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Strangerous

Born: September 20, 1998

Strangerous is an experimental artist based in Trondheim. She has performed at festivals such as the Emergency Festival (Nødutgangfestivalen), and Ung Nordisk Musik, and has released two albums. Strangerous is a new voice in the borderland between noise, ambient, contemporary and everything else that defies normal genre conventions. She uses vocals, field recordings, various instruments and electronic processing of sound to create a soundscape that captures both the disturbing and the beautiful. Attn:Magazine about Strangerous: “twisting the listener into a paradox of becoming both acquainted and alienated, pulling them into a buzzing, insidious greyscale trauma as the music churns like a horrid machine.” Strangerous is the solo project of Nora E

Cezary Ostrowski

Born: September 30, 1962

Cezary Maciej Ostrowski (born 30 September 1962) is a Polish composer, musician, songwriter, author, visual artist and journalist. Ostrowski was born in Brzeg, Lower Silesia. He is best known for his work as a leader of the critically acclaimed new wave band Bexa Lala, established in 1983. Before that, he had fronted the groups: Taz and Leo Patett in the early 1980s, bands renowned for their rough, and violent sound influenced by free jazz, electronica, and post-punk. In 2001, he formed the jazz duo Trzaska & Ostrowski that released the album Blades. In 2003 his another duo Swietlicki & Ostrowski released the album Crawl

Erik Honore

Born: December 11, 1966

Erik Honoré, born 1966, is a musician, producer and author from Kristiansand, Norway. Honoré has worked with artists like David Sylvian, Jon Hassell, J. Peter Schwalm/Brian Eno, Sidsel Endresen, Jan Bang, Nils Petter Molvær, Arve Henriksen, Christian Wallumrød, Elsewhere, Unni Wilhelmsen, Velvet Belly and Eivind Aarset. Much of this work has been in collaboration with long time musical partner Jan Bang. Erik has composed music for theatre, including the Norwegian National Theatre, and film. He has written three novels published by Gyldendal, Norway’s largest publishing house. Erik Honoré has received one Norwegian "Grammy” for Album of the Year (Velvet Belly: "Lucia") and one nomination, and was nominated for the Southern Norway Literary Prize for his debut novel "Orakelveggen"

Jen Bauer

Born: January 27, 1985

I am a recent graduate with a Masters of Music from the Music Technology program at NYU: Steinhardt. I am passionate about interactive sound design and the future of video game audio. . Constructed two separate generative, real-time interactive soundtrack engines in Java working with a Flash-based game for my thesis, "Exploring Interactive Video Game Soundtrack Design in JMSL and JSyn." Both games from this project - PAC-Type and Thesis Hunter - can be played online at JenGrier.com . Created a short audio-puzzle game via the Unreal Tournament 3 engine, Reset, with a small team as a final project and presented in at the NYU Music Technology Open House of Spring 2008

Stylized Monkeys

This is the music that monkeys do actually in the forest...

Thorltd

Born: June 6, 1984

Durk Albert Kooistra was born on the sixth of june 1984. Since he can remember he has had a passion for music When Durk turned 13 he got a Djembe from his parents. After that he saw how his brother learned to make music on a old notebook or should I say laptop. Not equipped with a sound-card, his brother was forced to use a printer card to get some form of tones out of the machine. The love for obscure sounds was triggered. Jazz artists like Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Stan Gets, Medeski Martin & Wood, Anyone from the marselis family all inspired Durk in his electronic approach of jazz. In 2006 he had his first gig as Thorltd, 2007 many more gigs, festivals and radio appearences

Lunch With Beardo

Born: December 15, 1981

"Without Lunch, Life Would be a Mistake" Not much is known about the bizarre fringe group known as Lunch With Beardo or the small quasi-religious cult following closely associated with their numerous public appearances, also known as "sightings." The young alien types who attend their public gatherings report that the group regularly visits from the Planet Lunch to spread a message of hope, food, and facial hair. Little else is known specifically about the group and much of the information that sources do have come from scratchy bootleg-quality cassette and CD-R releases unearthed from unnamed sources by the decentralized, self-proclaimed "art-terrorist" independent label FDH Records