Ben Finley, Creative Director of the Performer Composer Residency

Guelph, ON, Canada

Ben Finley is a performer-composer specializing in acoustic bass and electric bass (in multiple tunings and with effects).

www.benfinley.ca

annais linares, Co-Facilitator

Guelph, ON, Canada

Raised in the Coachella Valley, annais linares is a Residency Facilitator of Westben's Performer-Composer Residency. Sonically, she is a vocalist, improviser, and collaborator. She is currently working on co-creating musical playground installations.

www.annais.space

Davy Sumner, Co-Facilitator

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Davy Sumner is a Residency Facilitator of Westben’s Performer-Composer Residency. He is also an installation artist, composer, improviser, and Maker based in Los Angeles

www.davysumner.com

Sarah Belle Reid, Co-Facilitator

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Sarah Belle Reid is a Residency Facilitator of Westben’s Performer-Composer Residency. She is a Canadian performer-composer, active in the fields of electroacoustic trumpet performance, intermedia arts, music technology, and improvisation

www.sarahbellereid.com

Luke Williams, Digital Venue Architect

Buffalo, NY, USA

Luke is the designer of the new Westben Digital Venue. Luke is an endlessly curious musician and creative coder. His work is playful and play-full, spanning games, sound tools, data visualization, and browser art.

www.lukewilliamsmusic.com

Gao Yujie, Creative Support aka Cyborg Gardener

Kelowna, BC, Canada

Gao Yujie is a media artist and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia. Her generative participatory performance work studies the materiality of duration and explores the elasticity of space and time in rule-based interactive environments.

gaoyujie.me