"Ryan Seward is a musician, composer, and artist living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His work is situated within and across a number of forms, including composition, improvisation, installation, performance, phonography, photography, sculpture, and videography.

Ryan's work has most recently been performed by TAK ensemble, Filament, and Sam Wells, and presented at CO-OPt Research + Projects (Lubbock, Texas); Blo Back Gallery (Pueblo, Colorado); Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany); Washington Street Art Center (Somerville, Massachusetts) for co-incidence festival 2020; Die Station (Neufelden, Austria); California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California) for The Dog Star Orchestra 15; and Casper College (Casper, Wyoming) for the Second Annual New Music Day. His recordings have been released by Editions Glomar, emic rite, Marginal Frequency, and Sawyer Editions.

He has previously collaborated with Gabriela Areal, Nat Baldwin, Jaap Blonk, Eugene Chadbourne, Tashi Dorji, Sandy Ewen, Douglas Farrand, Simon Labbé, Llano Estacado Monad Band, Bob Marsh, Cecyl Ruehlen, Daniel Ryan, Bret Sexton, Susan Wolf, Ben Wright, and Jack Wright, among others; and currently collaborates with Kory Reeder and Andrew Weathers. He has also commissioned and premiered the work of composers Eva-Maria Houben and Alexis Porfiriadis.

Ryan holds the MA in Music from Wesleyan University, where he studied experimental music and composition with Ron Kuivila, Paula Matthusen, and Neely Bruce. He has also been mentored informally by composers Antoine Beuger, Michael Pisaro-Liu, and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé."

"Andrew Weathers (b.1988) is a composer and improviser originally from Chapel Hill, NC and currently based in Littlefield, TX. His work engages with notions of place, tradition, repetition, and spirit, splitting the difference between folk music and Land Art. Weathers studied composition at UNC-Greensboro and electronic music at Mills College in Oakland, CA.

A consistent presence in the underground music scene over the past decade, Weathers' work covers a wide spectrum from solo acoustic guitar to electronic noise. He also performs and records regularly with Tender Crust, Wind Tide, Satin Spar, Tamarisk, Llano Estacado Monad Band, Tethers and Real Life Rock & Roll Band. Weathers also produces recordings for the Full Spectrum, Other Minds, and Rural Situationism record labels, curates the Longitudes music series at CO-OPt Research + Projects in Lubbock, TX and works as a freelance mixing and mastering engineer."