Marcia Bassett is a NYC-based musician, performer, and artist known for her innovative and unconventional approach to music. Her work explores areas of sound collage, improvisation, and immersive audio-visual environments. Working with traditional instruments, electronic media, and voice, Bassett constantly pushes the boundaries of sound and image to create a heady sonic interplay of otherworldly narratives that are equal parts trance and critique. She is the founder of Yew Recordings. Recent solo recordings include Midnight Xpander LP recorded at EMS (Stockholm); Repeater cassette; Undulating Arkasboning cassette released on Artsy Records (2022), and a Digi-EP , Altering The Form, of the Belgian KraakRecords label KRUT. Collaborative recordings include Sunview (Live recordings with Chuck Bettis); Dream of Autumn Electrified Blues I & II (Live recordings with Ignatz), and Indexical/Rhizome live recordings with Samara Lubelski (Relative Pitch Records). She frequently collaborates with others on installations and multimedia projects. Recent solo and collaborative work include Ted Gordon’s “The Composer’s Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America” Buchla Music Easel duo and panel discussion with Ted Gordon at mixology Roulette, NYC; Marcia Bassett and Chuck Bettis at 57th Anniversary Experimental Intermedia Festival, Various Artists, NYC; Marcia Bassett / Taralie Peterson / Chris Corsano Elastic Arts Chicago; "Triangulated Waves" electric guitar and violin improvisations with Samara Lubelski for abstract film by Marcia Bassett at Tabakalara, San Sebastián, Spain; sound and live visual collaboration with Ursula Scherrer; multimedia installation with live visuals/sound with Ursula Scherrer and Sergej Vutuc at The Film Gallery, Paris, FR; Buchla Music Easel improvisation with Ted Gordon; "The Eternal Now" Buchla Music Easel improvisation with Ted Gordon and colorslide stroboscopic light experiments by Jeffrey Perkins at The Diffusion Festival, Baltimore. DC; Social Entropy, a 4-channel sound installation at Human Resources, LA; and group collaboration with Margarida Garcia, David Maranha and Manuel Mota. Bassett is deeply entwined with the American noise underground and has mapped regions still only dimly understood by subsequent sonic travelers. In the 1990s, Bassett, along with Grant Acker, founded Un, releasing records on Tom Lax’s label, Siltbreeze Records, and touring extensively. Following Un, she went on to form Double Leopards the band introduced floorcore, hunching over their gear and creating smoked-out, densely layered sonic tapestries that blurred the boundaries between noise, drone, and psychedelia. In addition to her band collaborations, Bassett released many solo recordings under the moniker Zaïmph. Guided by a commitment to experimentation and artist-run events, Bassett has organized numerous musical events and series over the years. Her latest series, “2 Blocks Down,” focuses on innovative experimentation and collaborations, resulting in first-time pairings and welcoming a broader community of listeners and practitioners.

Website: https://marciabassett.org/

Bandcamp: https://yewrecordings.bandcamp.com/ and https://marciabassett.bandcamp.com/

Victoria Keddie is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans sound, video, installation, performance, and research. Her practice investigates the architectures of communication—acoustic, spatial, and technological—and explores how gesture, noise, and interference shape human experience. For over a decade, she co-directed E.S.P . TV, an international platform for hybrid media and broadcast-based performance. She currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, leading the course Listening Beyond Hearing alongside a spatial sound studio she designed for the program. She also directs the Spatial Sound Consortium in collaboration with Harvestworks, connecting studios internationally to develop new forms of access and collaboration. Keddie has performed and exhibited internationally at venues including Fridman Gallery, Pioneer Works, and The Whitney Museum of American Art (US); The Barbican (UK); Museum Angewandte Kunst and Berghain Kantine (DE); The Goethe-Institut (CO); and MAPS (DK). Recent fellowships include NYSCA/NYFA for Music/Sound (2022), the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (2023), and the Bemis Center Sound Art and Experimental Music Fellowship (2024). In 2025, she was composer-in-Residence at EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) in Stockholm. Her sound works are represented by Autopilot Music Publishing (DE) and released through Raster Media (DE), Chaikin Records (US), and Fridman Gallery (NYC/US). Her video works are distributed via Lightcone (FR) and The Filmmakers Co-op (US).

Website: https://www.victoriakeddie.com/

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Loris S Sarid is a Rome-born artist, based in Glasgow since 2015. Spanning from new-age to computer music, he's collected releases for a number of different labels: from Glasgow's 12th Isle to Longform Editions, Moon Glyph and Constellation Tatsu. His latest live set-up centres around electric guitar and blends heavily manipulated recordings to live improvisation and digital processing.

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