Matthew Ariaratnam is an interdisciplinary sound artist, composer, guitarist, and listener based on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations – also known as Vancouver, BC. He creates sensory walks, writes dumbpop and chamber music, and frequently collaborates with choreographers, visual artists, and theatre-makers.

Recent projects and commissions include: kiitos, äiti (Thin Edge New Music Collective), The View From Here (Jillian Peever/Sasha Ivanochko) Plastic Me (Naishi Wang), Body Tuning (Vines Art Festival), Creative Music Series 10 (NOW Society), Take Good Care (as dumbpop), Isolation Commission (Little Chamber Music Society), Altar :=: Source (Music on Main), and How long will these sounds sound? (Artist-in-Residence, North Vancouver Recreation and Culture). He has an MFA from Simon Fraser University and a BMus in Music Composition from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Andromeda Monk is a composer and improviser who plays woodwinds and electronic instruments. In recent years she has played at several festivals including Suoni per il Popolo, Vancouver Jazz Festival, and Active/Passive, often appearing solo and composing unique music for each show. This year she produced the pop LP It's About Time! by Future Star. Currently she is diving deeper into composing with abstract sounds while maintaining her sense of melody and form. She lives on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

Dissecting, interrogating, and experimenting with sound is a core aspect of Anju’s practice as a noise artist, experimental music composer and media artist. Using space, volume and texture as tools, she pushes extreme dynamics to build compositions and immersive sonic experiences.

Anju brings these elements of her artistic practice into her curatorial work - with intentional focus on experimentation and artistic process as primary drivers for presenting works - encouraging artists and audiences to support and prioritize artistic risk in a shared commitment to experimentation.

Anju is Curator and Director of Vancouver Noise Fest (10 editions to date), Co-Curator of Media Arts Committee (MAC)’s sound art residency program since 2011, past Co-Curator of Fake Jazz Wednesdays, and guest curator at select festivals.

‍Anju has presented and performed her work across Canada, in Europe, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and the United States in underground spaces, art centres, and through venues and arts festivals such as Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden; Send + Receive Festival in Winnipeg; Vancouver Jazz Festival; Polygon Gallery; New Forms Festival; Initial Shock Festival; Suoni per il Popolo in Montreal and more.

Sapphire Haze is a composer-performer duo residing on unceded Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm land (Vancouver, Canada). With Cindy Kao on violin and Aysha Dulong on electronics, the duo utilizes sound-to-colour synaesthesia as a compositional tool. They work in a hybridized model, and aim to blur the distinction between acoustic and electronic sound. Sapphire Haze explores how sound can embody lived experiences and can be utilized to express oneself.

As a duo, their work has been presented at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts, Vines Art Festival, Modulus Festival, Gateway Theatre and The Fox Cabaret. Recently, they were the featured artist for Music on Main's 2021/2022 Emerge on Main program, and made their international debut at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival in June 2022. Currently, they are sound designing with rice & beans theatre and devising an original interdisciplinary work with choreographer and dancer Natalia Martineau about where colonial imposition lives in our bodies.