DAVID TOOP has been developing a practice that crosses boundaries of sound, listening, music and materials since 1970. This encompasses improvised music performance, writing, electronic sound, field recording, exhibition curating, sound art installations and opera. It includes seven acclaimed books, including Rap Attack (1984), Ocean of Sound (1995), Sinister Resonance (2010), Into the Maelstrom (2016) and Flutter Echo, a memoir first published in Japan (2017). Briefly a member The Flying Lizards in 1979, he has released thirteen solo albums, including New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments on Brian Eno’s Obscure label (1975), Sound Body on David Sylvian’s label (2006) and Entities Inertias Faint Beings (2016). His 1978 Amazonas recordings of Yanomami shamanism and ritual were released on Sub Rosa as Lost Shadows (2016). In recent years his collaborations include Rie Nakajima, Akio Suzuki, Tania Chen, John Butcher, Ken Ikeda, Elaine Mitchener, Henry Grimes, Sharon Gal, Camille Norment, Sidsel Endresen, Alasdair Roberts, Thurston Moore, Ryuichi Sakamoto and the revived Alterations.

BLANCA REGINA is an artist, curator and tutor based in London who is currently involved in creating audiovisual performances, sound works, multimedia installations, photography and book arts.  She has been leading audiovisual performance art and projection mapping workshops plus curated events internationally:  Unpredictable Series in the U.K,  Mademotion in Spain and LED in Mexico. In 2014, she joined the School of Music & Fine Art at the University of Kent. For several years after receiving her PhD in Humanities in Madrid, Spain she was a research fellow at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (2011-14) Expanded and Ephemera Audiovisual was her first solo exhibition presented in México, 2015. She is interested in the themes of language, identity and archive and is exploring the interplay of image and sound, digital and analogue media. She has created some films and music with artists, including David Toop, Leafcutter John, Steve Beresford, Sharon Gal, Mandhira de Saram,  Adriana Camacho and Matthias Kispert. Her work has been supported by Arts Council England, Sound & Music, BMC,  Amexcid, Photo-España and Garage Cube. Recently she has been holding a research position at Goldsmiths University London, working with Atau Tanaka at the Immersive Pipeline Project.

GINA SOUTHGATE is well known on the London free music and jazz scenes, where she has painted and/or performed live at gigs for 30 years. Gina works with the frisson of the music, observing the relationship between the musician and instrument, trying to capture the energy and essence of the gig in real time. She grew up in Essex and did a two year foundation at Southend College of Technology just after the emergence of punk. Her foundation there was a turning point, and she moved to London to do a degree in silversmithing/metalwork at Camberwell School of Art, followed by a postgraduate year in pewter casting. She had her first solo exhibition of gig paintings at London’s Jazz Café in 1988. Her gig imagery is used widely for publicity material and as graphic illustration. Gina has presented numerous exhibitions, has been a metalworker, won design competitions, and taught jewellery and metalwork.

Cath Roberts’ work explores free improvisation, composition and the music at their meeting point. Her primary outlet as a composer and improviser on baritone saxophone is the quintet Sloth Racket, which has toured widely and released several albums. She leads ten piece improvising ensemble Favourite Animals, and has a long-standing duo with guitarist Anton Hunter, Ripsaw Catfish. As bandmate, Cath is a member of Madwort Sax Quartet, Vole, Article XI and Alex Ward’s Item 10 amongst other groups. She co-runs LUME with Dee Byrne, producing concerts, tours and festivals since 2013 and releasing music on an offshoot label, Luminous. Cath is also part of the group of musicians who run BRÅK, an improvised music series taking place in Brockley, South East London. cathrobertsmusic.co.uk