Asma Ghanem is a Palestinian visual artist & experimental musician, born in Damascus-Syria(1991). She has a B.A. from The International Academy of Arts-Palestine & M.A. degree in Audio-Visual Arts from ISDAT(École supérieure des beaux-arts de Toulouse)in France. Asma has participated in exhibitions, residencies and workshops in Italy, Germany, France, Austria, USA, Lebanon, UAE, Norway, Jordan and Palestine and was awarded the 3rd prize in the YAYA (The Young Artist Award- The Hassan Hourani Award, 2016)for her experimental music project (Homeland is…). She was also awarded a special mention in the Palest’in & out Festival in Paris in 2015 for her Photography project. Asma participated as a Fellow in OneBeat 2017 global music exchange, a U.S. State Department initiative managed by Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation that each year brings outstanding individual musicians from around the world to the U.S. for four weeks of collaborative creation, performance, and engagement with communities.
For more information & projects: asma.ghanem.art@gmail.com

Talking Experiments by Borealis: A podcast of conversations with composers, artists, musicians and thinkers all engaged in the world of experimental music. Get to know the people beind the music and experiments – spanning the musical, social and political.

Eva Aguila is a multidisciplinary artist from Los Angeles, CA. Aguila’s background includes film, video, performance, and sound.

Cristy Michel is a Louisiana bred-LA based dominatrix and multi-instrumentalist. 

You Can Call Me Sir

Artists making digital music informed by their lived queer experiences growing up in the  haunted swamplands of the American South.

Cristy Michel - dominatrix -  vocals, guitar, bass, electronics, beats- both meanings.

​Matt Petty - experimental trombone, found sounds, moody elements, verbiage.

alien hypermedia network // identities contingent & nontemporary // post-internet fluxus

los angeles // new york city // mexico city

Experimental vocalist Carmina Escobar is a creative performer, improviser, sound and intermedia artist from Mexico City. 

Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Roco Córdova is a vocalist, composer, producer and improviser based in the San Francisco Bay Area. They possess a B.Mus. in Composition from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music and an M.A. in Composition from Mills College in Oakland, California. They have studied under the guidance of Carlos Carrillo, Manuel Ceide, Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins and James Fei. As a singer they have trained under the instruction of countertenor Paul Flight and have participated in vocal advancement workshops with Meredith Monk. 
Their music has been described as "slow-boiling, apparently timeless" with "an odd momentum of its own" (The Washington Post). Cordova's work fuses diverse influences with electronic media, chance operations, gradual processes, noise, improvisation, and timbral techniques of composition. Their compositions explore intersections between literature, visual arts and sound. Voice is at the core of their music making: they incorporate extended techniques like throat singing, overtone singing, falsetto, yodeling, and vocal clicks and pops into live performances that emphasize the electronic processing of these sounds. Recently, they have been focused in exploring the intersection between their practice as vocalist-improviser with electronic dance musics.
As a touring vocalist and improviser with The Art Ensemble of Chicago, they have performed in venues including but not limited to: The Tennessee Theater in Knoxville, Tennessee; The Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois; SESC Pompéia in São Paulo, Brazil; The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.; and the Maison des Arts in Créteil, France.Roco recently soloed and performed the role of Pilate with the California Bach Society in their 2022 performances of the St. John Passion. They have also collaborated with artists like Monopiece, Dirt and Copper, Theresa Wong, GeraldCaselDance, La Macacoa and Danistha Rivero.
A selection of Roco’s work can be found at: https://linktr.ee/rococordova.

El EMCA (Ensamble de Música Contemporánea ASAB) de la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, nació hace más de una década por la curiosidad que un grupo de estudiantes expresó por este repertorio. Dirigido en primera instancia por Rodolfo Acosta y actualmente por Juan Camilo Vásquez, el EMCA se ha estado consolidando como uno de los ensambles más estables y de mayor trayectoria en el medio universitario, con un número significativo de conciertos, estrenos absolutos y nacionales en los auditorios más representativos de Bogotá, y con una amplia experiencia en música académica del pasado inmediato (y presente, claro está), improvisación libre y dirigida.

Carmina Escobar is following