KEITH BERRY
Born 1973, implanted into a normal life together with psyche that was already being filled with the numerous rubbish unnecessary for contemporary life Keith set about, like the birds in Attar's "The Conference of the Birds", in search of a Godhead and a divine unity with sound, space and the never ending pursuit of silence only to find himself back at the same harbour that his ship first set sail from. After immersing himself in the books of Aldous Huxley, Carlos Castaneda, Lao Tzu and Nietzsche, poetry from the great Sufi masters Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz, Jala al-din Rumi and Farid ud-din Attar, the Japanese philosophies of Wabi-Sabi, Zen and the I Ching, a book of oracles containing the whole of human experience through the symbolism of its hexagrams, Keith resurfaced with the aim in becoming technically proficient enough with his macintosh so as able to assimilate these philosophies to sound. Keith's work has been released on such labels as trente oiseaux, Authorized Version and Twenty Hertz. More information on Keith and his work can be found at: www.satori.plus.com

Keith is featured on Crouton No. 28 on his CD, "The Ear That Was Sold To A Fish."

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RICHARD CHARTIER
Richard Chartier (b.1971) minimal sound/installation artist and graphic designer has produced critically acclaimed solo recordings for labels including Trente Oiseaux (Germany), LINE (USA), Meme (Japan), and Fallt (Ireland), as well collaborative works with Nosei Sakata (*0),Taylor Deupree, and Kim Cascone on 12k (USA) and has appeared on numerous international compilations. His minimalist work explores the relationship between sound, silence, focus, and the act of listening. Awarded one of twelve Honorable Mentions in the category of Digital Music by the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica, 2001 (Austria), Chartier's CD S e r i e s, was featured in the Whitney Biennial 2002 exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY). Both his sound and visual works have been exhibited in galleries and artspaces in the United States and abroad including ICC (Tokyo, Japan), Castello di Rivoli (Torino, Italy), the Art Institute of Chicago, Diapason (NY), Fusebox (DC), and The Contemporary Museum (Baltimore). Over the past several years, Chartier has been invited to present/perform his work at noted digital music/culture events in North America, Europe, and Japan including MUTEK (Montreal), Transmediale (Berlin), Lovebytes (Sheffield), Transmissions (Chicago), The Leeds International Film Festival (UK), The Rotterdam International Film Festival (NE) and in conjunction with the sound art exhibit ãFr e q u e n z e n [Hz]ä at the Schirn Kunsthalle (Fr a n k f u r t ) . In 2000, with Taylor Deupree, he founded the recording label LINE as a subdivision of 12k documenting compositional and installation work by international sound artists exploring the aesthetics of contemporary minimalism. More information about Richard's work can be found at www.3particles.com.

Richard Chartier is featured on Crouton No. 24 on his CD "Archival1991."

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RAYMOND DIJKSTRA
Raymond Dijkstra is a self taught composer, musician, painter, drawer and sculptor, born in Sneek, (Netherlands). He works in the field of electro-acoustic music with high emphasis on the word acoustic. He has collaborated a.o with Timo van Luijk (Af Ursin), Keith Connolly (NNCK), Dave Nuss (NNCK). Since 2003 he runs the music label Le Souffleur. More information about Raymond's work can be found at www.le-souffleur.nl.

Raymond Dijkstra is featured on Crouton No. 36 on his LP "Maskenstilleben."

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The Hafler Trio
The Hafler Trio is Andrew M. McKenzie (from Newcastle, England — currently residing in Reykjavík, Iceland) working in the field of psychoacoustics and sonic research. Since 1982, The Hafler Trio has produced a prolific body of work involving art, science, sound, religion, comedy and philosophy — emphasizing a dynamic balance and interplay of 'body' 'mind' and 'spirit' over any one of these. McKenzie has previously worked with members of Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA, Nurse With Wound, Psychic TV, Whitehouse and Zoviet France. Andrew has also collaborated with performance artists John Duncan and Annie Sprinkle, ex-Fluxus artist Willem De Ridder, artist/designer Neville Brody, and sound/poetry artist Z'EV. Recently, The Hafler Trio are concerned with the ramifications of technology and the creation of the most extreme, all inclusive experience as possible, that 'resonates' over a period of time lasting much longer than just the physical time it takes to apprehend it, and affects and engages all levels of being. More information about The Hafler Trio can be found at: www.brainwashed.com/h3o

The Hafler Trio is featured on Crouton No. 16 and Crouton No. 27 (with Willem de Ridder).

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STEVEN HESS
Steven Hess resides in Chicago where he plays drums and percussion currently with Fessenden, Haptic, On, and Pan American.

He can be heard on recordings released by Le Disques du Soleil et de L’Acier (DSA), Crouton Records, Autumn Records, SixGunLover, Longbox Recordings, Carpark Records, Mosz, Tonschacht, Kranky, Audio Dregs, Stasisfield, Utech, Chat Blanc, and Entr'acte.

He has worked and performed with varied and multiple artists both in the United States and abroad, some of whom include: Christian Fennesz, Jon Mueller, Glenn Kotche, Bosco and Jorge, Greg Davis, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Adam Sonderberg, Tony Buck, Keith Berry, Cynthia Dall, Robert Hampson, Millimetrik, Miles Tilmann, and Helge Sten to name a few.

Has performed in the Continental US, Canada, Europe and Japan..

Steven Hess is featured on Crouton No. 17 as part of the Hat Melter quartet, and on Crouton No. 31 with Robert Hampson.

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JARBOE
A primary objective of Jarboe's is to close in on the gap in the audience/performer relationship with a complete submission and vicarious experience through her performance. This is at times done through visceral vocals and music from a variety of cultures and sound vignettes. Her delivery can be at turns innocent, knowing, seductive, & vitriolic - contained in melodic and experimental compositions with a wide range of musicians and artists. A sampling of the eclectic roster of musical collaborators includes: Michael Gira and SWANS, Bill Laswell, Jim Thirlwell (Foetus), Lustmord, PanSonic, Mark Spybey (Dead Voices On Air), Steve Severin (Siouxsie & the Banshees), Larry Seven, Tim Bowness, Chris Connelly, Alan Sparhawk (Low), Neurosis, Merideim (w. Buckethead and Bill Laswell), Edward KaSpel (Legendary Pink Dots), William Faith, David J, (Bauhaus) , David Torn, Paz Lenchantin, Bill Rieflin (Ministry, NIN, KMFDM), Iva Davies (Icehouse)and more. She has worked with visual artists in film
/photography including the more well-known Richard Kern, Beth B, Laura Levine and Wim Van De Hulst.
- from www.thelivingjarboe.com

Jarboe is featured on Crouton No. 7, a collaboration with Telecognac titled "Over."

JASON KAHN
Jason Kahn was originally a percussionist, and later began integrating live electronics into his playing. His solo performances involve laptop, analogue synthesizer or minimal percussionöeither singularly or in combination. Currently residing in ZY®rich, Switzerland, he has performed or recorded with GY®nter MY®ller, Dieb13, Erik M, Voice Crack, Evan Parker, Christian Marclay, Kevin Drumm, Steve Roden, John Hudak, Kim Cascone, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey, Toshimaru Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Taku Sugimoto, Tetuzi Akiyama, Utah Kawasaki, and Koji Asano. From 1994-99, he was a member of American composer Arnold Dreyblattâs group ÇThe Orchestra of Excited Strings,È performing installations, multi-media pieces and concerts. He started the CD label cut in 1996, which has ten releases to date. He has composed music for theater and dance and has performed throughout Europe, North America, Japan, Israel, Turkey, Russia and Australia. More information on his work can be found at http://www.jasonkahn.net.

Jason Kahn is featured on Crouton No. 22, a collaboration with Jon Mueller titled "Papercuts."

JOHN KANNENBERG
Sound and visual artist John Kannenberg (b.1969) received his BFA with a concentration in drawing and painting in 1993, and has been performing and writing music for over fifteen years. In 1999, John began work as a solo sound artist using manipulated field recordings as the foundation for loop-based generative electronic pieces. While his sound works have grown slightly more structured in form, they nonetheless remain freely expressive and chance-based while incorporating applied visual art techniques related to field drawing, minimalism and abstract expressionism in their construction. His major audio and visual works deal with a variety of themes including primal natural forces, spirituality and mindful contemplation, melancholy and nostalgia, and abstracted narrative tales.
John has performed in the United States and the UK and exhibited sound art installations both alone and as part of a collective of sound, visual and interactive designers known as J3. Since April 2002, John has served as the creator, designer and curator of www.stasisfield.com,, an experimental mp3 record label and digital art gallery presenting works in a variety of media by artists from across the globe. More information about John's solo recordings and activities is available at www.johnkannenberg.com.

John Kannenberg is featured on Crouton No. 9, the first installment of the Folktales series.

SCOTT KAWCZYNSKI
Scott Kawczynski has designed, printed, and helped assemble many of the early Crouton releases. He has traveled the world studying and analyzing design and is now based in New York where he works - constantly. His work is not only limited to print, web and interactive projects; he has also contributed 40 photographs to fStop Images (www.fstopimages.com) where he is coupled with other world renowned designers like David Carson and April Greiman, as well as Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. Learn more about Scott at www.i-formationdesign.com (even though it is painfully out of date).

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RETO MÄDER
Reto Mäder works as RM74 at the periphery of electro-acoustic music and noise with a weakness for atonal boxhauling and melancholy melodies. The pieces of Mäder’s zig-zagging studies of aleatoric electro-acoustics includes a broad spectrum of sound sources like piano, organ, guitar, amp, harp, analogue and digital electronics, computer and field recordings. This resulted in solo albums on labels like ‘Domizil’ (CH), ‘dOc’ (AUT/GER), ‘Hinterzimmer’ (CH), a collaboration with RLW aka Ralf Wehowsky and in being a part of the actionist music group OHNE, together with Dave Phillips (Schimpfluch Gruppe, ex-Fear Of God), Tom Smith (To Live And Shave In L.A.) and Daniel Löwenbrück (owner of ‘Tochnit Aleph’-label). Since 2006 Reto Mäder runs together with Roger Ziegler (Member of Herpes Ö DeLuxe) the music label ‘Hinterzimmer’. More info at www.rm74.ch or www.hinterzimmer-records.com .

Reto Mäder is featured on Crouton No. 33, the CD "Pirouetten" with Ralf Wehowsky.

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DON MAHLMEISTER
Don Mahlmeister spent his formative musical years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he was active in the improvised music and rock scene. There he was part of the Soutrane Records family playing guitar and electronics in such projects as Castle Broadway, Mobile Sound Unit, and Tone Andemeter. Don also lent his efforts towards Crouton's own Collections of Colonies of Bees, where he appears on fa.ce (a CD. Since moving back to his hometown of Chicago two years ago, Mahlmeister has immersed himself into the city's vibrant music community, spreading his time equally amongst independent rock based groups and free improvised projects. He is 1/5th of the avant-pop group The Candyland Riots (www.thecandylandriots.com) and plays a supportive role as bass player for the band Architecture. He is also working in an ambient electronic electronic duo called Ma-Chan, with Milwaukeean Rick Kump (www.worldpattern.com). In the realm of improvised music he has collaborated with drummer Matt Griffin from The Unstable Ensemble and is currently working with saxophonist Aram Shelton and percussionist Steve Hess.

Don Mahlmeister is featured on Crouton No. 14, the Collections of Colonies of Bees CD "fa.ce (a."

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LIONEL MARCHETTI
"Lionel Marchetti was born in France in 1967. His interest in music resides in the qualities of sound. He is one of a handful of artists who in the mid-to-late 1990s took electroacoustic music out of academic studios and into the free improvisation ring. A scholar who worked at the CFMI (Lyon) and GRM (Paris) studios and published a book on acousmatic composer Michel Chion, Marchetti developed a set-up of microphones and loudspeakers he uses on stage along with tape recorders, prepared CDs, motors and radios. He often refers to his "instruments" as an "electroacoustic contraption." His live work with Jérôme Noetinger found echoes in the approach of Swiss and Austrian abstractionists like Voice Crack, Günter Müller, and Werner Dafeldecker, but Marchetti is mostly active in France, performing regularly at the club Les Instants Chavirés and at the festival Musique Action. His studio work encompasses sound collage ( ) and academic electroacoustics ( , ), although the level of poetry and refusal of genre boundaries in his music puts him closer to Kristoff K.Roll and Luc Ferrari than Pierre Henry or Bernard Parmegiani." - based on the François Couture penned bio, All Music Guide.

Lionel Marchetti is featured on Crouton No. 29, "RED DUST" 3x3" CD boxset

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JON MUELLER
Jon Mueller has been an active percussionist since studying jazz with the late Hal Russell in the early 90s. Currently, his focus on percussion lies in the elements in between rhythm and tempo, yet often finding those very things within the dynamic collaboration of analog electronics and acoustic percussion. Mueller has recorded and/or performed with Jack Wright and Carol Genetti as NOM TOM, Bhob Rainey, Jim Schoenecker, Asmus Tietchens, Jason Kahn, Martijn Tellinga, Lionel Marchetti, and has worked extensively with guitarist Chris Rosenau and the groups Pele and Collections of Colonies of Bees. He has performed throughout the U.S., The Netherlands, and Japan. As the label owner, Jon Mueller is featured on many of Crouton's releases. More info on his work can be found at: www.jonmueller.net

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BHOB RAINEY
Rainey's saxophone playing eschews standard techniques; in fact, it rarely involves what have become common extended techniques. Yet, his sounds have a peculiar directness, integrated into a music that is at once meditative and disquieting. The saxophone is forgotten as one becomes immersed in pure tones, metallic chords, palpable breath, and always that primal silence, both mesmerizing and volatile. Rainey's music, although entirely acoustic, is in close kinship with electronic music, as evidenced in his collaborations with Gunter Mueller, Lionel Marchetti, Kevin Drumm, Ralf Wehowsky, Jerome Noetinger, and Jason Lescalleet, to name a few. With trumpeter Greg Kelley, he is the cofounder of the unlikely improv supergroup, nmperign, and is also the founder and director of the premier electroacoustic ensemble, the BSC. http://bhobrainey.net

Bhob Rainey is featured on Crouton No. 12, as part of the second installment in the Folktales series.

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HAL RAMMEL
Hal Rammel has been designing and building musical instruments since 1976. As a composer and improviser based in southeastern Wisconsin he performs in the groups Audiotrope (with Steve Nelson-Raney and Thomas Gaudynski), Van's Peppy Syncopators (with Terri Kapsalis and John Corbett), Whole or by the Slice (with Lou Mallozzi), and Raccoons (with Jon Mueller and Chris Rosenau). As an author , visual artist, and photographer, Hal Rammel's work has appeared in the pages of the improvisor, Experimental Musical Instruments, Musical Traditions (England), Rubberneck (England), Salamandra (Spain), Cultural Correspondence, Analogon (Czechoslovakia), Nakna Lappar (Sweden), and Mannen På Gatan (Sweden). In addition to numerous recordings on Penumbra Music, he has released solo and ensemble music on Crouton and E.K.Records. More info on Hal Rammel can be found at his web site:http://www.halrammel.com

Hal Rammel is featured on Crouton No.'s 08 and 12 in the trio Raccoons, No. 9 as part of the first installment in the Folktales series, and on No. 34, his solo recording for ampified palette.

Photo credit: (C) Debra E. Levie

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CHRIS ROSENAU
Normally he doesn't have a beard, although once in the early 1990's he saw the band Melvins in Madison, WI and Joe Preston had a kind of reverse mohawk goatee. . .like a regular goatee except with the middle of the chin shaved so what was on his face was tantamount to two thick hair spikes emerging from either side of his chin. Chris had one of those for a while after seeing that show, but hasn't had much in the way of beards for a while. He might grow one again. If it happens it will definitely be in the winter. You will never see Chris Rosenau with a beard in the summer. Most of the people Chris has toured with didn't have beards. Some did. When on tour, he prefers to sleep on the floor, with a pillow that has the word "mother" written on it in black magic marker. this specific pillow accompanies him on tour regardless of continent, distance, or inconvenience. Chris has played with and recorded all sorts of interesting people regardless of continent, distance, or inconvenience, as well. Some you might have heard of, some probably not. Most, again, didn't have beards either. Some did. Chris thinks Hal Rammel's beard suits Hal very well.

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JIM SCHOENECKER
Jim Schoenecker has released electronic music under the name pressboard for a variety of labels including Zod, Antiopic, and Stassisfield. He has performed in the U.S. and Japan, and is 1/2 of the Topscore label which releases electronic and experimental music and video.
More information on his activity can be found at:http://topscoreusa.com

Jim Schoenecker is featured on Crouton No. 23 with Jon Mueller and Bhob Rainey.

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KEVIN SHEA
Kevin Shea (nyc) drums on: Swirlies Cats of the Wild - Volume Two (for 14 seconds); The Love of Everything FriENDS EP (almost 4 songs); Monitor Recordâs Membranaphonics (solo track); Richmond County Archives Recordâs 30 Minutes On the World Map (as Sexy Thoughts); Tyondai Braxton's Rise Rise Rise; both Storm & Stress records on Touch & Go (as Keebler von BonBon); They Keep Me Smiling compilation and 7" with Coptic Light; and POOPER SCOOPER -- THE DUMP MIXES. BTW: Fall in Love (w/folks from TV On the Radio and Sunburned Hand of the Man), PEOPLE (w/Mary Halvorson), Kesh (w/Daniel Carter, Jeton Ademaj), Micah Gaugh, Naked Crack or Yard Bag, Bisexual Wrestling, Knee-Cole Beth (w/Jeremy Wilms), Heavyosity, Collapsing Relatioonships (w/Ravish Momin), Change & Bits, Angelo Branford Trio (w/Todd Nicholson), 7 Goats, Transnationals (w/Seth Misterka), Animalcules, TALIBAM! (w/Matt Mottel), Sank Minoot (w/Jon Seden), Pez Wilson, Michael Pestel. ãWhoever would obliterate the beginning of my darkness would see silence, the world, and nothingness.ä (P. 35,781)

Kevin Shea is featured on Crouton No. 15, as part of the third installment in the Folktales series.

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ADAM SONDERBERG
adam sonderberg works predominantly with concrete-based compositions utilizing the computer as a discrete processing and assembly tool. his selected discography includes over a dozen releases, both solo and group work, published by a number of different labels including: absurd, BOXmedia, crouton, tonschacht and longbox recordings. co-founder of the dropp ensemble (pronounced 'drope') and civil war. the former consists of an international grouping of musicians and technicians that work together through a combination of mail-based data transfer and live performance. the latter, a chicago-based viola, bassoon, and percussion trio. also a member of haptic; a drone-based, performing entity that utilizes a rotating fourth member to augment the content of each concert.

musical co-operations with numerous folk: jon mueller, brendan walls, eric la casa, joseph mills, carol genetti, tomas korber, katherine young, sam dellaria, boris hauf, tony buck, blah blah blah. since 1993 has operated longbox recordings. publications by francisco lopez, mark wastell, greg davis / steven hess and paul bradley, among many others. more information: www.longboxrecordings.com

Adam Sonderberg is featured on Crouton No. 15, as part of the third installment in the Folktales series.

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ASMUS TIETCHENS
Born 1947. Busy in electronic music and musique concr?te since 1965. First LP release 1980. Since then more than 30 releases. After a brief "pop" period (1980 - 83) I became more + more involved in the industrial movement. From the 90s on I concentrated on abstract noise music. Numerous collabs (David Myers, Achim Wollscheid, Thomas Koener to name a few). Since the late 90s my music is characterized by the use of sine tones and white noise. www.tietchens.de

Asmus Tietchens is featured on Crouton No. 19, his CD "FT+" - a work constructed from each contribution in the Folktales series.

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MATT TURNER
Matt Turner is regarded as one of the world's leading improvising cellists.  Equally adept as a pianist, Turner performs everything from jazz standards and twentieth century new music to alternative rock and improvised avant-garde. Turner completed his undergraduate studies atLawrenceUniversityand his Master of Music degree in Third Stream Studies at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Dave Holland, Geri Allen and Joe Maneri, and where he was the recipient of a Distinction in Performance Award. Turner has performed at several music festivals including the International Cello Festival in Montreal, the New Directions Cello Festival, the Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival, and with CUBE, Present Music, John Butcher, Randy Sabien, and Gerry Hemingway. Turner taught at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music as a lecturer in jazz studies from 1993-1996. He is featured on more than two dozen recordings with such artists as Marilyn Crispell, Joseph Jarman, Jeff Song, Scott Fields, and John Harmon. Future releases feature him with Hal Rammel, Myra Melford, and Francois Houle. Turner appears on Meniscus, Stellar, O.O. Discs, Asian Improv, Rastascan, Geode, Cadence, Music and Arts, Accurate, and other labels. He continues to be active as a performer and clinician. Turner presents numerous improvisation clinics and residencies to both pre-college and college string students each year. Matt Turner is a Yamaha Performing Artist.

Matt Turner is featured on Crouton No. 17 as part of the Hat Melter quartet.

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MATTHEW WALDRON
M.S. Waldron was born in Toronto at the donkey-end of 1969, and began doing graphic work almost immediately (but with limited success for several years). In 1980, he was moved to California; to this day he has still not gotten the hang of it. The first attempts at audio composition were made in 1988, with his ongoing recording project (regrettably named "irr. app. (ext.)") being founded in 1991. 8 records under this name have been completed (but not released) so far. Also in 1991, the first exhibition of visual work, "A Luncheon of Locusts", was presented in Cupertino at The Other Gallery. Between 1995 and 2000 the 'non-performance' series was executed, involving either animals or unsuspecting bystanders as audience members; but it wasn't until March 2003 that the first public irr. app. (ext.) performance managed to take place in Oakland. This was arranged to coincide with the second exhibition of visual work, "Immolating Without Oxygen", presented at Aquarius Records in San Francisco. In the period from 2001 - 2003 several scores for Butoh performances were also created, including "Korper Re" and an early version of "Tasting an Ocean" for Shinichi Momo Koga, and "Innocent Malice" for Barely Human Dance Company. Independent of these endeavours (but not unrelated to them), M.S. Waldron co-founded the Oneiromantic Ambiguity Collective, a writing & performance group active since 1998.

Matthew Waldron is featured on Crouton No. 21 with his work as irr. app. (ext.) on the CD "Dust Pincher Appliances."

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DAN WARBURTON
After studies at Cambridge University and a Harkness Fellowship to pursue a doctorate in Composition at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester NY), Dan Warburton settled in Paris in 1988. In 1992 he was awarded the Lili Boulanger Prize for Composition, and subsequently was commissioned to write for the Composers Ensemble (UK) and the Newt Hinton Ensemble (NL). Since 1997 he has been Editor in Chief of the Paris Transatlantic web magazine (www.paristransatlantic.com), and also writes regularly for The Wire (UK) and Signal To Noise (US). As a performer he has recorded with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Edward Perraud, François Fuchs, Bruno Meillier, Eric La Casa, Nikos Veliotis, Fred Blondy, Martine Altenburger, Jean Sé Mariage, Arthur Doyle and Reynols, for labels including Tzadik, Wergo, Leo, Ayler, Chloe, Absurd, Durtro, SMI and Crouton. He has also performed with John Butcher, Hans Tammen, Radu Malfatti, Kyle Bruckmann, Scott Rosenberg, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey, Tetuzi Akiyama, Daniel Erdmann, Bertrand Gauguet, Bertrand Denzler and Pascal Battus.

Dan Warburton is featured on Crouton No. 15 as part of the third installment of the Folktales series.

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RALF WEHOWSKY
Ralf Wehowsky co-founded the German group P.D./P16.D4 in 1980, and also the arts organization Selektion in 1982. Both outlets addressed sound, film, and literature from anti-mainstream perspectives. Since 1992 he does solo and collaborative work under the moniker rlw. he has worked with Kevin Drumm, Lionel Marchetti, Andrew Chalk, Bruce Russell, Johannes Frisch, Bhob Rainey and many others.
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JASON WIETLISPACH
Jason Wietlispach-born 1970, Evanston Ill. Reeds, bass, synth, electronics, kitchen sink. Played reeds, primarily bass clarinet,  in various improv groups in the Chicago scene in the mid 901s. Moved to Milwaukee in 1997. Started Soutrane Recording Company (www.soutrane.com)and putting out releases under the names of Castle Broadway, Field of Sound, among others. Busy recording, engineering, producing, and playing with experimental, free, and electronic improvisers in Milwaukee and Chicago. Recording influences are Steve Albini, hat Art, ECM, and classic rock. Musical influences are Robert Wyatt, Pink Floyd, Eno, Jimmy Giuffre, Lol Coxhill, John Coltrane and 20th century chamber music.

Jason Wietlispach is featured on Crouton No. 03 as part of the Pianobread release.

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THOMAS WINCEK
Thomas Wincek is a keyboard player by choice, and a computer operator out of necessity. His primary interest lies in the intersection of organic and electronic means of making sound. He has studied sound, sound composition and improvisation with Nicolas Collins, John Corbett and Rob Drinkwater. As the main force behind the experimental electronic dance act “EmotionalJoystick”, he has worked at integrating the tenants of improvisation and sonic exploration into the rubric of contemporary dance music. As a result, he has released music on a variety of independent labels, toured many portions of the United States and Europe, and has had the opportunity to play alongside such acts as Tortoise, Venetian Snares, No Means No, Dillinger Escape Plan, Otto von Shirach, Doormouse, and Eight Frozen Modules.

Thomas Wincek is featured on Crouton No. 30 as part of The Portable Quartet.

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ACHIM WOLLSCHEID
Artist, writer, teacher. Creates both recorded and installation work since the early 80's, collaborating with a variety of artists and musicians. His work in sound has led him to an interest in the relation between sound, light and architectural space, which he continues to pursue and investigate. Member of SELEKTION, an organisation for the production and distribution of information systems. www.selektion.com

Achim Wollschied is featured on Crouton No. 12 as part of the second installment of the Folktales series.

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