Atau lived in the San Francisco area in the late 80’s when he was doing his PhD at Stanford’s CCRMA. He began working with muscle sensing by using the BioMuse in 1990. He went overseas in 1992 with a scholarship to conduct research at IRCAM in Paris. He has since been Artistic Ambassador for Apple France, and researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris. In the 90’s he formed Sensorband with Zbigniew Karkowski and Edwin van der Heide and then moved to Japan, playing with Merzbow, Otomo, and KK Null. After having met John Cage during his Norton Lectures, he re-created Cage’s Variations VII with Matt Wand and :zoviet*france: in 2008. Atau has been was Artistic Co-Director of STEIM and is currently Professor of Media Computing and a member of the Embodied Audiovisual Interaction (EAVI) research unit at Goldsmiths in London.

As Dane Law, Adam Parkinson makes music using single board and embedded computers, mixing sine waves and mangled rave samples on an entirely screenless, battery powered set up, exploring the possibilities of new digital instruments and the future of how we incorporate computers (and computer music) into sets with no obvious computer present, whilst producing glitched up beats and room shaking drones. His debut album, United in Dance, was recently released on Quantum Natives and can be download at quantumnatives.com. It has received support from DJs and producers such as Mumdance (RinseFM) and Joane Skyler (NTS Radio). Under other aliases he has released on Entr’acte, Fat Cat Records and Upset the Rhythm and received airplay on WFMU. Parkinson has a Phd in music from Newcastle University, and currently works as a researcher and lecturer in EAVI. Watch the video made by Werkflow and Quantum Natives that accompanied the album recently premiered on Mixmag here.

The music of Thomas Dimuzio transports the listener to other worldly aural realms. “His work has a narrative, filmic tug that will draw you into its dark corners, ears alert… brilliant and rarely less than entertaining.” (Peter Marsh, BBC)  His  recordings  have  been  released  internationally  by  RéR  Megacorp,  Resipiscent,  Asphodel,  RRRecords,  MonoType, No Fun Productions, Sonoris, Drone Records, Record Label Records, Odd Size, Seeland, and other independent  labels.  Among  his  collaborators  are  Chris  Cutler,  Dan  Burke,  Joseph  Hammer,  Marcia  Bassett,  Alan  Courtis, Nick Didkovsky, Due Process, Voice of Eye, Fred Frith, David Lee Myers, Alaric, ISIS, 5uu's, Matmos, Wobbly and Negativland. Recent performances include AngelicA Festival Internazionale di Musica, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, CCRMA at Stanford, Recombinant Media Labs Don Buchla Memorial Concert, Warner Jepson: A Night of Indeterminacy and Ende Tymes Festival of Experimental Art and Liberation. Dimuzio also hosted KPFA’s Frequency Modulation  Radio  which  featured  live  on-­‐air  performances  of  sonic  practitioners  exploring  the  fringes  of  music.  Dimuzio’s new live record “Sutro Transmissions” was released by Resipiscent in January 2020 to world-­‐wide acclaim.

EAVI is the Embodied Audio Visual Interaction Research Unit based in Goldsmiths, University of London. EAVI creatively explores new technologies and the expressivity and ways to perform that they bring. At EAVI we design and research new musical instruments and create toolkits for others to do so too, whilst also running regular concerts, making sure our research is fuelled by a love of live electronic music, not uncritically embracing all new technologies but always asking ourselves “What makes a good performance?” Biosensors, machine learning, embedded computing and other cutting edge technologies are ultimately used to make the music we want to play.

Rebel Technology is a tech collective based in London. They produce open source, open hardware technology. They have a collection of unique modules, including one of which can be re-programmed using C++ or Pure Data (The OWL), and another (the Open Sound Module) which allows bi-directional control of modular systems using OSC over wifi, opening up new ways to interact with modules. Adam Parkinson will demonstrate a compact modular set up showing how the reprogrammable OWL can be used in conjuction with other modules to create a patchable “acid house groovebox” he has developed, creating ever shifting rhythms and evolving acid basslines, and using tablets and sensors to remotely control the modular.