Alicia Byer
Alicia Byer is a composer-improviser-clarinetist originally from Claremont, CA. She holds a BA in music composition from Mills College, where she studied with Fred Frith, Joelle Leandre, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Cecil Taylor, Annie Gosfield, and others. Inspirations include nature, culture, and everything in-between.MAST / Timothy Conley
A Philadelphia native now residing in Los Angeles, Timothy Conley is a jazz musician, composer, producer and electronic musician. His solo electronic project MAST draws together different sonic elements and channels them out through intense live performances. With a composers mind and a jazz musicians desire for exploring new improvisational realms, MAST has journeyed throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. The latest MAST release titled “Battle Hymns of the Republic” is a deliberate reflection of events happening in our country and around the world. A spiritual protest against the rise of misinformation and fascist ideologies that aim to redefine who we are at our best and fondle our worst sensibilities. Scored by moving orchestral arrangements, poignant spoken word, impassioned jazz sensibilities, and angular electronic beats and samples, MAST reflects compositionally on our present day battles for unity, equality, facts, justice, and empathy for those in need. “Battle Hymns..” features Jimetta Rose, Dwight Trible, Brian Marsella, Maxwell Hallett and many more.Greg Hotchkiss
Autarchic sound bather@gregoryphotchkiss
Marc Perez
Marc Perez is a west coast based composer, performer, improviser, author, curator and organization leader whose work is concerned with freedom of agency, interdisciplinary arts & improvisation. Marc has a multitude of ongoing groups he has created, including a brass trio (The Lip-Reeds), a improv quartet (Filler Words) & and a large jazz ensemble (The Tapestry). Along with curating shows/events throughout the typical year, Marc is the co-founder and co-director of SuddenSomethings, an organization dedicated to the proliferation of activities, knowledge, research, and communal practices in improvisation across disciplines and non-disciplines. Marc also runs the site you're reading.Charles Sharp
Charles Sharp plays woodwinds, composes, and hosts Trilogy on KXLU. He has a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and he teaches at California State University, Fullerton. His teaching and research focuses on philosophy, aesthetics, American music and improvisational and experimental music.Jeff Schwartz
Jeff Schwartz (bass) co-leads the groups Intangible (with gamin, Robert Reigle, and Tim Feeney), the Present Quartet (with Ellen Burr, Anne LeBaron, and Charles Sharp), and the Soapbox (with a rotating cast). He also collaborates regularly with Anna Homler, Andrea Centazzo, and Jack Curtis Dubowsky and irregularly with numerous other artists, plays symphonic, chamber, and Arabic music, and has written two books and several shorter texts on free jazz and creative music.Miller Wren
Miller Wrenn is a Los Angeles-based bassist and composer-improviser. He works primarily in the fields of new, creative, and improvised music and has been fortunate to do so with artists such as Vinny Golia, Eyvind Kang, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Stephanie Richards, Dan Rosenboom, Alex Cline, and the Santa Monica Symphony.