Phil Zampino is the founder and operator of Squidco, an independent music retail, distribution, and curatorial platform specializing in experimental, improvised, avant, and underground music. He is also a musician himself, leading the long-running project CHANGES TO blind, and integrates his interests in computer technology, literature, and art into his creative life.

Born in West Point, New York (his father was in a military band), Zampino grew up in the upstate New York Syracuse area, later living in Schenectady and then spending many years in Manhattan (Lower Manhattan, then Washington Heights) before relocating to Wilmington, North Carolina near Greenfield Lake.

In that period in New York he immersed himself in a wide range of musical styles, from improvised music and downtown experimental scenes (Zorn, Laswell, "No Safety," etc.) to avant-progressive and global/ethnic forms.

Zampino also has a strong technical side: he was a mainframe systems and database programmers, has long used Apple Macintosh systems, worked as a web contractor and FileMaker database developer, and maintains an active involvement in computing and online systems alongside his musical work.

His photographic practice is another major outlet: he describes his driving motivation as a love of and fascination with the natural world, aiming to capture light, landscapes, wildlife, and ephemeral moments in nature - both as a way to slow down and "refocus scattered senses," and as an aesthetic complement to his musical life.

Levi Erik is an Atlanta, Georgia-based actor, film-maker, performer and improviser known for his work on Bessie (2015) and About Him 2: The Revolution (2017). He is a member of Sunburn Boy, a radical experimental improvising organization in Wilmington, NC.

American abstract sound artist influenced by micro and macro sound. Know for groups Baby Daddy, Caucasians, Ibiza Shock Troops, Kevin Brodenheimer, Nipple Stools, Peer Group &c.

"Grant Stewart is the creative mind behind the name subterrene. He weaves found and synthesized sounds together to realize audible textures, and to delineate soundscapes. Stewart has been creating music since 1997, and has been a member of a number of experimental groups, including Machine Language, Daedal, A Perfect Mirror, The Eschaton Manifest, and most recently The Inference Engine.

Stewart has been deeply influenced by ambient music and noise, in particular the works of artists such as Tim Hecker and Lawrence English. He also draws much of his inspiration from incidental environmental sounds, both natural and human-made."

Modular synthetics in free form evolution, a mysterious and psychedelic blending of tones and rhythms. Authorless is a member of the 910 Noise Collective.

Contrasts of noise exploration and melodic interventions from Mr. Stonecipher, aka Ryan Lewis, employing a variety of approaches to soundwork both attractive and brutal.

"Shadows burn the rain with faces in your lap. Soft shiny numbers of what we have to become. Giant medicine minds give out bags of snakes. There comes a drum on the left window. ...tell them it was Mr. Stonecipher."

Mr. Stonecipher is the solo harsh dream sound project of Ryan Lewis. The project dives deep within Ryan's childhood traumas and serves as an outlet and meditative release for the artist using sound. Stonecipher was his birth name thus being adopted by his grandparents becoming Lewis.