-metal band Blood Oath. His original compositions vacillate between just intonation, silent music, noise, and instrumental electronic, often asking for elaborate amplification, existing in the abysses of experimental rock culture, refusing to accept stylistic boundaries. In his distinct style of amplified saxophone playing, Krieger processes refined acoustic and quasi-electronic sounds by amplifying his instrument in various ways. He gets down to the grains of the sounds, changing their identities and structures from within. No saxophone player has ever dared to explore these uncharted outer realms of woodwind expression. He teaches composition, experimental sound practices, and rock music at CalArts.

Born 1960 in New York, Jason Kahn is a musician, artist and writer. He lives in Zürich.

Casey Anderson (they / them) is designing and repurposing technologies to activate participatory practice, primarily involving explorations of sound, in diverse cultures and communities. Performances, exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA - Los Angeles (CA), ISSUE Project Room (NY), STEIM (NL), Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL), Mass MOCA (MA), The Walker Art Center (MN), and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (CA). They co-founded, and co-edited (with John P. Hastings and Scott Cazan), the Experimental Music Yearbook, and own and operate a wave press. They currently live in Los Angeles, California, co-run Trade School with Arden Stern, and teach at KAOS Network, UCLA, ASU, and ArtCenter College of Design.

Chris Pierandozzi Everingham is a composer and performer specializing in experimental music currently based in Santa Cruz, California. In 2022, Chris studied composition and performance at CalArts and began graduate studies in music composition at UC Santa Cruz in September of 2022. Chris’s music experiments with intonation systems, indeterminacy, and scale, duration, and memory. At UCSC, Chris’s graduate studies focus on composing using just intonation systems utilizing tools made in MAX MSP. These intonation systems are integrated with explorations of duration and scale in Chris’s compositions to create musical experiences exploring time and memory. As a performer Chris uses bassoon, bass guitar, and electronics to realize his own works and works of collaborators.