John Bischoff is best known for his solo constructions in real-time synthesis and the pioneering development of computer network music. In the last five years, his work has focused on integrating acoustic sources into electronic pieces for solo laptop performer. Mark Trayle works in a variety of media including live electronic music, installations, improvisation, and compositions for chamber ensembles.
John Butcher’s work ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked saxophone pieces and solo explorations with feedback and extreme acoustics. Originally a physicist, he left academia in 1982 and has since collaborated with hundreds of musicians.
Thomas Lehn was born in Fröndenberg, Germany in 1958. He studied recording engineering and piano at the Music Academy of Detmold, classical piano at the Music Academy of Cologne, and jazz piano with Frank Wunsch and Francis Coppieters. For the past twenty years, his major and widely known work has been performing and producing live-electronic music. Rooted in the experience of a wide spectrum of musical fields and based on his background as a pianist, he has developed an individual ‘language’ of electronic music. The electronic equipment he uses consists of analogue synthesizers from the late 1960s, particularly the EMS Synthi A. The specific character of this modular instrument allows him to spontaneously act and react in close contact with the various structural degrees of the musical process.