Edka Jarząb
Vocal artist, DJ, and performer working with extended vocal techniques as a bridge between the public and private spheres. She is a contributor to Glissando and Wakat magazines and a founding member of Radio Kapitał.
Martin Howse
Artist, programmer, and theorist, occupied with an investigation of the links between the earth (geophysical phenomena), software, and the human psyche (psychogeophysics) through the construction of experimental situations (performance, laboratories, walks, and workshops), and texts.
Makoto Oshiro
Berlin-Tokyo-based performer and artist. He is also a member of the live installation/performance group The Great △ (夏の大△) with Takahiro Kawaguchi and Satoshi Yashiro. Oshiro runs the label Basic Function.
Luciano Maggiore
Musician working in the field of electroacoustic music and sound diffusion. His works are published by Balloon & Needle, Boring Machines, Consumer Waste, Palustre, Senufo editions, 1000Füssler, Triscele Registrazioni, and Tulip Records. He lives and works in London.
Volker Zander
Composer, curator, radio author, and founder of the label Apparent Extent. Zander has produced numerous records, catalogues, and actions by international visual artists. He has also been co-curator of the sound art exhibition Brückenmusik in Cologne since 2017.
Oswald Berthold
Scientist, programmer, and artist. Founder of farmersmanual (1995), a renowned pan-European electronic music collective; co-owner with Florian Hecker of fals.ch (1998). Berthold has been working increasingly on real-time data-driven generative music since the early 2000s, specializing in AI and robotics.
Elvin Brandhi
Born Freya Edmondes. Improvising lyricist, producer, and sound artist, originally from Bridgend in Wales. She is one half of father/daughter noise-improv berserkers Yeah You, who released on Alter, Slip, Opal, Psychik Dancehall, and Good Food.
Ioana Vreme Moser
Romanian sound artist engaged with hardware electronics, speculative research, and tactile experimentation. She places electronic components in space and controls voltages through the interaction with her body, organic materials, lost and found items, and environmental stimuli.
Oren Ambarchi
Australian musician. Ambarchi has released numerous recordings for labels such as Touch, Editions Mego, Drag City, PAN, Southern Lord, Kranky, and Tzadik.
Russell Haswell
In addition to his work in galleries, nightclubs, and festivals, he has also released a huge amount of records and CDs on labels including Editions Mego, Warp, and Diagonal Records. Haswell is perhaps most well known for creating highly innovative, often improvised, experimental, critical, and abrasive works.
Arturo Hernández Alcázar
Artist based in Mexico City. The nature of Hernández Alcázar’s work requires it to be destroyed, atomized, canceled, dissolved, or returned to economic circulation. Copper, smoke, iron, files, newspapers, coins, rocks, and fallen buildings form part of a work in constant transformation.
Daniel Löwenbrück
Performance artist, curator, and founder of the label Tochnit Aleph.
He has performed internationally since the late 90s as part of the Schimpfluch-Gruppe, solo as Raionbashi, and under his own name.
Woonjii
DJ. Founder of experimental collective Yisekai, and a veteran crate digger based in Hong Kong. Woonjii worked in music promotion and licensing, managing copyrighted music for retail brands across the Asia-Pacific region.
Marta Zapparoli
Sound artist and performer working with electromagnetic pollution and natural radio phenomena through a wide range of receivers, detectors, and signal demodulators. Zapparoli is also a founder member of Splitter Orchester.
Florencia Curci
Curator, radio producer, and professor at the Universidad de San Martín (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From 2017 to 2024, she directed the Centro de Arte Sonoro (CASo).
Alice Kemp
Artist exploring an idiosyncratic praxis that involves audio composition, performance, installation, drawing, writing, lo-fi video, and object-making. Kemp is a Schimpfluch affiliate and a human ex-voto, living and working in Devon, England.
Gustavo Costa
Percussionist and composer, active in experimental and underground music since the early 90s. He is a founding member and artistic director of Sonoscopia, a Porto-based organization dedicated to promoting experimental music and sound research in Portugal.
Nick Klein
Berlin-based artist and curator. Klein has recorded a large amount of music for tape, CD, digital file, and vinyl editions for music labels, as well as running his own amorphous label project PL (primitive languages, Psychic Liberation).
Víctor Mazón Gardoqui
Spanish-born sound artist, researcher, and educator whose work explores perception, altered states, and the invisible layers of sound and electromagnetic phenomena through experimental processes, custom electronics, and locative audio.
Davide Tidoni
Artist working from the boundaries of physical, perceptual, and affective dimensions of sound. His work addresses questions regarding interactions with acoustic space, interdependence, and impermanence.
Mark Fell
Multidisciplinary artist based in Rotherham. Over the past 30 years, Fell’s output has grown into a significant body of work – from early electronic sound works and recorded pieces, to installation, critical texts, curatorial projects, educational systems, and choreographic performances.
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
Barcelona‑based artist and experimental musician known for his long‑standing work at the intersection of sound, algorithmic composition, and rave culture. His work has been released by Entr’acte, Editions Mego, Presto!? and fals.ch, and on his own record label, ALKU, which he co-directs with Anna Ramos since 1997.
Anthea Caddy
Caddy creates large-scale spatial works—installations and performances in architectural and outdoor environments—that employ specialised loudspeaker and amplification systems to expand and expose the spatial phenomena embedded in the environments we inhabit.
Jessica Ekomane
Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist. Her practice unfolds around live performances and installations grounded in an investigation of listening expectations and their societal roots.
Giada Dalla Bontà
Italian researcher, curator, and writer focusing on the intersection between sound, politics, and experimental practices, with a particular emphasis on unofficial cultures in the late Soviet Union and in contemporary practices in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Baltics.
Junko
Japanese vocalist and a longtime member of Hijokaidan. Junko is perhaps best understood as an artist who radically expands her audience’s interpretive capacities, working in a mode too improvisational to be punk, too chaotic to be free jazz, and yet too intimate to be dismissed.
Arnaud Rivière
Musician and instrument designer. Co-founder and director of Sonic Protest Festival, and member of the ONCEIM ensemble. For decades, Arnaud Rivière has been a pillar of the Paris experimental music scene, and for many years, he was a booker for Instants Chavirés.
Brett Wagg
Berlin-based artist and curator. Wagg is the sole operator of the Total Black label, founded in Montreal in 2012, and the Sentimental Youth brick-and-mortar record store in Berlin, specializing in Industrial Music, Noise, and Extreme Music.
Audrey Chen
Vocal Artist based in Berlin. Chen performs solo and collaborates internationally with artists such as Phil Minton, Richard Scott, and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, and has appeared at festivals and venues across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
Martin Khanja (aka Lord Spike Heart) and Sam Karugu emerge from Nairobi’s flourishing underground metal scene as former members of the bands Lust of a Dying Breed and Seeds of Datura. In 2019, they formed DUMA (Darkness in Kikuyu).
Mattin
Artist, musician, and theorist working conceptually with noise and improvisation. Through his practice, writing, and pedagogy, he explores performative forms of estrangement as a way to deal with structural alienation.
Rudolf Eb.Er
Also known as Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, Eb Er. founded the Schimpfluch extreme and outsider artist collective in Zürich in 1987. Rudolf Eb.er’s research de-occults the psychic body through psycho-physical tests and trainings.
Hans Tammen
Musician, programmer, and educator. Tammen is currently teaching at the School of Visual Arts and NYU Steinhardt. From 2001 to 2014, he worked at Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center in NYC, where he was responsible for the Client Services, Education, and Artist in Residence program.
Yan Jun
Based in Beijing, he’s a key figure in China’s underground scene, founding the Sub Jam label and performing globally, known for unique, often subversive live shows involving audience homes, body sounds, and exploring sonic consequences of movement.