David Ryan is a visual artist and musician. He has long been associated with experimental music and improvisation, having performed with many distinguished musicians including Anton Lukoszevieze, John Edwards, Ian Mitchell, Alberto Popolla, John Tilbury, Luca Venitucci, Gianni Trovalusci amongst others.

Pianist and improviser Kate Ryder performs inside, outside (and sometimes under) the piano and on unusual keyboards both great and small. She specialises in prepared piano and extended techniques, collaborating with composers, commissioning new repertoire, performing, recording and giving workshops on these unique instruments. She is a lecturer in performance and composition at Middlesex university.

Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg is an improvising singer from Belgium. He is well versed in all sorts of vocalising: throat singing, overtones, yodels, mouth sounds, falsettos, multiphonics, invented languages to name a few.

Bettina Schroeder is a London-based multimedia artist. Her works include painting, installation, sound art, music, poetry and video.

Colin Somervell is as happy performing melodic free improvisation or playing in neo rembetica bands (Trio Tekke) and is also in demand as a free jazz musician.

Ade Southby is a Brighton based multi-instrumentalist equally at home exploring song form and free improvisation. He is a core member of Brighton’s Safehouse Collective and regularly collaborates in the heady free improv scenes of London and Brighton with many players, most frequently in duos with Matt Clark or Mark Wastell. When improvising he favours prepared guitar and alto clarinet. Today he will utilise the former.

Gina Southgate is best known on the international jazz scene where she produces spectacular, qualitative, real time paintings. For over three decades she’s painted at gigs and festivals capturing the vitality and nuance in her unique portraits of world class musicians.