from Retrieving Beirut part 4​/​4, released August 7, 2020
Soundinista Meira Asher's work has been released on Crammed, Sub Rosa and Auditorium. Her visionary early voice based albums from the 1990s were too forward thinking and challenging for the Israeli audiences of the period, but after her departure to Europe they attained cult status.

She Studied Tabla and Dhrupad in Varanasi-India, and traditional drumming, voice and dance of the Ga, Eve and Dagomba people of Ghana, both of which she later taught and performed. She attained a BFA in percussion at California Institute of the Arts (1990). She completed her Masters in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague (2002).

Her areas inc. HR intervention, social documentary, radio art, and the expression/transition of traditional rhythms in/to contemporary music.

Projects inc. Spears into Hooks (album and performance about the Israeli occupation of Palestine 1999), Infantry (album and performance with Guy Harries, about child manipulation and child soldiers 2001), Face_WSLOT (album, book, art installation, and documentary film on female ex-child combatants in Sierra Leone 2004-06), One blanket lost (radioart piece about girls trafficking to Europe 2010), and Myelination 2 (album and performance with Jean-Claude Jones about Multiple Sclerosis and the myelin sheath 2013).

Co-founder of the bodylab art foundation in The Hague (2001-2011).

Lecturer at the Haifa university. Curator-presenter of radioart106.

www.meiraasher.net

Dave Phillips
sound as communication in direct and primal form, a language, a tool of metaphysics, a conscience and a consciousness, vibration. dp re/searches and ponders existences and behaviourisms humanimalistically. works that oppose the omnipresent restriction and reduction of life and living, that activate primordial shared emotions otherwise hidden under the debris of civilisation, inviting rumination, encouraging intervention, endorsing catharsis, liberating, cleansing. therapeutical stimulation is acknowledged.
sonic activism, ritual protest music, humanimalism

dp might touch topics such as environmental sensitisation, sentient perception and awareness, existentialism and existential e/quality, but it’s also how these and related topics interconnect that interests, the hyperconnectivity some call chaos. dp rings in the era of humanimal

methods are audio de/construction, composition, sonic rituals, psycho-acoustics and performance. tools are voice, body, field recordings, electronics, objects, video

dp has been sonically active for 33+ years, has appeared on over 250 releases and has played over 700 concerts in 50+ countries.

www.davephillips.ch/about

Eran Sachs works as composer, improviser, sound-artist and curator in Jerusalem and Jaffa. Originally coming from a classical background, he turned his attention towards Metal and Modern music, and started performing at the age of 14. Alongside musicians such as Tim Hodgkinson, guitarist Stephen O’Malley and percussionist Steve Noble, Sachs is a member of the International Hyperion Ensemble, which revolves around the works of the Romanian composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana Maria Avram. As an improviser Sachs has collaborated with Philip Jeck, Keith Rowe, Christoph Heeman, Oren Ambarchi, Fritz Welch, Tamio Shiriashi & Mico, Daniel Padden, Dylan Nyoukis/Blood Stereo, Adam Bohman, Usurper, Mattin, C. Spencer Yeh, Thomas Koener, Arnaud Riviere, Valerio Tricolli, Sophie Angel, Marc Behrens, Achim Wollscheid, Damon Smith, Birgit Ulher, Robert Piotrowicz, Peter Jacquemyn, @c, Eric Boros, Eyal Maoz and many others, mainly playing his self-developed system, the No-Input-Mixer, which he has been playing since 1998. He plays this machine regularly in the Doom-Dub-Noise outfits Cadaver Eyes (whose previous album was recorded on the Brian Turner Show @ WFMU), Special Olympics and Lietterschpich (whose debut album was labeled “Noise album of the Year” by Aquarius Records in SF). One of Cadaver Eyes' tracks has been released recently on a compilation by WMFU alongside such artists as Mudhoney, Circle, Half Japanese, The Ex, Steve Mackay and others. He also takes place regularly in John Zorn's "Cobra" improvising ensemble in Israel.

Sachs holds an MFA from Bard College, NY, where his teachers included David Behrman, Richard Teitelbaum, Maryanne Amacher, Anthony Coleman, Bob Bielecki, Amy Silman, Ann Lauterbach, Luca Buvoli, Peter Ablinger and Tony Conrad.

While there he founded a summer festival called THRICE, which ran for three years and featured artists like Bryan Eubanks, Bonnie Jones, Andrew Lampert, Vic Rawlings, Laetitia Sounami, Matana Roberts and many others. He also attended workshops with Alvin Lucier, La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros.

He has presented his works, lectures and compositions in such festivals as Sonic Protest (Paris), Sonorities (Belfast), Transmediale/CTM (Berlin), Festival for Jewish Culture (Krakow), Theaterformen (Hannover), Musica Genera (Sczeczin) and Skanu Mesz (Riga) as well as spaces and platforms such as Sonic Square, RecycleArt (Brusseles), Podewil, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, O Tannenbaum, M-12 (Berlin), Melkweg (Amsterdam), Issue Project Room, ITP-NYU “guest speaker” program at NYU, Death By Audio (NY), Kulturbunker (Cologne), Muffathalle (Munich), Worm (Rotterdam), Cave 12 (Genève), Café Oto, THE WIRE magazine (London), Upgrade!, Sonic Process, Heara, Israeli Cinemateques (Israel) and many others. His work Studio with sculptor Eytan Ronel was awarded the Excellence Award by the NY International Fringe Festival in 2001. He also has collaborated extensively with sound artist Sebastian Meissner (Klimek, Random INC.), with whom he has released “Into The Void” (on Sub Rosa), a reflection on the old abandoned Jewish quarter Kazimierz in the city of Krakow. His works have been released on Mille Plateaux and Sub-Rosa and, as well as various labels in Israel.

sites.google.com/site/eransachsportfolio/eran-sachs-bio