Jed Escueta with Roger Lopez (Inconnu Ictu) at Green Papaya Art Projects

Regurgitating Rabbits / Open Sound Lab

Regurgitating Rabbits / OPEN SOUND LAB
JUNE 5 (Friday) & 6 (Saturday), Bar opens 6PM, Session starts 8PM

JUNE 5 / YANDSEN YONG (solo tenor sax), SIEW-WAI KOK (voice improvisation), TENGAL, & REPUBLIC OF PERSTUSTUNGKA

JUNE 6 / REFLEX REACTIONS (YANDSEN YONG & SIEW-WAI KOK), & GANGAN ENSEMBLE

Green Papaya Art Projects and Sabaw Media Art Kitchen welcome Malaysian experimental sound artists Yandsen Yong and Siew-wai Kok in Regurgitating Rabbits, a two-day session of improvised encounters and open sound lab. A collaborative project by Experimental Musicians and Artists Co-operative Malaysia (EMACM) and SABAW Media Art Kitchen, the open sound lab is a platform that encourages cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaborations among contemporary sound, performance and electronic media artists practicing in Asia, Europe and the U.S.



Yandsen Yong is a woodwind musician, he plays the saxophones, clarinet and flute. Yandsen was the veteran lead vocal and band leader of the explosive Malaysian Chinese rock band Moxuan in late 1990s. He then ventured into a new direction in music – free jazz, improvised music and contemporary composition. Yandsen is the woodwind player of Klangmutationen (Malaysia), where the band has released albums through Utech Records (USA) and Dream Sheep (Italy). He has collaborated with artists and musicians such as Kar-Mun Tham, Lee- Kwang Goh, Ronnie Khoo, Aziz Ali, Siew-wai Kok, Chor-Guan Ng, Sow-Yee Au, Donna Miranda, Darren Moore, Brian O’ Reily, Thierry Monnier, punk band Carburetor Dung and many more. Yandsen has played in Notthat Balai Art Festival 2007 (Malaysia), Mosaic Festival Singapore 2008 and Choppa Eclectic Improvised Music Festival 2008 (Singapore). Yandsen is a member of the Experimental Musicians & Artists Cooperative Malaysia (EMACM) and the co-founder of Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur (SiCKL).

Siew-wai Kok is a voice improviser and video artist. She has studied and lived in USA for 7 years. During her stay in the States, she has studied with a few art luminaries such as Pauline Oliveros, Tony Conrad and Peer Bode, who have introduced her to a whole “new world” in the arts. Siew-wai has participated in festivals such as the Iskandar Malaysia Contemporary Art Show 2009, Nyoba Kan Butoh Festival 2008, Choppa Eclectic Improvised Music Festival 2008 (Singapore), Notthatbalai Art Festival 2007, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007, Beyond/In Western New York Biennial 2005 and more. Siew-wai has collaborated with video artists, dancers and musicians, such as Koji Tambata, Sow-Yee Au, Donna Miranda, Lena Ang, Swee-Keong Lee, Chor-Guan Ng, Steve Baczkowski, Patrick Cain, Jax Deluca, Scott Valkwitch and more. She collaborates regularly with members of the Experimental Musicians & Artists Cooperative Malaysia (EMACM) since 2006. Siew-wai is the co-founder of Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur (SiCKL).

Reflex Reactions is an improv duo made up by Yandsen Yong and Siew-wai Kok where Yandsen plays the saxophone, clarinet and flute while Siew Wai does voice improvisation. The duo creates musical conversations through attentive listening and communication with each other. “Create ‘NOW’” is the motto of this duo.

Republic of Perstustungka is an informally organized band composed of Yandsen, Siew-wai and Donna Miranda. The group performed during Notthat Balai Art Festival 2007 (Malaysia), and had gigs at SiCKL in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur also in 2007.

The Gangan Ensemble is loosely composed of improvisers who work on both sound and video formats that was created to explore the intricate and different kinds of interaction and ways of harnessing sound/energy/musicianship alongside moving images. The ever-evolving membership involves a variety of video-performance artists (VJs) and electro-acoustic musicians from the Philippines, Singapore, USA, Germany, Australia, UK, Slovenia, Malaysia, and Indonesia since it's incarnation in 2007. The ensemble has performed in various countries in South East Asia, notably in NCCA's Sinemusikalye in Manila, in Choppa 2008 in Singapore, in the Cellsbutton Media Art Festival in Indonesia, and recently with electro-acoustic composer Chris Brown in Manila. It was founded by media artist Tengal with Tad Ermitano.


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We Exist

May 29, 2009 (Friday)

8:00 p.m. – onwards

Mogwai Cinemateque, Cubao X, Cubao Quezon City, Philippines

Toshiyuki Seido + Lirio Salvador

A video of Seido Toshiyuki and Lirio Salvador

collaborating in a sound art/noise performance at Kaida Gallery

for the ManilaBox exhibit.

Taped by Erick Calilan

Inconnu Ictu live at A Tweekend in the City

E.X.I.S.T.'s Anthology Album

We are pleased to announce that E.X.I.S.T.'s first anthology album is out now. The album is a 3-CD edition which features 8 sound artists namely Blend:er, Nyabinghi, Elemento, Etniktronika, Ugong, Aurora Borealis, Inconnu Ictu and Seido Toshiyuki from Japan who also recorded and produced the album under New Art Laboratory.


Recorded at Studio 23 Dasmariñas Cavite, Philippines on August 23, 2008



for now, you may listen the album HERE!

Etniktronika

Roger & Seido setting up

Raimund & Lirio

Inconnu Ictu's toys

the boys from Etniktronika

Seido as the sound engineer

Seido's stuff

Inconnu Ictu

fragile

Seido

positioning the mics

ths shelter

Lirio Salvador & his Sandata

setting up

om!!!

Lirio Salvador

Raimund of Elemento

moshpit

sound check

seido's set up

the digital recorder

chaos

space

intense

on his efx

on his home-made microphone

lirio collaborating with seido

substitution

PJ Soliven of Nyabinghi

checking emails and friendster

mixer

Cris Garcimo & Seido setting up

making serious silence...

...and more dreamy sounds

...until jonjie fell asleep. the end!

ManilaBox

Celebrating the Philippine-Japan Friendship Month and the Arts & Culture Month offer this unique photography-cum-performance art presentation entitled “ManilaBox”.

“ManilaBox” sets new parameters in an exhibition that combines photography, sound art performance and sound objects all in one unique show.

Photographs chronicles small slots of time in history which serve as testament to the multitude of experiences that shaped and defined Manila, reflecting memories cast in its landscape and culture. It features the contemporary conditions that construct and reconstruct the urban landscape of Manila through subtle views and raw appreciation of Japanese contemporary photographer, Koji Onaka and the diagnostic anthropological link in re-examining the surviving features of urban landscape by Filipino multi-media artist, Noëll EL Farol.

Onaka and EL Farol’s photographic landscape images convey the different sensitivities of the photographers- from the eyes of a foreigner and a resident local artist. Onaka, a full-time photographer with a degree in Photography creates large-scale theatrical panoramic photos. EL Farol, whose studies involve archaeology, reveals the panoply of memories and emotions bringing private moments into being, entitled “Settlement series”. Their works reflects the social, political and cultural environment of the Filipinos in its defining existence.

Collaborating in the exhibition for a live art performance is Seido Toshiyuki, a Tokyo-based sound art performance artist interacting with Filipino contemporary sound experimentalist, Lirio Salvador.

Toshiyuki’s “The Manila Golden Noises Album”, a collection of recorded and manipulated live noises of Manila shall be formally launched during the opening day of the exhibit. Toshiyuki transformed Onaka and EL Farol’s photographs into a template of cards ( about the size of a calling card) with his recorded "sound art" and noises the result, “The Manila Golden Noises Album”, uniquely presented similar as a gift box in a limited edition of 250 boxes.

Extending the concept of sound art and concurrent in this unique show at the Gray Wall of the gallery are objects that emit sounds, complementing the distinguishing importance of sound element. Features are the one-of-the-kind objects produced by contemporary visual artists, namely Ruel Caasi, Noëll EL Farol, Lirio Salvador, Renato Ong, Mervy Pueblo and Chitz Ramirez.


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Koji Onaka -- Born in Fukuoka, Japan is a multi-awarded Tokyo-based Japanese photographer whose photography works are in the Who’s who in the contemporary Japanese photography collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Shanghai Art Museum. Onaka graduated from Tokyo Photographic College, now Tokyo Visual Arts and has published number of photography books, in his list are ‘Seitaka Awadachi-so (published by Sokyu-sha, 1991); ‘Distance, Mole’ ( 1996), Tokyo Candy Box ( Wize Shuppan, 2001), ‘Hysteric Five: Onaka Koji’ (Hysteric Glamour), ‘Slow Boat’ (Sokyu-sha, 2003), ‘In Between Latvia, Spain’ (EU-Japan Fest), ‘Grasshopper’ (Tosei-sha, 2006), ‘Dragonfly’ (Tosei-sha, 2007), ‘The Dog in France’ (Sokyu-sha, 2008), ‘1983. Nohgata: Echoes of Coal and Stee’ (Grafica, 2008), and most recently his works are featured in Asahi Camera Magazine (December 2008).

In 2005, he has held ‘Five Contemporary Japanese Photographers’ exhibition in Yokohama and in Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2007.

In his statement, “We engage with photographs using our own memories. I took these photographs of Manila through the filter of my own memory as a Japanese person. However my memory does not show in them. Captured by the camera as device are simply Manila’s landscapes, familiar to everyone living there. People of Manila seeing the images would surely read them with their own respective memories. Photography allows disparate memories to overlap, sometimes vaguely, sometimes clearly.”

Onaka Koji’s short lived experiences in Manila reveal his brief moments of survey with large-scale theatrical panoramic photos of Manila’s landscape.




Seido Toshiyuki -- Graduated from Tama Art University. Seido has been engaged in live sound art performances and industrial music for more than 20 years now. He has collaborated with number of contemporary musicians, ballet dancers and performance artists producing videos and performing live sound art performances in Japan. Seido recently produced audio CD’s entitled ‘Time Aspect 1 (June 2007), ‘Time Aspect 2’ (September 2007), ‘kkiba003-4 Sound work (New Art Laboratory), ‘kkiba-004’, ‘kkiba-003’, and ‘in1994’. The newest is ‘the Manila Golden Noises Album’, a collection of recorded live noises using the city noises of Manila.

Seido’s performance debut in the Philippines was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila in 1994. In 2006, a ‘piano-noise’ duo sound art performance with Takumi Ohminami was held at LRI Design Plaza, Makati City and at the College of Music of the University of the Philippines in Diliman in 2007.

In his statement, his sound work “are electronically or physically generated sound, sound from musical instruments and everyday sounds juxtaposed together to create another sound” His act of “making noise” started with complete silence, similar in starting a painting using a blank canvas. His sound installation are arranged sounds as if they are particles to be released into the space or environment”.

At present, Toshiyuki is producing a triple set CD’s with Filipino avant-garde musician group called E.X.I.S.T.




Noëll EL Farol -- Born in Pasig City, is a former Mombusho scholar, graduated from the Graduate School of Shizuoka University, Japan in 1991, and Research Fellow of the Association of International Education Japan in 1996. EL Farol is a multi-media art practitioner and a sculptor, whom received various awards and recognitions in photography, mixed media works, multi-media/installation art and sculpture. In 1994, EL Farol co-organized a major exhibition of Japanese contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila followed by another major show entitled “Dripped A-Value” held at Ayala Museum in 1996.

In 1999, EL Farol collaborated with leading Japanese installation artist, Ichi Ikeda in a unique show that combines collection of large scale photographs from Japan, Hongkong and the Philippines held simultaneously at the Cultural Center of the Philippines front lawn and the Little Theatre Lobby entitled ‘Manila Project: Water Ark Harbor’, it combines sculpture-installation, photography-installation and performance art in one big event.

EL Farol has held one-person shows in Japan in 1991, 1996 and in 2005, and participated in major group exhibitions held at Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art in 1990, 1992 and in 1994.
A recipient of artist-in-residency in Seto Ceramics and Glass Art Centre in 2001, he represented Philippines in Aichi Expo held in 2005. In 2006, he was invited as guest speaker in Asia Pacific Forum: Rethinking Asia held in Shizuoka City, Japan with his paper entitled “Art and Globalization” presented in forum with scholars from Japan, England, Russia and China.

A member of KAPI (Kapisan ng mga Arkelojist sa Pilipinas - Association of Archaeologist in the Philippines), EL Farol’s continuing studies and involvement in field archaeology fuses his unique concept in sculpture that uses mainly glass, stone and most recently steel.

EL Farol’s creative photographs were featured in 1994’s The Best of the Philippines book. In ‘ManilaBox’, El Farol’s photography diagnoses the socio-cultural relevance and materiality of the subject.

EL Farol currently teaches in the University of the Philippines-Diliman and served as former Chair of the Department of Studio Arts, College of Fine Arts.


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“ManilaBox” will be viewed at Kaida Art Gallery along Kamuning Road, Quezon City on March 22, 2009 with opening "sound art" performance collaboration by Seido Toshiyuki and Lirio Salvador at 6 PM.

Field Trip: field recordings and soundscapes of corporeal and imagined environements

Media Arts Manila in cooperation with Green Papaya Art Projects presents


FIELD TRIP
field recordings and soundscapes of corporeal and imagined environements


February 25 (Wed) 9 p.m.
Green Papaya Art Projects
41 T.Gener St cor Kamuning Road, Quezon City (near Brahma Kumaris) MAP
FREE ADMISSION


Media Arts Manila
Green Papaya Art Projects




The M.A.M. tour bus stops over at the Green Papaya Art Projects and ushers us through an acoustic safari of feral atmospheric fauna. Featured artists present their original phonographs, creating immersive environments through the manipulation and playback of captured ambient sounds.


autoceremony, Blend:er, Grnd Ctrl, Mark Laccay, Mannet Villariba serves us their own brand of improvised acoustic ecology.


Improvised video by Edsel Abesames and Tad Ermitaño.

This show is supported by Globe.






Edsel Abesames is a video editor / motion graphics person / director / racketeer / guitarist / poser / anime fan /overweight 32 year old / discontent drunkard.

autoceremony a.k.a. Jing Garcia sound artist and award winning music producer. He established the Children of Cathode Ray backed in 1989, one of the early experimental and sound art groups in the country. Produced several music albums for different alternative music artists in the 90s. He is currently the tech editor for The Manila Times and Speed Magazine. He also hosts a tech segment on the late evening news on TV5

BLEND:ER a.k.a. Cris Garcimo is an electronic music creator and a noise enthusiast who lives in Cavite, Philippines. He started experimenting with audio acrobatics and technoid sonic landscapes in 1999. Being included in various album anthologies like Mood Swing Theater Volume 1 (2004) released by Kittenwhip Compilation and S.A.B.A.W. Anthology of Noise, Electronic, and Experimental Music (2004), Blend:er has often collaborated with E.X.I.S.T., SABAW and Electronica Manila artists.

Tad Ermitaño is a media artist, writer and filmmaker. As far as the media art goes, he is interested in algorithmic/procedural editing and composition, new uses for the moving image and have been lately drifting into elementary robotics. His work "Quartet" was exhibited in the recently concluded International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA) in Singapore.

Grnd Ctrl a.k.a Christian Martelino Concepcion, a manila based art director, experimental musician, DJ and event organizer. His breed of work roots from his propensity in the field of music and design. It is his passion for avant-garde films, art, fashion, experimental music and bizarre imagery that led him to create audible pieces as well as to do graphic design work. It wasn’t until implementing his studies of traditional fine arts and his enthusiasm with avant-garde music that began his realization of his ideas, philosophies and visions by combining dissected sound textures with rhythm, to create soundscapes that pierce images inside our minds. His currently an active band member for the ambient/experimental/industrial band "The Slave Drum", busy with his own electro industrial act "Decay Transit" and does solo performances as "Grnd Ctrl". Uses both traditional and non-traditional sound sources with using samplers, synthesizers, transducers, effects and anything he can get his hands on. Has participated in several events from various production outfits and his group called "Circa1849".

Mark Laccay is an award winning Audio Engineer who is the CEO of Sonic Logo Multimedia Inc. and a managing partner of Sweetspot Studios. He has worked as a Sound Designer for various films and is the main audio consultant for the "Dr. Jose Maceda Collection Digitization" Project. As an educator he taught audio classes at DLSU-CSB. He recently returned from the Austrian Academy of Sciences where he acquired a certificate of Audio Tape Restoration and Digital Audio Archiving.

Mannet Villariba is a performance artist, painter, sound artist, visual programmer and designer. He has been active in diverse fields of art and design - including research and development. Yielding the outputs of sounds, images, and light through analyzing and transforming the numerical values gained from various sensors and input devices, he is a visual artist pursuing sensual peculiarity and interaction.

Audiolage

Featuring sound artists:


Aurora Borealis vs. Joee Mejias of Stormy

Blend:er vs. Ugong vs. Mark Zero

Nyabinghi vs. Inconnu Ictu

Etniktronika

Down Boy Down

Elemento



video art by:


Mannet Villariba

&

grnd+ctrl



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February 10, 2009
9:00 PM
Mag:net Cafe Katips, 335 Katipunan Avenue Loyola Heights Quezon City, Philippines


MAP

SABAW Media Art Kitchen Presents: TRANSMISSIONS GANGAN

Sound Performances by:

Chris Brown [computer, live sound engineering, radio transmissions]

Gangan Ensemble:

Tengal [stereo mixers, drums, objects, ipods]

Caliph 8 [turntables, samplers]

Malek Lopez [laptop electronics]

Inconnu Ictu [analogue electronics]

Blums Borres [electric guitar]

Lirio Salvador [self-built electronic synthesizer]

Videos by:

Tad Ermitano

Johanna Poethig

When:

OPEN STUDIO: January 8-9 / 8pm (Green Papaya Art Projects)

CONCERT: January 10 / 9-10pm (Cubao X)

Location:

Green Papaya Art Projects – 41 T. Gener St. corner Kamuning Rd., Quezon City Philippines

Cubao Shoe Expo "Cubao X" – Gen. Romulo St., Araneta Center, Cubao Quezon City Philippines

After the WASAK year-ender, Fete de la Wasaque, (the festival that brought us 2-nights of wall shaking acoustic-meets-digital assault stirring acts), SABAW Media Art Kitchen opens this year with a very unique 1-hour "digital fireworks" display of live video art, live electronic music and live radio transmissions!

SABAW is pleased to welcome California-based composer, pianist, electronic musician, instrument-builder, CHRIS BROWN, who creates music for acoustic instruments with interactive electronics, for computer networks, and for improvising ensembles. He will be performing his Transmissions series in collaboration with media artist Tengal and the electronic sound-video performance collective, The Gangan Ensemble.

The "Transmissions" series is an audience interactive, live electronic music performance series about the transmission of culture through the information media of sound and radio. It redefines the relationship of performers and audience to the radio medium, opening audio spaces to unheard voices in diverse communities by emphasizing the ability of both to create both the content and the means of production of radio communication. For this performance, radios in automobiles are primarily going to be used since it provides a more familiar experience and is easily accessible today.

Using the outdoor parking space of Cubao X, Chris Brown and The Gangan Ensemble produce live electronic music, while video artist Tad Ermitano performs live video manipulation alongside the electro-magnetic sound tapestry. We are also pleased to feature the video works of California-based visual artist, Johanna Poethig. The live music is mixed into a stereo channel, which is sent to a low-power FM radio transmitter, assigned to a unique frequency where people in the performance space can tune in.

The audience is encouraged to bring their own cars and park them along the parking strip of Cubao X and turn up their radios to create an expansive sound tapestry. Apart from car radios, they are also encouraged to bring portable radio receivers, especially battery powered boom-boxes, mobile phone radios, and to tune in to the transmission channels while moving around the performance space. The audience is thus made a creative partner in the performance of the music, and the event becomes an interaction between the musicians, audience, and the sounds presented in the transmissions.

Think: Drive-in cinema. The audience can watch the live video projection and performers by either sitting inside or staying outside their cars while listening to the music coming from their car stereos.

According to Brown, "personal radios are electronic musical instruments that we all know how to play: we adjust their loudness and tone-quality to our taste and we move them around in our environments to accompany us in our lives."

ALSO: Before the concert performance in Cubao X on JANUARY 10, there will be two-nights of OPEN STUDIO SESSIONS with Chris Brown and the Gangan Ensemble at Green Papaya Art Projects on JANUARY 8 and 9. The OPEN STUDIO SESSIONS invites the public to be part of the creative process as the methods of the performance of composition and electronic music and the radio transmissions shall be discussed, and where they can also interact with the artists. This will benefit people who are particularly interested in various issues in composition, improvisation, and performing electronic music in general.

THIS IS A FREE EVENT. REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR CARS AND PORTABLE FM RADIOS! THE MORE RADIOS THE BETTER AND BIGGER THE SOUND TAPESTRY!
These events are presented by SABAW Media Art Kitchen in cooperation with Green Papaya Art Projects, Mogwai Cinema Club, and Cubao Shoe Expo.

BIOGRAPHIES:

Chris Brown, composer, pianist, and electronic musician, creates music for acoustic instruments with interactive electronics, for computer networks, and for improvising ensembles. Recent recordings of his music include "Boundary Layer", a 3-CD box set of new and old computer network music by The Hub, on Tzadik, "Cutter Heads ", duets with Fred Frith on Intakt, "Talking Drum", binaural recordings of interactive installations interleaved with environmental soundscapes on Sonore; and "Lava", for brass percussion and electronics on Tzadik. He is also known for his recorded performances of music by Henry Cowell, Luc Ferrari, Jose Maceda, David Rosenboom, Larry Ochs, Wadada Leo Smith, and John Zorn. He has also performed and recorded extensively with The Hub, Anthony Braxton, Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Rova Saxophon Quartet, Ikue Mori, Alvin Curran, William Winant, Glenn Spearman Double Trio, among others. In 2005 he created TeleSon, a composition for two ReacTable instruments performed in a joint concert between Ars Electronic in Linz, Austria and the International Computer Music Conference in Barcelona, Spain. He teaches electronic music and composition at Mills College in Oakland, where he is Co-Director of the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM).

Tengal is a Manila-based interdisciplinary media artist, composer-musician, and filmmaker working with various mediums. He curates and organizes, as well as participates in various media art shows in the Philippines and abroad. His work puts the focus on direct experience, risk-taking and personal interaction between artists and audience, and emphasizes the situational potential of live performance, the interplay of various media – sound and image, in particular – and candid exchange between sub-cultural and academic initiatives. He founded SABAW Media Art Kitchen – a not-for-profit, artist-run initiative and network platform for all kinds of information and communication carried via modern electronic media focused specially in the region of South East Asia.

The Gangan Ensemble is loosely composed of improvisers on both sound and video. Having a mixture of electronic and acoustic musicians, live video performance artists or VJs also participate. The ensemble has had various permutations involving a variety of artists and musicians from the Philippines, Singapore, USA, Germany, Australia, UK, Slovenia, Malaysia, and Indonesia since 2007. The ensemble is flexible, having been composed from fifteen people down to three people; and has performed in various countries in South East Asia, notably in NCCA's Sinemusikalye in Manila and in the Cellsbutton Media Art Festival in Indonesia. It was founded by composer-improviser Tengal with video artist Tad Ermitano.

Caliph 8 is a beat smith, graffiti bomber and soothsayer. A lynch-pin of various groups and ensembles, he's probably the most sought after sound manipulator in the Philippines. His output extends to more than just sniffing aerosol paint and flexing wrists with fat markers–he also creates visuals and projects them while manipulating audio and creates sound collage.

Malek Lopez is a Berkeley-trained virtuoso who is the principal composer for the band Drip, and half of the abrasive electronica duo Rubber Inc, who are responsible for establishing electronica in Manila. He is also a well-noted film composer.

Inconnu ictu a.k.a Roger Llagas Lopez is a post-musician, experimental composer-improviser, multi-instrumentalist, visual art enthusiast who resides in the shoe capital of the Philippines. As a sound constructor he explores his interest by using obsolete electronic gadgets, pedal fx boxes, defective rhythm consoles, found objects, d.i.y microphones and circuit-bent electronics.

Blums Borres guitarist and media artist who experiments with sound, video, and animation. Formerly a technical director at Toei Animation Philippines, he has a BA in Multimedia Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His work has been featured at the Australian Center Moving Images (ACMI), and in cinemas and television in Japan.

Lirio Salvador is a multi-media experimental artist and is probably the most influential and astonishing homemade circuit-benders and instrument builders in the country. He established the E.X.I.S.T. sound art collective back in 2002. He creates his assemblage of musical instruments using day to day materials that are found in his present environment, including bicycle gears, drain cleaning springs and stainless steel tubes.

Tad Ermitano is a media artist, writer and filmmaker. As far as the media art goes, he is interested in algorithmic/procedural editing and composition, new uses for the moving image and have been lately drifting into elementary robotics. His work "Quartet" was exhibited in the recently concluded International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA) in Singapore.

Johanna Poethig is a visual, public and performance artist who has exhibited internationally and has been actively creating public art works, murals, paintings, sculpture and multimedia installations for over 20 years. She has worked in collaboration with other artists, architects, urban planners, design teams, arts commissions, specific communities and cultural groups. Poethig's public art works intervene in the urban landscape, in neighborhoods, on freeways, in parks, hospitals, schools, homeless shelters, cultural centers, advertising venues and public buildings. She has received numerous commissions and awards for this work. Her paintings, sculpture and installations reflect her interest in satire, symbol, human nature, society and our consumerist culture. She has produced and participated in performance events that mix feminism, global politics, costume, props, cabaret, experimental music and video.