David Grubbs is a Brooklyn-based recording artist and writer. His most recent album is "A Guess at the Riddle" (Drag City/FatCat). He's currently working on recordings with poet Susan Howe and The Wingdale Community Singers, a new group with Rick Moody and Hannah Marcus. He has played in Gastr del Sol, The Red Krayola, and Squirrel Bait; directs the Blue Chopsticks record label; and contributes music criticism to Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
For over a decade electro-acoustic songsmiths Presocratics (Need Windham and Jon Philpot) have struggled to survive, creating music beyond the margins of defined genres, trends, "scenes", and currently record labels. Previous records were released on Table of the Elements, with solo work from the duo being released by Eastern Developments and Antiopic. Their live performances are as rare as an eclipse, although perhaps more comet-lick in their effect.
Ateleia is James Elliott, co-founder of Antiopic record label. He produces dense, abstractly melodic computer music based on varying degrees of composition and improvisation. Using mainly synthesizer, guitar and electronics as source material, Ateleia reconfigures these sources via the computer into a shifting, constantly mutating framework. Ateleia has contributed work to Antiopic's Allegorical Power Series, the Tu M'p3 series, and his debut full length "Swimming Against The Moments" was released in November 2004 on Antiopic.