Kyong Mee Choi, composer, and visual artist, mainly works for chamber, electro-acoustic, interactive, and multi-media music. Her composition has also incorporated algorithmic compositional devices, geometric charts, visual art and analogues of musical elements with non-musical concepts. She has also been active as a painter, which has led her to experiment with integrating sound and image into a single artwork. She has had many works recognized in numerous places, such as the 2003 Luigi Russolo International Electroacoustic Competition, the 2003 ASCAP/SEAMUS, the Concurso Internacional de Musica Eletroacustica de Sao Paulo, the 2004 Australasin Computer Music Conference, MUSICA CONTEMPORANEA in Ecuador, Third Practice in Virginia, the 2004 International Computer Music Association, the 4th Annual Electroacoustic Musical Festival in Santiago de Chile, Palmares du 31e Concours International de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges 2004: Degre I-RESIDENCE, Spectrum Press and the Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey Electronic and Computer Music Concert Series 2005, Merging Voices: the Fourth Annual Women in New Music Festival 2005, Music Beyond Performance: SoundImageSound III, Electronic Music Midwest 2005, SEAMUS 2005, 32rd International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art/Bourges 2005, NODUS concert 2005, CMS Conference in Quebec, 2005, MUSICA NOVA 2005, and she also won the second prize at VI CIMESP 2005 Concurso Internacional de Musica Eletroacustica de SaoPaulo. She was also awarded the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Composition Commission 1st prize Award. As a researcher she worked in the CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) as part of the Virtual Music Project where she developed real-time audio synthesis patch in Max/MSP to respond to user/performer gestures. Her dissertation topic is the study of spatial relationships in painting and electro-acoustic music. Her teachers have included Agostino Di Scipio, William Brooks, Guy Garnett, Erik Lund, Robert Thompson, and Scott Wyatt. In the fall of 2006, she will be joining the music faculty at Roosevelt University in Chicago.

Mike McFerron is an associate professor of music and composer-in-residence at Lewis University in the Chicago area. He has been on the faculty of UMKC and the Kansas City Kansas Community College, and he has served as resident composer at the Chamber Music Conference of the East/Composers' Forum in Bennington, Vt. McFerron is founder and co-director of Electronic Music Midwest. McFerron has won the Lousiville Orchestra Composition Competition (2002), was a recipient of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's "First Hearing" Program (2001), and he was chosen the winner of the Cantus Commissioning/Residency Program, and he was the recipient of the 2005 CCF Abelson Art Song Commission. He received an honorable distinction in the Masterprize International Composition Competition (2003) and the Rudolf Nissim Prize (2001), and he has been a finalist in the 2004 Confluencias Electronic Miniatures II International Competition, the 2005 Truman State/MACRO Composition Competition, The 2005 American Modern Ensemble Composition Competition, the 2002 Swan Composition Competition, the 1999 Salvatore Martirano Composition Contest, and the 1997 South Bay Master Chorale Choral Composition Contest. McFerron has been a composers fellow at the MacDowell Colony (2001), June in Buffalo (1997), and the Chamber Music Conference of the East/Composers' Forum in Bennington, Vt (1999). His music has been featured on SCI National Conferences, SEAMUS National Conferences, University of Richmond's 3rd Practice Festival, Spark Conference, Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festivals, Spring in Havanna, the MAVerick Festival, several SCI regional conferences, and concerts and radio broadcasts across the U.S. and throughout Europe. He has received commissions from Cantus, SUNY-Oswego, GeNIA, the Chamber Music Conference of the East/Composers' Forum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Jesus Florido, Thomas Clement, Lewis University, Sumner Academy of Arts and Science, and twice by the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra. McFerron's music can be heard on numerous commercial CDs as well as on his website at http://www.bigcomposer.com.

Ryan Ingibritsen studied composition at St. Olaf College, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and in Krakow Poland with Zbigniew Bujarski and Marek Choloniewski. His music focuses on the multi-dimensional aspect of musical form, including recognizable sound bites and traditional formal gestures and conventions to take listeners on journeys that do not always return to their origin and often arrive in a different aspect of sound from whence they began. He has written in diverse genres including orchestral, electronic, and chamber music as well as theater, dance, television, underground cabaret and pop music. Ryan has been a part of several collaborations and improvisational groups as a bass guitarist/percussionist and live-electronician including the Cobra Ensemble of Cincinnati, We Can and We Must consisting of himself and fellow University of Cincinnati graduate Jason Wampler, Elbio Barillari's electro world music band Global Warming, and in Marek Choloniewski's ongoing GPS-ART project- a global Internet project performed simultaneously from Krakow, and Chicago. He has been commissioned by Choreographer Ginger Farley, ICE, Maverick, and members of Eighth Blackbird. His Electro-PolishPopera Disocpolopera Lans Macabre was sponsored by a grant from CEC international Partners for premier in Krakow Poland in the Spring of 2003. He has appeared as a solo electronic performer at venues across North America as well as in Eastern Europe.

Christopher Preissing is a free-lance composer and sound designer working in music and combined media in the Chicago area. He is completing his dissertation from the University of Illinois at Urbana on "Intermedial Relationships Among Component Arts in Combined Art Works". Christopher has studied with Herbert Bruen, Salvatore Martirano, William Brooks and Scott Wyatt. He has taught at Indiana University at South Bend and is a former composer-in-residence at Beloit College. Christopher is the founder and director of Is Performance Group, non-profit arts organization dedicated to the production of works which promote collaboration among artists and performers in different disciplines. Productions by Is Performance Group have taken place in South Bend, Muncie, and Indianapolis, Indiana. Christopher has received awards and commissions from the Illinois Arts Council, Arts Midwest, American Composers Forum, Ruthmere Foundation, Indiana Arts Commission, Michiana Arts and Sciences Council, and ASCAP. Christopher has been a Guest Composer at Beloit College and The Latin American Music Center at Indiana University, and Associate Artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. His music has been featured at SEAMUS National Conferences, SCI National and Regional Conferences, DISCOVERIES XXXI, International Electronic Music Plus Festival, Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, BONK Festival of New Music and has been performed throughout the US, Great Britain, and Latin America. Christopher is currently the president of the Chicago Composers Forum.