Dunaway will also speak about her previous works involving radio, phones and internet sound, and play some excerpts from these project.

Judy Dunaway is a composer, improvisor and conceptual artist who is primarily known for her sound works for latex balloons. Since 1990 Judy Dunaway has composed over thirty works for balloons as instruments and has also made this her main instrument for improvisation. She has performed this work throughout North America and Europe and has received numerous grants for her work. Her discography includes CDs on the CRI and Innova labels. She has also produced many lesser-known transmission art works (many of which do not use balloons), and was recently included in Galen Joseph-Hunter's book "Transmission Arts."

Chris Kelsey is a writer and saxophonist living in Dutchess County, NY. Chris contributes regularly to Jazz.com and JazzTimes. He’s recorded sev eral albums, most recently Not Cool ( … as in, ‘The Opposite of Paul Desmond’) for his own Tzazz Kry tyk label. He’s also recorded several albums for the the CIMP label.

Doug Van Nort is an experimental musician and digital music researcher whose work is dedicated to sound exploration through composition, improvisation, installation, interactive system design, curation and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Van Nort is a member of the improvisational trio Triple Point with Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Braasch, wherein he plays his custom GREIS software designed for on-the-fly spectral and textural sound transformations. This group also collaborates through research and teaching, and in this context Van Nort has been actively designing and creating an intelligent system for improvisation, currently as research associate in music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Jill Burton is a singular and extraordinary performance artist, vocalist, dancer and energy worker who has been consciously synthesizing her art form for over 40 years. With an extensive background in many traditional and modern music and dance techniques, she has always held a special interest in experimental performance and free improvisation. She has also studied and practiced many bodywork, energy work and spiritual healing modalities, always incorporating these with her performance work. Jill lived in Sitka, Alaska for 6 years, where she was honored to provide musical accompaniment for Tlingit storyteller/shamans.

Richard Curtis has developed extended vocal techniques drawing on a range of influences such as jazz, sound art, Dada sound poetry, experimental improv music, Foley sound effects, environmental sounds and ethnopoetics. He has studied traditional vocal techniques with the Zulu and Maasai people in Africa. He has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute.