"Jeph Jerman is a musician who began his musical career drumming and playing in bar bands. In the 1980s, he became aware of other sonic possibilities for his drum kit and started learning to improvise and record his own music. During this time Jerman was a frequent collaborator with other musicians who were also exploring improvisational techniques. In the mid-1980s, Jerman founded a cassette label for the distribution of music by himself and friends. The label released over 50 cassettes, several LPs, and a short-lived magazine.

After relocating from Colorado to Seattle, Jerman continued playing with local groups of improvisers and began giving solo performances where he improvised with mostly natural found objects, a practice he continues today. He founded the first animist orchestra dedicated to making larger scale works using natural object play. In 1999, Jerman moved to Cottonwood, AZ. He continues to investigate sound and recording in many forms including field recordings, the building of crude sound making devices, and the effects of age and other damage to analog tape. Jerman's 2014 Grants to Artists award funded recording and touring with Tim Barnes. Jerman continues to collaborate with Dave Knott in a band collectively known as The Yes, Well, and with Tim Barnes, with whom collaborated on an FCA-supported record released in 2015 (Erstwhile Records.) Other CDs and works are available on Anomalous Records, Semperflorens, and Trait Media Works."

"Carl Lierman is a Seattle based visual artist and sound composer currently obsessed by analog electronics and organic instruments. His work has been heard in Iancu Dumitrescu's 1st Annual Computer Music Festival in Bucharest, the Center on Contemporary Art's "People Doing Strange Things With Electricity Too", and in performance with the Animist Ochestra and Keith Rowe."

"Dave Knott (aka Vague Johnson) is a performer of Solo and group electro and/or acoustic improvisation & composition using natural & artificial materials, original instruments (including but not limited to stringboards) and guitar with such groups as Animist Orchestra, Greasy, No Clocks No Clues, Anomalous Records Thursday Nights above the Artificial Limb Company, Messenger Girls Trio, Ready Made Ensemble, Metaphonic Orchestra, and inscrutable-d.

Dave has particular interests in timbre, listening practice, the tension between utility and aesthetics of music & forms yielded from explorations of instability.Dave provides music therapy services to infants, children and teens at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center and to adults with life threatening illnesses and injuries at the Bailey-Boushay House in Seattle. He has been a member of groups Animist Orchestra, Eye Music, Greasy, Messenger Girls Trio, Omake & Johnson, Warsaw (1921) "

Esther Sugai plays flute, among other instruments, and currently lives in Seattle. She was formerly assistant to Vladimir Ussachevsky. She is a member of groups Aono Jikken Ensemble, Eye Music.