Christophe Auger. Born April 13 1966. Founding member of la Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE. Technician at the laboratoire photographique professionnel from 1989 to 1995. Has been doing
experimental photography since 1986, self-taught in: post, pocket discs, press-book and expositions. Art member of Toung! (program of experimental cinéma at 102, alembert street in Grenoble) from 1990 to
1995. Since 1988, has created experimental films in Hi8 and 16MM. Participates in various workshops/training in cinéma creation for children and adults. Founding member of the "Ateliers MTK", in
Grenoble from 1992 to 1998. Co-founder, in 1999 of the workshop "Ad libitum", devoted to the restoration of experimental films and to the research of image and sound.

Nik Beeson has a variety of interesting pasts. He hitchhiked 70,000 miles, planted 1,000,000 trees, was caretaker for an observatory, was a civilly disobedient student of Theology, lived with monks and Christian anarchists, wrote a trail of essays on addiction and consciousness, spent a decade in palliative, street and mental health-care work, then dance, sonic and physical theatre. And at present is a web conductor, writer, music composer and producer, performer, an amour and a Poppa.

Iben Bentzen - The Danish artist Iben Bentzen (1977) creates soundartistic expressions based on interviews. Her participation in various international exhibitions are marked by always critically discussing the very content of the exhibition theme. She is a candidate in art history and visual culture. She is currently working as art mediator at a museum, as moderator for the netgallery www.netfilmmakers.dk, as producer of independent tv www.tv-tv.dk and www.cps.1go.dk, and as member of the board of the soundartistic forum AUX. She is the co-curator and co-initiator of AGM. Iben is currently based in Copenhagen.

Nicolas Bernier Early in his life, in his hometown, Nicolas Bernier has actively participated in developing underground music. After studying marketing and working as a computer programmer, he went back to school in order to dedicate himself to digital creation. His eagerness for breaking new grounds led him to computer-performed composition, live electronic music, installations and video. Having always been fascinated by graphic design, he strives to create in his music videos a universe encompassing both art and design. He has won many awards for his works that have been broadcast in many festivals, including L'espace du son (Belgium), Rien à voir (Canada), Chicago Motion Graphic Festival (USA), DotMov Festival (Japan) and Transmediale (Germany). In 2004, he founded a video-music duo with the composer Delphine Measroch. He completed an undergraduate degree in electroacoustic music at Université de Montréal.

Alfredo Cramerotti - Co-curator AGM 05. Alfredo works in media communication and contemporary art since 1992, bridging the fields of media production (radio, TV, publishing), artistic practice (exhibitions, installations, performance), curatorship (cinema, festivals and broadcasting) and critical writing (art theory, reviews), with a special focus on the cross field of media communication and contemporary art. He is based in Copenhagen.

He holds an MA in "Art in Context" at the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany and he is currently a participant of the Post-MA 'Critical Studies' group at the University of Lund-Malmö Art Academy-Rooseum in Malmö, Sweden.

Among other projects, Founder and director of "Artemisia Arte Contemporanea " space in Pisa, Italy (1992-94), artst-in-residence at the Florence Trust Studios in London (2002-03), co-Curator of Artists' Talk Programme in Sparwasser HQ Berlin (2003), curator of Pirate Cinema Copenhagen (2005), initiator and co-Curator of AGM Annual General Meeting (2003-onwards).

Richard Crow Born in 1961, Somerset, England, Crow's work as a visual artist spans solo and group installations and exhibitions, hybrid performance work, curatorial activity, and sound recordings with the group Diastolic Murmurs.

Major projects include Grenzaänger at Artspace, Sydney; The Noisiness of Bodies, at The Institution of Rot, London; Macro, at Omniversum Planetarium, a collaboration with Richard BARRETT, Paul OBERMAYER, Mary OLIVER and Carl BEUKMAN, Den Haag, 1996; Fleischerei, in a 1950's butcher's shop, including flooded cellar, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin, 1994; and Black Iris-Nigredo, a series, at Cross Street, London, 1993.

During 1996 he was a Research Visitor at the Department of Drama at The University of Newcastle, Australia, and an International Artist in Residence at Artspace, Sydney. While in Australia, Crow performed Theurgy (Messe Basse) for the 100 Years of Cruelty Artaud Conference, and Auto-Manic (Self Portrait) at the Auto-Manic Conference, University of Newcastle.

Crow has been the recipient of grants and awards from the London Arts Board, the Arts Council of England, and the London's Secret Spaces Fund. Opening of the Mouth is Crow's first collaboration with ELISION Ensemble.

Marcelle Deschênes began her career as a pianist and photographer and went on to become a composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music and a pioneer in multimedia performance in Quebec. Her work focuses primarily on the search for new forms of artistic expression that integrate recent technologies, electroacoustic music and theatre arts with media arts. She has received numerous international awards, commissions and grants, and her multimedia works have received extensive exposure in North America, Europe and Asia. For 18 years, Ms. Deschênes was also involved full-time in the creation and development of the electroacoustic composition program for the University of Montreal's faculty of music. She is now retired and works on musical commissions, devoting her time exclusively to composition and research.

FAMEFAME is a not-for-profit curatorial and programming collaborative for the production, presentation and promotion of time-based media work including, but not limited to, video, audio, kinetic sculpture, painting, performance and net art. FAMEFAME members collaborate on a volunteer basis to facilitate the manifestation of cultural events and artifacts with the express intent of developing a community-oriented contemporary vanguard. FAMEFAME's core membership is Tasman Richardson, Jubal Brown, Ellie Chesnutt, Josh Avery and Alana Didur. For more details, visit www.famefame.com

Chantale Laplante studied composition at the University of Montreal (M. Mus.), followed privately-held advanced studies with Francis Dhomont (Montreal) and with Jonathan Harvey (United Kingdom). She has been composer-in-residence at the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Montreal), the Banff Center for the Arts (Canada), the Center for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia (Germany) and the Centre d’artistes Est-Nord-Est in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli (Quebec).

She composes music for acoustic instruments (solo, small ensembles, orchestra) and electroacoustic music. She is more and more interested in mixing these two types of music, finding here the opportunity of going further into her comprehension of sound: approach, organisation and perception. Her new practice of computer improvisation draws on her compositional work through the material she uses and the way she ‘plays’ with it, which recalls acousmatic music.

Katarina Löfström - The Swedish artist Katarina Löfström (1970) is working mainly with video and sound. She has among other places been presented with solo shows at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Living Art Museum in Reykjavik and Moderna Museet in Stockholm. She has a master from Royal College of Art in Stockholm. Lives and works in Stockholm.

Her animated videos, Hang Ten Sunset 2000, and Whiteout 2001, have been shown in a wide range of contexts, that of course has a large influence on how the pieces are perceived and read. This is also the intention of Löfström - she wishes to challenge the borders between art and design; art and popular culture; or art and kitsch. What happens to an artwork if it is placed in an art exhibition or as a backdrop for an MTV Awards show? Off course the perception of the piece alters, which challenge our preconceptions and our prejudices about art, or about interior-design for that matter. The animations of Katarina Löfström has some close links with painting in the expanded field, but the link to the sound in the pieces are even stronger. The animations are made to match the music, not the other way around, much like how a pop video is made. Therefore, to see any of the videos without hearing the music is like watching a Mondrian being colour blind - you only get half of it. This does not mean that the videos solely are illustrations to the music, and not that the music works as a background-sound for the visuals, but that they are inseparable parts of the final artwork. - Text By Power Ekroth

La Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE
Jérôme Noetinger, dispositif électroacoustique.
Christophe Auger, projectors 16mm.
Xavier Quérel, projectors 16mm.

La Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE is an open-ended group including musicians and filmmakers researching the relationship between image and sound. Since 1987 different concepts have been carried out and performed in festivals, galleries, cinemas and contemporary art spaces, in France, Europe, Canada, USA. Since 1995 they have developed collaborations with other groups or artists like Nachtluft (Switzerland), Kinobits (France), Loophole Cinema (England), Le Cube (France), la Flibuste (France), Voice Crack (Switzerland).

Through the magic of mirrors, multiple projectors and highly ingenious live on stage editing, Metamkine produces and directs a new film with each of their performances. Working around a core narrative, they spill eddies of impromptu vignettes, accompanied by a live soundtrack of tape fragments and ancient synthesiser sounds. These, three collaborators, who have worked together for ten years, have succeeded in pushing the boundaries of film and soundtrack into the realm of live performance - Utterly unique.

Delphine Measroch Having received an Electroacoustic Composition BA from the University of Montreal, Delphine Measroch is particularly interested in the fusion between music and other art forms. Active musician, Delphine Measroch is also a pianist and accordionist and, besides her own acousmatic works, has worked with Nicolas Bernier since 2004 to make music and video creations.

Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. His work and research delves into language, voice, bodies, psychopathology, performance, video, intimacy, complicity, endurance. 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, etc. He obtained an MFA from NSCAD in 1996 and is currently a PhD (ABD) candidate at the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University. He has released six solo audio cds on various labels (Avatar, ND, Alien 8, Locust, Oral). He has curated a number of events in the sound and radio arts: Touch that Dial (1990), Radio Contortions (1991), Rappel (1994), Double Site (1998), stuttermouthface (2002). He has performed at Beyond Music Sound Festival (Los Angeles), kaaistudios (Brussels), Resonance FM (London), Nouvelles Scènes (Dijon), On the Air (Innsbruck), Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Experimental Intermedia (NYC), Méduse (Québec), Victoriaville Festival, and in Montreal at Radio Canada, Quinzaine de la Voix, Musiques Fragiles, Galerie Oboro, Casa del Popolo, Théatre La Chapelle, etc. His installations have been exhibited at the Banff Center, Rotterdam Film Festival, Gallery 101, Art Lab, eyelevelgallery, Forest City Gallery, Studio 5 Beekman. He has collaborated with Lynda Gaudreau, Martin Tétreault, Tammy Forsythe, Alexandre St-Onge, Michel F. Côté, Gregory Whitehead, Set Fire To Flames, and Fly Pan Am. A monograph on his work, Christof Migone - Sound Voice Perform, will be published in 2005. He currently lives in Montréal and teaches at Concordia University.

Jérôme Noetinger. Born in 1966. Founding member of la Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine. Director of the musique concrète label
Metamkine and acts as a distributor of electroacoustic and improvised musics by mail-order. Member of the compilation committee of Revue & Corrigée, published three times per year. Composes musiques concrètes in studio. Performs live with electroacoustic devices
including tape, mixers, analogue and electronic synthesizers, contact microphones, loud speakers. Also organizes conferences, artist talks and workshops. Other projects: Duet with Lionel Marchetti since
1993. Member of the MIMEO since 1997. Quintet Avant with Lionel Marchetti, John Pallandre, Marc Pichelin and Laurent Sassi.

Alain Pelletier's work in video has an originality that reflects the diverse modes in his artistic practice. After his training as an actor at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Montreal (1977-1980) he took to the visual Arts. He participated in the exhibitions Montreal Tout Terrain in 1984 and Painting in Quebec, A New Generation at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art in 1985. As a Dancer and Choreographer, he worked in Japan with Min Tanaka (1991-1992). Since the start of the nineties Mr. Pelletier has produced three prize winning videos: 'Faux Fluides' 1993, 'Faust Meduse' 1995 and 'Die Dyer' 1999. His last work 'Die Dyer' won the Telefilm prize at the Festival du Nouveau Cinèma et des Nouveaux Mèdias 1999, the Vidèoformes 2000 prize at the 'Festival Du Míme Nom' in France as well as the Jury prize at the Locarno festival in 2000. His work also encompasses audio visual installation. He exhibited a video installation at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal called "Perse.us.Medusa" in 2001. Currently he is working on an opera-installation with Chants libres in Montreal.

Jean Piché is a composer and video artist from Montreal, where he lives and teaches. His creative output over the past 20 years has explored the more adventurous edges of high technologies applied to music and moving images, including live electronics, fixed electronic media and performance. He has received numerous international awards and his work has been shown and heard in Europe, Asia and North America. After active collaborations with world renowned video artists, he now directs and produces his own video work, focusing on parallel compositional paradigms for abstracted visuals and music, a new groundbreaking hybrid form which has been called “videomusic”. His first opera « Yo Soy la Disentegracion » was produced in 1997 by the Montreal company Chants Libres. He was program officer at the Canada Council in the 80s and in 1990, produced the last iteration of the New Music America Festival.

For the past few years, he has been involved in software design to facilitate the specification of control vectors for digital sound synthesis and processing. These activities have led to the creation of the program Cecilia which was awarded First Prize at the International competition for musical software in Bourges. Since 2000 he has developed a synchronised video projection system for three large screens and an image acquisition system with three digital cameras. This system is used for his productions and public performances. His new videomusic work for SoundPlay 2004 explores the new HDV video format.

Xavier Quérel. Born 1966. Lives in Grenoble. Film director, self-taught. Has been Creating experimental films (Hi8 and 16MM) since 1990. Member of la Cellule d'Intervention METAMKINE since 1990. Member of "Art Toung!" since 1990 (program of experimental cinéma at 102, alembert street in Grenoble). Co-founder in 1992 of the "Ateliers MTK": development, circulation and manipulation of S8 and 16MM films. Creater and coordinator of various cinéma workshops in primary school, high school and universities for adults, youth and children. Does film/lighting for live performances, notably, since 1995 with the group "Ici-Même": a multi-disciplinary group of artists that proposes research where stagecraft, gesture, movement, picture and light are worked jointly, often in site-specific locations
(industrial fallow land, fields, parking lot, street, etc).

Lyla Rye is a Toronto based video installation artist who has exhibited across Canada and the US. She has a BFA from York University, Toronto and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She was a founding member of the sculpture collective, Nether Mind who exhibited in industrial spaces from 1991 - 1995. She has had solo exhibitions at galleries including Cambridge Public Galleries, The tree Museum, Gravenhurst, Grimsby, eyelevelgallery, Halifax, and Southern Exposure, San Francisco. She has participated in group exhibitions including: 'Comfort Zones', The Textile Museum of Canada, 'Little Worlds', The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, and the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina and 'Threshold', The Power Plant, Toronto.

tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE was born at age 21 in 1975 Era Vulgari in BalTimOre, usa. It was at this time that he decided that he was a Mad Scientist / d-composer / Sound Thinker / Thought Collector. Since then he has been active with the Krononautic Organism (a time travellers' society), Nuclear Brain Physics Surgery School, the Neoast?! 'Patanational Cultural Conspiracy,' the Church of the SubGenius (in which he's a saint), etc. Whenever he has the energy he devotes himself to "undermining 'reality' maintenance traps" through attempting to apply the maxism "Anything is Anything." These days this is usually manifested by being a Psychopathfinder & a Jack-Off-Of-All-Trades."

tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE as been making films since 1974e.v. & videos since 1977e.v.. As such, he is a fully qualified & broadly experienced SPROCKET SCIENTIST. He's a cofounder, with Rebecca Barten, of H.O.M.E. Group (Horse Opera Meanderthal Encounter Group) &, with Etta Cetera, the S.P.C.S.M.E.F. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Sea Monkeys by Experimental Filmmakers).

In the spirit of jest plain folks, he even makes house calls & can be rented to pontificate well-nigh endlessly on such subjests as: Mad Scientism, d composing, Sound Thinking, Thought Collecting, As Beenism, booed usic , Low Classical Usic, Psychopathfinding, Jacking-Off-All-Trades, Homonymphonemia, Practicing PromoTextuality, Air Dressing, nuclear brain physics surgery's cool, the Krononautic Organism, The Church & Foundation of the SubGenius, Neoasm?!, the Fructiferous Society, the N.A.A.M.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Multi-Colored Peoples), H.D.J.ing (Hard Disc Jockeying), criminal sanity, & the Kneehighs Gang - amongst other things.

Ines Wickmann is a Colombian sculptor and artist and is married to the Quebec electroacoustic composer Francis Dhomont. Wickmann is educated in France and Colombia, where she has also taught at several universities. She has participated in numerous group and separate exhibitions in Colombia.

New Adventures in Sound Art

Darren Copeland - Artistic Director

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.

Other works combine his electroacoustic and theatrical backgrounds to break open disciplinary boundaries between electroacoustics, radio art, and theatre. Highlights include the adaptation of August Strindberg's A Dream Play (first radio drama at CBC conceived for broadcast in Surround 5.1), the soundscape documentaries Life Unseen and The Toronto Sound Mosaic, and a DORA nominated soundtrack for Samuel Beckett's That Time.

In addition to composing, he has written articles about listening and environmental sounds for Electronic Cottage, Musicworks, Contact! (CEC), Soundscape: Journal of Acoustic Ecology, and The Journal for Electroacoustic Music (Sonic Arts Network) as well as CD, concert and book reviews for Musicworks, The Whole Note, and Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology.

Has a producer and administrator, fond memories lie with Wireless Graffiti, a live-to-air radio extravaganza in 1993 co-produced by Rumble Theatre and Vancouver Pro Musica. After active histories with Vancouver Pro Musica, the Standing Wave Ensemble, and the Communauté électroacoustique Canadienne/Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) from 1990 to 1996, he now serves on the board of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE) and is the Artistic Director for New Adventures in Sound Art.

Nadene Thériault-Copeland

Nadene Thériault-Copeland is Managing Director of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), Business Manager of Musicworks Magazine and Financial Coordinator for Charles Street Video. Nadene is also on the board of directors of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology. She promotes the dissemination of new and experimental sound art through her work with New Adventures in Sound Art, and recently edited three educational booklets published by NAISA: Radio Art Companion (2002), Sign Waves Companion (2002) and Sound in Space (2003). Nadene received her B.F.A. in Music from York University in 1991 where she studied composition with James Tenney.

Barry Rueger
(website)

Barry Rueger is the NAISA webmaster and helps with the RWB Publicity. Barry has worked with non-profit organizations for nearly 20 years, with a particular focus on non-commercial radio. In the past he has sat on the Board of Appalshop, an Appalachian media arts organization in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and is currently a Board member of The Association of Independents In Radio (AIR). Previously Barry worked at CKCU Radio Carleton in Ottawa, Canada, guiding a major restructuring and financial overhaul. He has also been involved in leadership roles at CFMU, at McMaster University in Hamilton and Vancouver Co-op Radio in Vancouver. In 1996 he managed the National Campus and Community Radio Conference in Hamilton, Ontario.

In recent years Barry has become recognized for his ongoing work with new and emerging community radio broadcasters, and received a "People Who Make A Difference" award from the Community Foundation of Ottawa. He continues to guide and shape the direction of campus and community radio in Canada. He can always be counted on by novice broadcasters to provide guidance on the business of radio.

Barry's current projects include "Moving Words", a 24/7 satellite radio channel devoted to storytelling, the launch of the Hamilton Asian Community centre, and his blog Three Squirrels in a Pressure Cooker.

Contact: Nadene Theriault-Copeland at
416-910-7231, 905-454-5714,
or naisa@soundtravels.ca.