Farzaneh Nouri (aka Pher, Farzané), is an Iranian musician, composer and sound artist based in the Netherlands. Concerned with interdisciplinary ideas, she utilizes creative coding, acoustic and programmable instruments, and live electronics to compose her pieces. Her recent works explore complex systems, natural algorithms, human-machine interaction and autonomous agency of sound objects in hybrid musical systems. She is currently focused on artificial intelligence methods in the framework of algorithmic composition and composing with generative environments to create a complex network of sonic material with emergent behaviors.

Arash Akbari (@fnekf) is a musician, sound and new-media artist, based in Tehran, Iran. His interest in dynamic art systems,human perception, nonlinear narrative and the co-existence between physical and digital worlds compelled him to explore the fields of generative systems, interaction design, and real-time processing.He explores the relationship between human, technology, space and environment, and examines the ways interactive cybernetic systems, natural emergent behaviors and phenomena can evoke meanings as well as social and emotional responses. Akbari directs his experimental practices into audio-visual performances and installations, interactive applications and multisensory experiences.His works have been exhibited in different festivals and exhibitions around the world, such asAthens Digital Arts Festival, Simultan Festival, New Media Fest, 3D Web Fest, Cinnamon Colomboscope, and Graphical Web Conference. He has released albums on Flaming Pines, Unknown Tone Records, Taalem, and Soft Recordings among numerous other labels.

Robert Lippok has always been ahead of the times. As the central figure of the GDR underground and a member of the groups Ornament und Verbrechen and To Rococo Rot, he has shaped the local scene again and again. This also applies to his extensive solo work. On his last album Applied Autonomy, Lippok condensed and layered club music sketches into complex sound sculptures.Lippok has also been relied upon as a spontaneous and inventive live music and audiovisual performer. That includes appearances at festivals like MUTEK, Unsound, L.E.V, GAMMA , at Berghain and Funkhaus Berlin, work with the 4DSOUND spatial audio system, collaborations with Doug Aitken at Serpentine Gallery London, choreographer Constanza Macras at Akademie der Künste Berlin, German architect Arno Brandlhuber at NBK Berlin.