Sound artist and esteemed film composer Gary Chang worked his way up through the LA studio musician ranks playing with the best musicians in the country - Robbie Robertson, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report, Barbara Streisand and Henry Mancini - later to compose music for many eminent filmmakers (including John Frankenheimer, Jonathan Demme and Stephen King). Few composers have mastered such a wide range of musical genres that Chang has (orchestral, electronic, installation, jazz, soundtrack, dance). He is a protagonist in the field of music synthesis and has recorded on and programmed almost major every hardware and software synthesizer over the last thirty years, built dozens of custom systems, and designed a personal studio that is optimized for recording synthesizers in multi-channel and high-definition audio. Chang won the National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Jazz Composers while attending California Institute of the Arts.
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Alessandro Cortini joined Nine Inch Nails to support With Teeth and has been with the band ever since as keyboard player, guitar player and more recently as a remixer. Cortini is also the frontman of Modwheelmood, an electronica/rock duo which has released music on the independent label Buddyhead records. .
Richard Devine has remixed top Warp artists like Aphex Twin and Mike Patton (Faith No More). He has released 4 full-length albums on Schematic, Warp, Asphodel, and Sublight records and has performed his own ear-tearing music mayhem worldwide. Based from Atlanta, Georgia, he has done film score work for Touchstone Pictures and have done sound mangling/programming for Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, commercials for Nike and sound design for Audi, Ford, Scion, Coke, LandRover, Lexus, Peugeot, Dodge, HBO, Nestle, Nike Japan, McDonald's, Sprite, Spike Television network, XBOX and Sony Play station’s Dawn of the Dead. He has also recently completed all the sound design for the new xbox360. .>
Peter Grenader is the founder and principal designer for Plan B Synthesizers. As a composer, he studied music composition at the California Institute of the Arts under the influence of Barry Schrader and Mort Subotnick. In 2002, his Electrolux won the Periòdic Experimental Music Festival in Barcelona, Spain. Other performances include the GMEB in Bourges, France, The Insitute of Sonology at The Hague, the 2003 SEAMUS National Conference, the Florida EAM Festival, the Electric Rainbow Coalition at Dartmouth and the Universities of Illinois, Stony Brook , North Texas, Texas at Austin, Georgia State and Virginia. He was recently a featured composer at the 17th American Composers Forum Salon in Venice and at the invitation of composer Steve Roach paneled the Analog Synthesis forums at the 2006 and 2007 TapeOpCon conference in Tucson, AZ. .>
Chas Smith is a Los Angeles-based composer, performer, and instrument designer and builder who, in the spirit of Harry Partch, has created his own musical world - complete with its own exotic instruments and “language.” His compositions, which always display his dualistic fascination with the scientific and the sensual, might owe their split personalities to the diverse collection of composers he studied with in the 1970s: Morton Subotnick, Mel Powell, James Tenney, and Harold Budd. As a master welder and designer of large metal mechanisms, Smith has worked with many artists outside of the field of music, particularly Paul McCarthy, Nancy Rubins and Mike Kelley and he received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for his work on a motion-controlled camera crane. HIs music is available on five albums on the Cold Blue Label.
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Thighpaulsandra is a Welsh experimental musician and composer whose work is based on the use of electronics and electro-acoustic techniques. As well as having produced five solo albums he is also a member of the band Spiritualized and was also a member of Coil till the group’s demise in 2004. His work is frequently challenging, often defying genre and categorisation. Concert performances have often incorporated lavish stage sets, costumes and controversial video projections. He is currently recording his sixth solo album and also contributing to new albums by Spiritualized and Elizabeth Fraser.
Paul Tzanetopoulos is a conceptually-based intermedia artist/painter/sculptor. His pioneering large-scale interactive work utilizes light, digital media, video, electronic and sound components. Tzanetopoulos was the first artist in Los Angeles to present a video installation projection and computer-run-intermedia work (Ruth Schaffner Gallery, 1974). Exhibiting nationally and internationally, his work is included in many public and private collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Tzanetopoulos also works in the realm of public art and has completed more than 30 commissions since 1992 including his award-winning Kinetic Light Installation created for the 100’ glass pylons at LAX for Los Angeles World Airports (2000-2006). >