Jo-anne Cox is a performer/composer, based in London and working across the UK. Her unique work to date spans across electronic, experimental, folk and contemporary classical music. Her natural creativity has led to many musical and cross art form collaborations, including working with Elinor Rowlands at Nottingham Contemporary Gallery. Jo-anne’s composition for piano and electric cello, Galwad y Mynydd, was featured on Siwan Rhys’ album, Letting the Light In, which reached #10 in the Specialist Classical charts in 2024.

Peter Cusack is a field recordist and musician with a long interest in the acoustic environment. He initiated the “Favourite Sounds Project” to discover what people find positive about everyday soundscapes and ‘Sounds from Dangerous Places’ that uses sonic journalism to investigate places of major environmental damage in such places as the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the Aral Sea, Central Asia and lignite mining areas in Europe.

Terry Day is a Multi-instrumentalist, Improvisation Pioneer, Song Writer, Tune-Smith, Lyricist, Poet, Painter, Conductor even.

Saxophonist, clarinettist, sonic artist and composer Reuben Derrick grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand. His doctoral dissertation ‘Acoustic illuminations: recorded space as soundscape composition’ (2014) draws upon field recording and improvisation.

Average Dragoons are a family improvising band: Ivor Ghikas (11) on trumpet and vocals, Hector Ghikas (17) on guitar and objects, Dusty (the dog - a medium-sized border collie / miniature poodle) on extended barking techniques, Claire Hope on piano and melodica, and Panos Ghikas on viola. They have performed sets at Noisemass Iklectik, The Vortex Christmas Special and Biggin Hall, Dover.

Born near London in 1957, Phil Durrant is a multi-instrumentalist improviser/composer/sound artist who currently performs solo and group concerts.

Born in Chester, Barry John Edwards, also known as Bazmatronics is a musician, composer and improviser based in Wales, U.K. He is a graduate of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in jazz and regular contributor to the improvisational scene in both the U.K and Spain. Barry is known for his music contribution to the Netflix series Spy Ops.

Milo Fell lived and played in the Manchester for seven years, playing with many local bands and musicians such as John Ellis’ Big Bang, Jon Thorne, Pocket Central, Isthmus and Rare Birds. He also played with some of the best jazz soloists in the UK - Don Weller, Bobby Wellins, Peter King, Alan Barnes and Jean Toussaint.

Susanna Ferrar is a violinist with a special interest in site-specific improvisation. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and one of HT Ferrar’s grandchildren. She undertook her Postgraduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies (PCAS) at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2011-12, and, during this time, saw many of the places first visited and named by the men of “Discovery”. She has played her violin in Scott’s hut in Antarctica.