 Olivia Block (USA)
is a contemporary composer and sound artist who combines field recordings, scored segments for acoustic instruments, and electronically generated sound. Her recorded work seeks to introduce and ultimately reconcile nature with artifice in the realms of music and sound. In the process, "organic" sound becomes subtly process, digitized, and abstracted; "inorganic" sound becomes self-replicating and animate; and "musical" elements such as chamber instruments are defamiliarized from their traditional associations, freeing them to participate in the larger aesthetic possibilities of sound. Block works with recorded media, chamber ensembles, video, and site specific sound installations. Currently resides in Chicago http://oliviablock.net/
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 Leif Elggren (Sweden)
Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of audio and visual. A writer, visual artist, stage performer and composer, he has many albums to his credits, solo and with the Sons of God, on labels such as Ash International, Touch, Radium and his own Firework Edition. His music, often conceived as the soundtrack to a visual installation or experimental stage performance, usually presents carefully selected sound sources over a long stretch of time and can range from mesmerizingly quiet electronics to harsh noise. His wide-ranging and prolific body of art often involves dreams and subtle absurdities, social hierarchies turned upside-down, hidden actions and events taking on the quality of icons. Together with artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff, he is a founder of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV) where he enjoys the title of King. They both curated the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2001. Currently resides in Stockholm www.leifelggren.org/
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 Tetsuo Furudate (Japan)
Was born in Tokyo.Started his career in experimental firm and video art in 1981.From middle of 80's,he gradually turned into music through performing art,contributing to the development of the Japanese noise music in its early period with other pioneers such as Merzbow. He spreads his activities over Europe since 1998,with many concerts not only CD releases,corroborating with Zbigniew Karkowski,Kasper T. Toeplitz and Leif Elggren. He achieved the premier show of his newest experimental noise opera,"Othello",at Podwil in Berlin in 2001.He stayed in Berlin as a artist residence of Podewil in 2003. During them he had premieres of "Wozzeck" at Podewil in Berlin and "Auditory Sence of Mr.Roderick Usher" at Dresdner Zentrums für zeditgenössische Musik (DZzM) in Dresden. "Auditory Senced...."won the BLAUE BRÜCKE prize 2003. He has collaboration works with Achim Wollscheid, Lillevän, Akemi Takeya, Sigrid Schnückel and others. http://www.tetsuofurudate.info/World_as_Will/
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 CM Von Hausswolff (Sweden)
is a Swedish composer currently working in Stockholm. His work involves studies of electricity, frequency, and intonation within the framework of a challenging conceptual ideology of sound. Much of his sound art incorporates the use of a tape recorder as the main instrument. Hausswolff's audiovisual installations have been shown at biennials in Istanbul and Johannesburg, and his music has been performed throughout Europe and North America. Together with artist Leif Elggren, he is a founder of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV) where he enjoys the title of King. They also curated the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2001.
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 ILIOS (Greece/Spain)
Born in Athens, Greece. For more than 15 years, ILIOS has been developing a unique code of expression in the field of digital musics and image. He proposes an extraordinary sound palette that changes in every project in order to protect an anti-career through a sound spectrum that starts from orthodox silence and ends to catholic noise. Has toured worldwide and released numerous works.Curatorial works include: “Electrograph – "Athens Sound Media” a festival on sound media in Athens, Greece ,(curator + co-director), [Un]Commonsounds project (co-director), SDR Muestra de Arte Sonoro Santander (curator + co-director) and sound events for the Athens Biennial (curator) among others. Since 1997 he runs Antifrost, a publishing platform/label for sound media. Resides in Santander www.siteilios.gr
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 Zbigniew Karkowski (Poland/Japan)
He was born in Krakow, Poland. Currently resides in Tokyo. He studied composition , aesthetics of modern music, sonology and computer music and also attended many summer composition master courses studying with Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Georges Aperghis, among others. He works actively as a composer of both acoustic and electroacoustic music. He has written pieces for large orchestra and is key figure of the international noise scene. Has toured extensively worldwide and released many works and collaborated with Merzbow, Pita, Francisco López, Kasper Toeplitz, Daniel Menche and others. http://www.tetsuofurudate.info/World_as_Will/
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 KREV (Elgaland / Vargaland)
Kingdoms of Elgaland - Vargaland. Founded in 1992.
Presentantion and embassy opening in Santander. www.elgaland-vargaland.org
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 Francisco López (Spain)
Born in Madrid, he is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the underground experimental music scene. Over the last twenty five years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, and sound installations in 50 countries of the five continents. His extended catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 100 international artists) has been released by more than 140 record labels worldwide, and he has been awarded twice with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival. Resides in Madrid www.franciscolopez.net
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