Freida Abtan
is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist and composer, currently pursuing her PhD in Computer Music and Multimedia at Brown University. Her videomusic and audio work have been featured internationally, and on an audiovisual release with Robot Records. Her first album, “subtle movements”, is available on Jnana Records.

Max Alexander
 is a composer, performer, and sonic artist from Kitchener, Ontario now living and working in Toronto.  He received his BFA from Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts and his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  He is one of the founders and directors of the arts organization Electricity is Magic, and is the Audio Curator for Chicago's LiveBox Gallery.  He has shown work recently at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, The Gladstone Hotel's upArt Festival, and his most recent recording, "Ornament and Crime", is available now from the Electricity is Magic website. www.maxalexander.net / www.electricityismagic.com

Guillaume Barrette
Originally from Québec City, he completed his studies at Cégep de Sainte-Foy in Natural Sciences and in Music. Afterwards, in order to combine his main interests, he undertook studies in electroacoustic composition at the Université de Montréal. Recipient of the first prize in the 2010 SOCAN Foundation’s Awards for Young Composers and fourth prize in finalist in the CEC’s JTTP 2009, he has just returned from England, where he has completed an enriching séjour to pursue his artistic studies at De Montfort University.

Guillaume Campion
It is between the ocean and mountains of his native Gaspésie that he first began to perform and compose. He later continued his studies in classical guitar performance at Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy (Québec). Feeling the need to explore his own creative energies, he undertook a Bachelor’s in electroacoustic composition at the Université de Montréal in September 2009. Recipient of the 4th prize at the CEC's JTTP 2010 awards, his piece Quadriforis was also selected for concert play at ICMC 2011. Campion was also recently commissioned by Le Collectif Éole (Toulouse, France), to compose a work that will be premiered during the 14th edition of Toulouse’s Novelum Festival in November 2011.

Darren Copeland
is the founding Artistic Director of New Adventures in Sound Art and is a Canadian Sound Artist.  He creates work for radio, performance, and installation with a focus in soundscape composition and multichannel spatialization. Recently he received a Chalmers Fellowship from the Ontario Arts Council to develop new  performance practices for multi-channel spatialization.  In July he premiered a new public art work with Andreas Kahre at the Queen Elizabeth Pool in Edmonton and in October he will be performing a live soundscape score to Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera at the Bell Lightbox.

Maxime Corbeil-Perron
is currently completing his Bachelor’s in Electroacoustic Composition at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal under the supervision of Louis Dufort and Martin Bédard. He divides his time these days between the New Music scene, his exploration of videomusic and the Montréal underground scene.

Diego Garro
is an award-winning composer from Padova (Italy). His activity as researcher and educator (Keele University, UK) focuses on working practices and compositional languages that bridge the Electroacoustic idiom with other aspects of popular culture and experimental art (Electronica, glitch, video).

Grady Gerbracht
His cross-disciplinary work focuses on the ordering systems of everyday life. His projects employ art, architecture, technology, experimental spontaneously composed music, sound and social dynamics to render these systems temporarily visible and have been published and exhibited in the US, Canada, Brazil, Asia, and across Europe and the Nordic countries. Gerbracht teaches in the Department of Art and Art History at The College of New Jersey and was recently Visiting Artist at The Cooper Union School of Art and Creative Director of NoMoS Nomadic Museum of Sonic Arts.

Louise Harris
is a sound and video artist living and working in London, UK.  Her work is primarily concerned with relationship between sonic form, through time, and visual form, through space.  She is currently a Lecturer in Music Technology at Kingston University, London. www.louiseharris.co.uk

Bjørn Erik Haugen
has an MA from the National Academy in Oslo 2007 where he studied under Henrik Plenge Jacobsen. He works mainly in composition, sound and video installations. He works from a conceptual platform where the idea of the work comes before the material, media or way of expression. His compositions have been performed in Helsinki, Iceland and at the Ultima festival and Trondheim Chamber Music Festival in Norway. One of his compositions was performed at ISCM 2009 in Sweden.

Jullian Hoff
is a self-taught composer of pop and instrumental music, multi-instrumentalist, author of poems and songs, Hoff settled in Montréal in order to study the different strands of electroacoustics. Presently he is exploring the “Total Art” of acoustmatics, studying electroacoustic composition at the Université de Montréal under the guidance of Martin Bédard.

Kaiser Nietzsche
is John Kamevaar and Zev Farber. For over 30 years, John Kamevaar has been involved in various artistic activities, primarily sonic. Initially, he was a free improvising musician with the CCMC. Experimenting with electroacoustic techniques led him to form the sound art group, Kaiser Nietzsche, in the late 1980s. He has also produced several soundtracks for experimental film makers. Currently, he collaborates with digital media artists in the creation of installations and time based productions. Zev Farber is an interdisciplinary artist based out of Toronto. He recently received his MFA in Visual Art from York University. Largely, his work has been shown in galleries in Canada, most recently as part of a two-person show at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Toronto. Since 2009, he has been a member (with John Kamevaar) of the digital media composition and performance collective "Kaiser Nietzsche". Http://www.kaiser-nietzsche.com/

Marc-André Perron
Bachelor’s student in mixed composition at Université de Montréal, he is a multi-instrumentalist and composer particularly interested in electroacoustic and acousmatic, but also for instrumental formations. Over the course of fifteen years he participated in over a hundred concerts as a performer and as a conductor of a range of ensembles (jazz, popular music, string quartets, orchestra), notably at the Montréal International Jazz Festival, Annecy conservatory (France) and at Place des Arts (Montréal). He has received various awards for his studies and in competitions. Presently he is exploring and developing a realist æsthetic inspired by acoustic ecology, his work seeing the listener as an auditory witness to his acoustic environment, in a manner that honours the soundscape from the point of view of space and of time.

Shawn Pinchbeck
is an Edmonton, Canada based composer and media artist. His recent work centres on interactive sound and video installations, dance performances, acousmatic music composition, and live electroacoustic music performances. He is a PhD research student at the University of Birmingham, UK and a lecturer at Tallinn University, Estonia. www.spinchbeck.com

Laurie Radford
is a composer of music for instruments, electroacoustic media, and performers in interaction with computer-controlled signal processing of sound and image. His music has been performed and broadcast throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia. He has taught at McGill University, Concordia University, Bishop’s University, the University of Alberta, City University (London, UK), and is presently a Senior Lecturer in composition, theory and music technology in the Department of Music, University of Calgary.

Benjamin Thigpen
nomad, born in the United States, with degrees in English Literature, Comparative Literature and “Esthetics, Technologies and Artistic Creations,” immigrated to Paris at the age of 31. Since then, he has composed at GRM (Paris), at Musiques et Recherches (Belgium), at SCRIME (Bordeaux), at EMS (Stockholm), at the Visby International Centre for Composers (Sweden), at STEIM (Amsterdam), at Djerassi (California), at l'Espace Totem (Montreal), in his bedroom and in the train. After 6 years teaching computer music at Ircam (Paris), followed by a brief period at the University of Washington (Seattle), he currently teaches at the Conservatory of Cuneo (Italy) and at the the Royal Conservatory of Mons (Belgium). His music is concerned with issues of energy, density, complexity, movement, simultaneity and violence, and he often works extensively with space as a primary compositional parameter. He thinks that music does not exist in time but rather creates it, and considers that music is not the art of sound but the art of the transcendence of sound.

David Arango Valencia
began his music career as a keyboard player in various types of projects, including: pop, electronic, and industrial, while possessing a background in classical piano. After his first experiences, he became interested in sound design and the ability to use sound in order to create, as well as explore, a unique language within music. He exploited his first ideas through various sound design projects, which included sound field recordings for documentaries and short films. It wasn’t until college, when he attended Cegep de St-Laurent, under the direction of electroacoustic composers Michel Tétreault and Pierre Marc Beaudoin that he really discovered a new, in-depth way of expressing himself. Today, David continues to explore the boundaries of electroacoustic music at Université de Montréal under the direction of Martin Bédard and Jean Piché.

Zazalie Z. (Nathalie Dion)
has participated actively in cultural life for the last 20 years. She explores the boundaries of vocal art and  experimental voice combining contemporary, avant-garde music and  the traditional sounds. As a singer, performer, she has presented videos and sound poetry at Art Tech Media - Cordoba 08 (Cordoba, Spain, 2008), InterAzioni Festival - Teatro Spazio Arka (Sardinia, Italy, 206,2007, 2008, 2009, 2010), Digital Media Festival - Capilla de la Sapienca (Valencia, Spain, 2008), Observatori Festival – Ciudad de las Artes ylas Ciencias (Valencia, Spain, 2005), LEM Festival – Théâtre Lluïsos de Gracia (Barcelona, Spain, 2005), 5th ADN  International Festival (Montreal, Mt St-Hilaire, Canada, 2005), Htmlles 07 Festival – PowerHouse Gallery (Montréal, Canada, 2005) and Vues d’Afrique Festival at the SAT (Montreal, Canada, 2002).