for directions:
www.theluckycat.com

SAWAKO is a Japanese sound artist currently living in New York City. She graduated Keio University, SFC, JAPAN, in 2002, where she studied
computing culture and sound design with Christopher Penrose, as well as"environmental information" as an interdisciplinary approach.
She has performed in Japan, USA, Paris and London. She makes soundscapes graced with beautiful silences, the poetics of
petite sounds, mixer feedback, computer prossesing, and field recording, and the various sounds of her immediate environment.
Almost paradoxical in nature, Sawako's music encompasses both deep contemplation and a arbitrary randomness.
http://www.troncolon.com/    http://www.and-oar.org/artists_sawako.html

MPLD - prepared and processed slide projectors. The photoacoustic continuum of MPLD's projection slowly flows into the performance
space carrying fragments from unidentified places and times. Fades and cuts play with memory's subjective persistence, as light and darkness keep
carving out e ach one from the other. The mechanical sounds of this projection are tapped and processed to become its own soundtrack. Color, density,
texture, frequency become simultaneous qualities of the light and the sound, as they are explored in a way somewhat analogue to the distorted
enlargement of a magnifying glass. http://m-i-c-r-o.net

( ) is an artist born in Wallingford, England who now lives in Williamsburg Brooklyn. He is a sound artist essentially, but also works
with video and sound in performance and installation settings doing interactive and ambient-reactive installations. Otherwise known as ( )
Jeremy Slater uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. He was one of the 1999 recipients of the
Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally.
http://www.jeremyslater.net    http://parenthesismusic.com

NORTH GUINEA HILLS is Aaron Halley who started DJing in Florida while in various noise/improv combos before moving to NYC.
He got his start in NYC w/ DJ Olive/Toshio Kajiwara's Phonomena party at Subtonic. He has formed groups that have performed everything
from primitive dadaist hiphop to realizations of works from Bernard Parmegiani and Steve Reich to free psyche folk. He also has performed
for free103point9's radio art performance tune-(in)))) (2003), performed turntabilized interperetations of Michael Count's
Surrealist landscape sculpture "the world" for the Gale Gates gallery, and has recently performed for Share's "Anyware"
at the Kitchen (part of the New Sound New york festival) where he collaborated w/ Sean Smith, clarkovsaturn, and remotely
(via webstream) w/ Ryoko Kuwajima while she was in London.

SHIGE MORIYA, born 1967 in Kyoto, Japan, is a video artist and curator. He has been in New York since 1993, He first worked as an exhibition
curator in Soho, but in 1996 Moriya moved to Williamsburg and opened CAVE. Since then he has been CAVE¹s Artistic and Executive Director.
He has presented his video pieces both locally and internationally in Germany, Japan and Vietnam. In 2002 he received a grant for a residence in
Hanoi, which was partly funded by the Ford Foundation. http://cavegallery.com/

CHiKA works with abstract images, movement, and emotional states with a minimalist aesthetic. It illustrates how one's past is linked
to one's present and how ever-changing feelings affect the perception of each moment. In collaboration with musicians,she combines video
with graphic imagery to traverse a range of emotion. She also has performed Galapagos, Tonic, The Lucky Cat and several other places.
Chika lives and works in New York City. http://www.chiklet.com