Ian Vine (born 3 January 1974 in Portsmouth) is a British composer. Vine spent his formative years in Libya and Hong Kong. His music has been performed across Europe and further afield, and broadcast worldwide.
His music has been released on the Accidental, Kairos and London Sinfonietta labels. He studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert (b.1934, UK) and privately with Simon Holt (b.1958, UK).
Steve Beresford (born 1950) is a British musician. He has played a variety of instruments, including piano, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar and a wide variety of toy instruments, such as the toy piano. He has also played a wide range of music. He is probably best known for free improvisation, but has also written music for film and television and has been involved with a number of pop music groups.
Ulver (Norwegian for “wolves”) is a multi-disciplinary musical trio from Oslo, Norway. The band was formed by Kristoffer "Garm" Rygg in 1993, and their current members are Rygg (vocal, programming), Jørn H. Sværen (misc.) and Tore Ylwizaker (programming, piano). Since their first folk metal/black metal release in 1993, Ulver’s style has ever been changing by combining elements of experimental, electronic and ambient music, avant-garde, rock, trip-hop, and their own genre-defying innovations.
Black Carrot (Market Harborough) are a vibrant quintet who perform new-wave krautrock jazz madness that oozes rock with a psychotic edge. Fierce and abstract yet serving the concept of the song, their unique sound nods towards Beefheart and Pere Ubu but is shot through with flavours of New York jazz skronk, and the loosest, funkiest Krautrock. Formed in 2000, Black Carrot released their first album "Cluk" in 2003 on their own Moon City Musik label to great reviews culminating in a feature on BBC Radio 3's "Mixing It".
Toshio Hosokawa (細川俊夫) was born on October 23, 1955 in Hiroshima. He went to West Berlin to study composition with Isang Yun at the Hochschule der Künste in 1976. From 1983 to 1986, he studied with Klaus Huber at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. In 1980, he participated for the first time in the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, where his work was performed.
Born in Portugal in 1964, he has lived and worked in Barcelona since 1992. In 1992, he finished his studies at the Fine Art School of Paris with a degree in sculpture/multimedia. Apart from his work as a visual artist, he became involved in improvised music around 1995, concentrating on electric guitar and accordion. Monteiro has been a member of 22a, an independent collective for contemporary art, since 1998.
Eliane Radigue (born 1932) is a French electronic music composer whose work, since the early 1970s, has been almost exclusively created a single synthesizer, the ARP 2500 modular system and tape. Raised in Paris by middle-class parents, she married the sculptor Yves Arman with whom she lived in Nice while raising their children. She had studied piano and was already composing before having heard a broadcast by the founder of musique concrète Pierre Schaeffer.
John Adams is one of America’s most admired and respected composers. A musician of enormous range and technical command, he has produced works, both operatic and symphonic, that stand out among all contemporary classical music for the depth of their expression, the brilliance of their sound world and the profoundly humanist nature of their themes. Born and raised in New England, Adams learned the clarinet from his father and played in marching bands and community orchestras during his formative years.
Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist who is most widely known for her relationship with John Lennon of The Beatles. When Yoko first met John Lennon, she was an artist exhibiting in the UK. Working with artist group Fluxus throughout the 1960s, Ono dabbled in conceptual art and filmmaking - as well as music. Ono collaborated with experimental luminaries such as John Cage and jazz legend Ornette Coleman. In 1961, years before meeting Lennon, she had her first major public performance in a concert at the 258-seat Carnegie Recital Hall (not the larger "Main Hall").
Seaming, sometimes credited as simply Seaming To, is an British-born Chinese singer-songwriter, keyboardist and clarinettist based in Manchester. She is a member of the Homelife and Toolshed collectives, the Lotus Pedals and the duo Mayming (with cellist Semay Wu) and has been a guest vocalist for The Herbaliser (“PlaySomething Wicked”), Mr. Scruff (“PlayBeyond” and “PlayValley of the Sausages”), Leila (“The Exotics”), Funckarma (“Kinnex” and “Ketayseam”) Robert Wyatt ("Stay Tuned") and, in live performances, Matthew Bourne.