Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea is an architect of new sounds and expressions as a performer, recitalist, curator, composer, and improviser, specializing in contemporary-classical repertoire. Trained as an operatic coloratura, Stephanie uses her voice as a mechanism of avant-garde performance art, creating “maniacal shifts of vocal production and character… like an icepick through the skull” (composer Jason Eckardt). She has been praised by Opera News Magazine for “her iconoclasm and fearless commitment to new sounds” and for her “impressive display of extended vocal techniques, in the honorable tradition of such forward-looking artists as Bethany Beardslee, Cathy Berberian and Joan La Barbara.” Her work has been described as “stunning, harrowing, agonising, sonorous…” by The Observer, “divinely deranged” by the Herald Scotland, and that she “sings so expressively and slowly with ever louder and higher-pitched voice, that the inclined listener [has] shivers down their back and tension flows into the last row.” (Halberstadt.de) She has performed as a soloist at Roulette Intermedium (New York City), Constellation Chicago, Sound Scotland, Kings Place (London), Southbank Centre (London), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the National Concert Hall (Dublin), the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), the Hidden Door Festival (Edinburgh), and the Casa da Música (Porto). She has collaborated with leading new music ensembles and bands including the Riot Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, the City of London Sinfonia, Sō Percussion, and Post Coal Prom Queen.

Alistair MacDonald is a composer and performer who creates uniquely rich, spatialised music and sound. Often collaborative, his work encompasses field recording, live electronics, interactivity and improvisation with live electronics.  He makes standalone electroacoustic works, music for instruments and voices, music and sound design for dance, film and art gallery installations. Recent recordings include duo performances with soprano Stephanie Lamprea, Scottish harpist Catriona McKay, and Estonian singer Anne-Liis Poll. A solo CD of his electroacoustic works was published in 2017 by Canadian label empreintes DIGITALes. Collaborative projects include The White Cave (film/installation) with Jesse Jones, Stephanie Lamprea and Erin Thomson for the Singapore Biennale, 2025; The moss and the cosmos, (film, 2021), with Kim Beveridge, commissioned by The Cumnock Tryst, UK; music for the 1922 film Nosferatu (2018), with Phil Minton (UK) and Vlady Bystrov (Germany); The Last Post (trumpet and electronics, 2016) with trumpet player Tom Poulson commissioned by the St Magnus Festival 2016 and selected for the Made in Scotland showcase at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017; three works with dance company Reckless Sleepers (UK and Belgium 2018-22); works with Carrie Fertig, on music for glass percussion, electronics and live flame-working, including Le Sirenuse (film, 2014) selected for the Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition 2015 and Flames and Frequencies (performance/film, 2013) selected for the Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass 2014. (USA, Germany, UK); Silver Wings and Golden Scales (installation, 2007) with Jennifer Angus commissioned by the Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin,USA; and The Imagining of Things  (installation, 2013) with Brass Arts, Huddersfield Art Gallery, UK. Other commissions include music for The Scottish Ensemble, The Paragon Ensemble, BBC Radio Scotland, Reeling and Writhing, the Australian ensemble Elision, choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh and Theatre Cryptic. His music is published by the Canadian label empreintes DIGITALes.

Suzi Cunningham is a Scottish live-performance artist and Butoh dancer. Her solo work is highly physical, political and responsive to its unique environment, enriched with her sense of design and musical composition. Suzi explores relationships with all life forms as well as manufactured materials, making embodied connections in a way that borders transformation. She has toured across Scotland and Europe, with her solo work Eidos and Rules To Live By and clown dancing duo Buff and Sheen. She is a performer and co-creator of Nomoss and MoonSlide who make inter-generational inclusive and accessible, site specific work and movement collaborator in Oceanallover who specialise in interdisciplinary outdoor performance.

Oana Stanciu is a visual artist from Romania, living and working in Edinburgh. Her work combines performance, photography and moving image to create unnatural and subtly distorted self-portraits. She merges her body with different objects and environments, improvising scenes and transforming herself into unusual characters and creatures. Her work features black and white photographs and moving image to help bring these characters to life. Over the last few years, she has increasingly become more focused on her video work, developing techniques and editing methods using the human body to create more complex, layered compositions and video installations. Oana has also collaborated with different musicians such as Kathryn Joseph (winner of the Scottish Album of the Year award), Tinderbox Orchestra and other composers, creating music videos, album covers and other visual materials for their music. In 2022, Oana was awarded a Knighthood by the Romanian president for her contribution to Romanian culture in the UK, and she has received several awards including a VACMA Award 2023, Stills Award 2022, RSA Morton Award 2021, Ingleby Award, Latimer Award, and the Meyer Oppenheim Award, and in 2019 she received one of the Royal Scottish Academy’s RSA Residencies for Scotland. Her work has been exhibited in various cities in the UK including Edinburgh and London as well as in Romania, Norway, Austria and Japan. www.oanastanciu.com