Andy Puls is a video artist, analog electronics designer, and composer/musician. He runs the experimental media production studio, "Whistlehut" in Richmond, CA, where he produces his own and others' audio and visual recordings, and designs electronic audio and video devices.​​ His video work centers around live, intuitive, "no source" visualizations. Using video hardware processing, camera feedback loops, and video synthesis, he uncovers the inner-world landscapes existing behind the scan-lines. His focus on live connection to the viewers, and his direct interaction with sound -- working both solo, and in collaboration with other live sound artists -- makes each performance entirely unique to circumstance.

Scy1e (‘Sighwonee”) is a new direction for Bay Area electro-acoustic musician Raub Roy, who has been performing since 2005 as Horaflora. His Scy1e project explores the concept coined by John Berndt of relabi, semi- or fully stochastic rhythmic cycles that tend to have an affect of “self erasing pulses”. Field recordings mingle with limping, stately, rhythms, together forming a rich community of sounds. With partner Dianne Lynn, he founded experimental music label Weird Ear Records with the slogan, “The Weird Ear, The Better.”

the Hydrophonium, a water-based electro-acoustic percussion instrument she created.  She has recently been active touring with her duo Voicehandler, with percussionist Jacob Felix Heule, performing their song cycle. Blood Wedding, her just intonation noise duo with Chuck Johnson, will release its first album, A Survey of Locked Modes, this year. She co-founded Optiphonal Wonder Machine, a multimedia collaboration with Jennifer Rannells.

Madalyn Merkey is a composer and performer of live computer music based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her recent work draws on the principles of acoustic instruments and material spaces, designing real-time sound synthesis programs for site-specific performance. She is currently on staff at CCRMA and was previously the host of Piano on KPFA. In 2015, Merkey translated the pioneering electronic music text Due scuole di musica elettronica in Italia (1968) by composer Enore Zaffiri (b. Turin, 1928) from Italian to English. She first realized the audio components of Zaffiri’s work at Mills College in 2014 as part of her MFA thesis in Electronic Music, and later conducted additional research at the Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini in Florence, Italy.