Woody Sullender (banjo/electronics)
http://www.deadceo.com/unclewoody
Over the past few years, Woody Sullender has been defining himself as a pre-eminent experimental banjo performer, playing with and against the cultural baggage of the instrument. While alluding to the “traditional” musics of his home states of Virginia and North Carolina, he explores a diverse plane of plucked string music from around the world as well as incorporating punk, noise, free jazz, etc..
Most recently, with technical advising from STEIM, Sullender has been developing an electro-acoustic banjo with various parameters of computer synthesis and processing algorithms being controlled by sensors on the instrument. Previously, he has worked with pioneering electronic composers such as Pauline Oliveros and Maryanne Amacher (incorporating his banjo recordings into Amacher’s “TEO! A sonic sculpture” which won the Golden Nica prize at the 2005 Ars Electronica festival).
Katt Hernandez (violin)
http://zeitgeist.numachi.com/katt
Katt Hernandez recently moved to Philadelphia, after living in the Boston area for nine years, playing the violin, running spaces, and producing shows. She has collaborated with a magnificently variegated sea of musicians, dancers, and others including but certainly not limited to Joe Maneri, Zack Fuller, David Maxwell, John Voigt, Joe Burgio, Vashti Bunyan, Eric Rosenthal, Jeff Arnal, Andrew Neumann, and Hans Rickheit. She has twice been invited to perform on the Autumn Uprising, High Zero and Improvised and Otherwise festivals. She has been a guest artist at MIT, Harvard, and the New England Conservatory, performed in a vast slew of local venues and to date any number of subway passages, urban grottos, and troglyditical performance places, as well as other experimental and life-making places throughout the Bos-Wash metropolii.
Jozef Van Wissum - CANCELLED