Mitchell Akiyama
is a composer and researcher based in Toronto and Montreal,. He has released over a dozen recordings on labels including Raster Noton, Sub Rosa, Alien8, and his label, intr.version. Akiyama has performed throughout Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Communications at McGill University.

Mieke Anderson
is a Toronto-based radio producer. She divides her time between CBC Radio and Spacing Magazine’s podcast. Her installation At Home was part of the 2010 Deep Wireless Festival. Over the past six years, Mieke has worked at CIUT, CKLN, CJLO and as a story collector for [murmur].

Adam Basanta
is a composer and sound-artist, writing both acoustic and electroacoustic music. He holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University, studying with Barry Truax and Arne Eigenfeldt, and is currently an MA candidate at Concordia University, supervised by Sandeep Bhagwati. His works have been presented world wide, and have been the recipients of national and international awards

Colin Black
is an internationally acclaimed composer/sound artist. Black won the prestigious Prix Italia Award (2003) in the category Best “Music Radio - Composed Work” for composing and producing his major work The Ears Outside My Listening Room. BBC Radio 3 described this work as "a haunting evocation of Australia", while the Prix Italia Award’s International Jury Report states that it, "... lived up to the claim … that here was a patchwork sonic quilt that can be passed down the generations." In 2009 Black was commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur's Klangkunst to create a feature length sound art work from field recordings made in East Germany entitled Kilian's Antipodean Dream.

Hank Bull
was born in Calgary in 1949 and grew up in Ontario and Nova Scotia. In 1973 he joined the Western Front in Vancouver, one of Canada’s first artist-run centres. His has explored performance, video, radio and telecommunications art. Interested in networks of exchange, he has travelled widely and collaborated with artists from all over the world, particularly in Asia. In 1999, he was a co-founder of the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A).

Rui Chaves
researches and does creative work in the areas of sound art, performance and mobile audio, positioning listening as a methodology that intersects individual and collective stories with soundscape recordings. Currentlyhe is pursuing a Ph D. at the Sonic Arts Research Centre with funding from Fundacao Ciencia e Tecnologia.

Olle Cornéer
is a techno/house-producer and has released over 20 records under project names such as Dada Life and Dibaba. He also works with sound in other forms, for example art projects and film.

Peter Courtemanche
is a contemporary sound and installation artist from Vancouver. He creates radio, installations, network projects, performances, curatorial projects, and handmade CD editions. Recent works include "Spark-Writing" (2004), "Preying Insect Robots" (2006), "The Laughing Dress" (a collaboration with Lori Weidenhammer, commissioned by Video Pool, 2008), and "Poison Mentor" (2009). Visit http://absolutevalueofnoise.ca

Carma Jolly, a.k.a. Raji
has an intense passion for documenting the stories of humankind’s evolution, whether ordinary or epic. She has worked with CBC Radio since 1993 and has won awards from around the world for her work. Shhh... here’s a little secret — she knows a thing or two about magic.

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. 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

Erin Gee
is a Saskatchewan-born artist specializing in audio art, video, performance, and interactive installation. Her practice centralizes on digital embodiment and vocalization, critically engaging with communication, identity and intimacy in the digital age. In 2009, her electroacoustic music was short-listed in the Bourges International Electroacoustic competition (France) and was heard in festivals in San Paolo, Brazil and Montreal, Canada. She is a founding member and president of holophon.ca (est. 2008), a Regina-based audio curatorial collective, and was artist in residence at the New Media Studio Lab (University of Regina) in 2010.

Darsha Hewitt
is a Canadian artist based in Montreal Quebec. Her practice is concerned with how electricity is experienced and perceived in domestic environments. Her artwork consists of electro-mechanical sound installations as well as technical drawings and videos that playfully subvert the “how to” and “step by step” formats prevalent in do-it-yourself (DIY) electronics culture. She has presented her work and taught electronics workshops across Canada in Mexico and Europe. Darsha was recently awarded an international work stipend from The Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst in Oldenburg Germany.

Dipna Horra
her practice is based in sculptural sound installations, drawings and video. Horra has worked in architecture and art education in Canada and New York. She has exhibited her art in Canada, the United States, Dubai and London, England. She recently completed a graduate degree in fine arts.

Julia Krolik and Owen Fernley
live and work together in Kingston, Ontario. They formed Decomposing Pianos, an experimental music project to present ideas through improvisation, melody and noise. Their final work takes the form of a produced segment, a concert or an installation. For more information visit www.decomposingpianos.com

Martin Lübcke
has a Ph. D. in theoretical physics from Uppsala University. Thesis about stable formations in plasma and approximation methods for superstring theory. Publications in Physics Letters B and Journal of High Energy Physics. Together they share their love for self-organizing systems and thinking about the fundaments of music.

Jocelyn Robert
lives in Quebec City. He works in audio art, performance art, installation, video and writing. He published about fifteen solo cds, and participed in over twenty others. His visual arts work has been shown in Canada and around the world. He is the founder of the art centre Avatar, in Quebec City. He teaches at l'École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l'Université Laval, Quebec.

Christopher Stanton
is a performer, a musician, a playwright, a director, and a sound designer. He is very active in the Toronto theatre company as a sound designer and actor.

Paul Stapleton
is a sound artist, improviser and writer originally from Southern California, currently based in Belfast at SARC, Queen’s University Belfast. Paul worked as a research fellow at the University of Central Lancashire. Paul is also a founding member and co-director of the interdisciplinary performance group theybreakinpieces.