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TRACK 7 | IAN HELLIWELL | NEW YORK NY | 3 MINUTES
BIOG: IAN HELLIWEL, untrained and self-funded, has been operating from his current HQ in Brighton since 1992, and has produced and developed experimental music, super 8 films, installations, electronic instruments, light-show projections and cinema programmes. During 2000 he assembled Electron Guns, an electroacoustic group and he is currently putting together 'Expo Worlds', a series of programmes on world fairs and expanded cinema.

TRACK 8 | PETER GREEN | RESON | 3 MINS 14 SECONDS
TRACK: Reson is made entirely of acoustic guitar source material and exclusively uses the CDP system for the processing.
TRACK 9 | RODRIGO SIGAL | POSTCARD OF BABEL | 2 MINS 44 SECONDS
TRACK: The piece was created from an old version of Babel for Flute, Tape and Electronics. Sounds from different environments, the city and the jungle were selected to coexist with the flute. It was created at the composer’s private studio in Mexico and in Agon and Tangatamanu Studios in Milan, Italy. The postcard was finished in the Electroacoustic Studios at City University, London.
BIOG: Rodrigo Sigal (Mexico City-1971) Has a BA in composition from the Musical Studies and Research Center (CIEM) in Mexico City, and was part of the composition workshop directed by Prof. Mario Lavista. Since 1991 he has been working as composer, sound and recording engineer in his private studio in Mexico and London, composing for dance, video, radio and T.V., and he was the coordinator of the Computer Music Lab at the CIEM from 1994 until 1998. He has received awards from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), The CIEM, The Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, the ORS in England and the LIEM Studios and The Ministry of Culture in Spain, the 1st. Prize (Cycles, 1999) and an honorary mention (Tolerance, 2000) in the 1999 and 2000 Lugi Russolo Composition Prize. Some of his works are available on CD, and his CD "MANIFIESTO" (CIEM006), has received positive reviews and radio broadcast in Mexico and abroad (www.student.city.ac.uk/~ct627).

TRACK 10 | ENSEMBLE 8 | THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE | 2 MINUTES 38 SECONDS
TRACK: Thousands of People was recorded live as part of a two day development session in Derbyshire in December 1999. The piece is typical of the soundworld of Ensemble 8, live transformations of acoustic sounds coupled with voice, sampled materials and text. The piece was collectively devised and will form a part of the group's material for this year's tour.
BIOG: E8 are a British collective of composers and sound artists. They produce 'sound art' together with words, sounds and textures from different cultures and musical backgrounds. Their music is created collectively through a devising process, and is united by a desire to experiment with different approaches using live electronics, samplers, acoustic instruments, voice and live sound sources. E8 use an eclectic mix of new technology and technological antiquity most of which is concerned with the live treatment, manipulation and the theatre of sound.Theremins (including a new midi theremin), stylophones, thumb pianos, saws, projectors, water, samplers, horn, cello, words and voice interweave and combine to produce some of the most stimulating and imaginative music you are likely to hear. Over the past year the Ensemble has produced work for Gallery Spaces, Festivals, Clubs, Inflatable sites and live events as well as running developmental days, courses and projects for artists wishing to explore new material and directions. A CD created by Ensemble 8 is available on the Sound Art Label - SAVP 106CD (Voiceprint) and more information is available at www.e-8.uk.com. E8 Currently comprise: Duncan Chapman - Samplers, Horn, Radios, Live Electronics, Mini Disc; Isabel Jones - Voice, Ektar, Video; Peter Shelton - Keyboards, Samplers, Voice, Programming; Andrew Williams - Samplers, Theremin, Stylophone, Live Electronics, Circuits, Mini Disc; Ali Bullivent - Voice; Kate Luxmore - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet

TRACK 11 | AMBROSE FIELD | REFRIED BEANS | 3 MINUTES
TRACK: Refried Beans takes you to the great American west, last century. Along the way, we call in on some unfortunate shootings in Tombstone, Arizona. Refried Beans was composed specially for the Sonic Arts Network "Sonic Postcards CD".
BIOG: Ambrose Field is a composer working in Yorkshire, England. His music has gained international acclaim and includes awards from the Ars Electronica (1997,1998) in Linz, The Bourges Festival (1991,2000) and at the ACREQ in Montreal (1994). His work has been commissioned and funded by both commercial and art-supporting bodies (UNESCO, CDP, The British Academy, The National Centre for Popular Music), and has been performed and broadcast in Europe, the USA, Russia, Brazil, and China. Most of Field's pieces are available in surround sound formats. For details: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~aef3/homesite

TRACK 12 | DIEGO GARRO | SIX DREAMING JEWELS | 58 SECONDS
TRACK: The Dreaming Jewels, in Theodore Sturgeon's novel, have the magic power of synthesising and duplicating living beings as by-products of their mysterious vagaries and nightmares. They are material. They are alive. They feel pain and go their own inscrutable way, leaving behind completed men and animals, along with unfinished jobs, maimed cats, blind mutants, freaks that society will always despise. I decided to compose six sketches of tape music (this track is Jewel n.1 'AGATE') while reading this fairytale. I was struck by the sort of 'mysticism of things' which does not need a supernatural creator to transcend reality and explore what lies beyond it. Each object can be a riddle. Every instant can carry an enigma. Each being is a puzzle, for itself and for its fellow beings. And every sound is a conundrum when we sculpt it with our own hands.
BIOG: Diego Garro (d.garro@mus.keele.ac.uk) obtained his BSc in Electronic Engineering from Universita' di Padova (Italy). He collaborated with the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of Padova on computer applications for live-electronics. He studied Electroacoustic Music with Mike Vaughan and Rajmil Fischman at Keele University (UK). He has specialised in the acousmatic media and composes works for digital audio tape which regularly receive international recognition being selected and performed in various festivals and conferences in UK and abroad. Among his recent works, Pangea (1999) is a large scale 'geologically inspired' soundscape which received a 'mention' at Bourges, 1999.