Jessica Catron is a Los Angeles-based cellist devoted to the performance of new music, composition, experimental sound, and improvisation.

Nels Cline is the extraordinarily prolific guitarist of Nels Cline Trio, Geraldine Fibbers, Mike Watt, Thurston Moore duets, Wilco, and many other ensembles and collaborations.

Michael Intriere is a founding member of Fat and Fucked Up, which gained a reputation for performing experimental classical music at punk shows starting in the 1980s.

Jim McAuley has had a long career starting in the 1970s, whose improvisational guitar playing draws from classical, folk, and jazz traditions, fueled by his own inventive instincts.