- Ken Montgomery and Andrea Beeman People
Ken Montgomery has worked since the early 1980s to develop novel sound practices, including sound performances in darkness, octophonic audio installations, and the enhancement of incidental machinery sounds. He founded Generator, which began as a sound gallery and performance space and now functions as a label and platform for sound artists; associated web presences are http://www.generatorsoundart.org/ and www.MinistryofLamination.com.
- David Weinstein People
David Weinstein is a composer and multimedia artist whose musical and site-specific installation works have been shown worldwide; his musical practice juxtaposes sound effects, traditional and non traditional instruments, synthetic sound, ancient and exotic tunings, and noise. As a keyboardist he has recorded and performed with Shelley Hirsch, Elliott Sharp, John Zorn, Ned Rothenberg and Rhys Chatham; his theatrical, installation and multimedia pieces have received grants and awards. He participated in a long collaboration with the live video performance group The Poool and works with Doris Vila on animated, multi-user, multi-screen responsive environment installations cited at Prix Ars Electronica 2002.
- Alexis Bhagat People
Alexis Bhagat is an intermedia artist working to dismantle authorship and authority through polyvocal sound, transmission-based conversation and continual correspondence; he is currently exploring the lecture as a form, including Lecture #4: Sound Composition as Anti-Authoritarian Writing and Lecture #5: Regarding Enemies (Bin Laden = Pope Pius VI). He edits the zine Tactical Sound and is co-editor, with Gregory Gangemi and Jason Quarles, of Sound Generation: Recording - Tradition - Politics, a collection of interviews with 21 contemporary sound artists, forthcoming from Autonomedia. He speaks and writes on anarchism, prisons and sound art, is a founding member of the August Sound Coalition, and his projects include ATM Poetry Opens (1994), Vehicle for Conversation (1999-2001), Whitman Death Songs (2002) and Lecture #2: On the Possibility of Life without the Sun (2004).
- Brian Moran People
Brian Moran is a dancer and sound artist based in New York since 1981; his recent projects include +/- , an ongoing series of DJ/dancer improvisations, Special Input, a live avant garde/electronic music series at Bar XVI in New York, Operating System Bug, an electronic analog music solo performance project, and Coffin nor Shelf, a movement duet with Molly Kittle. He also creates improvised sound for the live video group NNeng.
- Stephan Moore People
Stephan Moore is a composer, audio artist and sound designer based in Brooklyn and Troy, New York; he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Western Michigan University and Interlochen Arts Academy. His practice focuses on collection and use of real-world sound, creation and perception of sonic environments and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity; he worked in the Experimental Television Center Residency Program and uses a large multi-channel array of hand-built hemispherical speakers in performances and installations. He performs as half of the electronic duo Evidence, has created custom music software and taught courses at Maryland Institute College of Art, Peabody Conservatory, Massachusetts College of Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Simon's Rock College of Bard; he is currently Sound Supervisor of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
- David Galbraith People
David Galbraith is a New York–based composer, performer and media artist working in sound installations, video, software and performances with self-built analog electronics. Composition 2005 No. 1 was shown at Diapason and is slated for a Diapason DVD; he received a 2006 Finishing Funds grant from the Experimental Television Center/NYSCA for lgOpre and enhanced it at STEIM in 2007. His work has been exhibited at P.S.1/MoMA, New Museum and KW Institute; he holds an M.F.A. (California Institute of the Arts, 1996) and a B.S. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988).