Oakland, CA, USA

Adrian Montufar works in free improvisation, concert music, and sound art, where he engages the connections between the voice and the body, exploring how technology can extend and disrupt them.

adrianmontufar.com

Montréal, QC, Canada

Annette Bauer is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and music educator with a background in early European and classical North Indian music styles. Her primary instruments are the sarode, a 24-stringed lute, and the many members of the recorder family. In combination with photography, she creates evocative soundscapes inspired by the natural world.

soundcloud.com/annettebauer

Atlanta, GA, USA & Istanbul, Turkey

Ipek Eginli, a native of Turkey, is an electroacoustic music composer/performer. She holds a doctoral degree in piano performance and is the founder of a piano academy in GA, USA.

soundcloud.com/ipek-eginli/cok-gec

Toronto, ON, Canada

Jeff LaRochelle is a Toronto-based woodwind specialist, composer, arranger, and producer. In addition to co-leading the Autobahn Trio for over a decade, he has been developing his own solo woodwinds/synth project called Gloomtube in recent years as a vehicle for multi-genre/disciplinary collaboration.

jefflarochelle.com

Montréal, QC, Canada

Katelyn Clark is a historical keyboard specialist (harpsichord/organ/pianoforte) based in Montréal QC. Her work re-imagines the sound of early instruments and lost soundscapes.

katelynclark.com

Ottawa, ON, and Montréal, QC, Canada

A fun-loving queer arbor-artist based in Ottawa and Montreal, Kim Farris-Manning creates works across disciplines, allowing ideas to grow and change; pieces are often made in versions, through a process of experimentation and collaboration with others. Working as an artist, arborist, forest technician and researcher, Kim often finds creative inspiration on the field and likewise brings an artistic lens to tree work.

kim.farris-manning.ca

Los Angeles, CA, USA & Dessau, Germany

Michel is a classically trained guitarist and plucked string multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, CA, who enjoys creating interdisciplinary experiences that play with notions of time and space, truth and reality. A lifelong learner and educator, he often employs non-idiomatic improvisation, conceptual strategies and graphic representations in his projects.

youtube.com/@michelvonloh559/videos

Toronto, ON, Canada

Rashaan Allwood is a composer, pianist, organist and synthesist. He is currently working on a doctoral thesis which explores natural settings, improvisation, and cultural reflection in music at Western University.

rashaanallwood.com

Tio'tia:ke/Montreal

Sarah Rossy is a Tio'tia:ke/Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist and educator unravelling themes of identity, healing and community connection.

sarahrossy.com

Guelph, ON, Canada

Reza Yazdanpanah is a community-based musician, improviser, composer, and multi-instrumentalist with a Persian background.

rezayazdanpanah.com