Cooper Baker
Cooper Baker was born at Lake Tahoe, California, to artist parents who owned a record store and ran a community theatre. He initially attended conservatory for classical violin performance, but realized he was interested in experimental electronic music, so he transferred to CalArts to finish his BFA in music technology. Cooper stayed for an MFA in experimental composition, and studied live electroacoustic music performance with Mark Trayle, Barry Schrader, and Morton Subotnick. After leaving the creative womb of CalArts, Cooper received a Ph.D. from UCSD, where he studied the math and code of signal processing with F. Richard Moore, Tom Erbe, and Miller Puckette. These days, Cooper makes a living creating software and hardware for other artists.
Jen Boyd
Jen Boyd is a sound artist and teacher living in Redlands, CA. She spends time recording sounds in her environment and then arranges them into layered soundscapes. In these pieces, some sounds unfold naturally while others are processed. Jen uses a variety of different microphones to explore the textures and timbres in her environment. Many of her soundscapes seek to give depth to these delicate sounds. Although her work mostly relies on 'natural' sounds she uses a wide variety of sound sources to paint sonic pictures for the listener. In future projects, Jen will continue to explore the depths of natural sound and their presentation as art through live performance and sound installations. She hopes to spark the interest in people of all ages to listen more closely to the environment they live in everyday.
Jen received a BFA in composition from Calarts and an MFA in electronic music from MIlls College. For the past 10 years Jen founded and continues to co-curated Re:Sound, a sound series on Mare Island in Vallejo, CA focusing on forgotten space, environment and sound. Jen is focused on bringing a series like that to Redlands where she now resides. Bridging communities of sound and sharing space for artists to create and present is one of Jen’s passions.
Joe Cantrell
Joe Cantrell is a sound artist specializing in installations, compositions, and performances inspired by the consequences of technological objects and practices. His work examines the incessant acceleration of technology and media production, its ownership, and the waste it produces. In the rush to get the newest and shiniest things, the less new and less shiny are cast off: today's hot commodity is often tomorrow's garbage. In solidarity with these abandoned objects and the hands that put them together, Joe makes electronic feedback soundscapes using only discarded, obsolete and / or broken technology. It's a physical collaboration: the machines listen to themselves and act accordingly. Joe offers suggestions to them and they make sound together.
Grace Dashnaw
Grace Dashnaw is a cellist, composer, and multimedia artist based in Los Angeles. Grace’s practice navigates the intangible of lived experience. Emotional depth; longing, nostalgia, frustration, anger, and tranquility are paramount in their work. Dashnaw works within the mediums of instrument building, circuitry, programming, sculpture, fiber arts, and poetry, both within solo creations and collaborations. Viscerality is key. Dashnaw holds a B.M. in Cello Performance and a B.M. in Composition from Ithaca College, as well as an M.F.A. in Composition and Experimental Sound Practices with an Integrated Media Specialization from California Institute of the Arts.
Elif Dincer
Elif Dinçer is a harpist and composer who has spent her time developing a large instrumental vocabulary and researching alternate tuning systems. She is an active performer both solo and as a collaborator based in Los Angeles. Her practice is focused on communication through instrumental performance and exploring the harp to create phrases, layers, and sound objects in every way imagined.
John Fireman
John Fireman is a multimedia artist and Visiting Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College in Maine. His work includes experimental documentary, fixed electroacoustic music, interactive installation, and live audiovisual performance using custom software. His sound work has been featured at the Museum of Art and Design (NYC), The Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, ME), Forum Wallis (CH), MIXTUR Festival (ES), and ArteScienza (IT).
Kittiphan Janbuala
Kittiphan Janbuala, an intermedia composer and sound artist. Kittiphan is presently developing his aesthetic as an interdisciplinary artist specializing in audiovisual performance. In recent years, he has been active in several collaborative projects. His recognitions include being a 4-time finalist for the Young Thai Artist Award, as well as winning first prize in the Asian Composer League Young Composer Competition in 2012. He has participated in events such as the Thailand International Composer Festival, Echo Festival 2011, Sound Bridge 2013, Zoo Electronica 2014, Sonic Moon Festival 2015, SETTS#3, Hearing Visual, Looking Sound, Asia Computer Music Project 2018, Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium, KEAMS 2020, Symposium on Spatial Sound Arts, ICMC 2020/2021, Hypersounds Event VIII, Glitch Art is Dead 2022, FU:BAR Glitch Art Exhibition 2022, Int-Act 2022, Media Wander-Symposium on Media Arts and Design, and Bangkok Design Week2024, and 2025. His working strategies in live sound and visual processing are based on the synthesis of textures and the cut-up of existing materials using sonification procedures. Kittiphan graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts from Seoul National University and currently works as a lecturer at the Faculty of Music, Silpakorn University, Thailand.
Haydeé Jiménez
Originally from the San Diego and Tijuana borderland area, Haydeé Jiménez is a transdisciplinary artist and organizer based in the Southern California / Northern Baja California region. She is the co-founder of nettnett radio, a decentralized internet radio project. Haydeé is also a promoter of experimental/electronic musicians and artists of the region via Borderlandnoise, a sound and performance art concert series and festival. She explores artistic and holistic approaches to cultural resistance and celebration via experimental research, organizational work, and an active improvisational performance practice of electroacoustic music - aka AyDD / Hidhawk. Now based in Los Angeles, she is a faculty member of the Art Department at California State University Los Angeles teaching Art & Design in the Community and Social Engagement Through Fashion, Fiber & Materials.
Zaq Kenefick
Zaq Kenefick is an artist usually located around Los Angeles, California. They are interested in the data loss inherent in translation and the intersections of pristine systemic thinking and messy somaticism.
Lilliya Le Neveu
Lilliya Le Neveu is a California based composer whose work centers around just intonation, timbrelism, synthesis, and field recording. She holds a B.F.A. in Composition and Experimental Sound Practices from California Institute of the Arts, where they studied under Wolfgang Von Schweinitz. Her pieces explore the profound consonance of whole number frequency ratios, however their most recent work deals with noise and inharmonicity– probing new textures and performance practices for acoustic instruments. Growing up in Seattle, Washington, the sounds of wildlife, foliage, and weather make their way into Lilliya's work; both literally by field recording and sentimentally with harmony and textural choices.
Matt LeVeque
Matt LeVeque (b. 1996) is a percussionist, composer, and improviser based in Los Angeles. His work is primarily rooted in acoustic concert music, but frequently also includes electronic music, video, written text, installation, and intermedia performance. Through all his work, he explores questions of intimacy, queer relationality, and nostalgia. He is pursuing a Performer-Composer DMA at the California Institute of the Arts, where he studies with Tim Feeney, Michael Pisaro-Liu, and Nicholas Deyoe.
Heather Lockie
Heather Lockie (@marshweedinthegarden) is an L.A.-based composer, performer, and painter who creates graphic score, soundscape, song, installation, improvisation, and through-composed works. Often using stringed instruments, voice, and found objects, Lockie’s work stretches from ensemble and solo performances to formal string arrangements for herself and for others’ music to realizing her own graphic scores in performance. Her two solo albums under the moniker Marshweed (Point of Contact, 2025; Marshweed in the Garden, 2017) present collections of music as wildly diverse as the experiences of a single day of life in Los Angeles.
In addition to Marshweed, Lockie has played/toured with her previous bands Listing Ship and Leather Hyman as well as with international artists including Ty Segall, Cory Hanson, OCS (Thee Oh Sees), Mikal Cronin, Fun., Spiritualized, Scott Wieland (STP), Arthur Lee/LOVE, Eels. She has performed both her own music and as a backing musician to internationally-known artists in a wide variety of venues that reflect the diversity of her musical output, from DIY spaces such as backyard tree house shows to venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and Letterman, to Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Jurassic Technology.
Macrosomic
I (Macrosmic) create electro-acoustic music that reshapes fragments of American cultural detritus—TV jingles, cartoon themes, and other sonic artifacts—into collages that blur the line between parody and sincerity. My work is driven by rhythm and electronic processes, transforming familiar sounds into playful, uncanny, and unexpected forms.
I’ve shared this music at festivals such as MOXSonic (Missouri Experimental Sound Festival), where I was featured as a soloist in 2024. In 2023, I received support from the National Endowment for the Arts/Iowa Arts Council for my project Decorah ArtHaus Improvisor’s Orchestra. Alongside numerous solo and collaborative albums, my work continues to critically reimagine the sonic textures of everyday life.
Dylan Marx
Dylan Marx is a composer, musician, engineer and educator. His work ranges from experiments in performance, recording, synthesis, archival sampling, and poetry.
Adam Mirza
Adam Mirza is a composer and sound artist who works with various media, including acoustic and electronic music as well as sound at the intersection of video, theater and installation.
My compositional approach involves the re-configuration and abstraction of bodily gestures and politically charged or otherwise culturally resonant sonic media. I am concerned with the multiple dimensions of sound re/production, and I aim to creatively reimagine our habituated listening practices within unexpected performance situations. Recent projects include a set of fixed audio compositions for a dance piece by Spelman College faculty T. Lang, the 2024 release of my chamber music album Partial Knowledge, and curating an immersive sound installation, “Forest in a City,” using wooden panels from an 800-year old tree found preserved in a Georgia swamp as speaker-objects. I teach composition and electronic music at Emory University, and I am active as a violinist and recording engineer/videographer in the free improvisation scene in Atlanta.
Miser
Miser is the ritual electronics unit founded by John Hudnall and Drew Girard, existing as improvisatory live performance, installations, and recorded output. In practice, Miser serves as a reality disassembly tool, using sound forms to create ritual space and perceptual portals, inspired by organic, technological, and imagined sources.
Mike Olson
Mike Olson is a Minneapolis based composer with a richly eclectic musical history. Both self-taught and Classically trained, he received a Bachelor of Music in composition and theory from the University of Minnesota, where he studied composition with Dominic Argento, Eric Stokes, Lloyd Ultan and Paul Fetler. After college, Mike went on to receive various grants and fellowships, including two McKnight fellowships, a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Meet the Composer, the Jerome Foundation and the American Composer's Forum among others.
JC Scheid
Justin Clark Scheid is a composer, performer, sound artist, and production technician based in Los Angeles, California. He enjoys writing music for both acoustic and electronic mediums, often collaborating with other artists to create unique environmental experiences. In recent years, he has worked extensively with dancers and choreographers to create both staged and immersive works. He is a co-founding member of the sound and vision project Cannibalistic Caterpillar. Outside of work, Justin is an avid DIY enthusiast and enjoys building synthesizers and working with microcontrollers. As hobbies he collects vinyl records, bad jokes, and flannel shirts. He can also make excellent peanut butter and banana smoothies and home-baked breads.
Bes / Brody Scott
Bes is the solo composition project of Brody Scott, which focuses on textural composition, experimental production, and world building through soundscape. Brody Scott (UNR ‘21, CalArts ‘24) is a performer and composer based in the Los Angeles area.
Davy Sumner
Davy Sumner is an installation artist, improviser, instrument builder, and sound designer based in Los Angeles. His original works are spawned out of physics, biology, and sensory perception, often utilizing electromechanics, vintage recording hardware, and feedback-based systems as key elements. He specializes in devising processes that are animated, unpredictable, and often stand to incite interpersonal interaction between audience and performer.
Christine Webster
Christine Webster is a French composer, sound designer, and researcher. She studied electroacoustic music with Jean Schwartz, then worked for film and television. For the past 15 years, she has been exploring new spaces for creating and broadcasting electroacoustic music in shared digital spaces of virtual reality (PhD. Université de Paris 8, CICM, EnsadLabs) as well as for traditional multichannel compositions. She also performs live as a modular synthesist, both in groups (Open Women Orchestra, Collectif Rotule, ...) and solo (Modularium, Switch#9, Iklektik London, Horlusfestival Sweden, ...)
Daniel Warner
Traversing classical modernism, experimental music, progressive rock, free jazz, and post-techno electronica, Daniel Warner's musical career has militantly transgressed musical boundaries. After starting out as a drummer in garage bands, Warner decided to become a composer upon discovering Edgard Varèse through the early music of Frank Zappa. He attended Princeton University, earning an M.F.A. and Ph.D. studying computer music and composition with Milton Babbitt and Paul Lansky and experimental music and improvisation with J.K. Randall. Warner has studied, taught, and performed widely in places such as Helsinki, Buenos Aires, Rome, and Aarhus, Denmark. His teaching and workshops have been marked by a spirit of collaboration with humanists, scientists, and artists.
Warner published his Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music with Reaction Books, London in 2019. Live Wires traces the many paths of electronic music though technology itself and through emerging performance practices.
His co-edited Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, an annotated collection of writings on experimental music practices from John Cage and Pierre Schaeffer through DJ culture, is used widely in sound studies.
Clementine Wink
Clementine Wink is a noise artist, Chicago-to-Los Angeles transplant, and multi-instrumentalist. She has performed under the moniker Hen of the Woods since 2017. She draws inspiration from an abundance of modern and post-modern artists, as well as from the harmony and dissonance of human communication. Wink is deeply indebted to the scattered international community of DIY artists who make time and space for oddness.
Huichun Yang
Huichun Yang is a Taiwanese sound artist, improviser, and composer based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her practice investigates the relationship between breath, body, and environment through spatial audio and electroacoustic performance. She works with mouth-resonated instruments such as balloons and mouth harps, as well as hand-built wooden instruments including the arbrasson and daxophone, alongside DIY electronics and computer-based sound programming. Her spatial sound environments explore thresholds, embodied gesture, and relational listening, reflecting on the in-between spaces of land, sound, water, culture, code, and vibration in air.
Huichun holds an MFA in Digital Media from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been presented at ICMC (Boston, 2025), Non-event (Boston, 2025), Residual Noise (Providence, 2025), and SOUND/IMAGE Festival (London, 2024). She has led livecoding workshops at RISD and NYU ITP and is the recipient of the RISD Graduate Commons Grant Fellowship (2025).
Akiva Zamcheck
Akiva Zamcheck is a musician and musicologist from Bronx, NY. His research focuses on contemporary music and urban political struggles. His creative work combines history, news/media analysis, and audio experiments. He completed his PhD at New York University, and currently teaches music history and electronic music at Lafayette College in Easton, PA.