BONNIE JONES (electronics, text - Baltimore) works with sound, text and performance. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised by dairy farmers in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, MD. In sound performances Bonnie plays the circuit boards of digital delay pedals. Her primary sound collaborators are Joe Foster in Korea (as the duet "English") and Andy Hayleck. She is also a member of the Performance Thanatology Research Society, a interdisciplinary performance group dedicated to the advancement of a higher histrionics brought on by imminent finalities. Bonnie has performed at the Kim Dae Hwan Museum, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the ErstQuake Festival, and the 14 Karat Cabaret.

ARTIST WEBSITES:

www.bonniejones.wordpress.com

myspace.com/bonniejonesbaltimore

bonniejones at gmail dot com

CHRIS COGBURN (percussion - Austin) is an active performer, educator and organizer, based in Austin, Texas. Current projects include a quartet.. with Norwegian double bassist Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten, Houston trombonist Dave Dove and NYC rapper/electronic musician Jawwaad Taylor; and frequent duo collaborations with Seattle-based pianist Gust Burns. Cogburn has led workshops on creative music making around the U.S., Canada and Mexico, working in contexts as diverse as inner-city community centers, homeless shelters, public and private high schools, and Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening Space. Interested in inter-media collaborations, Cogburn recently traveled on the Wave Books Poetry Bus, performing solo and with poet/Wave Books editor Joshua Beckman, with a final performance at James Turrell's Roden Crater. Beginning in the summer of 2003, Cogburn has hosted an annual festival of improvised music - the No Idea Festival - showcasing a handful of Texas' premiere creative musicians in collaboration with improvisors from around the U.S., Europe, Japan, Mexico, Canada and beyond.

ARTIST WEBSITE:

www.noideafestival.com

www.rasbliutto.net/artists/chriscogburn.html

LIZ TONNE (voice - Massachusetts) is a sound artist inspired by the unorthodox use of the human voice. She is an improviser and an interpreter of contemporary composition using voice as a sound source. Her palette is an abstraction of singing styles ranging from jazz to bird songs, classical technique to the casual sounds of machinery. She combines air, breath, whispers, overtones and disconnected text to explore the evocative power of the human voice. For many years she sang professionally as an all-occasion entertainer and has sung repertoire from the American songbook in restaurants, biker bars, cocktail lounges, town bandstands and greyhound tracks throughout New England. As well as performing as a solo artist, Tonne is a member of The BSC, an eight person ensemble of the Boston area's finest electro-acoustic musicians led by Bhob Rainey. She is also a quarter of undr quartet, along with James Coleman, Greg Kelley and Vic Rawlings.