Richard Scott is a free improvising electroacoustic composer working with electronics including modular synthesizers and controllers such as the Buchla Thunder and Lightning and his own self-designed WiGi infra red controller developed at STEIM. He has been composing and performing for over 25 years recently working with artists such as Evan Parker, Jon Rose, Richard Barrett, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Shelley Hirsch, Ute Wasserman, Michael Vorfeld, Frank Gratkowski and his own Lightning Ensemble. He studied free improvisation in the 80s with John Stevens, saxophone with Elton Dean and Steve Lacy, and electroacoustic composition with David Berezan and Ricardo Climent. He has released many albums, for example with Grutronic and Evan Parker for PSI records, “The Magnificence of Stereo” (sruti BOX), Seven Types of Ambiguity with Axel Doerner, and an album with Sidsel Endresen, “Debris in Lower Earth Orbit “ (CUSP Editions) . Since 2016 he represents his own work (and that of his collaborators) through his Sound Anatomy series and label.

Started out in 1980 playing in several local punk and post-punk bands, Lu Katavist experimented with collage for cassette releases from the mid-eighties on, and switched to synthesizer and sampler based explorations in the early. In the new century he continued his quest for new sounds and methods and started his first modular system in 2005. In 2011 he released his "retoxis" work containing improvised pieces played on Haken Continuum Fingerboard and modular system. Live gigs in Düsseldorf, Cologne, Berlin, Manchester and Rotterdam followed, and 2015 saw the release of his second work "inburst" on the Manchester based CUSPeditions.