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Annie Baxter	Annie Baxter is a reporter at Minnesota Public Radio, where she has curated a series on nature sounds and regularly gathers scintillating sonic events known as "sound bytes".



Ascsoms	London based audio artist Adam J Wimbush (Ascsoms) primarily works with processed field recordings, electronics and acoustic elements. His compositions are assembled from the results of numerous improvised and manipulated sonic experiments. Home Page

Lori Beckstead	Lori Beckstead is a professor of audio and digital media at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Home Page

Bryce Beverlin II	Bryce Beverlin II is an artist residing in Minneapolis where he explores various forms of art including free improvisational music, contact improvisational dance, guerrilla public performance, film and video, poetry, public and private installation, and conceptual composition. Bryce started the record label, insides music, in 1999 along with psionic art publishing. He currently studies physics and astrophysics at the University of Minnesota Home Page

C. fieldechoes	C. is a Romanian sound artist, mathematician, IT specialist by studies; he is an abstract sound, minimalist music creator and a drummer by vocation. His approach is taking music, the sound vibrations as an essential component that makes the "I" entity a becoming "whole." Further on, the way to achieve this is through interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, with no boundaries or certain styles but more approaches from many directions to realize the "I" projection, the "abbildung" of self. His creations are from this perspective, mostly thematic works also field recordings and transiental music (*term coined by C.), he activates under ABBILDUNG, Fractaled, C. fieldechoes names. He is the owner of Essentia Mundi label. Home Page

Jaron Childs	Jaron Childs is an artist active in a variety of media, from his work with the experimental performance collective Brown Rainbow to original paintings showcased recently in a solo show at the Soo Visual Art Center in Minneapolis.

Viv Corringham	Viv Corringham is a British musician and sound artist, based in Minnesota and London, UK, who has worked internationally since the early 1980s. Recent commissions for Corringham's work have come from Rochester Art Center, MN, Soundworks Festival- Ireland, Strange Strolls- Australia, Women's Electro-acoustic Listening Room- Cal State, CA, Heritage Festival and Midsummer Festival- Ireland, Colourscape Music Festival- UK, Drift Festival- Scotland, Placard Headphone Festival- UK, 6000 Chairs Festival-UK, Hearing Place - Australia, San Francisco Alt, CA, Freedom of the City-UK, London International Festival of Theatre and The Sound Art Museum, Italy. She has been broadcast in Britain on BBC, Resonance FM, and Channel 4 TV, and in the USA on WFMU, WMSE and MPR radio stations. Home Page

Rob Danielson	Rob Danielson is an Associate Professor Department of Film, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Rob is a proponent of field recording of all types and frequent discussant on the naturerecordist and phonography lists. His long-duration field recordings in remote, quiet locations have been featured in surround sound installations and planetaria including the Star Rider Theatre at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Home Page

Mike Hallenbeck	Mike Hallenbeck is a musician and audio artist who adopts sounds both hither and yon, brings them home to play with each other, and helps them decide what they'll be when they grow up. Hallenbeck's audio works have recently been featured on the NY Society for Acoustic Ecology's "8 Sound Works" compilation and Belly of the Whale's CD/ installation project (audio works derived from samples of marine life). Recent installations featuring Hallenbeck's sounds include the "Unsilently" group exhibition at the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, MA and commissioned soundtracks for Monika Bravo's "No_Name [ Frequency + Repetition ]" at Centro De Arte Caja De Burgos in Burgos, Spain. Hallenbeck often records and releases music under the name Archive; look for the latest release "Living Daylight Savings Time" from stasisfield.com soon. Hallenbeck also curated the Thaw compilation. Home Page

Ernst Karel	Ernst Karel works with analog electronics and with location recordings, sometimes separately, sometimes in combination, to create audio pieces that move between the abstract and the documentary. Home Page

Nathan Larson	Duluth-Minnesota native Nathan Larson has been creating various forms of electronic and experimental music for over 12 years under the names Samsa, Bunk Data, and Royal Obtuse. Nathan was one of the co-founders of the Green House Music label that released a wide variety of atmospheric and ambient music on CD from 1999-2002. In late 2002 Nathan created the Dark Winter net.label with a focus on dark ambient music. Besides his work with Dark Winter, Nathan is co-curating the Wandering Ear net.label with Mike Hallenbeck. Home Page

Abinadi Meza	Abinadi Meza is a sound artist whose work has been included in exhibitions, festivals, and broadcasts worldwide. In 2004 he was awarded a Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists, and in 2006 he is an artist in residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. Home Page

Michelle Nagai	Based in Brooklyn, composer Michelle Nagai utilizes sound, physicality and concept to create site-specific performances, installations, radio broadcasts, dances and other interactions that address the human state in relationship to its setting. These works and activities explore the exchange of perception between performer and audience/viewer. Recent projects incorporate through-composed and improvised music for acoustic instruments and electronics, as well as natural environments, found objects, video, costumes, text and material structures fabricated from a variety of media. Nagai's work has been presented throughout the US, Canada and in Europe and has been supported by the American Composers Forum, Harvestworks, the Jerome and McKnight Foundations, Meet the Composer and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Home Page

Lance Olsen	In the 90's Lance became interested in audio work, particularly field recordings and their possibilities. He is very interested in the work of Friedrich Jurgenson and audioscopic investigations. He's also very interested in the works of people like Keiji Haino, John Cage, Charlie Parker, Phill Niblock and Butoh. This all makes for a very interesting combination of affairs for the mind. Still Painting. Performing Butoh and making videos. Home Page

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Michael Palace	Michael Palace composes music under the name horchata. His music focuses on four major elements: complex beat music, dark ambient soundscapes, programmed compositional glitch music, and field recordings. Often a composition will include several of these elements. Palace works as a research scientist at the University of New Hampshire's Complex System Research Center. His work there focuses on necromass or dead wood in Amazonia. During his numerous field visits to the rainforest, he has recorded sounds using various microphones and minidisk recorders. Finally, video and images have begun to feature more in Palace's live performances, using video that was shot in Amazonia and generated by computer programs. Home Page

Dave Rose	Dave Rose is an award-winning sound editor and designer for film and television and lives in Toronto.

Matthew Sansom	Matthew Sansom is a musician, sound artist and lecturer. He teaches computer-based composition, free improvisation and soundscape studies at the University of Surrey, UK and has had work exhibited and performed internationally. Home Page

Greg Schaefer	Greg Schaefer has played guitar/ trumpet in some type of ensemble for the last 30 years and enjoys making field recordings, but usually forgets his recorder, so he has a rich library in his memory.

Jonathan Zorn	Jonathan Zorn keeps moving between the East Coast, West Coast, and the Midwest. It is not that he can't make up his mind, it is that his mind is set on something that can't be found in any one place. He is currently pursuing a Masters degree in music composition at Wesleyan University where he corrupts future world leaders with experimental music.

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