Matt Pogue has been wrangling electricity with his guitar for three decades. Now he does it with other machines as well.

Pogue performs as part of Rychard Cooper's Synthlab

Pablo Bert is an electronic musician and mathematician from Long Beach. Pablo got his start as a chiptune/IDM DJ in 2003. Now he spends most of his time playing with synths and twiddling knobs. He prefers producing without a computer and plans to perform at PUMP for the first time on an all hardware synthesizer and sequencer setup.

Bert performs as part of Rychard Cooper's Synthlab

Rychard Cooper holds a degree in Audio Engineering from Long Beach City College, and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Composition from the Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach. He has twice been awarded the Don Andrus Prize in Electronic Music.

Susan Rawcliffe makes, plays and research clay musical instruments: flutes, pipes, ocarinas, whistles, trumpets, didjeridus, and sound sculptures. Wanting to build a better flute, she began my research into the sounds and forms of archaic ceremonial flutes from prehispanic meso-American cultures, including West Mexican, Olmec, Mayan, and Aztec. Making acoustical studies of ancient flutes teaches Rawcliffe construction methods. Learning to play them unites a Western sensibility with ancient sounds and can illumine the next step in a flute’s creation.

soundShoppe is a FREE, monthly, unstructured sound workshop/noise jam for experimental musicians and sound artists presented by SASSAS and Center for the Arts Eagle Rock. All are welcome to join–from experienced musicians to novices. The ongoing sessions are led by Joe Potts, founding member of LAFMS (Los Angeles Free Music Society) For performances, the Orchestra members are attendees of the monthly sound jams.

Tom Pine is a sound and lighting installation creator who explores the physical nature of sound. Vibration I plays in the intersection of sound and vision to illuminate the physical.

He was the power, sound, and lighting lead on the organ which started as an installation in The Church Trap Honorarium Installation at Burning Man 2013, became the Celestial Organ at Long Beach Sound Walk in 2013, returned to Burning Man 2015 as an installation in the Man base and was permanently installed at Burning Man Headquarters in San Francisco.

the2vvo (pronounced “the zwo” = “two” in German) is a sound and visual duo formed in 2014 in Almaty, Kazakhstan and currently based in Los Angeles, Ca comprised of Eldar Tagi (sound artist) and Lena Pozdnyakova (architect). Coming from different disciplines, artists share unbounded love for exploration in terms of spatial approaches and experiments within the field of sound art. Results of these studies are often expressed in temporary installations that are interactive and sound-centric. We explore and study the juxtaposition of public vs private in the context of space and sound.

Glenn Bach is a sound artist and poet whose major project, Atlas, is an open-ended system of sound works, long poems, photographs, drawings, and performances that document his place-based investigations and projects. His ongoing curatorial project, Imprintable.org, documents oral histories and interviews with artists, composers, educators, and other creative citizens about the places where we live and work.

David Casey's current artistic practice is based at the intersection of kinetic sculpture and sound installation. His strongest recent work in this area, entitled, "Why I Stopped Playing the Guitar," is a kinetic sculpture examining the history of the electric guitar and its changing value as more of our sound and music is being made by machines. An electric guitar, suspended from a pulley/motor system at the ceiling, repeatedly smashed on the floor of the gallery while plugged in to an amplifier. This auto-destruct sculpture functioned equally well as both a visual and a sound piece.

Wolf Gowin is a sculptor, printer, sound performer and writer whose work has been exhibited and collected on three continents. He resides in Temecula on a tree-farm.