Techno cognoscenti know Alexander Kaline as half of the duo Alka_Rex, one of the jewels of the New York minimal scene. Their live sets mix expertly chiseled sound design, funk, and a dusting of humor in to a potent cocktail which manages to be as fascinating as it is fun.

Kaline's solo work is no less captivating. Freed from the constraints of the dance floor, he produces epic, widescreen, hi-def sonic landscapes which invite the listener to explore to the point of virtual disembodiment.

In addition to his Alka Rex work (with Edward Krilov), Kaline has released solo work as Alka, and, under the names "Nauchists" and "Portable Palace", created critically aclaimed audio installations with multidisciplinary artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand.

US born (New York) RJ Valeo is an electronic music producer, live performer, and event curator. Influenced by microsound, glitch, techno, new wave, idm, and industrial, he produces and releases under a variety of monikers. These monikers include the post-modern digital-futurist dance music of Isomer Transition, the brooding, somber and sometimes challenging experimental sounds of ‘Richard J Valeo’, and the uplifting, meditative and sublimely spiritual melodies of ‘RJ Valeo’.

To our ears, Valeo's sound is rich, dark, deep and satisfying, relying heavily on the inimitable sounds he derives from his enviable collection of vintage analog gear. His work is every bit as much about the physical feeling of sound as it is about compositional structure. We invite you to stop swimming for a moment and allow RJ's dark waters to close over you...

Kirschner's official bio is as follows: Composer Kenneth Kirschner was born in 1970 and lives in New York City; his music is freely available through his website, www.kennethkirschner.com. His work has also been released on CDs from labels such as Sub Rosa, 12k, Sirr, Leerraum, and/OAR and Room40, as well as online through a wide variety of netlabels and other sites.

Adding our own observations to that, we can tell you that he makes exquisite, restrained, delicate, intricate, sometimes challenging, always rewarding compositions. Ken's sense of sound, form, and experimentation leave our ears refreshed, reoriented and reinvigorated.

Jerome Covington (nineteeneightyfour / Bittersweet) and Brian Boyle have been collaborating since 1998. From sparse jazz duets to the post-rock improv of Was Is to the soaring melodies of indie band herMajesty, the common threads are an alert listening state and a sense of fearless exploration. If Not Then began in 2006 when the pair set aside their guitars and picked up their laptops. If their work with herMajesty has been characterized by tight, rehearsed arrangements then If Not Then is nearly the opposite. While preparation plays a part in any If Not Then performance, there is a far greater emphasis on improvisation and experimentation. For Fine Diving 004, they will be presenting a piece that examines the relationship between location and time, with field recordings made at the site of the performance playing a key role.

Bryan Teoh is a composer, instrumentalist, sound designer, and new media artist. With a conservatory background in classical and jazz performance/composition, Bryan has worked in several professional musical and new media environments. His compositions have been used in film, video games, modern dance, art installations/openings, and documentaries. Instrumental performances often employ his 17 years of training on guitar as well as his unique approach to live use of the laptop.

Bryan uses max/msp to create the software for his electronic and electro-acoustic work, and in recent years has fostered an interest in software design for video processing and performance via jitter. He has created live video environments for himself and a variety of video artists which have been used both in theater as well as purely musical venues.

Bryan currently resides in Brooklyn NY where he continues to freelance for various projects and pursue personal ventures in new media.

Skillcrane is Todd Polenburg and Jon Margulies. Todd is an LED-obsessed mad scientist. Jon is a guitar wizard turned ambient guru.

Thomas Hildebrand's work is based in the foundations of musical thinkers who emphasize the sounds of the physical world as fodder for compositions. Influenced by the ideas of Cage and the like as much as the landscape of modern electronic music, he applies his unique sensibility to an approach which individualizes the vision of the artist – an approach which he makes the most of throughout his tangentially connected musical pursuits. Growing up with an opera singer and a big band arranger running the household afforded Thomas a wealth of education to absorb, and this background certainly seeps into his work, though through extremely subtle maneuvers. Using his relative outsider status in the crowded techno scene as a virtue, Hildebrand is slowly forging his own sound, embracing a variety of interests and sources and making them his own through jangling, moody tracks which hang in the balance between proper club music and personal couch listening.

Hildebrand's debut EP will be out on Microcosm Music this winter.

Sawako is a Japanese girl with a laptop who has 2 album releases from
12k and 1 album from Anticipate Recordings. Once through the processor
named Sawako, sounds in everyday life - field recordings, instruments,
voice and electronic sounds - float in space vividly with a digital
yet organic texture.

Nicholas Sauser is one half of the duo Socks and Sandals. Working in a similar vein to that project, Nicholas makes weird and fluctuating minimal techno. With one foot planted firmly in the history of house music, the other is planted gently in a pulsating future filled with skimmering sonic oddities. His recorded works appear on labels like Goosehound, Microcosm and some others.

Beginning with his early tracks under the Version Eternal moniker on Homestyle Cooking imprint, Nick Chacona has continued to make waves with a truly unique and exciting sound.

Though his preferred role is as a producer/DJ Nick has also made a career in the day-to-day operations of the record industry. After graduating from university Nick went to work at the Brooklyn, NY based label Statra Recordings until 2003. He then went on to spend the following 3 years employed at the legendary US distributor Watts Music as a salesperson and buyer, until its tragic demise in the Summer of 2006, and later at another NYC distribution powerhouse, Downtown 161.

In 2003, Nick released his Tour de force in "Band Practice", the B-side to his promo-only "Pool Party" project. At first mediocre sales were quite puzzling but within a year, Band practice was a frequent tune in the sets of DJs from Harvey to Doc Martin to Thomas (Rub & Tug) and whatever stock was left at the distributors was quickly snatched up. In 2006 Band Practice was re-released with a pair of Idjut Boys mixes by San Francisco imprint, Hector Works. Nick went on to release tracks on renowned labels Mood Music, Grayhound, Bearfunk, and most recently 2020 Vision .2007 will see a slew of remixes, follow-ups for the aforementioned labels, and singles for SAW Recordings and Buzzin Fly with friend and accomplice Sasse of Mood Music. In a DJ capacity, Nick is as versatile as you will find. He began DJing over 12 years ago strictly playing reggae but shortly thereafter fell in love with house & disco. He has played across the US from NY to San Francisco, as well as Brazil, Germany, Belgium, Holland, and the UK. He truly understands the fundamental aspect of a party is FUN and it's quite apparent when he's in the booth!

Born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Burchan moved to New York in 1993 to further his educational studies. Music and collecting vinyl have always been a great passion of his which led him to start Djing. He has been playing in new york at various spots since 1999. He and a friend took over Temple Records in 2000 and had the shop until its closing in 2001. Recently he had the oppurtunity to do a remix project for Danny Tenaglia's Space Dance with Antranig as well. His sets could vary from minimal to deep house to house and techno

Chris will be creating a time and light installation. First a recording of the park with a specific optical focus; the sunlight, using mirrors to manipulate its motion and reflections. This recording is then played back in the evening in the incidental spaces found in the park, as a immediate site specific look at time and texture remapped on itself

In his Mofongo project, José Ayala draws upon a wide range of influences and expertise to craft physically compelling, mentally invigorating sonic worlds with razor-sharp conceptual and technical precision.

Ayala is a classically trained guitarist and composer, a native of Puerto Rico, a veteran of Jayuya, one of this country's most outrageous salsa bands, and former student of Boston improv gurus Ran Blake and Joe Maneiri. As Mofongo, he channels these years of intense study of numerous genres in to his live processed guitar work, creating a focused sound which reveals deep musical accomplishment and sensitivity without ever resorting to pastiche or fusion of the various elements of his musical background.

A New York City native, and founder/label manager for the Anticipate and Microcosm labels, Ezekiel Honig concentrates on his idiosyncratic brand of emotively warm electronic-acoustic music. Using the loop as more of a tool than a rule, Honig paints outside the lines, nestling into a comfortable space between techno, house and ambient - using them as reference points from which to stray, rather than as steadfast frameworks. Drawing on the rich history of musique concrete, Honig looks to incorporate a material nature into his music by imbuing it with a host of field recording/found-sound sources in the search for a balance between digital software innovation and the physicality of the world around us. His music is one of contrast and contradiction, combining minimal, abstract tendencies with a core of timeless harmonics - pairing fuzzy chords with clunky and dirty "mishaps."

Colombian-born, New York-based sound artist David Vélez's sonic landscapes, while texture-based, often non-tonal and quite abstract, are comfortably lush and inhabitable. He provides his audience a richly layered, sparklingly complex field of sound to explore which, paraphrasing Brian Eno, rewards both careful and casual listening. An active member of the global experimental music community, and a proponent of free and online distribution models, Vélez has released music on numerous netlabels. His recent DataTransfer2 release was named one of 2007's best recordings by earlabs.org and-oar.org.

Andrés F. Cortés is a Colombian filmmaker/designer based in NYC. He directed TV commercials, short films, music videos and documentaries, working with talents like Cameron Diaz, Rosario Dawson, John Leguizamo, and Zoe Saldana among others. He is currently in development of his first feature film based on the life of Colombian world champion of boxing Antonio Cervantes "kid Pambelé" based on the best selling book by Alberto Salcedo Ramos, under the production of Paraiso pictures and Filmatika. Andrés is currently creative director and co-founder of the advertising agency thevoxcollective.

Polvo marks his second collaboration with sound artist David Velez. You can see their firsts effort at: filmatika.com/fortification commissioned by meat market magazine shown at instigator gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn back in 2006.

Techno cognoscenti know Alexander Kaline as half of the duo Alka_Rex, one of the jewels of the New York minimal scene. Their live sets mix expertly chiseled sound design, funk, and a dusting of humor in to a potent cocktail which manages to be as fascinating as it is fun.

Kaline's solo work is no less captivating. Freed from the constraints of the dance floor, he produces epic, widescreen, hi-def sonic landscapes which invite the listener to explore to the point of virtual disembodiment.

In addition to his Alka Rex work (with Edward Krilov), Kaline has released solo work as Alka, and, under the names "Nauchists" and "Portable Palace", created critically aclaimed audio installations with multidisciplinary artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand.

ben owen is based in brooklyn NY and works with sound, transmission, light, and print.

ben's current work include sound and light installation, weekly internet radio, experimental composition, improvised performance, and score based performance. his sound works grew out of stone litho printmaking where process and destabilization held significance as parallel to itself. engaging indoor and outdoor space's with sound and light were informed from cycles of inking and surface reception, spacial sound fluctuated between existing sound fields, intervened environments, and disregarded ambiances. through the practice of installation and transmission, time becomes transparent and location transient, active, and physical.

ben has presented work at The Kitchen (NYC), The Guggenheim Museum (NYC), Walker Art Center (MN), the Luggage Store (SF,CA), Fotofono (Brooklyn, NY), Kichijoji Museum (Tokyo Japan), free103point9 Wave Farm (NY), Millennium Film Workshop (NYC), the White Box Gallery (NYC), 106BLDG30 (Brooklyn, NY) 6 & B Community Garden (NYC), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY) and Diapason Gallery for Sound and Intermedia (NYC).

he has performed and in some cases recorded with mpld, ea, tiptip, ting ting jahe, Bruce Tovsky, Richard Garet, Takefumi Naoshima, Scott Allison, sawako, civyiu kkliu, Katherine Liberovskaya, radio_ruido, Michelle Nagai, the beige channel, John Hudak, Tommy Birchett, Tianna Kennedy, Abinadi Meza, Andy Graydon, Ian Epps, Shimpei Takeda, Kay Nishikawa, Patrick Mcginley, and Albert Ortega.

he has released audio works on winds measure recordings, unframed recordings, free103point9 dispatch series, Autumn Records, Petite Sono, Throat, Phonography.org, con-v, Frozen Elephants Music, and room40.

A shadowy figure on the northeaster electronic music scene, Leisuremuffin inhabits the space between melodic ambient music and minimal techno. His music is deep, rich, organic, throbbing and sparkling. His ambient sets helped launch the Wolf and Lamb party series back when they were about chilling out, rather than dancing all night. His music impresses us with it's gorgeous sheen, it's generally grooviness, and its ability to take risks while being obviously studied in the music of the day.

Releases on Hawtin's Probe label, TigerBeat6, Orthlong Musork, Soot, live PA's at massive raves in the 90's, composition study and Eastman School of music, contributions to the SuperCollider music programming environment and Ableton Live software, releases on dubstep producer before there was dubstep, world traveller and adventurer. Timeblind promises to ease the event back to its feet with a set of submliminally party-inducing minimalist beats. But he could break his promise and surprise us completely. We don't mind.

Craig Colorusso and Matt Welch, playing guitar and saxophone, respectively, form Quiet Breath, Rusted Hands. Their music is simultaniously minimalist, textural, melodic, gritty, gentle, and gorgeous. Colorusso describes himself as "more artist than musician" and, reflecting this, his approach to sound is more about transforming space than playing notes. Matthew Welch, who records for John Zorn's Tzadik label and equally at home playing traditional bagpipe tunes, composing for orchestra, exploring extended saxophone technique, and collaborating with Balinese gamelan masters. Quiet Hands Rusted Breath showcases the more introspective side of this multifaced performer. Together, Colorusso and Welch create absolutely entrancing waves of swelling texture with a restraint rarely heard in artists of their abilities.

12k/term recording artist Gomberg's alpha-state inducing electronic explorations fascinate as they calm. Slowly shifting patterns and textures, wisps of melody and tonality, benevolently throbbing bass dissonance, and glittering bursts of energy unfold around the listener, lulling but not necessarily pacifying.