RP Boo – a.k.a. Kavain Space is a man who is revered and respected amongst the dance music cognoscenti. He’s cited as one of the originators of Footwork, the fast, repetitive, rhythmically syncopated music & dance style that’s a grandchild of Chicago house and which has been brought to the wider world via releases from Planet Mu and others, alongside internet archaeology from fans, experts and enthusiasts.

Éliane Radigue (born January 24, 1932) is a French electronic music composer. She began working in the 1950s and her first compositions were presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was almost exclusively created with the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer and tape. Since 2001 she has composed mainly for acoustic instruments.

Clara de Asís is a composer, performer and producer who explores the correlations of acoustics, spatiality and the praxis of attention. Her work accounts for material and sociopolitical relationality in the processes of engaging with sound, and is grounded in the elasticity of perception. She incorporates electronics and sound synthesis to idiosyncratic combinations of diverse materials, found objects and traditional instrumentation. Her compositions, often developed collaboratively, juxtapose structural precision to areas of indeterminacy, drawing from an interest in experimental intonation, timbral research and the junction of rational and irrational systems.

A Japanese-Korean working with installation, performance and composition, residing in Huddersfield, UK. She is an artistic director for ame c.i.c., supporting DIY culture and underground art/music scene. She also co-runs the independent publisher mumei publishing. Her works sculpt domestic appliances and look-like-wastes into kinetic sounding contraptions with invisible energy such as heat, magnetism and gravity. Her site-specific works infuse both aural / visual occurrence as one entity, creating ephemeral situations that magnify undefinable relationships between noise and silence, time and space. 

Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist based in London working with free-improvisation, compositions and performance. Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training and performance expectation. Much of her work involves collaboration. She has long standing duos with Tisha Mukarji, Dominic Lash and Lina Lapelyte and plays with Common Objects, Cranc and Skogen. She has been involved in projects with Tarek Atui, Tony Conrad, Richard Dawson, Gwenno, Roberta Jean, Jack McNamara, Rie Nakajima, Tim Parkinson, Eliane Radigue, Georgia Ruth and J.G.Thirlwell.

Rhodri Davies is immersed in the worlds of improvisation, musical experimentation, composition and contemporary classical performance. He plays harp, electric harp, live-electronics and builds wind, water, ice, dry ice and fire harp installations and has released eight solo albums. For the last twelve years Davies has been closely associated with the pioneering composer Eliane Radigue performing eighteen of her pieces. She composed OCCAM I for Davies in 2011, the first in an ongoing series of solo and ensemble pieces for individual instrumentalists in which a performer’s personal performance technique and particular relationship to their instrument function as the compositional material of the piece.

Dominic Lash concentrates on the double bass and electric guitar. He works regularly with musicians including John Butcher, Angharad Davies, Emil Karlsen, Mark Sanders, Pat Thomas, and Alex Ward. Solo bass compositions have been written for him by composers including Jürg Frey, Richard Glover, and Éliane Radigue. He has lived and worked in Oxford, New York and Bristol, and is currently based in Cambridge where he and N.O. Moore curate the monthly improvised music series Soundhunt. He also runs the label Spoonhunt.

Jeff Witscher has been one of the most daring voices in underground American music for two decades, highlighted by releases on Pan and NNA Tapes. Jack Callahan’s focused, uncompromising approach to sound caught the attention of both Demdike Stare’s DDS label and Swiss composer Jürg Frey, who took Callahan on as his first composition student. Like these ancestors, Callahan & Witscher aim at maximum uplift, at sounds that warm and dazzle like a sped-up sunrise. In spite of overdraft fees, in spite of bad art, in spite of self-doubt.

Susan Geaney is a Kerry-based composer and improviser whose work explores deep listening, community engagement, and the interconnectedness of sound, space, and intuitive responses. Her practice spans experimental music, field recording, ecology, arts and health, improvisation, therapeutic play, dance, and poetry.

Susan is presenting a new commission for this event, highlighting the unique textures of the Uilleann pipes, performed by Kerry-based piper Robert Fell, and the Tombo Bass Harmonica, played by Susan herself. Incorporating pre-recorded tape material, the piece gradually weaves layers of drones, creating a dynamic interplay between live and recorded elements.

Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh is a viola player exploring the tonal possibilities of gut strings and wood in both amplified and acoustic contexts.Influenced by improvised, traditional and early music styles, she has released three solo recordings focused on exploring the instrument - Oreing , The Rounds and most recently Live At Sonic Acts.She lives in Glasgow where she plays in free-improv quartet Dome Riders. In May 2022 she composed New Mountain, Reaching Plane for BBC Scotland’s Tectonics Festival. Recent performances include a newly commissioned work by Natalia Beylis and a premier of Eliane Radigue’s Asymptote Versatile(1963-64) at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2023.

Dunk Murphy records and performs as Sunken Foal, Minced Oath, Press Charges and as a member of Ambulance and The Natural History Museum. He has had releases on the seminal Planet-Mu, Black Acre, Acroplane, Front End Synthetics, D1, The Fear and Countersunk.org. Championed by BBC1/XFM DJ Mary Anne Hobbs, Today FM’s Donal Dineen, Lyric FM’s John Kelly and the late John Peel, Dunk’s music covers a large area showcasing his deep knowledge of synthesis, software processes, composition and traditional instrumentation. He often employs algorithmic / generative systems with melody & rhythm resulting in a cascading, kinetic energy in his music. He currently runs the Countersunk label www.countersunk.org

Aonghus McEvoy is a composer, improviser and guitar player based in Dublin, Ireland. Aonghus' work moves between collaborations with improvisers, indeterminate scores for small ensembles and skewed takes on folk idioms. His use of the guitar ranges from employing traditional techniques to experimental methods to building custom interactive systems for electronics & guitar. Aonghus has performed alongside musicians such as Rhodri Davies, Annette Krebs, Weston Olencki, Sebastian Adams, Cora Venus Lunny, Jon Collin, Ludo Mich, Damo Suzuki, David Maranha, Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Marcin Pietruszewski, Tristan Clutterbuck, Ricardo Jacinto, Adam Pultz Melbye, David Lacey and has collaborated with composers such as Conal Ryan, Jack Callahan, Jorge Boehringer and Eva-Maria Houben.