"An artist - researcher, Jan Schacher is active in exploratory, open forms of music and performance. His main focus lies on works that combine technology, performing and gestural interactions, both on stage and in installations. He has been invited to numero us institutions and has presented installations, screenings, and performances in clubs and at festivals such as the Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Singapore Arts Festival, Edinburgh International Fest ival, Sonic Circuits Festival, Washington DC, Ultima Festival, Oslo, Sound Reasons Festival, Delhi, as well as many other venues throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

His central research topics cover performance, embodiment, and awarenes s as well as investigations into listening, motion and gesture in music. He takes a mixed - method approach and develops methodologies that bridge artistic practice and scholarly reflection. In parallel with his artistic work, Jan Schacher holds a doctorate in Arts and is Associate Researcher at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology of the Zurich University of the Arts.

He has been building and hacking electronics since the late 90's and has used Arduino since its appearance in the mid 2000's. He has held numerous workshops and teaches classes about interactive media and electronics. Many of his art projects use Arduino interfaces in some way, such as wearable sensor controller s, inside an instrument or to control elements on stage."

"Pelayo Fernandez Arrizabalaga (born 1949, Laredo, Spain) is a sax and clarinet player and turntables composer. His career started in the 1970s playing in an assortment of Madrid free jazz ensembles. In 1984 he cofounded the experimental rock group Cl—nicos with Markus Breuss, recording a total of five albums and touring throughout Europe.

Arrizabalaga relocated to Switzerland in 1993 where he is guest composer at the electronic music Studio of the Bassel Conservatoire, directed by Thomas Kessler, and frequently performs within the improvised music scene.

Arrizabalaga is also a founding member of the FMOL Trio, an electronic free improvisation group, which takes its name from the FMOL virtual digital instrument, developed in 1997 by Trio member Sergi Jordˆ. He has also reunited with Markus Breuss in the Breuss Arrizabalaga Quintet, a jazz ensemble."