Romanian-born Alexander Balanescu finished his studies at Julliard School, New York. He was a member of the Arditti Quartet from 1983 to 1987. In 1987 he formed the Balanescu Quartet, with the goal to create much more accessible and communicative new music. He gained an enviable reputation as a truly interdisciplinary artist - a composer and improviser as well as a performer. He has collaborated with musicians from such wide-ranging fields as John Lurie, Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman, Jack de Johnette, John Surman, Andy Shepperd and Carla Bley. In his quest to reconnect with his Eastern European roots, and using folk music as a source of inspiration, Balanescu created the album *Luminitza*, which combines a personal and political level in its discussion of the changes after 1989.

Isabella Bordoni was born in 1962. Poet, theatre director, performer. Co-founder in 1985 of Giardini Pensili (theater company and media lab). She presents her texts in theater pieces, concerts and in telematic and networked projects. She wrote several hoerspiele - mostly performed live-produced by SFB, YLE, RNE, ORF and RAI. In 1987 she was artist-in-residence at the Djerassi Foundation, San Francisco.

Rupert Huber (A) was born in 1967, composer, musician, studied music and electronic music, and has been active in the area of (electronic) music since 1982. 1988 Recognition Prize of the Province of Lower Austria, 1992 Patronage Prize 'die ganze Woche', Culture Prize of the City of Baden. Guest of DAAD / Berlin 1997 (together with Sam Auinger).

Sergio Messina was born in 1959, started working in radio as soon as the pirate radio movement bloomed in Italy (1975); in 1980 he went to work for Radio Città Futura where, until '93, he worked as a dj, as an engineer and as an artist. In 1985 he made his first broadcast for the national radio of Italy (Rai) and was broadcasted by Audiobox (the station's radioart program). Since 1990 he works exclusively on his projects wich involve music (making and production) and multimedia, as well as radio.

siegfried ganhör, born 1976, produces electronic breakbeat- and experimental electrotunes since 1995. first solo-liveacts 1996 (under name eleven) with minimal equipment, later collaborations with linz based emu/cargoblast and shalom-bros. as studied gfx- and communication-designer he also releases multimedia-works (films, animations, gfx-design, webdesign) under different names.

To Rococo Rot is a mostly Berlin-based post-rock trio composed of bassist Stefan Schneider, and brothers Robert (guitar, electronics) and Ronald Lippok (drums, effects). The group have described their work as an overt attempt to reconnect the art-school proclivities of musical experimentalism with the accessibility and 'use-value' of pop. The group's debut arrived in 1996 in the form of an untitled picture disc. In 1997, the group recorded an album's worth of material with producer David Moufang (Deep Space Network, Source Records). Following a move to Mute Records, the band released The Amateur View in 1999.