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Mieke Anderson
is a Toronto-based radio producer. These days she divides her time between producing Spacing Magazine’s podcast and co-hosting CIUT’s daily news and current affairs program. Mieke has interned at the CBC’s The Current and worked at Montreal’s CJLO and Toronto’s CKLN radio stations. She has a Journalism degree from Ryerson University and majored in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at McGill. She also contributes to the audio documentary project [murmur].

Anne Bourne
is a composer and performer, reconciling the radiant and imperfect streams of sound, her voice and cello, in the context of inception. She has created work with Fred Frith, John Oswald, Andrea Nann and Michael Ondaatje, Peter Mettler, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier, and Nicolas Collins. ‘an earthy unrestrained musical force’ - CODA Magazine

Shannon Cochrane
is a Toronto based artist and performer. Her work has been presented internationally at theatre festivals, performance art events and in galleries big and small for all kinds of audiences in Toronto, Montréal, Halifax Vancouver, China, Chilé, Switzerland, UK, USA, Poland, and Germany. Most recently, Shannon performed at the Vancouver Art Gallery during the LIVE Biennale of Performance Art (Vancouver, Canada) in October 2007. In 2001, Shannon was commissioned by The Art Gallery of Ontario to create two new performance works in celebration of the Art Gallery of Ontario's 100th Anniversary. She has performed (in Montreal and Norway) with the internationally acclaimed theatre group Compagnie PME directed by Jacob Wren. In 2002, she performed a guest role in comedian Phil Nichol's Things I Like, in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, where she concocted and performed a different and unique surprise performance art ending for each of the 27 shows in the run. The show was nominated for a UK Perrier Comedy Award (2002), was awarded a Fringe Prize for 'Best Ending', and the show was later performed to an audience of 900 at Her Majesty's Theatre (London, UK). Shannon is an active organizer and participant in national arts community , programming and organizing events for Toronto organizations and serving on various Board of Directors for local artist-run centres (YYZ Artists’ Outlet and Fado, Toronto). In the summer of 2007, projects included curating the performance programme of the Queen West Arts Crawl (produced by Artscape) and programming for Hysteria, an annual international festival of short performance and theatre works created by women produced by Moynan King for Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. From 2004-07, Shannon was the Development Director and Coordinator at the Images Festival (film, video, installation and performance). Shannon is one of the founding members, coordinators and programmers for the 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival. Since 1997, 7a*11d has produced 6 full-scale international performance art festivals for Toronto audiences, presenting the work of over 250 artists from around the globe. From October 22-November 2, 2008, 7a*11d will present the 7th international festival, celebrating 11 years together as a collective. In June 2007, Shannon took the position of Artistic and Administrative Director of Fado Performance Inc., the only artist-run center in English Canada devoted entirely to commissioning, producing and presenting national and international contemporary performance art. Shannon’s work focuses on creating and facilitated cooperative group performances that directly acknowledge the audience as experienced image-makers while using simple phenomenon and activities as scenery. Since 2002, Shannon has working on a series of performances called 100 People Performance. 100 People Performance is 5-act performance art play that presents projects, objects and possibilities designed for (and sometimes executed by) a group of exactly 100 people, through lecture, demonstration and instruction. 100 People Performance takes inspiration from Fluxus and the Guinness Book of World records in equal measures. 100 People Performance is a self-organizing system, part game etiquette and part cottage science alchemy. Singling out is not valued at 100 People Performance because the whole of the pattern is always greater than the sum of its parts. Full productions and versions of the 100 People Performances have been presented in Toronto (Toronto Alternative Art Fair, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, The Drake Hotel) and at various international performance art festivals (including the 13th Castle of Imagination in Poland, PerfoPuerto International Conference and Post Festival, Chile).

Darren Copeland
Darren Copeland is a soundscape composer, radio artist, sound designer and concert producer. He has studied electroacoustic composition under Barry Truax (Simon Fraser University) and Dr. Jonty Harrison (University of Birmingham). His concert works have received mentions in competitions (Vancouver New Music, Luigi Russolo, Hungarian Radio, La Muse en Circuit, and Phonurgia Nova) and appeared on compilation CD releases (Storm of Drones, Radius #3, DISContact I & II, Lieu - Non Lieu, and Soundscape Vancouver). Rendu Visible, a CD devoted to his work, is available on the empreintes DIGITALes label.

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.

David Eagle
composes chamber, orchestral and electroacoustic music, and in recent years, has explored computer applications in composition, improvisation, multimedia and sound spatialization. His latest kinetic music compositions use the movement of sound to fundamentally transform the listening experience. A Professor at the University of Calgary, he teaches composition and electroacoustic music and is director of the Sonic Arts Lab and coordinator of the Happening New Music Festival. Previously, he studied music at McGill University, at the Institut für Neue Musik, Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik, Freiburg, Germany, and at the University of California, Berkeley (PhD 1992).

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 an interdisciplinary artist, writer, musician, and theatre designer whose work combines image, sound and text in many different configurations. He is one of the curator/directors at the Western Front in Vancouver, creates work for performance, contemporary shadowplay, paper theatre, radio and media, and has collaborated on more than a hundred productions with theatre, dance and music ensembles across Canada.

Karinne Keithley
is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar working in and on sound, text, video, animation, and dance. Active as a performer in New York since 1997, she began making soundscores for her own dances in 2001. She scored many dance and theater pieces before turning to her serial sound progam, the Basement Tapes of the Mole Cabal, active from 2005-7. She also writes texts for performance, sometimes resembling plays, sometimes built into immersive audio-video environments. Currently she is working on a PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she studies the poetics of holes and American literary/intellectual history. She co-hosted The Acousmatic Theater Hour on WFMU with Jason Grote, producing several original radio play productions. She's currently developing Montgomery Park, or Opulence, an essay in the form of a building, also in the form of a live audio-video essay with songs and dances. On the side, she records and performs covers on the ukulele. She also founded the 53rd State Press, which publishes new plays and performance texts. Much of her sound and video work can be found on the fancystitchmachine, a web treasury for the gift economy.

Erik Laar (aka Steptone)
is the founder of Toronto's Off Centre DJ School and one half of widely acclaimed turntable band iNSiDEaMiND. His edgy turntable based compositions and theatrical performance pieces have brought worldwide attention and opened the doors to renowned shows such as Nuit Blanche, The Toronto Fringe Festival, and The World Wide Short Film Festival to name a few.

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.

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).

Roger Mills
is composer, sound artist and writer based in a Sydney, Australia whose practice focuses on networked collaborations, internet performance and experimental radio. He has worked extensively in the UK as a composer and sound designer, and is editor of exploratory online sound arts magazine Furthernoise.org.

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).

Steven Naylor
composes electroacoustic and instrumental concert music, and creates original scores and sound designs for theatre, film, television and radio. His electroacoustic and radiophonic compositions have been performed and broadcast in Canada, UK, France, Brazil, Australia, and USA. He currently resides in Halifax, Canada. Further information: www.sonicart.ca

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.

Charlotte Scott
makes music and grows vegetables in the Outaouais region of Quebec. She's been involved in community radio, sound art and psych rock music for many years and has received academic merits on related subjects. At the moment she's especially fond of the xylophone and the sound of wind through pine trees.

Rebecca Singh
is a Toronto based artist and performer. Her work is often interdisciplinary and has been presented in theatres at mutidisciplinary festivals and literary events. As a performer she’s been seen on stages across North America, playing everything from Titania in Midsummer Nights Dream to Empress of Avant Guard (silence) in Headbangers. She’s appeared in FLASHPOINT, was a regular on Fries With That? and ran and performed with the popular comedy troupe, The Montreal All-Star Cheerleaders for four years. Recently Rebecca created a hand clapping game experience for guests of NAISA’s Arts Birthday Party in January at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. In November 09 she performed with sound artist Hector Centeno at Artists Week which she produced in the Gallery at the Barns . Over the past 4 years she has created and presented “sonic choreographies” with groups of up to 20 actors and conducted experiments with spoken choruses. Recently she began to work on Manifesto Series #1, the first installment, SCUM Suite was presented as a part of Hysteria: A Festival for Women at Buddies in Bad Times in October 09. The next installment, Ferlinghetti’s Populist Manifesto #1 by a chorus of actors is currently in development for presentation this summer. Having been a radio junkie for years Rebecca is now working more and more with recording technology and microphones and is excited to branch out to experiment and collaborate with other artists at the Deep Wireless Festival. www.cheerleaderchronicles.com

Charles Stankievech
is an artist who creates ‘fieldworks’ included in the context of the Palais de Toyko (Paris), International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA, Germany), Biennale of Architecture (Venice), Eyebeam + ISSUE Project Room (New York), Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida). He has produced such unorthodox exhibitions as Magnetic Norths, A Wake For St. Kippenberger’s MetroNet, and the series OVER THE WIRE (with Gary Hill + Lawrence Weiner). His writings have been included in academic journals, such as Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press) and 306090 (Princeton Architectural Press), artist’s catalogues and translated into French, Italian and German. Stankievech holds an MFA in Open Media and a BA (honours) in Philosophy + English with a thesis on Slavoj Žižek and Franz Kafka. A co-founder of the KIAC School of Visual Arts in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Stankievech splits his time between the Arctic and Montréal. He is currently participating in the Canadian Forces Artist Program (2010-2012).

Syneme
is the studio/lab of the Canada Research Chair in Telemedia arts at the University of Calgary. Syneme supports a new program of artistic practice enabled by high-speed fibre optic research links that afford multiple artist/participants to engage in real-time, high-definition, software supported telepresence links. By combining Art&D with Organized Networks, a comprehensive research agenda emerges that advances exploration in Telemedia Arts practices. The objective of Syneme focuses upon the development of an Artsmesh platform for the creation of expressive telepresence on high-speed research networks (Internet 2). Syneme is driven by questions that will lead to new use-cases (categories or genres) for artists active in the new medium of Telearts: how can we use the network itself as an artistic instrument - not merely a distribution channel?

Eldad Tsabary
creates electroacoustic and instrumental works that are inspired by the concepts of metamorphosis and sound-mass, and often reflect intercultural subjects. He teaches electroacoustic music and music technology at Concordia and at Formation Musitechnic. Eldad is a board member (treasurer) of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and the artistic director of the Canadian 60x60 project.

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!

EC Woodley
Using one, two, or three turntables, EC 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.