Alan Lamb’s work involves the exploration of sound structures, neither musically "designed" nor of random occurrence. Such structures possess the properties of beauty, complexity and evocation of the emotional, the spiritual and the imaginary. On the whole, sound compositions arising from these aims are not intended to possess intellectual formalism.
Alex White is a sound artist hailing from Sydney, Australia who seeks to create music that teeters on the brink of complete chaos whist retaining barely discernible fragments of form or melody. Alex is also a community arts worker and currently co-directs Serial Space in Sydney. Alex co-directed Electrofringe in 2007 and 2008 and the Sydney leg of Liquid Architecture in 2008.
Asmus Tietchens is a composer from Hamburg Germany and has been creating music since 1965 when he began manipulating tape-machines. In 1971 he bought a synthesizer, began exploring its possibilities, and has never looked back. In the 70’s he became involved with Sky Records, appearing for example on the album titled, “Cluster & Eno”, but it was not until the 80’s that Tietchens’ own music was released, of which several early Lp’s appeared on Sky.
Atone are a couple of dub space pirates consisting mainly of Stanislavski and Andy Fitzgerald, working with Kye (from Budspells) and Ali Omar. Atone have been producing and performing a myriad of eclectic electronic dub styles of music in Sydney since the early 90s and are part of the electronic arts collective Clan Analogue.
Alan Bamford became Bags of Personality during Melbourne's Little Bands episode in the late 70's. Fashionably minimalising, he became bags during the minimal technotimes of the early noughties. As bags he has dj'd for the electronic underground, the sonically experimental, the outrageosly hedonistic and especially the socially transformative self funded among Melbourne's electronicartyparties.
In 1959 Bernard Parmegiani joins the GRM (Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales) where, under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer, he undertakes a two year course in electroacoustic music. In 1962, he composes his first piece, Violostries, which becomes the subject of a choreography by the Contemporary Theatre of Amiens directed by Jacques-Albert Cartier. Pierre Schaeffer entrusts to him the responsibility for the Music-Image sector of GRM. He enters into many successful relationships with film-makers and composes the music for films by R. Lapoujade, P. Foldmès, P. Kamler, V Borowczyck, P. Kast, J Baratier, P. Kassovitz. Within the framework of a fixed time, measured and imposed by the duration of the image, the contents of which he is not the author of, he still finds much musical freedom.
Buttress O’Kneel is the P!nk of the electro-activist world, or perhaps the Negativland of breakcore, or, perhaps even more accurately, the Mother Theresa of bio-anarchic post-grrl underculture. She has two main passions in her work: the destabilisation and reworking of corporatised pop, and the demystification of mass-media bias. She deals with these two main metapolitical prongs by dividing her work into the overtly-political “audio documentaries”, and the plunderphonic “compop” series (”compop” being a word coined by her to describe her musical “pop compost”). Website: http://www.myspace.com/buttressokneel