Artists:
Toshiyuki
Kobayashi was born and raised in northern Japan. He is living and working in
London, UK, after finishing a fine art
degree at Central St. Martins. He has released a 7" titled Chupa Chups
released by Mainpal Inv. in 2000, and a CD titled Drawing Speed, Coloring
Time
CD released by Lucky Kitchen in 2003.
Yoshio
Machida is a Tokyo-based sound & visual artist.
He plays Steel Pan (an instrument
that can be
symbol of light, like Asian Gong). His HYPERNATURAL #2 CD was released
by Softl
Music in 2001,
and his CD titled "Naada" was released by Amorfon in 2006. In 2004,
Machida founded Amorfon, a borderless experimental music label and a platform
for contemporary art events. The aim is cross cultural synergy.
NOWAKI is a Parisian
music publisher focusing on fine electronic music, sound art, contemporary
composition. The TLIYL
submision was a collaboration between Aurelie Le Floch and Sebastien Llinares.
Peter
Bach Nicolaisen is recording under
the moniker Stormhat and has released
2 cds: "Klokker og Guldsmede" 2004 Krabbesholm Editions and "Vindspejl" Cohort
Records 2006. A release, "Hypnagogia" on the label BSBTA,
is planned for the fall 2006.
He has studied art at the Royal Danish Academy of Art and has worked
and showed as a painter in Copenhagen for many years but for the last 2-3
years he has mostly been working with sound/music, e.g.manipulated fieldrecordings
often combined with primitive
sounds from cheap instruments.
He is interested in refined psychedelics, plants, the small
and huge epiphanies of everyday life and the living experience of art and
music.
Dinahbird is a radio artist and feature maker living and working in Paris and London.
She makes radio programmes, audio publications, installations, and soundtracks.
Recent commissions include The Music Machine, a programme about the ondioline,
one of the first electronic synthesisers for BBCR4, and Songs of the Brewery,
an in-situ sound installation for Cork, European Capital of Culture, 2005
Alejandra
Salinas and Aeron Bergman are sound and visual artists. They have worked
together for 10 years, making installations, design and audio work.
They now live in Barcelona and Goteborg, Sweden.