Mark Trayle studied composition with Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and David Rosenboom. His recent works have made use of re-engineered (“hacked”) consumer products and cultural artifacts as interfaces for performances and installations. At sound 10.26.99 Trayle performed “¢apital magneti¢” in which the data encoded on the magnetic stripes of credit cards is treated as a kind of musical DNA. Trayle has collaborated with Wadada Leo Smith, Maryanne Amacher, Perry Hoberman, and as a member of the computer network band The Hub, with Alvin Curran and the Rova Saxophone Quartet.

Damion Romero is a sound artist/sculptor and visual artist from Los Angeles. Romero’s main focus is with “resonant electro-acoustic feedback systems” using audio power amplifiers and a variety of transducers and “feedback regenerators” of his own design.

Clay Chaplin is a composer, improviser, video artist, and audio engineer from Los Angeles who explores the realms of audio-visual improvisation, sound synthesis, field recording, electronics, and computer processing for creative sonic expression.