Performers

Abram Taber

At the tender age of 3, Abram Taber ripped open a cardboard box with a plastic toy screwdriver to get at the ukulele within.  Throughout the next 30+ years of his life, Abram has worked towards that same goal: unleashing sounds with whatever tools are available. (Philadelphia PA) reallybadreverb.com; Facebook

Adam Bohman

…has been operating on the outer fringes of underground music for decades. Adam’s music is unique and experimental, incorporating Fluxus japery, musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation. (London UK) Bandcamp

Adam Matlock

Adam works as an accordionist, composer, and vocalist living and working in New Haven, CT. Matlock writes songs under the name An Historic, building narratives accompanies by musical inspirations from Balkan music and Klezmer, Soul, and various strains of rock. (New Haven CT) anhistoricmusic.blogspot.com, Bandcamp

Adam Tinkle

Member of Seven Count: we view improvisation not just as a way of making art, but as an ethical response to deep listening, presence in the moment, and being in relation to others. adamtinkle.wordpress.com

Adrian Northover

Adrian has performed at many international festivals, works with live music for film (Ensemble Kino), and helps run the Horse Improvised Music Club. (London UK) adriannorthover.co.uk

Adrian Shaflee

Guitar (NYC)

Afroditi Psarra

Multidisciplinary artist working in the intersection of electronic textiles and physical computing with sound art. Her research focuses on the merging of science fiction ideas with poetic representations and performative practices, traditional crafting methodologies with engineering and electronics, the art and science interaction with a critical discourse in the creation of artifacts. (Seattle WA USA, Athens GR) afroditipsarra.com

Al Margolis

Al Margolis is a composer/performer, improvisor, and painter. Since 1984, often under his project name If, Bwana, he has worked in the field of non-commercial, non-popular music and sound. (Chester NY) Ifbwana.com, pogus.com, Bandcamp

Alessandro Maione/Metaphysical Interior Design

Pseudo-cryptozoologist soap box barker accompanied by a modular synth, some home-made instruments, and a guitar played mostly-well. (Shelton CT)

Alex Cohen

Alex Pelchat

Montréal-based guitarist, vocalist, writer and organizer whose practice is influenced by the music of Albert Ayler and Haino Keiji, the pataphysical works of Boris Vian and the explorations of Jean-Paul Riopelle. He has taken on multiple American and Canadian tours and performed at various festivals including Suoni Per Il Popolo and OBEY Convention. (Montréal QC) Bandcamp

Alex Renner/Samotage

Satomage is an experiment in live loops, polymeters, electric cello, and self-reflective depression.(Stamford CT) Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Bandcamp

Alexander Bernhardt / Cryptwarbler

Cryptwarbler is a circuit bending project that explores the negotiation between man and machine through use of controllers to reroute data in a casio mt-240 synth. (Worcester, MA) Instagram

Alexandra Derderian

Visual artist and videographer; Alex earned her BFA from University of Massachusetts Lowell with concentration in Painting and a minor in Creative Writing. She makes comedy videos, does improv performances, puppet shows, and plays drums in Inspector 34 and Table Trash. (Los Angeles, CA) alexandraderderian.com, YouTube, Bandcamp

Allie Berger

Allie Berger likes to move. Through her embodied creative practice and academic studies, she investigates the language of the body-mind as an intelligent source of expression and therapeutic potential. She is interested in the intersections between formal performance and the everyday, particularly through the study and practice of improvisation. (Syracuse NY) Facebook, YouTube, Instagram

Allison Lorenzen

Bandcamp

Allison O / Lure

Sound performance, audio programming, poetry, handmade instruments, electronics. (Boston MA) Soundcloud

Aly Gear/Soggy Doggy/Flubber Boiler

Soggy Doggy was born in a hay storage loft next to a swamp in Western Massachusetts & is currently buried under the task of hoarding air between skin & fascia drumkit, oven rack, & electronics by Charles Noyes (MA, USA) & electronics, guitar, voice, propane tank, silver platters, viola, & glockenspiel by a gear. (Shetland UK) soggy-doggy.wixsite.com/soggydoggy; amphibibiomeprotocol.wixsite.com/flubber-boiler

Amelie Brodeur

Flutist and pianist Amélie Brodeur is founder of YouTube’s The Flute Channel, The Flute Talk Podcast and The Montreal Flute Festival. From symphonic music, contemporary music, world music, chamber music and improvised music she has been heard over 10,000,000 times all over the world online including CBC radio, Radio-Classique, WPRB Princeton, ClassicFM and many more. ameliebrodeur.com

Andrea Blesso

Andrea Blesso Albuquerque has danced with each of the elements – underwater, 18ft in the air, spinning fire fans, and in the mountains of Portugal. andreablesso.com

Andrea Pensado

Based in the US since 2002, Pensado uses voice and electronics to make her music. She uses Max as her main programming tool. The voice is constantly interwoven in the improvisations. The approach to both programming and performance is highly intuitive. The harsh cut up noise result, mixed with the strong emotional component of her music, generates a deeply personal sonic language. She also runs Sonorium, a series of experimental music based in Salem, MA. andreapensado.com, sonorium.net, soundcloud

Andrea Rios

Andrea Williams

New York sound artist Andrea Williams utilizes site-specific elements and perceptual cues to reveal the unseen connections between people and their environment. Her compositions make use of field recordings, instruments, computer technologies and the sound of the performance space itself. She has shown and performed both solo and with various musicians and artists at galleries, museums, and alternative spaces internationally, such as Roulette, Eyebeam, Children’s Creativity Museum, NPR, and the Mamori sound artist residency in the Amazon rainforest. She also has taught Deep Listening courses, including with composer, Pauline Oliveros, at RPI and VCU. (Troy NY) listeninglistening.com, Instagram

Andrew Conner

Andrew Duncan

Andrew Neumann

Andrew Neumann is an American artist who works in a variety of media, including sculpture, film, video installation, and electronic/interactive music. His work is concerned with developing hybrid systems that integrate sound, image and text into performative and installation situations. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has had one-person shows atbitforms Gallery in Seoul, Korea, the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, bitformsGallery, NYC, the Boston Cyberarts Festival. His single channel videos have been shown on PBS, The Worldwide Video Festival, Artist Space, Microscope Gallery, and elsewhere. He has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Ucross Foundation. He has had solo music/video performances at numerous venues, including Experimental Intermedia and Roulette, both in NYC. (Boston MA) adneumann.com, Instagram

Andrew Renault-Caragianes

“His infectious energy, work ethic and taste on the instrument are exactly what the band was seeking in a bass player and he’s gelled nicely into that role. (Andrew has) really locked in and made a potent rhythm section that drives the songs while controlling the dynamics of the band” – Bruce Marshall (Marshall Tucker Band, James Montgomery, Michael Allman) ReverbNation

Andy Allen

Woodwinds. (Western MA) feedingtuberecords.com/releases/all-the-roots/

Andy Crespo

Guitar, plus he’s the dude who runs Electric Eye Records. (Florence MA) Discogs

Andy Fordyce

Drums.

Andy Funaro

Drums.

Andy Goulet

I write songs: sad songs, happy songs, funny songs, weird songs, dancing songs, and everything in between. I play instruments: the pedal steel guitar, upright bass, singing saw, harmonica, autoharp, drums, mountain dulcimer, ukulele and more. (Easthampton MA) andygoulet.com

Andy Kivela

Percussion and electronics. Bandcamp: Collapsible Cat Records, Bandcamp: Doepog, Soundcloud: Collapsible Cat Records, 23ensemble.tumblr.com

Andy Phelps

I’m Andy.  I used to run the harsh noise project Ichorous. These days I mainly brew and review beer as a hobby, but when I do make music it’s under the name Narcissus Technologies. Even more seldomly, I work on a harsh noise/power electronics project called Idle Wounds with my homebrew partner. The more you know! (Lowell MA) last.fm; rateyourmusic.com; Bandcamp

Angela Sawyer

Astonishing audiences around the Boston area using her mouth, some broken electronics, toys & noisemakers, Angela Sawyer has released a steady trickle of small-run lps, cds, cdrs & cassettes over the years. (Jamaica Plain MA) iluvkarlrahner.com

Angus McCullough

Member of Seven Count: comprised of three multidisciplinary artists (Adam Tinkle (sax, visuals, electronics), Angus McCullough (trumpet, visuals, electronics), Jake Nussbaum (Drums) with backgrounds in disparate media, Seven Count came together in 2016 to investigate the experiential, spiritual, and political efficacies of sound. We view improvisation not just as a way of making art, but as an ethical response to deep listening, presence in the moment, and being in relation to others. jakenussbaum.com

Anthony Bearse / Nebulatrip

I am an experimental sound artist from Connecticut. I’m involved with personal and joint group improvisational music performances throughout the region. (East Hartford CT) Instagram

Anthony Richerdz

(Worcester MA) Bandcamp: kissconcert, dot gov, tremarche, cat tongue, distant castle

Anton Hunter

Composer and improviser living in Manchester. He leads the 11-piece Article XI band as well as his own trio, both with records on Efpi Records. Also ongoing is a duo with baritone saxophonist Cath Roberts called Ripsaw Catfish, Sloth Racket, Beck Hunters and a myriad of other different ensembles, ad hoc and otherwise. He is perhaps still better known for his work as guitarist in the Beats & Pieces Big Band, a group he is a founder member of and who continue to defy the odds simply by gigging as a 14 piece jazz ensemble in the UK and Europe. (Manchester UK) antonhunter.com, @HunterAnton

Arian Shafiee

Armand Bernardi

Space jazz, abstract structures, free improvisation. (New York NY) transmissionsny.com/armand

Arnaud Le Mindu

Guitarist, improviser, and composer. He multiplies musical encounters and experiences. After a jazz and rock based training, he naturally moved on to more experimental musics and free improv, whilst frequently going back to more traditional styles. In other words, he really doesn’t know what he’s doing. Performing as a solo artist as well as in various projects, he creates music for dance, theater and videos and collaborates with visual artists. (Le Havre FR) Vimeo

Asimina Chremos

Asimina Chremos is an independent artist and collaborator in dance, fiber arts, and writing. Her performance practice has evolved from classical ballet (she was a dancer with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater in the 1980s) to regular appearances in improvisational contexts with sound-artists and noise musicians. She is currently interested in the effects of aging on the dancing body uses of space and light in performance, and the ongoing problems of functioning as an “artist” in a capitalist economy. (Philadelphia PA) asiminachremos.space

Audrey Chen

Using the cello, voice and occasional analog electronics, Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral. Her playing explores the combination and layering of the homemade analog synthesizer, preparations and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements together into a singular ecstatic personal language. (Berlin DE) audreychen.com