Derek Holzer (USA/DE)
  (photo by Eelco Borremans)
http://macumbista.net
Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has played live experimental sound, as well as taught workshops in Pure Data and electronics, across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand.
Holzer is currently a fellow at the KHM (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln) in Cologne.

Toni Dimitrov, Sound_00 / DJ every kid on speed (MK)
 
http://acidfake.tk
sound_00 is one of the monikers under which Toni Dimitrov appears - sound artist, radio activist, dj, designer, cultural producer… based in skopje, macedonia. When at home and not traveling he is doing various projects, but music obviously being the main focus of his hectic lifestyle. After finishing philosophy he started master studies in communication and new media and continues running his label acid fake recordings, the sublabel discofake and webzine fakezine (a webzine for contemporary experimental music and (sub)culture), presenting his works as sound and djing. He organizes live events/exhibitions and creates installations and design work under the division 'acid fake design'. Toni is host to a number of radio programs dedicated to new music and radio art. Under the name sound_00, he produces glitch, minimal, cut up electronics. His dj project 'every kid on speed' he produces minimal electronics/techno. He has released many full lengths and eps and has been included in compilations and remixes on various labels around the world. He has shared the stage with names including Pita, Andrey Kiritchenko, massaccesi, Urkuma, Ran Slavin, solar x, Modelesector, Ellen Alien, Miss Kittin, t.rumschmiere, Jason Forest, driver and driver… at festivals including club transmediale - Berlin, progress festival – Ljubljana; absurd festival – Skopje; ctrl_alt_del sound-art festival – Istanbul; interpretation festival – Graz; tiny noise festival - Oklahoma City; media space society – Vienna; radia lx – Lisboa, Todaysart festival – The Hague and de:sonanz festival - Skopje. His is a founding member of the organization ‘line – initiative and movement’ that deals with new media art and technology events in Macedonia, tiny noise, and de:sonanz festival of electronic music in Skopje.

Kyd Campbell (CA/DE) tape project
 
http://www.frontierlab.org
The tape project is a new performance including HD video footage of the Vienna collective Numen/For Use building up a huge sculpture made of transparent tape. The audio-visual performance consists of live tape noise and video controlled through a simple Pure Data patch. Programming support by EVOL. Kyd Campbell is a digital artist and curator born in Montreal and now based in Weimar, Germany. Her work has included assembling sound and noise artists as the founding curator of the tiny noise project and numerous creative works focused on texture, macro detail in video and creating magical connections between technology and everyday life. She has developed a number of cultural venues in Canada and Eastern Europe including collaborations with the Upgrade! International network, Line Initiative and Movement, Public Art Lab's project Mobile Studios, the Pure Data community, the HTMlles festival, OKNO.be and CTRL_ATL_DEL festival.

John Fanning (Massaccesi) (US/NL)
 
http://massaccesi.com
John Fanning is an artist living and working currently in New Hampshire, USA. His work encompasses installation, performance, sound, video, sculpture and conceptual ideas. Embracing a DIY ethic from an early age Fanning has been a self-publishing ‘zine editor, university radio & live party DJ (touring three times fresh out of high school in Europe & Japan) and conceptual/experimental fashion designer concurrent to his main focus areas of visual art & experimental performance. Fanning focuses on integrating & blending aspects of installation & performance to create alternative environments that either take over a specific space or occupy an interventional “space within a space”.

Koray Tahiroglu (TR/FI) Live Audio Cues
 
http://mlab.taik.fi/~korayt
Improvising interactively turns human musical interaction into continuous activity, exploring new formations of sounds and listening consciously. In Live Audio Cues performances, conscious awareness results in investigating the unexpected through voluntary actions, which evolve into a source for creating a musical dialog with the interactive performance system. Live Audio Cues is an audiovisual real-time improvisation for live electronics and gesture controlled musical instruments interfaced with torch and duck. Interactive performance system acts together with the performer’s control gestures and responds to the current state changes of the system components. Hannah Drayson created the abstract visual layers of this piece. Koray Tahirog ?lu is a performer of live electronic music, an improviser, researcher and lecturer who grew up in Istanbul. Currently he lives in Helsinki and works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Media, Aalto University School of Art and Design. Since 2004, he has been teaching workshops and courses introducing artistic strategies and methodologies for creating computational art works focusing on open source applications and hardware as developing environments. Tahirog ?lu has performed experimental music in collaboration with sound artists and performers as well as with solo performances at various sound art events and festivals in Europe and North America.