Scott Carrier
is an American author, radio producer, and educator. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is currently finishing his second book and is a professor in the Department of Communication at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Hector Centeno
is Technical Coordinator and webmaster at NAISA. He is a sound artist, music composer and multimedia producer (video/web/graphics). He first composed exclusively for instrumental chamber music ensembles but since 2004 his work has been devoted to the sonic arts, transforming soundscapes and other recorded sounds. His work is inspired mainly in the practices of Zen and it's ways of approaching art creation and reality through meditation, searching for a good balance between spontaneous, intuitive expression and rationality. He is also interested in sound design for theater and film, in multichannel sound spatialization and in Open Source software. His electroacoustic pieces have been performed at the Sounds Electric '05 festival in Ireland, Sound Travels and Sound Play festivals in Toronto, Nuit Blanche festival, Concordia University in Montreal and as part of the AngelusNovus.net composers collective at other venues in Toronto. www.hcenteno.net

Andrea Dancer
is a radio art and feature producer, published poet, and soundscape composer working internationally in Vancouver and Prague. She has produced radio documentaries for the CBC and NPR. She is a member of Vancouver's Soundwalk Collective, the Canadian Association of Sound Ecology, and the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.

Victoria Fenner
is a writer, journalist and sound artist living in Hamilton Ontario. She takes a creative approach towards sound making, using her microphone to gather sounds and her computer to organize them in ways which reflect the way she hears the world . In addition to her own compositions, she has also created sound art anthologies of artists across Canada which have been played on radio stations internationally. Her main interest now is to help people explore their own lives, their communities and their world through electronic media. With a background in both journalism and art, one of her goals is to create, and help others create, works which portray reality in a creative and evocative way. She has worked in community and public radio in Canada and the United States, and is now an independent producer creating multimedia works for the internet. She has recently returned from Central America where she gathered material for the radio and podcast series The Green Planet Monitor www.greenplanetmonitor.net

Anna Friz
is a sound and radio artist. From the childhood fiction of "the little people in the radio" to multi-channel radiophonic installations, she creates dynamic, atmospheric works equally able to reflect upon public media culture or to reveal interior landscapes. Friz has performed and exhibited installation works at festivals and venues across North America, Europe, and in Mexico. Her radio art/works have been commissioned by national public radio in Canada, Austria, Germany, Danmark, Spain, and Mexico, and heard on independent airwaves in more than 15 countries. Anna Friz is currently completing her doctorate in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities, Toronto, and is a free103point9.org transmission artist. nicelittlestatic.com

Andreas Kahre
is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist, musician, writer and designer. who works with performance, installation and sound art, often in collaboration with Darren Copeland. As a writer, set and sound designer, dramaturg and director, Andreas has been involved in the creation of well over a hundred theatre, dance, media and music projects, site-related performances, and interdisciplinary performance projects across Canada and internationally. For more than ten years, he worked at the Western Front in Vancouver , where he was one of the director/curators and editor of FRONT Magazine, and taught as sessional and adjunct faculty at the Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing at UBC. Andreas' audio work has been commissioned and presented at festivals and venues that include Deutschlandradio Kultur, CBC Radio, Akousma, Electro Radio Days, Deep Wireless, The Western Front, NAC Ottawa, the Elektra Festival of Media Arts and PuSh.

Frank Kaspar
is a freelance radio author and radioart curator. In 2007 he directed the “Woche des Hörspiels” (Week of Radiodrama) at Academy of Arts, Berlin, together with Gaby Hartel. As a team they curated the German-Czech radioart-project “rádio d-cz” (2008/09) and, along with Marius Babias and Katrin Klingan, the exhibition “Sounds. Radio - Art - New Music” at n.b.k., Berlin (Feb 13 - March 28 2010), in the framework of “Zipp – German-Czech Cultural Projects”, an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. www.projekt-zipp.de.

Reena Katz
uses recorded sound, handmade electronics, wood and live performance to create diverse listening spaces. She was born in Guelph, Ontario in 1975, and is currently based out of Toronto. Her work explores gender, ethnicity, migration and anachronism with a constant reference to collectivity and oral archive. Katz focuses on the use and re-use of analog sound technologies, as well as fibers and materials from a variety of wounded landscapes. Guided by a deep love of collaboration, Katz has developed an inventive and strong voice across disciplines. Her collaborations include film and video, poetry, dance and grassroots organizing. She teaches music, listening practice and audio production in a variety of educational settings. Katz’s compositions, installations and performances have been exhibited at galleries, festivals and on radio internationally, including Toronto, Montreal, New York and Berlin. She received Best New Artist Award from Third Coast International Audio Festival, Chicago, 2003 for her work CAN YOU SAY HAA?. http:radiodress.ca

Kathy Kennedy
is a sound artist with a background in classical singing. Her art practise generally involves the voice and issues of interface with technology, often using telephony or radio. She is also involved in community art, and is a founder of the digital media center for women in Canada, Studio XX, as well as the innovative choral group for women Choeur Maha. Her large scale sonic installation/performances for up to 100 singers and radio, called "sonic choreographies," have been performed internationally including the inauguration of the Vancouver New Public Library and at the Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Series. Her solo performances include a high level of improvisation over lush soundtracks of painstakingly mixed vocals and other sounds to create an immersive world of different voices. www.kathykennedy.ca

Sook-Yin Lee
is a Toronto-based musician, actor, filmmaker and TV and radio broadcaster. She fronted the art-rock band; Bob’s Your Uncle and was a VJ at MuchMusic. She hosts and produces the irreverent salon-style radio show Definitely Not the Opera on CBC Radio 1. Her award winning short films Unlocked, Girl Cleans Sink and Escapades of the one Particular Mr. Noodle have screened internationally. Sook-Yin stars in the John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) adventurous comedy,SHORTBUS that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival '05. She wrote, directed and acted in a chapter, The Brazilian, in the movie, TORONTO STORIES. 2010 marks her feature-movie writing and directing debut; YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE produced by Screen Siren Pictures and the Film Farm, hits theatres across Canada June 18 (AMC Theatres Yonge & Dundas in Toronto). A companion concept album of Original Music From and Inspired by the Movie Year of the Carnivore by Buck 65, Adam Litovitz and Sook-Yin Lee, on Last Gang Records, will have its launch in addition to a screening of the movie at NXNE Music Festival in Toronto, in June 2010. LINKS: www.yearofthecarnivore.com www.cbc.ca/dnto twitter.com/sookyinlee www.myspace.com/sookyinlee

Emmanuel Madan
is a composer and sound artist based in Montreal. In 1993, he completed studies in electroacoustic composition under the direction of Francis Dhomont. Since 1998, his primary activities have been centred around the reclamation and subversion or transformation of found sonic environments, attempting to regain a sense of agency and ownership within environments which are foreign or hostile. He has participated in the artistic collaboration [The User], whose projects to date include the Symphony for dot matrix printers and Silophone. He has been active as a community radio broadcaster continuously between 1992 and 1996, and intermittently since then. His recent radio interventions include FREEDOM HIGHWAY which documents and remixes American religious and right-wing political broadcasts intercepted between 2002 and 2004, A Series Of Broadcasts Addressing the Limitlessness of Time which aired weekly on CKUT-FM in Montreal from 2006 to 2007, and the experimental multi-channel transmission work The Joy Channel co-created with Anna Friz in 2007-2008. Madan also works as an independent sound art curator, most recently on SIMULCAST 1.0b : Saskatoon, a project in which four sound artists are each invited to create an unchanging radio broadcast.

Christof Migone
is an artist, writer, and curator. He co-edited the book and CD Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 2001) and his writings have been published in Aural Cultures, S:ON, Experimental Sound & Radio, Musicworks, Radio Rethink, Semiotext(e), Angelaki, Esse, Inter, etc. He currently lives in Toronto and is a lecturer at the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery. www.christofmigone.com/html/cvbio.html

Götz Naleppa
was born in East Prussia in 1943. Studies of drama, German literature and history of the arts in Berlin and Madrid, 1970 doctor’s degree in philology at the university Freie Universität, Berlin. Assistant producer at the theatre Schiller-Theater in Berlin; freelance activities as producer of theatre and radio plays, as author and translator. Since 1970, Götz Naleppa has produced and directed innumerable radio plays, initially for the Radio ‘RIAS Berlin’, later for Deutschlandradio and for nearly every public broadcasting corporation in Germany. He is one of the most well-known and most experienced directors of radio plays in Germany. In the first place, his work includes literary radio plays, but also thrillers, plays for children, comedies or documentaries. In the 80s he turned towards musical and experimental radio play forms and towards sound composition. Teaching assignments at the Technical University and the Academy of Fine Arts, both in Berlin; workshops and direction work in Latin America followed. From 1994 to 1996 he set up of the radio play departments of Deutschlandradio (Cologne/Berlin) as head of the radio play departments of both broadcasting centers. Since 1997 he worked as producer and editor for Deutschlandradio (responsible editor for sound art). Naleppa left Deutschlandradio end of 2008 in order to work as freelance producer, translator and media artist. Numerous prizes for radio play direction (many times Radio Play of the Month ‘Hörspiel des Monats’, Prix Europa, Prix Marulic, Gold Medal of New York Festivals, Prix Italia and others).

Emmy Pantin
is a community artist living in Toronto whose focus is on community outreach. She works as at the Toronto Centre for Digital Storytelling and as the part-time Jane’s Walk Operations Director.

Ian Pringle
has been working with community media for more than twenty years, in Canada, South Asia and internationally. Ian returned to Canada in January 2008 to work with the Commonwealth of Learning where he directs a programme on community-based learning.

Sue Schardt
is Executive Director of the Association of Independents in Radio. AIR's extensive professional/social network of 760 audio-makers extends across 44 US states and 10 countries worldwide, and includes a spectrum of leading pubradio journalists, sounds artists, and new media pioneers working independently and at leading stations and networks.

Julie Shapiro
is artistic director of the Chicago-based Third Coast International Audio Festival. She also teaches radio documentary around Chicago, is a DJ with CHIRPradio.org, can occasionally be heard on the public radio airwaves, and keeps a blog about sound(s). (notetheslantoftheovals.blogspot.com)

Charles Stankievech
is a writer, curator, educator and artist that often works with the material of sound to look at how we construct space. He recently started the KIAC School of Visual Arts in Dawson City, Yukon and is a digital media researcher for the University of the Arctic.

Gregory Whitehead
is an internationally renowned radiomaker and audio artist, with credits of well over one hundred radio plays, essays and acoustic adventures. The London Daily Telegraph has reviewed his work as “extraordinarily seductive and involving”, while his Sony Gold Academy Award winning The Loneliest Road was hailed as “a master class of sound”. Gregory is also a frequent performer in literary cabarets and off off theatre, and a featured guest speaker at conferences and festivals throughout the US and Europe. A life long voice soloist and chorister with a special interest in unusual harmonics, Gregory presently sings with the global music choir, Boston Harmony. Together with Darren and Nadene, he has long dreamed of a Deep Wireless Camerata, a juiced and jiggered cabaret cousine that would celebrate the paradoxes and possibilities of the radio voice. On y va!