BIOS

Li Alin

SHORT BIO
Montreal-based singer/songwriter Li Alin has an eclectic background, to say the least: along with being an accomplished visual artist who designs the artwork for her own releases, Alin has also built mobile robotic sculptures and also created "virtual sperm banks" on the Internet. Her music also deals with the themes of reproduction, technology, and science fiction (as well as heartache, lust, and loneliness), but instead of expressing these ideas with strictly electronic music, Alin's work spans brooding, piano-driven torch songs to industrial-leaning dance music and synth-pop.

Naut Humon

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HUMON and his associates created THE COMPOUND, assembling a recording studio and collective space in their San Francisco warehouse. Here RHYTHM & NOISE was born, releasing several albums and touring North America during the 1980s. As noted in REsearch magazine, R&N ushered in the "rumblings, grit, and grime of the genre soon dubbed 'industrial.' For the remainder of the '80s, Humon and his cohorts remained active in the Bay Area, aligned thematically with fellow deconstructivists Survival Research Laboratories and staging their pyrotechnic cyberorchestras on bills with the Residents, Public Image Ltd and Einsturzende Neubauten." Pioneering industrialized and ambient electro-acoustic spectacle, RHYTHM & NOISE initiated development of RECOMBINANT's core elements. By the 1990s, the group had established itself as a singular underground presence that had evolved beyond the "band" concept to become an international orchestral network supported by its own independent record label, ASPHODEL.

Scott Arford

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Scott Arford is one of the leading figures of new media arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has produced numerous works for sound and video including multichannel installations, live performances, CD and DVD projects. He was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica. Arford has shown his in numerous venues including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Dissonanze 7 in Rome, Italy; LUFF Festival in Lausanne, Switzerland; Observatori Festival in Valencia, Spain; the Sounding Festivals in Guangzhou, China and Taipei, Taiwan; the LEM festival in Barcelona, Spain; Liquid Architecture in Melbourne, Australia; the Festival de Video/Arte/Eolectronica in Lima, Peru; Sonic Light in Amsterdam; and the Center for Contemporary Arts in Kitakyushu, Japan.