AGF(D)
AGF is the pseudonym of Antye Greie, a German musician, producer, author and artist living in Berlin. Born and raised in East Germany, AGF has been active as a musician since 1990. She plays with the German band LAUB also as she is performing solo.This is how she describes herself: "Writing after the electronic age. Someone arguably human. If emotions have cycles. Some salmiakki pattern. I gather thoughts from every corner of this electronic planet. I'm a powerful poem producer. While moving. in our minds we all have private birds/ words." She has worked with musicians like Luomo, Vladislav Delay, Craig Amstrong, Kyborg, etc. Her latest solo-release, "agf: Language Is The Most" (QUECKSILBER06), consists of re-worked and edited material from the Ars Electronica Klangpark 2003, based on the earlier full-length album "westernization completed".
www.poemproducer.com

COH (RUS/S)
Born in Russia, Ivan Pavlov, aka COH, lives and works in Sweden. However, his cultural roots are in his mother country, and he seems to have a closer rapport with the Russian avant-garde than with the Western rock-pop tradition. As a qualified acoustic researcher, he is involved in developing different possibilities for sound synthesis, yet he has a way of composing single tones so as to produce an ensemble that evokes both lyrical and comic associations. He has had several releases on the German record label Raster-Noton and on Vienna-based Mego. Both labels were former granted at the Ars Electonica Festival Linz (Austria).
www.post-pop.org

Florian Hecker (D)
Florian Hecker was born in 1975 in Augsburg (Germany). He currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Since 1996 Hecker has been working with computer music, both independently and in collaboration with other artists such as Farmersmanual, Russell Haswell, Shunichiro Okada, Peter Rehberg, Marcus Schmickler and Yasunao Tone. He is one of the very inmates of the Vienna based record label Mego and initiator of the web-label fals.ch, which has been putting out net-only releases for several years. Florian Hecker was a guest artist at the Institute for Digital Music of the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst & Medien) in Karlsruhe and received the Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Digital Music in 2003. In 2004 he participated at the Berlin Bienale.
www.mego.at/hecker.html

Ilios (GR/ES)
Since the early nineties, Ilios has been investigating new and different approaches to the concept, form and, above all, the limits of sound as a platform of expression and communication, favouring technological tools for his experiments. Ilios has put out more than 30 audio and visual works in different formats, including 8 solo audio CDs. His work has appeared on music labels in Greece, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway, UK and Switzerland.
He has been involved in numerous collaborations and written music for contemporary dance companies, the theatre and films. He has also worked in the field of communication and done audiovisual projects for TV and the cinema at Fabrica, the communication arts research centre of Benneton. Since 1997 he runs Antifrost, a publishing platform for sound media, which has issued more than 20 works by renowned artists to date.
www.siteilios.gr


Jasch (CH)
Jasch, alias Jan Schacher, is a double-bass player, composer and digital artist active in the fields of electronic and improvised music, performance art, jazz and contemporary music. He has written pieces for chamber ensemble, the theatre and films, and focuses on combining digital sound and images, abstract graphics and live improvisation. His work includes personal research in interaction between instruments, moving images and electronic sound, solo and collaborative projects in electro-acoustic music, as well as mixed-media pieces for the stage and for installations. He has been invited as a lecturer and guest artist at various cultural and academic institutions and gives concerts at clubs, festivals and exhibitions throughout Europe, the United States and Canada.
www.jasch.ch

Marcus Maeder (CH)
Marcus Maeder, who has a background in the visual arts, realised his first interdisciplinary projects combining music and art in the mid-90s, when the expression "Digital Culture” was just beginning to spread. The setting was the Kombirama, an artists’ collective and project space in Zurich. It was during this period that he and Bernd Schurer founded the domizil music label. 'domizil' is a platform for recorded music, an occasional concert venue, a loosely connected group of artists, and, as a label, an instrument and interface for reaching the public. The accent of Marcus Maeder’s work is on experimental digital music, which he regularly tries to integrate into broader contexts, creating networks and building bridges, be it in connection with theatre projects and installations or in his capacity as a radio journalist and coordinator.
www.domizil.ch/marcus_maeder