Daniel Beban has just completed a BMUS from Victoria University, where he studied instrimental and electroacoustic composition. He improvises as well as composes, and spent two years studying jazz guitar performance and improvisation in the States before coming to Wellington. He is also a member of various free improvisation groups in Wellington.

Phil Brownlee holds a Masters degree in composition from Vic Uni. In 1998 he was Acting Director of the University's Electroacoustic Music Studios, and coordinated the "Sound and Space" concert. In 1997 his electroacoustic chamber opera "Phyllis Remembers" played for a two week season at Bats Theatre.

Matt Lee has been actively involved in performing and recording with various improvised music ensembles in Australia and New Zealand. Matt has studied both instrumental and electroacoustic composition at the Universities of Otago and Victoria.

Jonny Marks is currently finishing a music degree at Vic, where he is primarily focusing on electroacoustic music. This year he achieved a special mention in the annual composers' competition. He is also very inerested in improvising, and plays with the sporadic group Ion Fountain, who had a season in last year's Fringe Festival.

Xenia Pestov is an active performer of new music as well as a composer, who studied music in an exclusive school for the gifted in Russia before moving to NZ. 1998 marked the completion of her BMus and a number of premieres of her works, public recitals and competition prizes in both piano and composition.

Miri Young recently completed a composition degree with Honours at Vic. There she won the composers' competition first prize in 1997 and 1998. Miriama has worked in numerous music-theatre productions in Wellington. She was involved as a composer and technician in the School of Music Music Festival, a 1998 Fringe event, and participated in the "Menagerie" production "FUCIK" in the 1996 Fringe Festival. She was also a sound producer for the 1997 Bats production "Face" and contrubuted in a performing capacity for Summer Shakespeare's 1995 production, "Macbeth".

Performers will include D. Beban, P. Brownlee, X. Pestov, M. Young, and percussionist Simon O'Rorke as well as the STRIKE percussion ensemble.

Visual DesignerAaron Williams is a Final Professional Year design student, majoring in Illustration. His contribution to the show will include the poster design and creating visuals for the performance. His motivation for this comes from his appreciation of comic book art, and the opportunity that these visuals offer. Illustration is usually seen as a singular activity, and is seldom seen as an integral part of multimedia performance. Aaron believes that blending illustration with live performance music offers the opportunity to employ his illustrative skills in a unique and original context.

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