Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie uses home-made instruments, amplified found and junk, microphones & electronics alongside more conventional drums and cymbals. Originally a drummer he has worked in many different settings of music: live performance, improvisation, studio composition.
The band comes from Northern Europe, Helsinki, Finland. Murmansk's music has been referred to as indie rock, noise, shoegaze, stoner, psychedelic, alternative, post-punk, krautrock, and even pop. The third Murmansk album will be released 2012. For more info: www.facebook.com/murmansk Murmansk is: Olli (bass), Jari (guitar), Jaakko (drums), Laura (vocs, guitar).
Arrington de Dionyso (b. January 4th, 1975) of Olympia, Washington uses performance as a vehicle for driving through the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance, and the folk imagery of rock and roll. After living in Chicago, Arkansas, and Spokane, Arrington moved to Olympia in 1992 to attend the Evergreen State College, where he studied Ethnomusicology, Music Therapy, and Butoh dance theater.
Free improvisation trio consisting of Keiji Haino (guitar, vocals & synth), Stephen O’Malley (bass guitar) and Oren Ambarchi (battery). They have released a self-titled album on June 2012, via Ideologic Organ, which was recorded live in Paris, November 2011.
Phil Minton is a vocalist who can also play the trumpet.
Sylvia Hallett studied music at Dartington, and then spent two years studying composition with Max Deutsch in Paris. She now works both as a composer and as an improviser, and has had pieces performed in Britain and Europe. She has played in many international festivals since the late 1970s, working with several well-known and respected musicians, including Lol Coxhill, Maggie Nicols, Phil Minton, Evan Parker, and the groups Accordions Go Crazy, LaXula, British Summer Time Ends, The London Improvisers Orchestra, and the London Hardingfelelag.
Vinko Globokar(born July 7,1934)is a Slovenian composer and trombonist.
He was born in Anderny,France.
Between 1947 and 1955 he lived in Yugoslavia where he played jazz trombone.
He returned to France to study at the Paris Conservatoire (trombone 1955-1959 with Lafosse)and then he studied composition with Luciano Berio in Berlin(1965)before working with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the time of the recording of Aus den Sieben Tagen.
Robin Hayward studied tuba and composition at the Royal Northern College of Music and at the University of Manchester, England. His involvement in contemporary music started when he attended a course in 1989 with Giancarlo Schiaffini and the late Luigi Nono, where he studied Nono’s Post-prae-ludium per Donau for tuba and live-electronics. In 1993 he attended a workshop lead by Barry Guy, which led to him joining the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra, where he played alongside many key figures in English improvised music.