Mary Halvorson is a guitarist, composer and improviser living in Brooklyn. She grew up in Boston and studied jazz at Wesleyan University and the New School. Since 2000 she has been performing regularly in New York with various groups and has toured Europe and the U.S. with the Anthony Braxton Quintet (Live at the Royal Festival Hall, Leo Records) and Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant (Sister Phantom Owl Fish, Ipecac Recordings). She has also performed alongside Joe Morris, Nels Cline, John Tchicai, Elliott Sharp, Andrea Parkins, Marc Ribot, Tony Malaby, Oscar Noriega and Jason Moran. Current projects which Mary composes for and performs with include a chamber-music duo with violist Jessica Pavone ( On and Off, Skirl Records, 2007); The Mary Halvorson Trio with John Hebert and Ches Smith; and the avant-rock band People (Misbegotten Man, I & Ear Records, 2007). She also performs regularly in ensembles led by Taylor Ho Bynum, Ted Reichman, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jason Cady, Matthew Welch, Brian Chase and Curtis Hasselbring.
The Magick Report is an electronica project that is the brainchild of Ross Finlayson. Generally it is a solo project, but William Gilchrist, otherwise known as Avatar Glaeba, has been involved in a large amount of recordings and live shows. Finlayson has gone by a number of monikers since he started making electronic music in the summer of 2003, under the alias Majiq Rupert. He has since gone by Dr. Knives, Bassnoise Boomtower, Antitower, Venereal Coil N Snake, Screaming Cheetah, Anticheetah, Polycheetah, IO/NIO, 1/0, 0/1, The Nothingness, among others. He has also produced hip-hop for Godfather Germ and Loo$e $crew$.