Aki Onda is a self-taught electronic musician, composer, producer, photographer, and multi-media artist. He's particularly known for his Cassette Memories project - works compiled from a "sound diary" of field-recordings collected over a span of two decades. Experimental guitarist Alan Licht first got his start as a member of such outfits as Blue Humans, Love Child, and Run On, and his playing style has been likened to a combination of free jazz and minimalism. Licht & Onda have been performing as a duo since 2001 in the U.S. and Europe, and released their debut album Everydays on Family Vineyard in 2008. The combination of real-time improvisation with cassettes imbued with traces of personal history and guitar, each played through tube amps, is unique both to the experimental scene and to each man’s body of work.

Voltigeurs is Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Total) on esp guitar & polyvox and Samantha Davies on ibanez guitar & polyvox. Solid granite vertiginous castle walls rear up out of noxious mists, ivy crawls over obsidian, icy winds sweep through ruined halls, the forbidding forest stands eternal, and on the nightside of the tree the quicksilver frogs are leaping sideways, obliquely, through space and time...

Encompassing various forms, including improvised music, field recording, film soundtrack, sound installation and radio broadcast, Lee Patterson's work is characterised by the revelation of subliminal or barely audible sounds. Utilising commonplace materials and invented methodologies, his practice aims toward a new understanding of his surroundings by altering perceptions of everyday reality. Benedict Drew is an artist who works in performance, sound and video. Current projects include a collaboration with artist Emma Hart and the trio Portable with Rhodri Davies and Louisa Martin. Benedict has also worked with Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M as well as composing the soundtracks for five films by Emily Richardson.

Delving into the realm of deep listening, transported by way of analog synthesizers, Family Battle Snake weaves an electronic web that cocoons the listener in warm cascading frequencies. Family Battle Snake is Bill Kouligas, a Berlin/London-based greek who has been active in this project since 2003, established through an ongoing touring schedule (over 200 shows in Europe, Scandinavia, United Kingdom and United States) and an extensive back catalogue of releases on many European and American labels. He is also a member of Sudden Infant, a Berlin-based concrete noise project run by Joke Lanz. He recently started running his own art and record label project 'PAN', releasing limited art edition vinyl records (Joke Lanz & R.Eb.er, ILIOS, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Astro, Andy Ortmann, Mark Durgan).

Seymour Wright is a saxophone player who plays saxophone music about the saxophone – music, history and technique – actual and potential. He grew up in Derby surrounded by art, jazz and improvised music and has for the last decade been a regular participant in Eddie Prévost’s weekly workshop in London. He currently plays in a range of groups primarily with close musical associates such as Jamie Coleman, Ross Lambert, John Lely, Sebastian Lexer and Eddie Prévost. His collaborative and solo music is rooted in an interest in learning, history and future.

Valerio Cosi is a 24 year-old experimental musician from Italy active since 2006. Many of his recordings were originally released in limited (sometimes ultra limited) quantities through cd-r labels and now come renewed and re-mastered in sound. Valerio started making solo experimental music back in the late 90’s which was mostly recorded in his home. His first released recording called “Immortal Attitudes” (2006), a work recorded a year before, contains the most recognizable sounds developed by Cosi through his musical years. When he blows his horn, he channels the ghosts of Coltrane, Ayler, Coleman, and others. Expect free jazz, electronics, saxophone and lots of psychedelic atmospheres.

John Butcher was born in Brighton, England and has lived in London since the late 1970s. His music ranges through free improvisation, various structurings, his own compositions, multitracked saxophone pieces and work with live electronics, amplification and feedback. He has toured and broadcast in Europe, Japan, Australia and North America, and was featured, playing solo, in the BBC TV programme Date with an Artist. Compositions include pieces for Chris Burn’s Ensemble, the Austrian group Polwechsel, the Australian ensemble Elision and the American Rova Saxophone Quartet.

Mark Wastell is a London-based sound artist and composer. Wastell builds enormous atmospheres on the Tam Tam with very little actual movement; his music is dark, deep and beautiful. Slow movements build up sonic pulses that are able to take over rooms and buildings. He has collaborated with many people including Rhodri Davies, Bernard Gunter, Evan Parker, Mattin, Tony Conrad, Keith Rowe, Otomo Yoshihide, Derek Bailey, Joachim Nordwall, Toshimaru Nakamura and Burkhard Beins.

N.E.W is Nobles' power trio, featuring John Edwards on double bass and Alex Ward on guitar. In the words of Jazzwise magazine, "There's as much rock here as jazz - Ward is all spidery glissandi and slashing power chords. Edwards is a dark magus of a bass player thundering against the elements, while Noble is a violent, malevolent presence. A white-knuckle ride you'll be glad to take".

From playing with Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde, Rip Rig and Panic, Brion Gysin and the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, Steve Noble went on to work with the pianist Alex Maguire and with Derek Bailey (including Company Weeks 1987,89 and 90) and was featured, along with Alex Ward, in the TV series based on Bailey's book Improvisation; its nature and practise. He has been managing director for the Spanish dance company MAL PELO since 1998. Noble also runs the record company Ping Pong Productions.

Since taking up the double bass in 1987 and playing with the Pointy Birds and the Cholomondeleys dance company, John Edwards went on to play with B Shops for the Poor ,The Honkies and GOD as well as busking in the street and composing and performing music theatre with The Great Explorers. Since the early 1990s he has built a reputation as one of the finest and most in demand bass players currently active on the British and European improv/ jazz and New music scenes. A solo double bass cd ‘VOLUME’ was released in 2008 on the PSI label.

Born in 1974, Alex Ward has been active in free improvisation since being given his first gig by Derek Bailey in 1987, going on to work with a wide range of musicians as a clarinettist (sometimes also on alto sax), and increasingly as a guitarist. His debut recording Ya boo, reel and rumble, a duo with Noble, was released in 1990 on Bailey's label Incus,to great critical acclaim. He has played in bands led by Simon Fell and Eugene Chadbourne, as well as his own quartet "Help Point", featuring Fell, Steve Noble and Luke Barlow (with whom he runs the label Copepod). He currently writes the material for “Dead Days Beyond Help”, a 2-piece band with drummer Jem Doulton.