There are arts you look at. And then there is an art that looks at you. And the same is for music. Not as a subject to be illustrated, but as a condition to be entered. If all art is a translation of life, music is the original language. The most visceral, the most immediate. Before the image, before the word, there was rhythm. A pulse. A breath held and released. There is no story, no era, no ritual, no thought, no emotion that cannot be mirrored in music. Grief has its cho

Alessandro Speciale is an Italian composer, orchestrator and score preparator, specialized in music for visual media. He developed an early allure for music and musical creativity at the age of four, as he used to plunk away on his grandmother’s old upright piano. A visceral fascination for symphonic music followed later in high school, when he started performing as a keyboard player in some symphonic metal bands. After the high school, Alessandro decided to embark a brave j

Jan Wurm is an artist, educator, and curator engaged in expanding the community forum for contemporary art dialogue. Having lived in California, where she received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Europe, where she received an M.A.R.C.A. from the Royal College of Art in London, Jan Wurm has honed an eye for social patterns and conventions. She currently divides her time between Berkeley and L.A. and her hand between drawing and painting.As an artist,

Victoria Frances Young is an international award-winning pianist, composer, performer, and multimedia creator whose work combines classical virtuosity with Chinese operatic and musical idioms, electronic sound, music theater, and rock energy. Her artistic practice spans concert music, electroacoustic work, staged multimedia projects, and opera, often drawing on astrophysics, science fiction, fantasy, and Chinese-diaspora cultural identity. Her original Piano Concerto was prem

Born in Rome in 1990, he graduated in Jazz Guitar from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in 2013. He founded the Progressive Rock Dance band So Does Your Mother, with whom he recorded two albums and performed throughout Europe. He composed the music for the films Frammenti (2019) and Qualcos’altro che ancora non c’è (2021), both directed by Paolo Bianchini and presented at the Venice Film Festival’s Giornate degli Autori. Between 2022 and 2024, he also composed several soundtra

Vassilis Chatzimakris is a composer, Cretan lyra player, and performance artist based in Greece. He holds a PhD in Composition from Bath Spa University, where he conducted practice-based research on interfacial scores and open notation strategies under the supervision of Prof. James Saunders. His creative practice focuses on open scores, intermedia, and experimental performance practices. His work has received international composition prizes and has been performed by ensembl

Kolten Heeren is an American composer whose work centers around diverse soundscapes and organic storytelling. His music blends modal polyphony with aleatoric soundmass, always with an emerging undercurrent of vocal lyricism evoking echoes of memory, nostalgia, and wistful dreaming. His music has been performed throughout the United States and Europe. He has been a finalist for both the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award and BMI Students Composers Award, and h

Kakumori is an instrumental trio from Tétange, Luxembourg, formed in 2022. The band consists of Fränz Meyers on drums and synth, Fränz Siebenaller on guitar, and Eric Küntzinger on bass and soundscapes. After several years of writing, recording and developing their live sound, Kakumori released their debut album, Coalescence, in August 2026. The five-track record marked the first complete expression of the band and brought together material that had emerged at different momen

She began photography at 12 with a Kodak Instamatic and has been drawn to it ever since. Growing up by the sea in Poole, Dorset, she developed a lasting fascination with the UK coastline. Her work explores the interplay of light, colour, and changing conditions to evoke a strong sense of place. Shooting mainly at dusk in winter, she captures fleeting moments shaped by weather and tide. By deliberately moving the camera, she creates atmospheric, painterly images that feel uniqu

Emma Henrike Ebmeyer is a composer based in Salzburg, Austria and Hamburg Germany. Her work focuses on immersive textures built from reduced material, which transforms gradually over time. Most of her work features acoustic instruments, while she also enjoys writing live electronics and fixed media pieces. She has also participated in creating installations. Emma’s compositions have been played across three continents by ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Cantando Admont, Mult

I am Tracey Welch and for the last 21 years, I’ve worked as a professional photographer, across the UK and internationally. My work is commercial and creative, with clients including blue chip corporates, high street brands, creative agencies, leading universities and broadcast media. Commissions have ranged from studio portraits and campaign art direction, to event cover and on-set photography. My personal work in stroboscopic photography has been funded by Arts Council Engl

Burçe Karaca is a Turkish composer and performer whose artistic work engages with the dialogue between tradition and contemporary musical language. She began her formal music education studying flute at Bilkent University’s Faculty of Music and Performing Arts during her high school years. She later graduated with honors from Başkent University State Conservatory, completing double majors in Music Theory and Piano. Karaca has been active as both a composer and pianist in vari

Julius Bucsis is a multiple award-winning composer, electric guitarist, and visual artist. His compositions span a range of genres and include works for acoustic and electric instruments as well as computer-generated audio and video. His acoustic, fixed-media, and audio-visual works have been presented at hundreds of events across the world. His compositions have been included on CDs released by Ablaze, PARMA, RMN Classical, and SoundiJ. He performs regularly, either as a sol

I was born in the former Yugoslavia, and I have been a visual artist since 1974. As a self-taught artist, a surrealistic style of music-canvas fusion called "Art of Music Vision." In 1990, I, as a visual designer, joined the "Laser Theatre" of Budapest, Hungary, which is the only permanent theatre of this kind in Europe. It uses the interaction of picture, light, and music and the most advanced auditory and visual technology. At that time, I designed LP and CD covers for many

Phillip C. Roberts is a composer and music theorist with a passion for teaching. His compositions range from peacefully ambient to rhythmically driving. Pieces by Roberts have been featured on albums, short films, and radio broadcasts, and he has been a guest on podcasts like Maneuvering Music and Man with a Mentor. Some of the commissions Roberts has fulfilled include compositions for Unheard-Of//Ensemble, the University of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the opening of t

Claire Brown is a composer and oboist from Northern Virginia and currently based in State College, Pennsylvania. Her original compositions include works for soloists, chamber ensemble, large ensemble, and electronic media, and have been selected for multiple competitions, including a solo cello etude for Vox Novus 15 Minutes of Fame Featuring Eunice Koh (IT’S GONNA GET YOU) and an electronic fixed media track for Penn State College of Arts and Architecture Theme Music Contest

“I started painting late in life (I am 78 years old) in my fifties. I always wanted to paint, after spending some of my late teens days at the Paris Modern Art museum instead of going to my university classes. I suppose I am self taught although I did an art fundation years in the late 80s and one HND year in the 2010's. Once i got a studio space , I could experiment with pigments and other mediums, playing with colours and shapes. I am very influenced by the modernists and abs

Miharu Ogura, a composer and pianist from Tokyo, Japan, is based in Frankfurt, Germany. Her career started in 2018 when she received seven awards at the 13th International Piano Competition in Orléans, including the "André Chevillon - Yvonne Bonnaud" Composition Prize. In 2023, she won Second Prize and the Prize for the best performance of works by Messiaen at the Olivier Messiaen International Competition in Grenoble. Ogura’s debut album, Ogura Plays Stockhausen (2023), and