Carlos Amaya
Carlos Amaya is an experimental artist based in Southern California. Working with analog electronics he creates surreal and contrasting soundscapes that push and pull at the realms of electronic sound. Carlos is a self taught artist who has performed at various DIY festivals throughout Southern California and he continues to push the boundaries of experimental electronic sound.
blanket forts x seachael
blanket forts is Mike Esposito (b. 1975), a Los Angeles based experimental electronic musician. His music attempts to blur the lines between “dance” and “listening” music, with the hope of providing the listener the opportunity to do both or neither when experiencing it. To this end, he uses a variety of hardware and software, including but not limited to virtual modular synths, samplers, and DAWs. The main blanket forts credo can be summed up as “make up the rules and follow them” — in much the same way as one would construct a blanket fort of their own.
seachael is the moniker of multidisciplinary artist, Sean McAllen (b.1975) based in Pasadena, California. Exploring the kinship between sounds both autochthonous and exotic—through synthesis, field recordings, and feedback— where radiancy meets the umbra.
Blevin Blectum
Bevin Kelley (who also performs as Blevin Blectum) develops electronic sound-sci-fi fantasy in its most decadent audio-visual and multimedia technicolor forms. “Her work is a sonic dream of an optimistic (if sometimes disquieting) future-electronic-music fantasia, unspooling like a fever dream of whispers, birdcalls, metallic jangles and florid piano samples, breaking into an alien discotheque, bouncing rhythmic filters. (The Wire)” Current projects include an ongoing field recording heavy science/art/music collaboration with UC Santa Barbara’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity, and an opera of sorts for string quartet, electronic music, and voices, commissioned by award winning author/librettist China Miéville (first selection performed in October 2025).
Andre Bregegere
Andre Bregegere is a Queens-based composer, educator, and visual artist whose current creative practice focuses on live hardware improvisation and electronic media. His acoustic and electro-acoustic compositions have been performed by leading contemporary ensembles, including the Mivos Quartet and Cygnus Ensemble, at notable venues such as Carnegie Hall and Symphony Space.
Bregegere's electronic work centers on expanding the usable sonic repertoire, bridging the continuum between precise synthesis, dense noise, and manipulated found sounds. Operating without pre-composed scores, his live performances treat interconnected, tactile hardware configurations as active improvisational partners and temporary, self-contained instruments assembled for the moment. He documents his ongoing research, design, and live performance sets with boutique hardware electronics and modular synthesis on his YouTube channel, @abregegere.
Bregegere holds a PhD in music composition from the CUNY Graduate Center and is a scholar of post-war music theory. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Music, teaching at William Paterson University and Queensborough Community College.
Colin Drake
Colin Drake (he/him) is an improvising electronic musician from Austin, Texas. His in-the-moment, intuitive music tunnels from expressions of lyrical noise to ambient soundscapes and back. Working with custom software and hardware noise boxes, his approach blends hi-fi computer music and lo-fi analog electronics. His work has been released by Miniature Recs, Toneburst, and Slow Tone Collage.
EERIÆRMOR
EERIÆRMOR is the solo project of Kevin Gan Yuen (b.1981), a Bay Area-based multidisciplinary artist and designer. Active since 2005 and better known for his work with Sutekh Hexen and the globally published design studio VIRALOPTIC. Initiated in 2021, EERIÆRMOR explores psychoacoustic impressions through immersive soundscapes built from granular synthesis, guitar, and field recordings, focusing on themes of memory, transformation, and the tension between beauty and brutality.
Kole Galbraith
Kole Galbraith is a multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on sound, audio-visual, and found-object installation. Based in Seattle, Washington Kole Galbraith has been active in the underground experimental music community for the past decade performing throughout the United States and Europe. Sonically his sonic studio compositions are informed by early 20th century French musique-concrète, metal, jazz and contemporary composition. Thematically, the compositions are influenced by interior Salish folklore, and contemporary indigenous experience. Galbraith mixes using materials found in nature with electronic techniques to uncover both latent sonic capabilities and to uncover latent histories. Galbraith has released albums on his own label, Obscure & Terrible, and other labels such as SIGE, Krim Kram, and Titania Tapes.
Josh Gerowitz
Joshua Gerowitz is a composer, performer, improviser, and guitarist who resides in Los Angeles. His work is concerned with live human interaction, the juxtaposition of premeditation and spontaneity, as well as the fickle nature of our perceptual senses. He has written and performed music that involves everything from traditional instruments to bottom-shelf beer tastings, knife sharpening, ping pong, and surfing. Gerowitz has performed in many different settings and locations including but not limited to Teatro Manzoni, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Dotolim, Paradise Rock Club, REDCAT, Bowtie Project, Clockshop, Firehouse 12, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. His recordings have been referred to as “eccentric and original work of multidimensional and captivating music” (Vital Weekly), and he has been called “a creative soul with hugely impressive chops, as his keen vision is assertively concentrated on blazing newer trails” (All About Jazz). Gerowitz is a cofounder (along with Georgia Bell) of SatanNotSatan, a community based multi-disciplinary artistic salon founded in 2014. He holds a B.M. in guitar performance from Berklee College of Music and an M.F.A. from CalArts in Performance/Composition.
Seamus Guy
Seamus Guy is an old-time musician, composer, and theorist based in San Pedro, California. An alumnus of Berklee College of Music (BM ‘18) and CalArts (MFA ‘26), he has spent the last few years using computers to think about his banjo and using his banjo to think about everything else. Seamus would like to personally tell you all the alternate names “The Drunken Hiccups,” and explain how that reflects the importance of the tune to North American fiddlers, but he recognizes that you have places to be and so refers you to seamusguy.com for future perusal.
Charlotte Leamon
Charlotte Leamon is a Sydney-based composer and sound artist whose work explores radical sound worlds, often shaped by environmental themes. Working across chamber music, electroacoustic composition, installations and theatre, Charlotte creates immersive works that investigate the relationship between sound, space and perception.
Charlotte’s work has been presented internationally with recent showcases including Mexico for the Chicharra Festival, London as part of the International Sound Art Exhibition, Melbourne at Sleepless Festival in Footscray, and Berlin for the Artspring Lauschsalon. Charlotte was selected for the international call for works as part of the 5th edition of the Sound Ecology Research Music festival in Grenoble, France and for La Hora Acusmática in Argentina.
In 2026 Charlotte has the world premiere of her work Déjà Vu for piano and tape as part of the ANAM Set and Intertidal Pools for Scalp Ensemble. Last year she was commissioned by the Australian Haydn Ensemble and wrote a work celebrating the Australian dingo. Her environmental sound work from Bangkok was exhibited at Parramatta Lanes Festival through the Global Mobility Scholarship. Her series Refractional, commissioned by RMIT, premiered at the Melbourne Recital Centre while other works have been featured at Australian festivals including Inner West Sounds, the Australasian Computer Music Conference, and Whispers and Roars Festival.
Kerrith Livengood
Composer Kerrith Livengood’s works have been performed at the SEAMUS Conference, KISS 2018, ACO’s SONiC Festival, June in Buffalo, Bargemusic, CCM’s MusicX festivals, the North American Saxophone Alliance annual conference, the Atlantic Music Festival, the Contemporary Undercurrent of Song series, the Cortona Sessions, and Alia Musica Pittsburgh’s Conductors Festival. She has written works for the JACK Quartet, Third Angle Ensemble, Duo Cortona, Altered Sound Duo, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Beattie and pianist Adam Marks, soprano Amy Petrongelli, and the h2 Quartet. Her music features complex grooves, lyricism, noise, and humor. She is also a flutist, drummer, technologist, and improviser, who performs collaborative and experimental works created by herself and others. She received her doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, and previously taught theory and composition at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Kerrith is also Managing Director of the New Music On The Point Festival, a summer festival for experimental and contemporary music.
Pedro Lopes
Pedro Lopes is a Chicago-based musician that plays turntables as a full-fledged musical instrument, which means they are bowed, percussed, scratched, subversed & hacked. Pedro has played in venues such as Transmediale, Jazz em Agosto, Serralves Foundation, Ljubljana Jazz Festival, Experimental Sound Studio, Ausland, Constellation, Fylkingen, CCRMA, Out.Fest, CCRMA , Knockdown Center, and Rescaldo to name a few. Pedro collaborated with many lovely artists: Dj Sniff, Rodrigo Amado , Carlos Zíngaro, André Gonçalves, Gabriel Ferrandini, Ondness, Pedro Sousa, and in ensembles conducted by William Winant (Zorn’s Cobra), Reinhold Friedl & Ernesto Rodrigues. Since 2023, Pedro has been learning/playing gamelan with the Chicago Javanese Gamelan.
Nerve Maps
Nerve Maps is the current project of Travis Feldman, drummer, experimental composer, and instrument builder working with modular synthesizers, handmade electronics, physical interfaces, field recordings, and resonant systems. From 2011 to 2018, he developed Molecule Synth, a modular hardware instrument project focused on custom circuits, tactile control, and direct interaction with sound. With a focus on DIY electronics as a medium for self-expression, where interface, gesture, and circuit behavior become compositional material, Nerve Maps treats instruments as responsive environments, shaping sound through touch, space, resistance, and accident.
Sara Ramírez Márquez
Sara Ramírez Márquez is a composer from Bogotá. She studied Composition for Films and Media at Universidad de Los Andes and Electroacoustic Composition at the University of Birmingham.
Her works have been performed internationally in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Poland, Colombia, Argentina, and Thailand; and her original scores have featured in films officially selected for the Birmingham Film Festival and the Bogotá International Film Festival.
Her interests revolve around immersive sound, environmental sound, and religious studies.
Woody Mo
Woody Mo is a composer and interdisciplinary artist whose practice integrates composition, improvisation, screen scoring, interactive media, and audiovisual art. His work explores reinterpretations of traditional philosophy and folklore through contemporary media and performance practices. His sound practices focus on reconstructing acoustics through additive and subtractive processes, including amplification and filtering, which extend into multimedia practices centered on feedback systems and media conversion. His work has been presented in music festivals and multimedia exhibitions, including The WaveCave and Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival. Mo is currently an artist-in-residence at The Reef in Downtown Los Angeles. Mo received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts.
Senem Pirler
Senem Pirler (she/her) is an artist, sonic improviser, and educator. Pirler’s interdisciplinary work crosses over into sound art, composition, performance, video art, and installation. Born in Turkey, Pirler studied classical piano at Hacettepe State Conservatory, earned her M.M. in Music Technology from NYU Steinhardt, and her Ph.D. in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Pirler has exhibited work nationally and internationally, including performances at the EMPAC (NY), Roulette (NY), The Kitchen (NY), Carnegie Hall (NY), Mabou Mines (NY), Southbank Centre (London), Akademie der Künste (Berlin), Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA), Baryshnikov Arts Center (NY), MIT Museum (MA), and Montalvo Arts Center (CA). Her work has been recognized by institutions such as the LMCC, Harvestworks, Institute for Electronic Arts, PACT Zollverein, Signal Culture, and EMS Stockholm. Pirler has been awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in the category of Music/Sound in 2022 and the Malcolm Morse Award to honor the work of Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening in 2018. Pirler was a faculty member in Music at Bennington College from 2018 to 2024. Dr. Pirler joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2024.
Sofía Scheps
Sofia Scheps is a Uruguayan composer who graduated from the School of Music of the Universidad de la República (Uruguay), where she is currently assistant professor of Composition and Orchestration. In 2017 she completed a master's degree in Sound Art, at the University of Barcelona.
She works at the frontiers of experimental music, electroacoustic, mixed technique, chamber music and sound art, and has premiered works in concerts and festivals in Latin America, North America and Europe.
She has received national commissions from the Montevideo Philharmonic Orchestra (2022) and the Montevideo Symphonic Band (2024), as well as other commissions from ensembles in Argentina, Mexico, the United States and Germany.
She is also dedicated to sound design, musical composition and audio post-production for audiovisual pieces and performing arts
Dean Spunt
Dean Spunt is an artist and musician based in Los Angeles. He is best known for his two piece Noise Rock / Experimental Punk band No Age and running the Post Present Medium record label. He is based in Los Angeles.
Agapi Zarda
Agapi Zarda is a graduate of the Department of Science of Physical Education and Sports (UoA, 2011) with specialization in Creative Dance, and the Department of Early Childhood Education (UTH, 2019) with research interest in Creative Music Pedagogy and Sound Technologies. In recent years, she has been engaged in Electroacoustic composition, sound installation and creative coding. She holds a MA degree in sound art, “Sonic Arts and Audio Technologies” (Ionian University, 2024). She plays and studies trumpet (Athens Conservatoire with Ioannis Karampetsos) focusing on the practice of free improvisation. She is member of Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association.
Ben Zucker
Ben Zucker is an experimental composer and performer, interested in music’s unique capacities to model systems of change through a rigorous, dynamic play of contemplation and visceral immersion in sonic extremes. Starting from a background in jazz and theater, this speculation now regularly mixes in explorations of philosophy, improvisation, ambience, alternative notations, juxtapositions, and protocols. His practice includes “stirring compositions…built on a lifetime of musical curiosity” (Chicago Reader), and performances on vibraphone, brass, keys, voice, and electronics across styles. This intentionally diverse practice has included highlights such as compositions featured at the Berlin Philharmonie, London Roundhouse, and in PBS documentaries, residencies with OneBeat and the Stockholm EMS, and collaborations with groundbreaking musical figures ranging from Anthony Braxton to Sudan Archives. Deeply invested in the structural elements of musical life, their career has also involved extensive engagement with labor organizing, education, and project management. He lives in Chicago, working as a freelance artist, lecturer at Roosevelt University, President of New Music Chicago, and curator for Elastic Arts’ Improvised Music Series.
