Natasha Barrett
works fore-mostly with composition and creative uses of sound. Her output spans concert composition through to sound-art, large sound-architectural installations, collaboration with experimental designers and scientists, acousmatic performance interpretation and more recently live electroacoustic improvisation. Barrett studied with Jonty Harrison (University of Birmingham, England, UK) and Denis Smalley (City University, London, England, UK) for masters and doctoral degrees in composition. Since 1999 Norway has been her compositional and research base for an international platform. Her work is available on numerous recording labels, including Albedo, Aurora, Centaur, Elektron, empreintes DIGITALes, Euridice, Mnémosyne Musique Média, and +3dB.

Manuella Blackburn
is a composer based in Machester, UK. She is currently completing a PhD at the University of Machester with the supervision of Dr. Ricardo Climent. Successes include grand prize in the Digital Arts Awards 2007 (Japan), and first prize in the 7th Musica Viva Electroacoustic Competition 2006.

Rose Bolton
considers herself a sonic landscapist. Her compositions range from orchestra, chamber and vocal music to electroacoustic and improvisation based pieces. To date she has composed music for two hour-long CBC documentary films. She has received numerous commissions and prizes, including the 2006 Norman Burgess Fund and the Toronto Emerging Composer award. Last year her new work A Day of Infinite Time was premiered by the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony at the Open Ears festival.

Ned Bouhalassa
Born in France in 1962, Ned Bouhalassa has been involved in the Montréal music scene since 1988. He divides his time between writing for film and television, and composing electroacoustic works for concert. Regularly programmed at Montréal’s Elektra and Rien à voir festivals, Bouhalassa’s works are also heard around the world. For the past few years, he has been exploring hybridization by combining electronic beats with electroacoustic soundscapes. He is also currently interested in integrating video to his work, along with composing in Surround sound. In 2001, he was a member of the music jury of Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria).

Darren Copeland
is a Canadian Sound Artist creating work for radio, performance, and installation with a focus on soundscape composition and multichannel spatialization. He is the artistic director of New Adventures in Sound Art.

Robert Cruickshank
is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist. His work in various media - including electronic and robotic installations, sound art, electroacoustic music, and photography - has been exhibited in Toronto, and internationally. He has also developed a number of workshops at InterAccess Electronic Media Art Centre, providing artists with an opportunity to learn electronics. He is currently a member of I/O Media - an InterAccess based audio-visual improvisational collective, and is a member of the Board Of Directors at InterAccess. Rob is the designer of the NAISAtron.

Marcelle Deschênes
is a composer, pianist, teacher and multimedia artist born in Price (Québec), 1939. Moving to Quebec City (1972-77), she worked as a lecturer and researcher in Auditory Perception, Musical Pedagogy for Children and Multi-art Animation Techniques at the Université Laval’s Studio de musique électroacoustique, where she joined the electroacoustic performance group GIMEL. From 1980 to 1997, she taught electroacoustic and multimedia composition, auditory perception and electroacoustic composition techniques at the Music Faculty of the Université de Montréal. Marcelle Deschênes’ œuvre is important not only for its pioneering nature, but also its diversity: multimedia performances, photography, video art; instrumental, mixed, acousmatic, radio art, installation art, and animation/creation for non-musicians.

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).

Randall Gagne
graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2007. He has abiding interests in the physicality of sound, found sound, and performance as social intervention. Randall has had writing published on the subject of sound art in the UK academic journal “Senses and Society” (Mar 09), as well as participating in the 2009 0dB sound art festival in Finland. Randall plays in several local musical/experimental groups, and is currently preparing material for his 8th solo album “Puzzle Answers” to be released on LP.

David Hindmarch
is 43 years old and totally blind. He taught himself electroacoustic music from 2000-2006 when he joined BEAST composers at Birmingham University and began a four-year PhD with Professor Jonty Harrison.

Michelle Irving
is a composer and media artist whose work encompasses audio art, installation, video, and music. Her work is featured in the award winning documentaries The 7 Interventions (2009, NFB), Fierce Light (2006), and The Corporation (2004). Her audio and video work has been presented internationally at festivals, music venues, and artist run spaces.

Matt Miller
is an electro-acoustic musician, composer, sound designer and soundware developer living in Toronto, Canada. His music and sound design have been heard on TVs around the globe. He regularly performs live improvised music using found sounds, DIY synths and laptop. An avid field recordist, Matt can almost always be found with a portable recording device close by.

Samuel Morgenstein
is a NY-born classically-trained percussionist with a passion for world music, found sounds, and sonic experimentation. He drinks smoothies for breakfast.

Satoshi Morita
focuses on the complexity of bodily perception by using sound. He has been developing diverse sound installations and sonic objects, which have both sculptural quality and experimental approach with sound, in order to deal with the theme “haptic” of the sound. In his projects, sound is not only to be heard, but also to be experienced with body.

David Ogborn
Freely traversing borders and genres, David Ogborn is a composer, guitarist and performer of electronic sound and video. At the centre of his work is the combination of traditional performance arts with electronic elements - whether these be recordings of diverse outdoor environments around the world, improvisations on a laptop or altered guitar, video projections influenced by live musical gestures, or massive synthesized sounds on immersive arrays of loudspeakers. His sound installation Dream House was featured at the Canadian Music Centre's Chalmers House during Toronto's inaugural Nuit Blanche and his live electronic music for Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis was a special event at the Esprit Orchestra's 2007 New Wave festival. In November 2007 the Transatlantic Transient tour saw Ogborn perform on guitar and electronics in Amsterdam, Belfast, Berlin, and several Canadian cities. He is an Associate of the Canadian Music Centre, a founding member of the angelusnovus.net group, and serves on the board of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC). website: www.davidogborn.net

Rob Piilonen
is a flute player, composer, and producer who has been active in the Toronto improvising scene since 1996. A member of the board of directors for AIMToronto (Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto), he currently performs with many people and groups in many styles and leads the chamber-improv ensemble Rob's Collision.

Eric Powell
is a multidisciplinary artist working with the interrelationship between space, place and sound. This work has found him integrating immersive soundscapes, live musical composition, theatre and dance. In addition to multi-channel electroacoustic compositions, he has created sound and music for several theatrical productions and gallery installations. Eric recently completed his MFA in Electroacousitic Composition from Simon Fraser University and was just commissioned by by The Saskatchewan Arts Board to create a soundscape composition for the 2010 Lieutenant Governor's Awards in September. The piece explores the unique aural character of Saskatchewan and will be scored for 8-channel tape and live instrumental performers.

Barry Prophet
is a composer, percussionist, and sculptor whose music has appeared in galleries and theatres in Canada, United States and Europe. Creating unique sounds since 1979, he has exhibited and performed on percussion sculptures at art galleries throughout Ontario and elsewhere. Barry's micro tonally tuned glass lithophones have been featured in performance venues throughout the country and his 1997 recording 'Crystal Bones' (CD) has been choreographed to by international dance artists. Barry has led traditional and experimental percussion programs for students and educators across Canada since 1983.

Stefan A. Rose
is an artist interested in creative and documentary forms, using photography, videography, and poetry. He is documentary photographer for the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, and for New Adventures in Sound Art, and uses a large-format panoramic camera among others for his creative work. He graduated from Mount Allison University with an Engineering Certificate, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Fine Arts. Stefan has exhibited his photographs in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He has collaborated with other artists across many media; his collaborative works include Townsend Retraced; Death by Chocolate; and several video works commissioned by the Penderecki String Quartet. His first book of poetry, The House That Stands, was published in 2008 by Anchorage Press.

D. Andrew Stewart
has been working in the field of musical composition since 1994. In addition to being an instructor of electronic music composition, he is also a trained pianist and clarinettist. He completed his basic musical training in Canada, followed by study/research in The Netherlands and France. Stewart's compositions have been featured in The Netherlands, the United States, France, Germany, Mexico, Austria and his home country of Canada.

Jessica Thompson
is a new media artist whose projects explore social interactions within public space through sound, performance and mobile technologies. Her projects have been shown in exhibitions and festivals in North America, Europe and Asia. Her piece, walking machine, was recently included in Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life by Brandon LaBelle published by Continuum Books.

Eldad Tsabary
Composer Eldad Tsabary creates electroacoustic and instrumental works that are inspired by the concepts of metamorphosis and sound-mass, and often reflect intercultural subjects. His works won prizes and mentions in several international and Canadian competitions. 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.

Richard Windeyer
Quiet ghost-like Canadian who composes, performs, sound designs, educates, produces, researches and specializes in the creative integration of digital and electronic processes in live theatre, music performance and installation art. As well as being one of four co-Artistic Director of Bluemouth Inc., his creative collaborators include FINGER (a technology-based music performance trio), InterArts Matrix (Waterloo), The Independent Aunties, Ker Wells, Bruce Barton, DNA Theatre and New Adventures in Sound Art. He performs live electronic music under various aliases, including ‘National Exit Strategy’ and teaches courses in music technology, sound recording and electroacoustic composition.