"Ilia Belorukov is a musician from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He works in the directions of improvised, noise and electroacoustic music. He's a member of different projects with local and foreign musicians. He collaborates with artists who work in other musical directions (from hardcore and metal to academic contemporary music); with dancers and painters; with theater. Ilia practices an experimental approach of sound extraction on alto saxophone with objects, uses electronics and other instruments. Also he is a founder of Intonema label (www.intonema.org) and one of curators of Spina!rec label (www.spinarec.bandcamp.com). Organizer of events in Russia, co-organizer of the SpinaFest and Teni Zvuka festivals in Saint-Petersburg. He writes reviews for his own blog on Syg.ma, was reviewer of Contemporary Music, Music & Time, Topot and GEZeta journals.

Ilia had played with such musicians as Keith Rowe, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, David Stackenas, Radu Malfatti, Lucio Capece, Jason Kahn, Birgit Ulher, Ignaz Schick, Jonas Kocher, Gaudenz Badrutt, Stefan Thut, Arturas Bumsteinas, Thomas Buckner, Bryan Eubanks, Jack Wright, Andrew Drury, Andrey Popovskiy, Alexei Borisov, Kurt Liedwart and many others. Released his works on labels Copy For Your Records, Ilse, Cabin Floor Esoterica (USA), Hideous Replica (UK), Creative Sources (Portugal), QuasiPop (Ukraine), 1000fussler (Germany), Mikroton, Intonema, Spina!Rec (Russia) and many others.

He participated in various festivals: SKIF, Teni Zvuka, Aposition, ReMusik (Saint-Petersburg); Noise & Fury, Long Arms, Tilde 2 (Moscow); Budapest Spring Festival (Budapest); Gogolfest (Kiev); Jauna Muzika (Vilnius & Klaipeda); Angelica (Bologna); Baba Fest (Rome); Altera Festival (Naples); Jazz Bez (Lvov); John Cage Year (Lublin); Theses (Kemerovo); Helsinki City Festival, Chance Meeting (Helsinki) etc."

Alex Riva is a Zurich-based improviser and experimental musician whose work dissolves conventional boundaries between timbre, technique, and genre. A predominantly self-taught performer, Riva focuses on recorders of various sizes and other wind instruments, exploring their full sonic potential through extended techniques, micro-sonic textures, and spontaneous interaction with sound and space. His music ranges from solo performances and intimate duos to collaborative projects involving electronic, electroacoustic, and multi-instrumental improvisers.

Since at least 2008 Riva has been active on the European free and underground improvised music scene, performing, recording, and touring with a broad network of creative musicians, dancers, and filmmakers. He has appeared in ensembles such as Kilirlumb (with Dominik Blum and Marc Kilchenmann), the duo with bassist Lukas Müller, and Vava Maudit (with Gabriel Valtchev), as well as in various trio and collective settings.

Riva's recorded work reflects his adventurous sonic curiosity: releases range from field-inspired solo explorations like Varanasi recordings I to collaborative projects issued on labels including WideEarRecords and Scatterarchive. His performances frequently emphasize deep listening, acoustic nuance, and cross-pollination between improvised music, noise, and experimental sound art.

As an active figure in Zurich's vibrant improvised music community, Riva continues to develop new projects and collaborations that foreground the recorder and other wind sources as vehicles for abstract expression and sonic discovery.