Pauline Oliveros is one of America's most vital composers. Deep Listening, her lifetime practice, is fundamental to her composing, performing and teaching. During the 1960s John Rockwell named her work as one of the most significant of that decade. In the 70's she represented the U.S. at the World's Fair in Osaka, Japan; during the 80s she was honored with a retrospective at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC; the 1990's began with a letter of distinction from the American Music Center presented at Lincoln Center in New York; and in 2000, the 50th anniversary of her work was celebrated with the commissioning and performance of her Lunar Opera: Deep Listening For_tunes. She serves as Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Darius Milhaud Artist-in-residence at Mills College, Oakland, CA; and president of Deep Listening Institute in Kingston NY.

Tara Rodgers is a musician and writer. Her current projects use scientific and demographic information to render large-scale patterns of living systems in sound. As Analog Tara, she has released music on compilations with Source Records/Germany and the Le Tigre Remix. She also publishes Pinknoises.com, a Web site about women DJs and sound artists, which was nominated Best Music Web Site at the 2003 Webby Awards; and has written about electronic music for Leonardo Music Journal, Organised Sound, and other publications. Tara was recently a Visiting Professor of Sound at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has a BA from Brown University and an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College.

Ernesto Klar is a media and sound artist based in New York City. Klar's works have been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Danspace Project, Roulette Intermedium in New York City, the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (Spain), among others. His awards include grants, fellowships, and commissions from the Cambridge Arts Council, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, the Jerome Foundation/Roulette, and the Illuminating Engineering Society of New York. Klar holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons The New School For Design, and a BM in Composition from Berklee College of Music.