Cinna Peyghamy is a composer and sound artist, born in France from Iranians parents. His work focuses on real-time transformation of acoustic sounds. At the center of his setup is the tombak, a traditional percussion instrument. By combining it with the endless possibilities of the modular synthesizer, Cinna blends the boundaries between acoustic and electronic, between traditional and contemporary. His live act are about building a dialogue between these two sonic entities and exploring the never-ending improvisation field created by this hybrid setup. His work has been shown in numerous festival such as Nuits Sonores (FR), Primavera Sounds (SP), Draaimolen (NLD), C2C (IT), Sled Island (CAN), Dokufest (KOS)

Period Music is a research process involving Susanna Gonzo, Merma Suelo, Tuce Alba, Elizabeth Gallon Droste, Agnese Menguzzato, and Farah Hazim. The six artists aim to attune to the different temporalities experienced through our bodies, drawing from multiple meanings of period – from the menstrual cycle to musical repetitions and astronomical revolutions.

French duo making dub techno.

Alejandra Cárdenas (Ale Hop) is a Peruvian-born artist. Cárdenas began her career in Lima’s underground music scene in the 2000s. Her work encompasses various formats such as live shows, albums, multimedia artworks and research. "A Body Like a Home" is a sonic memoir exploring the tangled realms of trauma, recovery, and love through autobiographical soundscapes. A Body Like a Home is the artist at her most exposed. Comprising 13 songs and 15 poems, the album sees her set aside collaborative fusions for solo catharsis, channeling years of turbulence - intergenerational scars left by colonialism, racism, domestic violence, and alcoholism - into a work that oscillates between brutality and tenderness.

Anelena Toku is a transdisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, experimental music, performance, video, photography, and olfactory practices. She lived most of her life in São Paulo, one of the biggest cities of Latin America, but being born in Brazil gave her the possibility to experience a relation to nature with its particular abundance and diversity, and its constant struggles after hundreds of years of exploitation. She is interested in creating with nature not as an object or landscape, but as a living presence entangled with personal, collective, and its inherent memory. She has presented work at Eavesdropping Festival, South London Gallery (UK), CTM Festival (Germany), Kunsthalle Friart (Switzerland), Chicharra Festival (Spain), Festival Novas Frequências and Centro Cultural Vila Itororó (Brazil). In 2022, she was awarded the Prix Palma Ars Acustica with Carla Boregas and Martha Kiss Perrone for the work “What Is Not / O Que Não Está”.

Carla Boregas (b. Brazil, 1984) is a musician and sound artist. By merging the organic and the synthesized, Carla builds up sonic scenarios driven by an invisible force, where the sensation of presence and discovery lies between density and delicacy. Her work spans composition, improvisation, performance, sound installation and radio art, and aims to transport the listener to different subjective perspectives of time and space, to invoke memories and to reflect about the nature-human relationship. She also collaborates with artists from dance, film and theater. In 2011, Carla co-founded the punk ethos genre-bending band RAKTA (playing bass and electronics), and since then she has been a very active figure in the Brazilian scene and abroad with several solo projects and collaborations, as well as running AUTA (*2019†2020), a venue dedicated to experimental music in São Paulo, and the record label Dama Da Noite Discos. Since 2015, she is also part of Fronte Violeta, a transdisciplinary duo that investigates sound in a multi-sensory way always guided by a continuous interest in restoring and awakening sensitivity through a dialogue with the natural world.

Earth Sounds Now is a collective made up of community activist and musician Stefan Christoff, drummer, composer, scholar, and bandleader Asher Gamedze, music producer Nicolás Jaar, pianist and composer Büşra Kayıkçı, and novelist, poet, and sound performer Kaie Kellough. Over 13 months, they met online to share sounds, readings, writings, and drawings, resulting in Convergence—a project reflecting their collaborative process. Each member submitted different works, including paintings, poetry, field recordings, and musical experiments, taking turns responding to each other's contributions.

Teetering precariously between discord and harmony, the prismatic distortion of Tot Onyx (Tommi Tokyo, formerly of group A) and Hiro Kone’s (Nicky Mao) project Enxin/Onyx abandons all former distinctions for something mutable and unsettling. Known for their intense and mesmerizing live sets, the duo put out their debut album In Rupture with OP in 2025. At moments metallic and feral, at others murky and sharp, each song of the album serves as an offering for all that is in rupture; body, spirit, land, ecosystem. To be in rupture is regeneration, to be in rupture is to return.

Sary Moussa is a musician who has been an active member of Beirut's underground scene for around two decades. Specialising in sound design and textural experimentation, Moussa's work spans drone-driven electro-acoustic compositions to dance-floor electronics. "Wind, Again", his latest album on OP approaches distinct musical worlds and languages by bringing together improvisations by musicians performing on Western and West Asian instruments such as the Hammond organ, clarinet, saz, and buzuk with electronic arrangements and textures. Composed of six tracks, each of which demonstrate an array of recording and processing techniques, the album generates moments of tension produced by the synthesis of textural, tonal, and harmonic encounters that Moussa calls “shadows”, which outline an impressionistic musical language, existing at the edge of familiarity. These shadows are articulations of sounds steeped in traditions they are never quite tethered to. Such articulations are implied and alluded to, they play within a musical reference without the latter explicitly existing in the recording, always teetering, never completely here nor there. Sonically and musically, the album is fueled by the cultural, social, and personal realities that Moussa was brought up and lives in.

Buenos Aires-based producer Ailin Grad's work spans genres and aesthetics, going from electrifying footwork and hallucinogenic juke to electroacoustic compositions. All of mind-bending quality.

Born and raised in Istanbul, the composer and pianist Büşra Kayıkçı has an artistic foundation deeply rooted in a diverse range of disciplines. While devoted to piano since the age of nine, she also pursued ballet and attended art school on the weekends, fostering a multifaceted creative sensibility. Her academic background in interior architecture and environmental design at university further informs her unique approach to music, where structure and fluidity intertwine. As an interdisciplinary artist, Büşra Kayıkçı seeks to forge a unique voice at the intersection of music, space, and visuals. Since her debut recording, 'Eskizler' (2019), she has consistently sought to expand her sonic palette, further developing her sound in the album 'Places' (2024) and most recently in the EP project 'Weaving' (2025).​

Eli Wewentxu is a Mapuche artist from PLC, Gulumapu, Wallmapu, called today south central Chile. He trained as a violinist from an early age and works with musical composition, sound art, and audiovisual media. His work focuses on reshaping the act of listening from a perspective connected to his cultural identity, territorial context, and critique of the Western academic world. He currently lives in his community in Chomio mapu, where he makes a sound archive of the territory, works with the land and takes care of animals.

NY born musician and composer.

Africanus Okokon works with moving image, performance, painting, assemblage, collage, sound, and installation to explore dialectics of forgetting and remembrance in relation to shared, cultural, and personal mediated histories.

Described by The New Yorker magazine as one of the "prime movers of the local avant-garde", and an "exacting avant-classical guitarist" by TimeOut NY, PATRICK HIGGINS is an American composer, guitarist, and producer from New York City, known for his work in experimental and contemporary classical music. Heralded as a "formidable concert music composer" (Boston Globe) and "one of the most gifted guitarists working today" (The Quietus), Higgins has received attention for bridging traditions including baroque chamber music, contemporary noise, and 20th century minimalism. Higgins plays guitar and composes in the band Zs, described by The New York Times as "one of the strongest avant-garde bands in New York."

Exploring the sounds of techno, electro, ambient, breaks and post-punk, Solpara is a Lebanese-American producer and DJ born and based in New York City. Starting in 2010, after moving to Montreal, he and his friends Oren Ratowsky (aka revlux) and Valentin Stip started the underground event series and record label Booma Collective.

Valentina Villarroel is a sound artist and phonographer who explores the intricate dynamics within various Southern ecosystems. Her work revolves around the profound potential of acoustic ecology, particularly in the face of encroaching real estate development on natural spaces. She also delves into the consequences of sound pollution on numerous species, contributing to their decline or disappearance. In recent years, her focus has extended to urban soundscapes and significant sonic events, such as the October 18th protest in Chile. With a solid background in bioacoustics applied to both human and animal well-being, Valentina assumes the role of co-director at AOIR Sound Laboratory. There, she spearheads an interdisciplinary initiative that centers sound as its core element. This includes the creation of the sonic cartography portal aoir.cl, as well as the development of handmade electronic devices like the Bowerbankii and the creation of various experimental microphones.

Aho Ssan is Niamké Désiré’s artist name, based in Paris. After studying graphic design and cinema, he began to compose electronic music and create his own digital instruments. Shortly after, he won the France Foundation Television Prize for his soundtrack for the film De Ingha Mago in 2015. In 2020, Aho Ssan released his first album Simulacrum. Based on the concepts developed by Jean Baudrillard, he navigates through the notions of inclusivity and equality in society, in relation to his own experience of growing up black in France. In 2022, he released a collaborative album Limen with the artist KMRU and joined the SHAPE+ artist platform. Aho Ssan will release his next solo album Rhizomes on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People label. He has also worked on several IRCAM-related projects and has been featured in various institutions across Europe and the United States such as the Lincoln Center (New York), La Maison de la Radio (Paris), CTM (Berlin), MACBA (Barcelona), Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam) and the Krakow Philharmonic (Krakow). His music has been acclaimed by various media such as NPR, Pitchfork, Resident Advisor, Liberation and Les Inrockuptibles.

Ali Sethi, hailed as “the king of the modern ghazal,” first blew up the charts with his record-breaking hit “Pasoori,” which has now surpassed 1 billion streams. A master of microtonal singing, Sethi’s music is a rich fusion of traditional qawwali, ghazals, and modern innovation. Following “Pasoori,” he collaborated with electronic producer Nicolás Jaar on Intiha, a “moving tribute to the multiplicity of identity,” which premiered to a sold-out crowd at the Chan Centre in Vancouver in November 2024. Ali Sethi is a trailblazing artist who “uses an ancient form of music… to challenge and expand notions of gender, sexuality, and belonging.” With every new song, Sethi not only links past and present, but creates a new future for what the queer South Asian diaspora can be.

Valentina Magaletti is a queer drummer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist who treats percussion as a political and poetic instrument—an unruly body that refuses straight lines, fixed identities, and normative rhythms. Her work dismantles the boundaries between noise, ritual, and music, transforming ceramics, found objects, and skin-based textures into tools for resistance and queer world-building.

Pianist and composer writing mainly for theatre, radio and film. Lecturer at the Academy of Music in Krakow, where she graduated from Krzysztof Penderecki’s composition class. She participated in many festivals in Poland and abroad with her compositions. 

Polish composer of ritualistic, poetic works. Integrates voice, percussion, and folk traditions into modernist sacred forms. (b. 1931–2021) 

Composer, musicologist, and playwright. A polymathic provocateur who blurred avant-garde music with absurdist theater. 

Pioneer of Polish electroacoustic music. Worked at the legendary Experimental Studio in Warsaw, crafting immersive tape compositions. (b. 1937–2014)

Charbel Haber is a musician, performer, visual artist, and composer from Beirut, whose work has seen him collaborate with artists from a wide range of disciplines (film, video art, visual arts, and theater), both in Lebanon and abroad. In addition to his solo ambient works (released on Discrepant, Scum Yr Earth, Al Maslakh), he founded the post-punk group Scrambled Eggs and is the co-founder of two experimental record labels (Those Kids Must Choke, Johnny Kafta’s Kids Menu). Haber has collaborated with notable free rock and improv artists (Michael Zerang, Mats Gustafson) and is a member of multiple music ensembles (Malayeen, Omarchestra).

The Belgian composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Dienne builds songs and soundscapes that portray the images and stories playing behind her eyes. Combining analogue instruments like the oboe, piano, and flute with reverb-drenched vocals and shimmers of processed electronic sources, she creates hazy pieces of music full of the melancholy of remembrance and loss.

Polish-French electroacoustic composer. Once directed IRCAM's pedagogy department. Her music breathes with lyrical, spectral energy. 

Considered the "Father of Polish radio experimental studio" , he beautifully turned scissors, tape, and oscillators into haunting musique concrète. (b. 1932–2016)

Polish composer and keyboardist. Co-founder of the KEW experimental group. Merges electronic, classical, and performance art. (b. 1947)

Laraaji is a musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner based in New York City. He began playing music on the streets in the 1970s, improvising trance-inducing jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. Brian Eno saw him playing one night in Washington Square Park and invited him to record an album for his seminal Ambient series (Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance, released 1980). Laraaji went on to release a prolific series of albums for a wide variety of labels, many of which he recorded himself at home and sold as cassettes during his street performances.

One of the leading Polish composers of electroacoustic music and a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Kraków. Since 1979 she has been teaching in the Electroacoustic Music Studio at the Academy of Music in Kraków, where she also produced her first works.

Formed by two brothers, Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh, raised primarily in the West, away from their family in Iran, Saint Abdullah is designed somewhat as an introduction to a different palette of sounds, creating a charged and anxious, but still assertive mixture of minimalist dub and Iranian samples. 

Composer and educator, a pioneer of electronic music in Poland who studied composition under Piotr Rytel and Tadeusz Szeligowski. In the 1950s, he researched Polish folk music (author of Góralski i zbójnicki, 1956) and from 1957–61, he attended Darmstadt's International Summer Courses for New Music, where he began experimenting with electronic sound transformation. (b. 1925- 2014)

Very few vocalists during the last decade have challenged conceptions of song, style, and sound as much as Lucrecia Dalt.  Like the whirr of a wake-up call, her metallic compositions entice us to rethink the possibilities of materiality and existence. The Colombian musician and sound artist has carved out a place at the contemporary frontiers of avant-garde and electronic music, hardware in hand, to channel age-old questions into a distinct and transgressive musical language.

Will Epstein is a composer, improviser, and songwriter born in New York City. He has performed internationally, released records of songs, and composed music for films, installations, and dance performances, including commissions for the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Joyce Theater, and the recent documentary Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV.

Trio made up of Dave Harrington, Nicolás Jaar and Tlacael Esparza.

Multi-talented Lydia Lunch was a pioneer of the late 70s no wave music scene, having been heavily influenced by the genre when she moved into a communal house of musicians in New York at 16 years old. Though she was an originator of no wave, she also performed and wrote songs in many different musical styles to avoid categorisation. Lunch has defied expectations, acquired international acclaim and proved herself to be one of the most unique and courageous artists of our generation. In the mid-70s, Lunch formed the band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks with musicians James Chance, Reck, Jody Harris and Bradley Field. The band rebelliously challenged the normative depictions of women.

Pierre Bastien is a French experimental musician, composer, and mechanical instrument builder. 

Duo consisting of Tom Relleen and Valentina Magaletti.

Musical alias of Danila Avramov.

A collective dedicated to build music structures and soundtracks by free electroacoustic improvisation.

Alias of composer Mark Hurst.

Shadowy project of Italian producer Daniele Mana.

For more than three decades, Thomas Kendricks, better known as DJ Slugo, has been DJing, producing, and celebrating ghetto house, a sound he helped pioneer. Slugo grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes and began building his reputation in his neighborhood; in the 1990s, he became part of a network of underground house producers connected through the Dance Mania label, run by record-store owner Ray Barney. In 1995, Slugo began putting out music through his own label, Subterranean Playhouse, through which he’d also release a handful of DVDs in the 2000s documenting the local juke and ghetto-house scenes of the day.

John Bence employs music as a tangible expression of the immaterial. The British composer’s visceral and spiritual sound world probes the metaphysical. Raised in Bristol’s burgeoning underground electronic music scene and a graduate of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, John Bence manages to employ compositional complexity to manifest potent emotions.

Formed in 1977 New York, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks were pioneers of the No Wave movement. Lydia Lunch, after meeting saxophonist James Chance at CBGB, began combining her radical poetry with acoustic guitar. The band’s sound was a raw, dissonant assault on rock convention. Though short-lived, their confrontational minimalism left a permanent scar on underground music.

Terepa is an experimental project featuring seven improvisers: Rashad Becker, Charlotte Collin, Lucrecia Dalt, Laurel Halo, Julia Holter, Kohei Matsunaga, and Grégoire Simon. Their radical concept stripped away all conventional cues. The sessions were recorded with no visual contact and no pre-arranged signals. Instead, each performer simultaneously launched into a twenty-minute improvisation guided solely by intuition and perhaps intangible telepathic powers. 

Short lived alias of Nicolás Jaar (2013-2014)

Dave Harrington is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer and producer. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2019, Harrington spent more than a decade in his hometown of New York City working across many different musical communities from downtown improvisation to Brooklyn indie and jambands to warehouse techno, scoring independent films, and producing albums for other artists. He is currently a member of the bands Taper’s Choice and DARKSIDE, and leads his own improvisational groups including Dave Harrington’s Pranksters West, and various assemblies of improvisers. As a collaborator, Harrington has recorded or performed with artists including Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions, Nels Cline, Miho Hatori, Alanis Morisette, John Medeski, Nate Mercereau, Greg Fox, Nick Murphy (aka Chet Faker), Yuka Honda, Joe Russo, Ian Chang, Karina Rykman, Chris Forsyth, Mauro Refosco, Lars Horntveth (Jaga Jazzist), Stuart Bogie, Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), The Antlers, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Kimbra, Patrick Shiroishi, Sophia Brous, Innov Gnawa, Spencer Zahn, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Marshall Allen & The Sun Ra Arkestra, Angel Deradoorian, and many more.

Drew Gragg is a Canadian electronic music producer based in Montréal.

In Ezekiel Honig's emotively warm electronic-acoustic music, plastic, metal, wood, and air coalesce with Rhodes, guitar, horns, and piano, creating a sound of contrast and contradiction, pairing inviting, fuzzy chords with clunky and dirty mishaps. Honig finds this sense of balance, of past and future, acoustic and digital, abstraction and concrete immediacy, by grounding himself in the idea that a sound can be a representation of infinite stories, emotions, possibilities, and simultaneously be just a sound to be used in a work of audio.

Composer and producer based in NY.

A singular songwriter and producer from New York City, Andrew Fox is a mercurial and versatile artist whose diverse body of work represents his distinctly surreal, cinematic sensibility.