David Rothenberg (born 1962) is a composer and environmental philosopher, best known for his musical collaboration with birds, whales and bugs, particularly. Beside that he has performed and recorded on clarinet with Jan Bang, Scanner, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Markus Reuter, Pauline Oliveros, and the Karnataka College of Percussion.

Enrique Salmón is head of the American Indian Studies Program at Cal State University East Bay in Hayward, California. He has been a Scholar in Residence at the Heard Museum and a program officer for the Greater Southwest and Northern Mexico regions for the Christensen Fund.

Philip Samartzis (born 1963, Melbourne) is a sound artist, scholar and curator with a specific interest in the social and environmental conditions informing remote wilderness regions and their communities.

Pablo Sanz is an artist, composer and researcher. His body of work includes site-determined and public art projects, immersive installations, multichannel live performances, exhibitions, releases, and pieces for broadcast and headphone listening.

Alma Sauret, graduated from Grenoble Art School (ESAD-GV) with a Master’s degree, in her plastic explorations, links her instrumental practice to her theoretical researches on music and language.

Dawn Scarfe’swork involves tuning into things. She uses devices such as ‘bivvy broadcasts’ and ‘listening glasses’ to explore fragile connections between people, places and sound.

Janek Schaefer (born 1970 in England to Polish and Canadian parents) is composer, sound artist and musician. While studying architecture at the Royal College of Art [RCA annual prize], he created 'Recorded Delivery' [1995] using a sound activated dictaphone travelling overnight through the Post Office.

Gabi Schaffner works as a trans-disciplinary artist within the realms of radio art, composition and performance. Her artistic practice is determined by the methods of poetic ethnography in connection with fluxus-like mise-en-scènes, radio-making and sound art performances. Much of her work originates from journeys.

Claude Schryer (1959, Ottawa, he/him) believes the arts, in the context of decolonization, can play a much more impactful role in shaping our collective future and has dedicated the rest of his life to this vocation. He is a franco-ontarian sound and media artist and arts administrator of european ancestry.

German sound creator Frank Schulte has played in various international ensembles for improvised and composed sound art. He has published numerous publications on sound carriers and in various radio and television programs. He works with performance artists, dancer, actors and lyricists.

Susan Schuppli is a researcher and artist based in the UK whose work examines material evidence from war and conflict to environmental disasters and climate change. Current work is focused on learning from ice and the politics of cold. Creative projects have been exhibited throughout Europe, Asia, Canada, and the US.

Hillel Schwartz is a cultural historian, poet, and translator currently writing on notions and experiences of “emergency” since 1760. As an historian, he is best known for Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang, and Beyond (Zone, 2011, 2016) and The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles (Zone, 1996, 2014).

Tony Schwartz (1923-2008) was an American sound ingineer, radio and televisiton director and educator. He created more than 20,000 radio and television spots for products, political candidates and non-profit public interest groups.

Robertina Šebjanič (Slovenia) is an artist whose work explores the biological, chemical, (geo)political and cultural realities of aquatic environments and the impact of humanity on other organisms. Her projects call for the development of empathetic strategies aimed at recognising the rights of other (non-human) enteties.

Carsten Seiffarth (Born 1963 in Berlin) is a curator and producer in the field of music and sound art.

Tim Shaw is an artist and musician interested in the relationships between site, sound and technology. His practice is concerned with the many ways people listen, specifically how listening environments can be constructed or explored using a diverse range of techniques and technologies.

Paul Howe Shepard, Jr. (1925 - 1996) was an American environmentalist and author best known for introducing the "Pleistocene paradigm" to deep ecology. He lectured and taught biology at Knox College, Smith College, Dartmouth College, and Claremont College in a career that spanned more than 40 years.

Denise Ferreira da Silva (born in 1963 in Brazil) is a philosopher and academic based in Vancouver. Her writing and artistic practice addresses the ethical questions of the global present and targets the metaphysical and onto-epistemological dimensions of modern thought.

Daniela Silvestrin is an independent curator, cultural researcher, and organiser-facilitator with a background in law, history of art, and curatorial studies. Her research is situated at the intersection between digital media, critical theory and speculative art.

Dallas Simpson is UK based trained as a scientist, but has spent the last ten years involved with recording and performing binaural soundworks.

Peter Sinclair is a sound artist and researcher in audio art. He began his career as an artist building musical machines that he presented in exhibitions and on stage, either solo or in collaboration with other musicians.

Henryk Skolimowski (1930 – 2018) was a Polish philosopher, known as a founder of eco-philosophy. Since the seventies of the 20th century, when he proclaimed his eco-philosophical manifesto, ecophilosophy has been developed in one of the mostly drawing attention philosophical field.

Rasa Smite is an artist, network researcher and cultural innovator, working with science and emerging technologies since 90s. She is founding director of RIXC Center for New Media Culture in Riga, curator of its annual festivals, and a chief-editor of Acoustic Space – peer-reviewed publication series.

Grant Smith is a British artist and writer working on sound, transmission, text, domestic and social projects in Loughborough Junction, South London. Smith co-founded the Soundcamp cooperative with Kirsty Collander-Brown and Maria Papadomanolaki in 2013 soundtent.org.

Karolina Sobecka is an artist and researcher whose work is centered on the relationship between environmental concerns and science and technology development. Her current projects explore the histories of ecology and their legacies in the contemporary formulations of carbon governance.

Sonambiente was a sound art festival held twice in Berlin (9 August - 8 September 1996), (1 June - 16 July 2006) and in 2021. The 1996 edition was part of the Academy of Arts' tricentennial celebration and presented the most comprehensive survey to date of contemporary international sound art.

The Journal of Sonic Studies. The main purpose of Murray Schafer’s work was to study the dynamic interaction between the sonic environment, the socio-cultural milieu, and the individual listener as well as the (conscious and unconscious) effects sound has on human behavior.

The international residency and exchange project Sonotopia – the Sonic Explorers will turn former Bonn prize winners into traveling researchers and sound art ambassadors. To open up the world for one’s self or to open up one’s self to the world – both processes commence with listening.

“Sound & Science: Digital Histories” is an online database for the history of acoustics. It serves as a multimedia resource for historians of science, culture, and technology, along with students and other researchers.

Soundcamp are an arts cooperative based in London, Crete and The Hague, working on transmission ecologies from DIY broadcasting devices to public sound and radio projects.

Carsten Stabenow (born 1972) works as freelance curator, producer, communication designer, and artist at the intersection of artistic production and mediation.

David Stalling (born in Bochum, Germany) has been working as a composer, improviser, sound and installation artist in Ireland since the early 1990s. His works have been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally.

Bernard Stiegler (1952 – 2020) was a French philosopher and a head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also a co-founder of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis (2005), and philosophy school pharmakon.fr at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel (2010).

Dr Joel Stern is a Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in DSC|School - Media & Communication, and a researcher, curator, and artist living in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia.

Akio Suzuki (born 1941 in Pyongyang, North Korea) is musician and soundartist. Since his infamous “Throwing Objects Down a Staircase” event at Nagoya Station in 1963 and the self-study events which followed, where he explored the processes of “projection” and “following” in the natural world, Suzuki has pursued listening as a practice.

Hollis Taylor is a composer and bioacoustic researcher who blurs the lines between human music as classical, jazz, and folk and bioacoustics. Taylor was born in the USA and has been a Sydney resident since 2002. Her PhD from the University of Western Sydney is on the song of the Australian pied butcherbird.

Frédéric Tentelier is visual artist and musician, who creates musical theater and sound installations and composes music using field recordings, Fender Rhodes, organs, banjo, and objects.

Emily Thompson is a historian of technology who studies early twentieth-century America. Her research explores the cultural history of sound, music, noise, and listening, and she focuses on how these phenomena and activities intersect with technologies like the phonograph, motion pictures, and architecture.

Jol Thoms (born Toronto) is an artist and researcher based in London, UK, where he is a lecturer on the MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths University and a faculty member of Critical Ecologies.

Davide Tidoni is an Italian artist and researcher working from the boundaries of physical, perceptual, and affective dimensions of sound. His work addresses questions regarding interactions with acoustic space, intersubjectivity, and impermanence.

Walter Tilgner is a biologist and bioacoustician, born 1934 in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia. In 1945, after the banishment from there the son of a master carpenter was raised on a farm near Hünfeld Germany.

Cheryl Tipp is the British Library’s Curator of Wildlife & Environmental Sounds. With a background in zoology and library services, Cheryl has spent many years looking after the Library’s world - renowned collection of over 250,000 species and habitat recordings.

Viktoria Tkaczyk is full professor in the Department of Musicology and Media Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and co-speaker of the International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities.” She has published widely on the history of early modern and modern aviation, archi

Zoe Todd (she/they) (Red River Métis) is a practice-led artist-researcher who studies the relationships between Indigenous sovereignty and freshwater fish futures in Canada. As a Métis anthropologist and researcher-artist, Dr.

Cobi van Tonder is an interdisciplinary artist who has presented over 40 works worldwide, including concerts and exhibitions in Japan, Korea, USA, Ireland, UK, Germany, South Africa and Greece. Her innovative art/science hybrid projects involve the creation of new technological interfaces or software to enable artistic ideas.

David Toop (born 1949) is a composer/musician, author and curator based in London. Since 1970 he has worked in many fields of sound art, listening practice and music, including improvisation, sound installations and video works, field recordings, pop music production, music for television, theatre and dance.

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (1952) is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Niels Bohr Professor in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Toshiya Tsunoda is a Japanes sound artist (Born in 1964 in Kanagawa, Japan), known for using field recordings and sound collages. He studied oil painting at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he received an MFA.

Banu Çiçek Tülü (Adana/Turkey, 1984) is an artist, researcher and DJ with a background in urban design from South-East Turkey based in Berlin. She develops her ideas and research by using sound as a primary medium and sonic methodologies.

Aino Tytti is a sound recordist, sound artist and composer.

Tetsuya Umeda (born 1980) one of the leading artists working with sound installation and performance. Umeda employs minimal electronic means to produce sound from everyday objects, such as balloons, fans, tin cans and dog whistles, in a transparent process that takes place before the viewers' eyes.

Mario de Vega (born in Mexico City, 1979) is sound and visual artist. His work includes site-specific interventions, sculpture, dramaturgy, publications and psychoacoustic phenomena that frequently push the limits of audio perception.

Aleksandar Vejnovic is an art educator, media ecologist and author. He studied sound and media culture in Darmstadt and Corfu. He teaches Acoustic Ecology, Intercultural Audience Development and Media Philosophy at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

David Velez (born 1973) is a sound artist / composer, born in Bogotá, Colombia. His work with sonic art and experimental music focuses on how the acoustic experience can help expand and rediscover the way in which we experience and understand our tangible and intangible surroundings.

Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and sound artist who transforms incidental atmospheric noises into mesmerizing soundscapes that alter our perception of the surrounding environment.

Salomé Voegelin is a Swiss artist and writer based in London, engaged in listening as a socio-political practice of sound. Her work and writing deal with sound, the world sound makes: its aesthetic, social and political realities that are hidden by the persuasiveness of a visual point of view.

Chris Watson began his sound-inspired quest in Sheffield in 1971 as a founder member of the Dadaist performance group Cabaret Voltaire. Since 1981, he has branched out into other related areas and developed an interest in sound recording techniques and the art of letting sounds be themselves.

Claudia Wegener working under the name "Radio Continental Drift", has been recording sounds across Southern Africa for the past ten years. Claudia was a founding member of the artists’ group Foreign Investment.

Allen S. Weiss is committed to both interdisciplinary research and experimental performance across the media and the author and editor of over forty books.

Eyal Weizman is the founder and director of Forensic Architecture and professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where in 2005 the founded the Centre for Research Architecture.

Simon Whetham has developed a practice of working with sonic activity as a raw material for creation. He uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena.

Louise K Wilson is a visual artist who makes installations, live works, sound works and single channel videos. Processes of research are central to her practice and she frequently involves the participation of individuals from industry, museums, medicine and the scientific community in the making of work.

Jana Winderen is a former marine biologist and an artist who currently lives and works in Norway. Her practice pays particular attention to audio environments and to creatures which are hard for humans to access, both physically and aurally – deep under water, inside ice or in frequency ranges inaudible to the human ear.

Jon Wozencroft was born in Epsom, Surrey in 1958. He developed his sound seminars in the late 1980s as a means of highlighting the potential of sound-related research and practice in art and design education.

Mark Peter Wright is an artist-researcher working at the intersection of sound, ecology and contemporary art. His practice investigates relations of capture and mediation between humans and nonhumans, sites and technologies, observers and subjects.

Aaron Ximm is a San Francisco-based field recordist and sound artist. Since 1998 his Quiet American project has focused on constructing new soundscapes from the intimate recordings he collects while traveling. Ximm's recordings and compositions have appeared in a variety of contexts, including galleries, performances, and on the radio.

Lindsay Young earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Science from the University of Hawai. In 2009, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Hawai where her research focused on the population genetics, at sea foraging ecology, and conservation needs of Laysan Albatross.

Jan Zalasiewicz is Emeritus Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester, having started his career at the British Geological Survey. He is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group, and chairs the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, of the International Commission on Stratigraphy.