I Putu Arya Deva Suryanegara

I Putu Arya Deva Suryanegara is a composer and musician from Kerobokan, Bali (Indonesia), currently based in Montreal. His work explores the intersection between Balinese gamelan, computer music, and technology-based artistic practices. 

Drawing from a deep knowledge of traditional Balinese gamelan and a strong interest in electroacoustics and sound creation, his recent compositions often combine live gamelan and electronics. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts (Karawitan) at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Denpasar and his master’s degree in Music Composition and Sound Creation at the Université de Montréal. His works have been presented in Indonesia, Canada, the United States, Mexico, and beyond. 

Arya is the founder of Nagi Creative Lab, a collective dedicated to experimental gamelan, and the co-founder of CIRAT, a duo with composer Srayamurtikanti. Together, they are developing the Gong Machine Ensemble project and a multichannel dome speaker system for electroacoustic and contemporary gamelan performances in Bali.

https://aryadevasuryanegara.com/

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https://www.instagram.com/cirat.sound/

Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti

Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti is a composer and musician from Celuk, Sukawati, Gianyar, Bali. Her musical practice explores experimental, theatrical, and site-responsive works grounded in the traditions of Balinese gamelan. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music from ISI Denpasar (2018) and a Master’s degree from ISI Surakarta (2022). Sraya is the artistic director of Sanggar S’mara Murti and CIRAT.

Her works have been presented internationally, including Silversmith, a percussion quartet commissioned by The Third Coast Percussion’s Current Creative Partnership in Chicago, Illinois (2024). Her compositions have also been featured at the Indonesian Composers Week (Jakarta, 2021), Mutual Mentorship for Musicians Festival (New York, 2023), the Society for Ethnomusicology Northern California Chapter (Stanford University, 2023), L’Atelier de gamelan (University of Montreal, 2024), and Gwangju Biennale Festival (South Korea, 2024), among others. She has served as Guest Music Director at Gamelan Sekar Jaya and as Guest Music Teacher at the University of California, Berkeley (2022–2024).

Recently, Sraya has been exploring a compositional approach focused on solo performance within the gamelan tradition.

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https://www.youtube.com/@srayamurtikanti1800

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Navid Navab

Navid Navab is recognized as a media-alchemist and antidisciplinary composer with a background in biomedical sonification. His work moves across investigative arts, media archaeology, and philosophical biology, and is marked by a sculptural engagement with transductive structures of liveliness. Navab’s recent creations orchestrate sensory attunement to dissipative formations and uncanny orders that emerge through machinic encounters with the excitable dynamics of matter.

As a gestural microsound composer-performer, Navab is drawn to the poetics of schizophonia. In performance, he gathers sonic textures in real time and feeds them through self-made, gesture-driven microsound engines—zooming into delicate thresholds where timbre becomes rhythm, rhythm becomes texture, and texture suddenly articulates form.

Maya Kuroki

Maya Kuroki is a Montreal-based musician, performer, and visual artist. She creates at the crossroads of music, poetry, visual art, and theatre, blending them into a surreal and borderless world.

After five years with the Haiyu-za theater company in Tokyo, Maya Kuroki spent two years traveling, before settling in Montreal to fully devote herself to expressing her art in her own way.

Starting with the band Dynamo Coleoptera she has developed a wide range of projects. Recent works include TEKE::TEKE (psychedelic rock band), Tamayuge (experimental electro-pop duo), and Rippleganger (experimental music duo), as well as theatre pieces and improvisations with musicians, dancers, and actors.

Maya continues to passionately connect her unique world of poetry, visual art, music, and drama, with the magic of fantasy surrealism without frontiers.

https://www.instagram.com/mayakuroki/

https://mayakuroki.com/fr/oeuvres.php

https://www.teketekeband.com/

Sam Shalabi

Sam Shalabi is an Egyptian-Canadian composer and improviser living in Montreal, Quebec. Having begun his musical career in punk rock in the late 1970s, his work has evolved into a fusion of experimental Arabic music incorporating traditional Arabic, shaabi, noise, classical, text, free improvisation, electronics, and jazz. He has released 13 solo albums, 6 albums with Shalabi Effect, a free improvisation quartet that bridges Western psychedelic music and Arabic maqam, and 4 albums with Land Of Kush (a 30-member experimental orchestra for which he composes). He has participated in over 60 albums and has toured in Europe, North America, and North Africa. His recent projects include Dwarfs Of East Agouza, a Cairo-based trio with Alan Bishop and Maurice Louca (EEG Coherence), a quartet with Brahja Waldman, Morgan Moore, and Liam O'Neil, and Collateral, a trio with Norm Adams and Tim Crofts. He has also composed music for over 30 films in North America, Europe, and the Middle East (including two Oscar nominees: The Amina Profile and Aramat).

Rainer Wiens

Rainer Wiens is a musician whose originality is unparalleled in the world of contemporary jazz and new music. Originally from Germany, he has lived in Montreal since the mid-1990s, after spending several years in Toronto. Since the beginning of his professional career in the late 1970s, he has developed an innovative style on modified electric guitar and, in recent years, on kalimbas as well. In addition to working on his own artistic projects, he collaborates with several renowned Montreal musicians and is active as both a composer and performer in theatre, dance, and opera. Rainer Wiens’ works are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

During the 1980s, Rainer Wiens toured across Canada and Europe with his jazz ensemble Silk Stockings. A founding member of the group Noma, led by Tom Walsh, he also co-founded the multidisciplinary company Sound Image Theatre in Toronto with Jan Komarek.

Since 1995, he has been active in the contemporary dance scene, composing and performing for Lucie Grégoire Danse in Trajectoire; Sinha Danse in Loha, alongside percussionist Ganesh Anandan; and with choreographer and dancer Mariko Tanabe in Hymn to Life. He is also composer and musician for the play Bossu by Groupe des 33.

Rainer Wiens released a solo CD, Bonunca Dream Music, with Frank Lozano in 1995 on the Nunca label. In 2000, he founded the group Follow Follow, bringing together musicians Jean Derome, Frank Lozano, Thom Gossage, Tommy Babin, and Cordell Henebury. Follow Follow recorded its first album in 2004, titled Follow Follow — Afro Groove, on the Ombu label.

Among other recordings featuring Rainer Wiens are, on the Ambiances magnétiques label. In 2005, he appeared on the 4-CD box set 4CD Montréal Free on the No Free label, which was named “Album of the Week” by the weekly newspaper Ici and features leading Montreal jazz musicians. He also teamed up with Ganesh Anandan for Up North (2005) on the Fingerworks label. Once again on Ambiances magnétiques, he was a guest musician on Petit traité de sagesse pratique (2000) by Diane Labrosse and on Canot camping, expédition 4 (2002) by Jean Derome.