"Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a Swedish-born sound artist living and working in Turku, Finland. Ahti works with field recordings and other acoustic sound material combined with synthesizers, feedback and tape treatments, organizing sounds in a loosely associative way. Besides her solo work, she is currently active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner Niko-Matti Ahti and as a member of the Himera artist/organizer collective."

Cristina Abati: "Musician, performer, actress, poetess.

At the age of eleven she approached music, starting to play the viola; she spent his adolescence attending the Art Institute to discover, in 1993, the world of theater. she graduated in 2001 at the DAMS of Bologna, in dramaturgy with Prof. Giuliano Scabia.

In 1998 she founded the Gogmagog Company with other actors and friends ,and stages the following shows: "It is a lie that I am a prisoner-studies for a labyrinth" (1998), "Estribillo" (1999), "Mr. Avantgard Stellar Circus "(2000)," Cani "(2001)," Possibilities "(2003) with the Katzenmacher company of Alfonso Santagata," Felix "(2003)," Have I None "(2007)," Until the murder "(2008) winner of the project" ETI-Nuove Creatività "," Trenta "(2010)," Molière Fragments "with the direction of Virginio Liberti (2010)," The wishing machine "with the direction of Caterina Poggesi (2011), "It would be comical if it were not tragic" directed by Virginio Liberti (2012), "Mappamito" (2013), QUEI2 directed by Marcella Vanzo (2014)

Since 2002 she has undertaken his own independent research path that concerns original writing and the relationship between music and poetry on the scene: in the spring of 2002, she staged "Della Mia Santa Miseria", with the pianist and composer Andrea Allulli. In December of the same year, she published the book "Della Mia Santa Miseria", from the eponymous text of the show, for the City Lights Firenze publishing house. In the spring of 2003, the new work "Dawn and the night-score" made its debut. In 2005, after the meeting with the musician Massimo Fantoni, the show "Eat the moon" was born , and in May 2007 she published the book + cd with the poems and music of the show for the publishing house Zona .

Since 2004 she has dedicated himself to the musical practice of musical improvisation, following workshops-concerts with Scott Rosenberg, Eugenio Sanna, Edoardo Ricci, Jacopo Andreini, Jason Ajemian, Nicolas Collins, Tristan Honsinger, in Tuia Cherici's "Manucinema", with "Neem" Orchestra, " Blutwurst " and "KU" ensemble . Since 2005 she has been a stable part of the ensemble "Laboratorio Fatti Sonori" of the contemporary composer Dario Buccino , working with him on his "HN System", notation system, executive techniques, and compositional techniques, based on the parameterization of physical action, and on experiential contagion. In 2009 she performed the composition of Dario Buccino "The bottom to which to recall the motion of the comb" , for flugelhorn and cellist, who sees her as a cello performer.

In 2008 she worked as a musician and actress for the show "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by the Mannini Dall'Orto company, for a tour in China.

Since 2009 she has collaborated as a performer and musician with the Fosca group , in projects directed by Caterina Poggesi.

In 2012 she collaborates with the poet Carlo Cuppini and the dancer Ramona Caia , for the project "Militanza del fiore"

SHe works with the playwright and poet Giuliano Scabia, in the show "Songs of looking away with a golden child", which debuts in April at the Bolognini Theater of Pistoia.

In 2013 the performance " CONT, a solo..2 " came to life , with the dancer Enrico L'Abbate , making his debut at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (Spain), and replying to the MAP / P Festival in Porto (Portugal).

In 2014 she began a collaboration with the choreographic research group CANI .A new project begins with the dancer Enrico L'Abbate, presenting a first study of the show " DUO ", which will be presented definitively in March at the "Nah Dran" 2015 Ada Studio @ Uferstudios (Berlin)

She is currently working on the project "There are no words" , a solo work that sees her as a composer and performer on viola, cello and voice."

"Marco Baldini (Florence, 1986) graduated in Roman Archeology at the Università degli Studi di Firenze. He studied music and trumpet with Tolmino Marianini, Luca Marianini and with Donato De Sena, at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. He attended workshops with Axel Dörner, Birgit Ulher, Roswell Rudd and Mario Bertoncini. In 2011 he founded Blutwurst with Daniela Fantechi and Edoardo Ricci. Since 2015 he has been collaborating with Tempo Reale on several projects as redactor for musicaelettronica.it and as curator for the series of concerts TRK. He collaborated also with London based artist Alessandra Ferrini for the soundtracks of her essay movies Negotiating Amnesia (2015) and Radio Ghetto Relay (2016)."

Maurizio Costantini is an Italian double bassist, know for the bands Alea Ensemble, Dieci Ensemble, Tre Corde, and Blutwurst.

"Daniela Fantechi (1984) was born in Florence, Italy. She studied Composition at Conservatory Luigi Cherubini of Florence, with Rosario Mirigliano and Paolo Furlani, and, at Kunstuniversität, in Graz, with Beat Furrer, Clemens Gadenstätter and Georg Friedrich Haas. She has attended several masterclasses and summer courses, such as Impuls and Acanthes, headed by Helmut Lachenmann, Beat Furrer, Dieter Amman, Tristan Murail, Daniele Bravi, Toshio Hosokawa, Mark Andre, Stefano Gervasoni, Mauro Lanza. Her compositions have been performed in Italy, Austria, Spain, Portugal, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium. She was in Vienna (January-March 2016) for the Artist-in-Residence Programm, by Kultur Kontakt, Österreich, and in Graz (February- April 2017) for the St.A.I.R, Artist-in-Residence Programm, by Steiermark, Österreich.

She is now a doctoral student at the University of Antwerp, within the docARTES program run by the Orpheus Instituut, in Gent, Belgium. Here she is also working as a Doctoral researcher within the research cluster Music, Thought and Technology .

She graduated with first-class honours in Master of Musicology at the University of Florence in 2009, and she specialized in Pedagogy and Music, for music teaching at the preschool and elementary school, with the course Musica Bambina, in Pisa. After that, she has been working on several projects with children at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa and in many schools in Florence and in Pisa.

In 2010, together with the trumpet player Marco Baldini and the clarinet player Edoardo Ricci, she founded Blutwurst, a collective of musicians, focused on radical improvisation and on the performance of contemporary composers' graphic-scores. Since 2013 the collective began to work on its own projects, composing works entirely dedicated to the electro-acoustic exploration of unisons and drones. Their work Tenebrae has been released as CD by Tempo Reale Collection, in May 2016, and their work Yoğurt has been released as a vinyl by the English label Negative Days, in December 2016 (www.blutwurst.it, soundcloud.com/blutwurst).

From 2015 to 2018 Daniela, with Marco Baldini and Luisa Santacesaria, curated the series of concerts TRK, Tempo Reale (Firenze, Italy). From 2015 she has been an editor for the website www.musicaelettronica.it."

"Michele Lanzini: Graduated in Cello at Conservatorio "L. Cherubini" of Florence with M° Andrea Nannoni, in 2009/2010 also attends a String Quartet annual Masterclass at Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and then orchestrally formed at the "Academy of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino" (2006/2007) and at "Italian Youth Orchestra Academy" (2008/2009). Since 2011 joins the ensemble "Blutwurst". Beside concerts activity he has being teaching cello in many Tuscan music schools including at "Scuola di Musica di Fiesole". In 2015 attends a Master in Music operator for Orchestras and Children's and Youth Choirs at the Department of Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Florence. He is currently Cello professor at High Music School "L.Bianciardi" of Grosseto."

"Edoardo Ricci is a key figure in the underground music panorama in Italy. He's an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, caustic illustrator and irreverent poet.From Avantgarde Jazz to free improvised music, from experimental rock to primitivist cabaret and noise exploration, his career delineates a unique personality in a forty-year long trip in music from the other side of the fence.

In the late sixties he concentrated on reed instruments. Even if he favors alto saxophone and bass clarinet, over the years Ricci developed his own personal technique on many other wind instruments including trombone.In the early seventies, he gained notice for playing in Guido Mazzon's Gruppo Contemporaneo. He became a revelation in the Italian avant-garde jazz scene and soon he became interested in radical improvisation and experimental music.In 1973 together with Francesco Donnini he founded the legendary pataphysical orchestra N.E.E.M. based in Florence. A large ensemble that blends composed and improvised music and theatre in its own idiosyncratic way. The Orchestra recorded one cult album in 1978, Come Eravamo Brutti da Piccini on the Materiali Sonori label and a second one, Lo Jodel del Segafanciullo in 2002 on Burp Publications under the moniker of e-N.E.E.M. Projekt. The group is still active.

In the late seventies and early eighties among the many artists he played with, were Tristan Honsinger and Sean Bergin and with Muzic Circo and Padouk. Also in the late seventies, Ricci started his collaboration with Eugenio Sanna, later documented by two albums on Burp Lo Scorfano Miracolato and Le Sette Premonizioni Ortofrutticole, that were recognized as representing a crucial moment in Italian creative music at that time.Since the nineties his musical path lead him to encounter a number of international figures among which the heterogenous Florence-based collective Burp Enterprise. In 1996, he joined Mat Pogo and WJ Meatball in Jealousy Party and founded Crap with trumpet player Roy Paci and drummer Jacopo Andreini. He also played with freeform heavy rockers Bron Y Aur and in 2001 recorded I Segnali della Ritirata with Eugenio Sanna and Roger Turner.

In 2013 he contributed to two Jealousy Party albums, Mercato Centrale, for Burp, and All Yours on Audition. Currently, he plays with the Florence-based new music collective Blutwurst and with the noise project Athanoi together with Stefano Bartolini. He plays on "Morire Per La Patria" the most recent album by the Milanese avant rock unit Fuzz Orchestra. Live In Pisa, a second album with Eugenio Sanna and Roger Turner is out now for Burp Publications."

Luisa Santacesaria is an Italian harmonium player, known for the bands Tomaga, Blutwurst, and Calibro 35.