David Gamper
David Gamper (Sound Shifter - piano, winds, etc.) moves freely among the worlds of composition, improvisation, and electronic instrument design and construction. He believes electronic sound processing technologies constitute an extension of the acoustic musical instrument. Unlike more single-minded proponents of musical technology, Gamper's music is a marriage of traditional instrumental performance with the sound transformations introduced by new and emerging technologies. With the unique performance electronics system he designs for each concert, he captures the live sounds of his instruments and electronically shifts them into other musical realms. Driven by an interest in creating performer controlled sound processing environments for improvising acoustic musicians, for the last six years he has directed development of the Expanded Instrument System (EIS) for the Pauline Oliveros Foundation and has designed variations of the EIS for teaching, demonstration, recording, and for use by guest musicians in performances with Deep Listening Band. Additionally, Gamper has composed and performed with Straylight (Jason Finkleman, Goeff Gersch, Charles Cohen) in the 1998 Cspace Performance Series at Citicorp Center in New York City; and with Pauline Oliveros - most recently at The IJsbreker in Amsterdam in January, 1999.
Contact: dgamper@mail.earthlink.net

Jesse Gilbert
A composer, multi-instrumentalist, musicologist, and digital audio specialist. Gilbert is a technician at EDC/Center for Children and Technology in NYC, a non-profit research and development organization that addresses approaches to technology and educational reform. He oversaw the functioning of the sound component of PORT, a seven week festival of online work presented simultaneously on the Internet and in the List Center for the Visual Arts at MIT; ADRIFT (with collaborators Helen Thorington and Marek Walczak), a monthly performance event initiated for the Ars Electronica Festival in 1997. He was co-creator with Nina Sobell of the online Turbulence event EBB and FLOW, in July 1998, and has participated as technical advisor and performer in several transatlantic webcasts, notably as part of the performance group, ParkBench. His most recent performance was "FindingTime" for which he created a way of scoring for performers in different geographical locations. Gilbert's works explore the uses of sound in networked collaborations, scavenging of sounds through the publicly licensed radio waves, and guided improvisation.
Contact: jgilbert@mail.wesleyan.edu

Annie Gosfield
Annie Gosfield is a composer, keyboardist, and improviser based in New York City. She has led ensembles performing her work at Lincoln Centerâs ãBang on a Canä contemporary music festival, John Zornâs Festival of Radical Jewish Culture, the Taktlos Festival and Festival Solo in Switzerland; The Prague New Music Marathon; The Audio Art Festival in Cracow; The Knitting Factory, Roulette, & Experimental Intermedia in NYC; Utopia, Cafe Falb, Alter Schlachthof and ESC in Austria; Rote Fabrik, Kulturwerkstaat Kaserne, and BOA in Switzerland; The Roxy and CUBA Space in Germany, and other concerts throughout the U.S. and Europe. Here latest CD, ãBurnt Ivory and Loose Wiresä features a group of pieces using altered piano sounds. Her composition ãThe Manufacture of Tangled Ivoryä was premiered by the Bang on a Can Allstars at Lincoln Center, and performed at Settembre Musica and the Adelaide festival, and was released on Sony Classical on their CD ãCheating, Lying, Stealing.ä ãLost Nightä for chamber orchestra and sampler was commissioned by the Crosstown Ensemble and premiered at Tribeca Hall, NYC. ãIn Rides the Dustä was premiered by Agon Orchestra at the Prague Symphony Orchestra Chamber Hall. She has received grants and commissions from the NEA, the American Composers Forum, Prix Ars Electronica, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, the Independent Composers Assoc., and others. Annie has performed with Roger Kleier, Marc Ribot, David Moss, Davey Williams, LaDonna Smith, Elliott Sharp, and Samm Bennett. She performed in the month- long 10th anniversary of COBRA, led by John Zorn, and frequently performs his piece ãXu Fengä at the Knitting Factory. Annie is currently involved in the preservationand performance of the work of composer Philip W. Schreck, publishing articles, and organizing, arranging, and leading concerts of his work.
Contact: AGosfield@aol.com

Brenda Hutchinson
Brenda Hutchinson's work has included performance and compositions for dance, opera, film, video and radio. She has built interactive exhibits and installations. Her work makes extensive use of language, stories, ambient and sampled sounds. She often acts as a catalyst for experiences involving other people whose stories and/or performances are recorded and shared with other audiences through her work in performance and radio. Hutchinson has worked as a video producer, exhibit builder and sound consultant at The Exploratorium in San Francisco, as an engineer and instructor at Harvestworks in New York and as a sound designer for multi media companies, Convivial Design and Purple Moon in San Francisco. Recordings of her work are available through TELLUS, DEEP LISTENING, THE AERIAL, O.O. DISCS and Leonardo Music Magazine.
Contact: brendah@exploratorium.edu

Roger Kleier
Roger Kleier is a guitarist, composer, and improviser originally from Los Angeles and currently residing in New York City. He has participated in a wide variety of projects in his career including working in and writing for numerous new music groupings, composing music for art installations, and playing in free-wheeling improvisation ensembles. A regular in New Yorkâs ãDowntownä scene, Roger has performed and/or recorded with Annie Gosfield, David Moss, Marc Ribotâs Shrek, Davey Williams, LaDonna Smith, Elliott Sharpâs Dynerâs Club, Zeena Parkins, Samm Bennett, Tom Cora, Phill Niblock, Carl Stone, Dave Tronzo, and many others. With various ensembles he has toured extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia. Some of his featured performances include the Knitting Factory, New Music America, Taktlos Festival Switzerland, Lincoln Center, The Rive de Gier Jazz Festival, Quasimodo Berlin, Paradiso Amsterdam, Westwerk Hamburg, Roxy Ulm, Goethe Institute Cracow, ESC Graz, K4 Ljubljana, Alter Schlachthof Wels, and Utopia Innsbruck. Roger has received several grants for composition from the NEA, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Meet the Composer. His latest recordings include his own solo CD entitled KlangenBang released on on the New York based Rift label, Dyner's Club with Elliott Sharp, and The Big Off with Samm Bennett.
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Kevin McCoy
Kevin McCoy is a media artist who works with interactive multimedia, digital video, software design, and electronic music. He completed his MFA in Electronic Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1994. He is an Assistant Professor of Multimedia in the Art Department at the City College of New York.
Contact: mccoy@earthlink.net

Pauline Oliveros
Since the 1960's Pauline Oliveros has influenced American Music extensively through her works and with improvisation, electronic music, teaching, myth, ritual, and meditation. She is currently artistic director of Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Darius Milhaud professor at Mills College and professor of composition at Oberlin Conservatory. As John Rockwell, New York Times, states, "On some level, music, sound, consciousness and religion are all one, and she would seem to be very close to that level."
Contact: paulineo@deeplistening.org

Maggi Payne
Maggi Payne is Co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College where she teaches recording engineering, composition and electronic music. She has had performances of her works throughout the United States and Europe, including Sonic Circuits IV Festival of Electronic Music, the Next Wave Festival eXstatic Project in Australia, Prix Ars Electronica, OPUS415 No.3 in San Francisco, ƒnCue SŽries XVI, Concordia University in Montreal, SoundCulture '96, New Music Across America Festival '92, New Music America '90, '87 and '81 Festivals, Composers' Forum in NYC, Siggraph, New York Museum of Modern Art, Paris Autumn Festival, Bourges Festival in France, and the Autunno Musical at Como, Italy. Her works are available on the Lovely Music, Music and Arts, Centaur, MMC, Frogpeak, and Asphodel labels and the Mills College Anthology.
Contact: maggi@mills.edu

Scott Rosenberg Scott Rosenberg is a composer/multi-instrumentalist who has recently moved to New York City. His work often involves improvisation and attempts to incorporate the erratic human elements in an overt manner. This has led Rosenberg into many different performance contexts over the last several years, ranging from solo story and sound improvisations to large ensemble creative orchestra concerts. After an extended period of travelling and performing abroad in Europe, Rosenberg is re-entering the New York and Bay Area music communities.
Contact: scottrosenberg@email.com

Helen Thorington
Thorington is the Executive Director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore), founder and producer of the national weekly radio series, "New American Radio" and founder and producer of the "Turbulence" website.  She is a writer, sound composer, and radio producer, whose radio documentary and dramatic work has been aired nationally and internationally for the past fifteen years. She has also created compositions for film and installation that have been shown at the Berlin Film Festival and the Whitney Bienniel.  Her networked collaborations include the "turbulence" composition for PORT, distributed live by Real Audio to the Internet and to the List Center for the Visual Arts, February and March 1997; ADRIFT, a networked collaboration with Marek Walzcak and Jesse Gilbert,  created for the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria in September 1997.
Contact: turbulence.org@verizon.net

Jesse Gilbert, Morton Street (see above)

Leslie Lavellet, Harvestworks, Inc.
Leslie Lavelanet is a musician and recording artist who is currently Main Audio Engineer at Harvestworks. He has worked on several major film soundtracks with producers Callum Greene, Neil Hollander and Victoria Maldonado. In addition to recording credits, he also teaches the Music Production Workshop and tutorials in Digital Audio Recording at Harvestworks.
Contact: harvestw@pop.dti.net

Carol Parkinson, Harvestworks, Inc.
Executive Director of Harvestworks since 1987, Carol Parkinson has long been involved in programming and development of the organization. Previous to that, she was employed by the DIA Art Foundation as assistant to composer LaMonte Young. During her employment at Harvestworks, Parkinson has organized panelists and participated in the review of applications to the Harvestworks Artist-In-Residence Program since its beginning in 1983. She is a founding member of TELLUS, the experimental audio series and continues to support and distribute experimental and innovative work in the digital media arts. Her primary interest is in the field of electronic media and in supporting the development of a new aesthetic with the artistic use of new technological tools. As a composer she has performed at Roulette, the Kitchen and White Columns and has done soundtracks for video artists Louis Grenier and Julie Harrison. She has been published in EAR magazine, the Village Voice and High Performance Magazine. Grants and awards include a NYSCA media grant for a collaboration with video artist Julie Harrison.
Contact: info@harvestworks.org

Leslie Stuck, Mills College
Leslie Stuck is Technical Director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College. He has composed electronic music for the New York City Ballet, the The Paris Opera Ballet, and the Tokyo Ballet. He has done sound design for Frank Zappa, Laurie Anderson, and Heiner Goebbels, as well as constructed real-time computer environments for Jeffrey Shaw, Agnes Hegedus, and Peirre Boulez.
Contact: les@mills.edu