Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent who takes influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and improvised music, her work has been described in The Guardian as "stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out".

The Junkoactive Wasteman & The Tin Can Twins. A trio of self-proclaimed junkophilic, electro tin can playing, robo dancing ex freelance binmen who drowned in a barrel of toxic waste but were saved by tin cans which fused to their bodies. No longer man, but part man part tin can.

Classically trained violinist born and raised in Clarkston, MI, Mallory Linehan is now a freelance musician, experimental artist, curator and full-time teacher currently based in Chicago, IL.

Anna Johnson creates at intersections of performance, sound, moving image and installation. Her work explores intimacy and interrelation as they manifest on emotional and spiritual registers within the body. She works site-specifically, in embodied conversation with the unique architectures, energies, and potentials for live experience within every space.

Bob is interested in the shamanic capacity of poetic performance and how it interacts with cross art collaboration, testing the potential of the spoken and written word and its integration with a range of other art forms.

Jim Haynes lives and works in Northern California. His compositions of corrosion, shortwave radio, and tactile noise have been published by Editions Mego, Monorail Trespassing, The Tapeworm, Elevator Bath, and many others.

Her practice spans drawings, moving image, sound, and installation. Her research-based practice demonstrates a continued interest in the interplay between sound and image to investigate the aesthetics of images, the materiality of film, the sculptural possibilities of sound and the visualisation of music. 

Kendraplex is a Wisconsin-based artist and musician who works intuitively, shredding on finger-style 12 string guitars, working as a band leader, synthesist, new media creator and experimental producer.  Kendra has been likened to and described as fitting into the same pantheon as…

Fostering the ethos that a woman's place is on stage, Tees Women Poets supports women of all backgrounds across the Tees Valley to write and perform non-conforming folk to grow their confidence through self-expression.

ATOM is an art duo formed by Alisa Oleva and Timothy Maxymenko. ATOM create situations and experiences within urban spaces of portals and spaces in between, shared encounters, places for meetings and encounters, scores for movement and listening. 

Working primarily with sound, performance and sculpture, James Watts is interested in the physical energy and exhaustion invested in making sound, particularly in relation to experimental extrem music genres; and contexts around that.

Rupert is a a combined artist, specialising in music, film and performance. Their practice is rooted in the use of creative and participatory methods, championing co-operative enquiry and production between professional and non-professional artists.

A Man Called Adam’s Dr Sally Rodgers and Dr Steve Jones present Sonic Rituals. Deep listening exercises and performative rites to steer participants into a sonorous ceremony, created to invoke our primordial connection with sound.

Ella's playful relationship with imagery infuses her work with a collage-like quality, evident in the dynamic screens of her videos. Her past accolades include a vibrant live performance at Old Granada Studios for a Brighter Sound residency, where her unique, reactive work captivated an audience of a thousand.

Mark Boden has been playing the guitar for over 35 years, and teaching it for over 30 years in schools, privately and holding masterclasses. Having enjoyed a career playing in rock bands in the North East and wider region for over fifteen years he felt that it was time for a change.

Shlinga likes to splash around in the melting point of movement and sound and find out how the shapes we make can become audible.

Dub, roots reggae and Stepper Sound-system. Teesside Dub Club bringing together the community with a mega soundsytem.

Coalescence Sound System Custom built, home-made, heavyweight reggae and dub sound based in Newcastle but travelling to Boro for Sonic Arts Week. Bringing deep bass and good vibes to a dance near you!

Kev is one of the members of Project Lono, a collection of musicians and poets whose work spans across traditional folk music to electronic beats and sonic soundscapes.