"Federico was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1978. He studied politics and piano performance at the Universidad de Costa Rica and music at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He studied composition with Louis Andriessen, Richard Ayres, Gilius van Bergeijk and Martijn Padding at the Royal Conservatoire, The Netherlands. He also attended a one-year course at the Institute of Sonology, studying human-computer interaction, digital signal processing and algorithmic composition. He holds a PhD from Brunel University, London, UK, where he studied with Richard Barrett and Christopher Fox. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Music Technology at The University of York.

Federico's work has been presented, performed and broadcast worldwide and featured at leading music and art festivals. He has written instrumental, vocal and mixed media compositions for ensembles and soloists including Ensemble MAE, Ensemble Klang, Sarah Nicolls, RIAM Percussion Ensemble, Roentgen Connection, Royal Ensemble and Singers, Python Saxophone Quartet and Piano Circus.

He is active as a live electronics performer often collaborating with Adam de la Cour, Neil Luck, Loré Lixenberg, Mark Knoop, Mowgli, Perro-chimp, Fiona Bevan, Steve Potter and Matthew Lee Knowles. As a laptop improviser he has performed with improvisers such as John Edwards, Steve Noble, Mark Sanders, London Improvisers Orchestra, Tony Marsh, Alekander Kolkowski, Ingrid Laubrock, Alexander Hawkins, Dominic Lash, Roland Ramanan, Javier Carmona, Ricardo Tejero, Mark Hanslip and Rachel Musson.

As a sound artist he has experience with sound and robotic installations, fixed electroacoustic and mixed media works, interactive environments and cross-arts collaborations. He has worked with/for artists including Trisha Donnelly, Rachel Rose, Stelarc, Bruce McLean and San Belinfante.

He is also co-founder of squib-box with Adam de la Cour and Neil Luck. squib-box is artist-led organisation and netlabel that promotes radical music and interdisciplinary performance."

"Tenor saxophonist Mark Hanslip emerged as a key player on the London jazz scene in the mid-2000s, rehearsing, touring and recording with groups such as Outhouse, Nostalgia 77, Jonathan Bratoeff Quartet and TOM-MIX (featuring the late drummer Tony Marsh), working with major figures including Steve Lacy, Kenny Wheeler and Bob Brookmeyer (as a regular member of Hans Koller's large ensembles) and freelancing with pop bands.

Now based in Manchester, he currently plays with HTrio, folk-jazz group Twelves, drummer/composer Johnny Hunter's group, and as part of the north's rich improvised music scene with Andrew Cheetham, Phils Morton and Marks, Stephen Grew and Otto Willberg."

"Born Cambridge, England, in January 1980; played bass guitar since 1994; studied with Hugh Boyd and Pascha Milner and at Basstech (London) with Rob Burns, Terry Gregory and others. Played double bass since 2001; basically self taught, with grateful thanks to Simon H. Fell. First class BA in English Literature from Oxford University (2002). Received MA Composition from Oxford Brookes University in 2003, having studied with Paul Whitty, Ray Lee and others. Received PhD from Brunel University in 2010, having studied the work of Derek Bailey, Helmut Lachenmann and JH Prynne and been supervised by Richard Barrett and John Croft."

"Paul Hession was born in Leeds in 1956. He took up drumming at the age of 15 and since then has played and broadcast in many European & Scandinavian countries as well as Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, USA & Canada. He has played with many of the major figures on the free music scene, such as: Peter Brötzmann, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Sunny Murray, Marshall Allen, Frode Gjerstad, Peter Kowald, Joe McPhee, Borah Bergman, Otomo Yoshihide & his old friends Alan Wilkinson, Simon Fell, Hans Peter Hiby and Mick Beck. Collaborators from a different scene are Squarepusher and dj/producer Paul Woolford. He is known to relish the interaction of collective music-making, but also responds to the challenge of solo performance."