"Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968's barricade-hopping. He has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. In the history books Niblock is the forgotten Minimalist. That's as maybe: no one ever said the history books were infallible anyway.

His influence has had more impact on younger composers such as Susan Stenger, Lois V Vierk, David First, and Glenn Branca. He's even worked with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo on "Guitar two, for four" which is actually for five guitarists. This is Minimalism in the classic sense of the word, if that makes sense. Niblock constructs big 24-track digitally-processed monolithic microtonal drones. The result is sound without melody or rhythm. Movement is slow, geologically slow. Changes are almost imperceptible, and his music has a tendency of creeping up on you. The vocal pieces are like some of Ligeti's choral works, but a little more phased. And this isn't choral work. "A Y U (as yet untitled)" is sampled from just one voice, the baritone Thomas Buckner. The results are pitch shifted and processed intense drones, one live and one studio edited. Unlike Ligeti, this isn't just for voice or hurdy gurdy. Like Stockhausen's electronic pieces, Musique Concrete, or even Fripp and Eno's No Pussyfooting, the role of the producer/composer in "Hurdy Hurry" and "A Y U" is just as important as the role of the performer. He says: "What I am doing with my music is to produce something without rhythm or melody, by using many microtones that cause movements very, very slowly." The stills in the booklet are from slides taken in China, while Niblock was making films which are painstaking studies of manual labour, giving a poetic dignity to sheer gruelling slog of fishermen at work, rice-planters, log-splitters, water-hole dredgers and other back-breaking toilers. Since 1968 Phill has also put on over 1000 concerts in his loft space, including Ryoji Ikeda, Zbigniew Karkowski, Jim O'Rourke."

"Hampus Lindwall is a musical artist who is praised as an organ performer of contemporary and 20th century music and as a creative improviser & composer. He was the last disciple of Rolande Falcinelli and is the Titular Organist in Saint-Esprit, Paris, a position made famous by Jeanne Demessieux who occupied it between 1933 and 1962.

Hampus Lindwall gives concerts throughout Europe, in the U.S.A., Canada and China. He is doing numerous collaborations and first performances with composers and artists like Cory Arcangel, Noriko Baba, Raphaël Cendo, John Duncan, Leif Elggren, Mauro Lanza, Jesper Nordin, Studio For Propositional Cinema, Emily Sundblad and others. He has released albums with Ligia Digital, Clean Feed Records, Firework Editions and Matière-Mémoire.

Born (1976) in Stockholm, Hampus Lindwall grew up playing the electric guitar in various rock, metal & jazz bands. He started playing keyboards in his late teens and studied the organ at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Under the influence of Rolande Falcinelli he moved to Paris in 2002 and studied at the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon. He won the 1st prizes in the International improvisation competitions "Orgel ohne Grenzen, Air Art 2003″ in Saarbrücken, Germany, and the "Prix Boëllmann-Gigout", 2004 in Strasbourg, France."

"Emanuel Schmelzer-Ziringer: Born in 1971, comes from a Styrian family of musicians. Studied organ and conducting at the Graz and Vienna music universities, diplomas with distinction. Postgraduate harpsichord studies at the Bruckner University Linz. Singing lessons with Gerd Fussi in Wiener Neustadt. Teaches harpsichord and vocal ensemble early music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. As an organist international concert activity as well as recordings of solo CDs. As a harpsichordist as a soloist, as a chamber musician and as a continuist in opera productions, for example at the Graz Opera. Participate in CD productions. As a conductor, he conducts numerous concerts, especially in the field of old and completely new music. CD and radio recordings. Head of the JM Hauer Ensemble. Cooperation with Friedrich Cerha, Klaus Lang, Bernhard Lang, Phill Nilock, Barbara Konrad,

Participate in the Graz Opera, with the Wiener Symphoniker, the RSO Vienna, the Klangforum Wien, the Accademia dell'Arcadia Vienna ... appearances as organist in the St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, in the Vienna Musikverein, in the Helsinki Cathedral, in the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago ... appearances as a harpsichordist in the Graz Opera, in the Wiener Konzerthaus ... appearances as a conductor in the Brucknerhaus, in opera productions by the Teatro Barocco ... as a soloist and musical director appearances at the Styriate, at the Carinthian Summer, at the Festival 4020 ."