Koichi Shimizu is a sound artist and composer based in Yamanashi, Japan. His distinctive style has been shaped by years of hands-on experience across a wide range of sonic practices, including his own artistic projects, music for films and installations, production work for artists across various genres, and the design and on-site setup of multi-channel sound systems.

Mieko Suzuki is a DJ, sound artist, musician and composer. Her interdisciplinary practice moves between underground club culture and established cultural institutions. Rooted in the materiality of time and space and altered states of consciousness, Mieko Suzuki treats sound as an active force shaping perception, atmosphere, and embodied experience. Mieko Suzuki is part of the trio Contagious and co-creator of Broken Vinyl. Since 2009, she has co-hosted KOOKOO at OHM in Berlin.

Rashad Becker’s music has been described as “a tear in the fabric of reality.” A significant part of his work consists of electronic narratives of fictional worlds, where no dominant aesthetic ideas exist, but instead endless sonic diversity—such as the cycle Traditional Music of Notional Species. Other works, like the sound staging of historical scenes in Based On A True Story, address socio-political themes of our world and ideas of truth. Although the sound sources he uses are (almost) entirely electronic, his microtonal, rhythmically free compositions often feel very organic.

Where exactly does surprise, fear, awkwardness or comedy end or begin? Mark Harwood likes to explore such questions, ideally thoroughly and for a long time, until the boundaries between everything seem like a childish construction. As a performer Harwood likes to focus on randomness, confrontation, spoken text, sound art and farce, and has also collaborated with Graham Lambkin, Tim Van Luik and Áine O’Dwyer. Harwood is also primarily the eminence grise behind the unusual label Penultimate Press, where he is far from focused only on music.