Mieke Anderson
is a Toronto-based radio producer. She graduated from Ryerson's 2 year broadcast journalism program in 2008. She currently works on Spacing Magazine's podcast and at CIUT's daily news and current affairs program. She also contributes to the audio documentary project.

Shannon Cochrane
is a Toronto based artist and performer. Her work has been presented at theatre festivals, performance art events, artist run centres and galleries big and small for all kinds of audiences throughout Toronto, and in Montréal, Halifax, Chile, Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the UK. In 2001, Shannon was commissioned by The Art Gallery of Ontario to create two new performance works in celebration of the AGO's 100th Anniversary. She has toured and performed with the internationally acclaimed theatre group Compagnié PME, (Montréal), artists Tanya Mars and Louise Liliefeldt, and has collaborated with writer/director Jacob Wren. In 2002, she performed in Phil Nichol's Things I Like, I Lick, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Scotland), where she created and performed a unique surprise ending for each of the 27 shows in the run. The show was nominated for a UK Perrier Comedy Award (2002) and was performed to an audience of 900 at Her Majesty's Theatre (London, UK) in the Perrier Pick of the Fringe, Series. She is active in the national arts community serving on the Board of Directors for various artist-run organizations in Toronto, and contributes to the international community as one of the founding members, coordinators and programmers of the 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival, established in 1997 in Toronto.

Anna Friz
Since 1998 Anna Friz has created self-reflexive radio art/works for international broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. She also creates dynamic, atmospheric sound works for theatre, dance, and solo performance that are equally able to reflect upon public media culture or to reveal interior landscapes. Erik Laar/ Steptone - One half of widely acclaimed Toronto turntable band iNSiDEaMiND and founder of Off Centre DJ school, Erik Laar studied instruments since he was 5 (piano, guitar, violin, and vocal), but for him nothing matched up to the turntable. Since 1996 his decks have come a close second to time spent eating and sleeping. This devotion to the arts has garnered world wide attention with invitations to do big time shows like the Warped tour, Nuit Blanche Festival, and flying back and forth from performances in the UK and California. Having founded Off Centre in 2004 his mission was to pay his rent! Soon enough he found that he had a chance to break through the restrictions that turned him off learning music traditionally. While sticking to basic principles, foundations, and theories that are essential in understanding music, above all else he pushes self expression and having fun as the key ingredients.

Emmanual 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.

Martin Messier
Holding a diploma in drums for jazz interpretation, Martin Messier has completed a bachelor’s degree in electroacoustic composition at the University of Montreal, and De Montfort University in England. His curiosity for graphic arts has brought him to explore the relationship between sound and image, in which he discovered video-music and digital motion graphics. It’s this same interest that inspires him to compose music for dance and theater, the main part of his composition work in the last years. Recently, Martin has founded a solo project called « et si l’aurore disait oui… », through which he develops live electroacoustic performance borrowing stylistic elements from Intelligent Dance Music, acousmatic and folk. Based on strong aptitudes for rhythm, Martin’s esthetic can be defined as a complex, left field and happily strange sound amalgam, constantly playing with construction and deconstruction. Goetz Naleppa - 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).

Jacques Poulin-Denis
Dedicated to interdisciplinary art, dancer and composer Jacques Poulin-Denis is active in projects that intersect theater, dance and music. After obtaining a diploma in dance from the Cegep de Drummondville, he completed a mentorship in theater under director Tom Bentley before completing his undergraduate studies in electroacoustic composition from the University of Montreal. His experience in various art forms has given him a great understanding and interest for collaboration in the performing arts. Most of his music was composed for theater and dance, notably with companies O Vertigo, Denis Marleau and UBU Theater, and choreographers Mélanie Demers and Katie Faulkner. More recently, Jacques has been exploring electroacoustic music performance, and his DRK project has earned a residency at the STEIM in Amsterdam. Jacques’ musical style is evocative and filled with imagery. Combining traditional and electronic instruments with anecdotic sound sources of everyday life, he creates vibrant music that is fierce and poetic.

Rebecca Singh
is an actor. She was also the Creative Director of The Montreal All-Star Cheerleaders. She likes to work with choruses and also sometimes writes stuff.

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
writes and produces plays and documentary essays for the BBC and other broadcaster wildness emrss. His most recent work, Bring Me The Head of Philip K. Dick, explores our seemingly bottomless need to hunt violent phantoms in the name of God, as inspired by the last novels of PKD.

Eric Woodley
Using one, two, or three turntables, Eric Woodley works with the history of recorded sound as pressed into vinyl. He gives preference to these sounds as discrete entities, an audio equivalent to the approach Canadian visual artist Greg Curnoe used in his collages of the ‘60’s. Usually these audio collages are improvised during live broadcasts of his long running show The Lost and Found on CKLN-FM in Toronto. Woodley has also written music for many films including Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and his brother Aaron Woodley’s Rhinoceros Eyes, Toronto Stories and Tennessee.