Carlos Giffoni is a prolific Venezuelan electronic musician who has resided in the New York City area since the year 2000. He is currently using modular synthesizers, handmade custom instruments, various types of analog and digital synthesis for the composition of electronic music pieces, as well as improvising live with local and international musicians. His recent solo work has focused in live analog synthesizer pieces that put his style in a line with early Brian Eno, Cluster and Conrad Schnitzler while maintaining the harsher edge of his previous noise works.
Carlos remains a major figure in the US and international experimental music scene, performing live in New York and in a number of tours and festivals in the US, South America, Europe and Japan. He is the curator of the No Fun Fest, a yearly event in Brooklyn bringing together a wide variety of international experimental musicians as well as running the No Fun Productions label.
His work has been featured in many publications including The New York Times, The Wire, Pitchfork, Art Forum, Tokion, Signal to Noise and many others. He also holds an MFA in design and technology from Parsons School of Design, where he occasionally teaches classes and workshops.
Dan Friel has been making primitive electronic music under his own name and with the Brooklyn-based noisepunk band Parts & Labor since 2001. His work with both has garnered rave reviews from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Wire, and Pitchfork. He has also performed with Glenn Branca and Damo Suzuki. His most recent solo recording, “Ghost Town”, was released by Important Records in May of 2008.
Noveller is the solo project of Brooklyn-based sound artist and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. Armed with a double-neck guitar and a slew of effects processors, Lipstate creates soundscapes that straddle the line between the melodic and abstract. She has performed in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army, and as a member of Glenn Branca’s 100 guitar ensemble. Recently, Lipstate joined art-rock outfit Parts & Labor as their new guitarist. In December, Noveller performed at the Un Son Par Là, Music of Today festival in Nîmes, France. Lipstate will also participate in the revival of Rhys Chatham and Karole Armitage’s Drastic-Classicism at The Kitchen in March.