Maria Chávez, born in Lima, Peru and based in NYC, is best known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ. Coincidence, chance and failures are themes that unite her work across mediums, including improvised performance, sound and marble sculpture, visual art, book objects and an extensive history with multi-channel installation. Her approach is rooted in Deep Listening, a form of embodied listening developed by her late mentor Pauline Oliveros. Maria’s practice is profoundly expansive, responsive and curious. Her work has been featured and supported by a myriad of institutions over the past decades including Rewire Festival, Counterflows Festival, Donau Festival, MoMA PS1, The Getty, The Wire Magazine (Cover, April 2023), DOCUMENTA 14, the JUDD Foundation, Cambridge University Press and many, many more. Chavez’s 2012 book, Of Technique: Chance Procedures on Turntable has garnered a reputation as both an academic resource on turntablism and a foundational text for a new generation of turntablists.

Evicshen is a cross-disciplinary sound performance alias by Victoria Shen who manipulates records and outside materials of all kinds. Her sounds oscillate between moments of restraint and swells of frenzied and confrontational maneuvers.

Instrument maker Shen’s audio practice is concerned with the materiality of sonic spatial physicalizations via self built electronics and how these extended custom built sculpture appendages specific to her body restructure a listeners relationship to the emergent room frequencies through a lens of disruption and experimentation.

Eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones, Shen uses what she calls "chaotic sound" to oppose signal and information, eluding traditionally embedded meaning toward tendencies that erode boundaries between performer, tool and audience. These noise trope activations whose melodic voids cross-examine the ways we perceive value within radicalized aural experiences emphasize a tension created by opposition - control and chaos, the unique and the mass, the practical and the absurd.

Her adventurous abstractified music can also feature analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/ records that are cut up in cast resin embedded with found materials functioning not only as playable music media but as unique art objects. Victoria also pioneered the use of Needle Nails, acrylic nails with embedded turntable styluses, which allow her to play up to 5 tracks of a record at once. These phono needle permutations, Levitating speaker, and her Noise hair Combs are some of the objects created by her as part of an extensive repertoire of innovations in the design of audio augmentations

Her work resists passive consumption. Instead, the body as both subject and instrument, using jagged motion and tactility to provoke visceral, often confrontational encounters with sound. Her appearances are directly physical, unpredictable, and ephemeral—rejecting polish in favor of raw immediacy.

Through her DIY discursive practice spanning, installations and non-traditional means of distribution, themes of spectacle, violence, control, and gender are interrogated. The primary intention is not necessarily to comfort or entertain, but to destabilize: to push systems, tools, and traditions until they reveal something less anticipated or unexpected , recontextualizing the formats of readymade assemblage practices. These poly-sculptural elements invite the experiential viewer to unpack one’s relationship with the material possibilities for magnifying unusual and provocative audio phenomena.

Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award winning composer, turntablist and performer. She previously led experimental arts project TOPH, TUSK FRINGE , and TUSK NORTH, and in November2022, she received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation #AwardsForArtists, in recognition of her contribution to music composition. Her music has recently been described as ‘genuinely ground-breaking’ (London Jazz News 2022) and ‘high-velocity sonic surrealism’ (4* TheGuardian 2022). Recent releaseBOWN(Heat Crimes) charted no.6 inThe Wire and no10 inThe Quietus’ best albums of 2023 and was The Quietus Album of the week. Boomkat described it as ‘harnessing extreme technical prowess—phenomenal stuff’.

Las Sucias is the Avant-Tropical Noise duo formed by Danishta Rivero and Alexandra Buschman-Román. Through ritualistic and improvisatory manifestations involving electronics and bruja voices, they look to their Venezuelan and Puerto Rican roots, and the diaspora's cultural expression, steeped in Afro-Caribbean and mestiza consciousnesses.

The Recombinant Media Labs organization was founded to research the qualities and artistic potential of Spatial Cinema. It does so by means of Experiential Engineering; exploring processes that propagate the aesthetic and technological boundaries of panoramic AV exhibition. RML acts as producer and presenter of hybrid artworks and performance archiving based on spatial media synthesis; intermodal works using image, light, sound and other disseminated media in three-dimensional space. The CineChamber is RML's curated, nomadic platform under the artistic trajectory of founder & Director Naut Humon plus a superhuman crew.