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Jan Jelinek is a German electronic musician who also operates under the names of Farben, Gramm and The Exposures. He is the founder of the German record label Faitiche and has released music on ~scape. His approach is about transformation of sound, about translating parameters of popular music into abstract, reduced and textural electronics. In 1998 he started to release his works under a number of pseudonyms (Farben, Gramm) adapting his primary sampling premise to a surprising range of different sounds. During the following years, Jan Jelinek collaborated with artists like Sarah Morris or German author Thomas Meinecke, played a range of laptop or gadget/modular-synth based live sets, worked with improvisation ensembles from Japanese trio Computer Soup to the Australian jazz formation Triosk, wrote and produced radio-plays/collages for the SWR, created a number of audio-visual performances with video artist Karl Kliem for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others and founded with Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtmann the improvisation trio Groupshow, which refuses any repertoire or standard performance durations. Jan is currently a fellow in Los Angeles at Villa Aurora.
Raub Roy's projects (Horaflora, Scy1e) takes liberally of the rich and diverse traditions of new music in order to craft something unique from discrete stylistic tendency. Homemade/found/consumer electroacoustic components are utilized in the production of sound; balloons, toothbrushes, plastic bags, street sweeper bristles, Tesla wands, iPhones, MIDI controllers, and primitive surround sound systems are all deployed in service to an all-encompassing bricolage. Raub is a member of the LCM/Oakland collective concert series/venue, and founded Weird Ear Records (with partner Dianne Lynn), a record label reveling in disparate forms of experimental music. Their slogan, “The Weird Ear, The Better,” serves as a guideline to the curatorial themes across all of these projects. Raub is from Western Mass. but has lived in the Bay Area since 2007.
Cullen Miller is an audiovisual composer, spatial-media designer, and curator. His projects vary in nature but typically fall within the spectrum of sound design, installation, composition, and systems design. His formative years spent in Detroit's lofts and clubs contributed greatly to the development of his aesthetic sensibilities. Beckoned by the rich sonic legacy & freak culture prominent in the San Francisco Bay Area, he migrated westward in pursuit of curatorial work with Gray Area Foundation, SFCMP, and to teach digital signal processing at San Francisco State University. He currently spends his days designing and constructing systems at Obscura Digital. He has released recordings under various aliases and organizes the concert series, FINITE. His performances and installations have been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and clubs.
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Since 2004, David Last has been creating music for a variety of venues; full length albums, dancefloor 12"s, IMax film, video installation, and childrens' animation. He has released music on Staubgold, The Agriculture, Foundsound, Wolf + Lamb and on his own label, Konque. He has performed music internationally and is debut instrumental full-length CD "The Push Pull" is in its second printing with the Agriculture label. Germany's Staubgold label released a new full length digi-dancehall album with Chicago vocalist MC Zulu. New dubby instrumental creations are in the works, as are collaborations with Jamaican vocalists and musicians.
J.Lubow / jml / Equilet is a producer of experimental art from the Midwest. He studied Emerging Media at KCAI, and Electronic Music Composition / Performance at Mills College in Oakland, CA. Since attaining his MFA, Jeff has performed in an array of venues throughout the Bay Area and abroad. His work incorporates rhythmic music, composition, graphics, and computer science. Demarcations between the elements he employs are blurred through his ability to present his ideas through mediums which have great potential for conceptual respiration. Jeff currently works with CNMAT at UC Berkeley to build tools which aid in computer assisted composition and performance.