"Kory Reeder's music is meditative and atmospheric, investigating ideas of objectivity, place, immediacy, situation, and interaction. Kory draws inspiration from the visual arts, nature, astronomy, and history, translating their structural or philosophical elements into musical form.

Kory's music has been performed across North America, Asian, Australia, and Europe and has been featured on the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the New Music gathering, Composer's Circle, SEAMUS, LaTex, The New Music Conflagration's Traveling Tunes // Traveling Sounds, the national BGSU Graduate Student Forum, the Bowling Green New Music Festival, the Electroacoustic Barn Dance, New Music on the Point, Noise Floor, New Music on the Bayou, SCI Conferences, and Klangraum among others. His work for Hecuba was awarded by The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for achievement in Original Composition Music and Sound Effects, he has been an ASCAP Morton Gould Award finalist, recognized by ACSM 116 (Tokyo), Festival Stradella (Italy), and artist-in-residence at Arts, Letter, and Numbers in Averill Park, NY, and the Kimmel, Harding, Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska. Kory has frequently collaborated with theater and dance programs, writing incidental music for productions of Euripides' Hecuba, Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, Dayna DeFilippis 2016 Dance Recital, choreographer Princess Charis Grant, and the BGSU MicrOpera program.

Kory is currently pursuing a PhD. in music composition at the University of North Texas. He is a former student of Antoine Beuger, Anthony Donofrio, Sungi Hong, Mikel Kuehn, Elainie Lillios, and Darleen Cowles Mitchel, and holds a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and a Master of Music in composition from Bowling Green State University."

"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."