Kai Niggemann works with a Buchla 200e and fieldrecordings, a noise choir, DIY- soundmakers and acoustic instruments. He is the artistic co-director along with Ruth Schultz of the theatre company “PARADEISER productions”, a member of the 30-piece kraut-noise-jazz collective “The Dorf”, improvises with the trio “Great Big Noise”, cofounded the “European Bridges Ensemble” (EBE) and the electroacoustic duo “Resonator”. He performs solo and with partners, has a teaching assignment at the Academy for Fine Arts in Münster and teaches workshops (“soldering under supervision”) together with sound artist Stan Pete. 

Richard Scott is a prolific free improvising electroacoustic composer and living in Berlin 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 working with artists such as Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, John Stevens, Jon Rose, Richard Barrett, Axel Doerner, 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, Action Theatre improvisation with Sten Rudstrom and electroacoustic composition with David Berezan and Ricardo Climent. He has had multiple electroacoustic, performance and audio-visual works presented at conferences and festivals such as ICMC, IFIMPAC, BEAM and MANTIS and has been a referee for the NIME conference. In 2014 he initiated and co-curated the Sines&Squares festival of analogue and modular synthesis held at Manchester University. He runs his own label Sound Anatomy and is co-curator of three important improvised and electronic series in Berlin: AUXXX, Sound Anatomy and Basic Electricity. He has released many albums, for example Grutronic and Evan Parker on PSI records, The Magnificence of Stereo (sruti BOX) and has a solo double modular synthesizer LP, Several Circles, and an album with Sidsel Endreson on Cusp Editions in 2015. He has written a number of conference papers, including “The Molecular Imagination: John Stevens, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Free Group Improvisation” in Sound weaving: Writings on Improvisation, Edited by Franziska Schroeder and Mícheál ÓhAodha 2014 Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Sam Weaver is a composer and sound artist with a longstanding interest in the studio as a laboratory for sonic investigation, often re-routing instruments into abstraction and deliberately misusing his equipment. Since 2012 his main tool both live and in the studio, has been the Hordjik analogue modular synthesizer. He has recently recorded and performed with Charles Hayward, Danny Saul, Tombed Visions, Gnod and has performed along side Kevin Drumm as well as launching ‘Cuspeditions’; a new vinyl label and series of sound art events championing experimental music and the unclassifiable. His interest lies in the grey areas between acousmatic sound, free improvisation and experimental electronics, often exploring ways to bring moments of calm and harmony out of passages of chaos.