a native of Los Angeles and a resident of Berlin, and one of the most distinctive voices on bass in jazz in the last three decades, he has amassed a almost interminable list of musical collaborators, including John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Dave Douglas, but also Lou Reed, Tom Waits and Laurie Anderson, as well as the Rolling Stones. While teaching at the Jazz Institute Berlin, he has also composed for the Lincoln Center Theater, among others, and collaborated on film music for “Ed Wood” and “Fried Green Tomatoes”.

one of Australia’s most creative and adventurous drummers, he has been involved in projects in a diversity of genres, crossing the boundaries between jazz, electronic and improvised music: from The Necks, to the Peril, and through his numerous collaborations with artists such as John Zorn, Tom Cora, Phil Minton, Keiji Haino,The EX, Peter Brotzmann, Roy Chowdury, Clifford Jordan, Han Bennink, Shelley Hirsch, Wayne Horvitz, and many others.

a native of New Zealand but a mainstay of the Sydney jazz scene, as well as indie rock scene. One of the founding members of The Necks, he has collaborated withmany contemporary improvising musicians at both the Australian and European scenes, including Burkhard Beins, Mike Cooper, Tobias Delius, Alessandro Bossetti. He has composed and arranged music for the film “The Tender Hook”, nominated for the “Best Original Music Score” at the AFI awards.

born in Ferrara, Italy, he is one of prodigious products of Italian experimental jazzscene, sharing the stage with the likes of Enrico Rava, Stefano Battaglia, Gianluca Petrella and Greg Cohen. Experimenting with strategies of collective production since 2005, he is a member of the El Gallo Rojo collective. He is currently based in Copenhagen.

a native of Vienna, he has been attempting, since the late 80’s, to render cassette players, vinyls, cd’s and harddisks into instruments. He collaborated with Matts Gustafson and Ken Vandermark, Paul Lovens, Burkhard Stangl, eriM, John Butcherand many others.

one of the most intriguing voices of the Berlin’s jazz and avant-garde scene, he performed and recorded with numerous artists such as Albert Mangelsldorff, Sam Rivers, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Barre Phillips, Aki Takase, Karl Berger and many others.