Stickland’s present artistic work explores the context of production, the role of redundancy, and the subversion of accepted gestures through an anti-formalist aesthetic. Electro-acoustic compositions and radiophonic pieces are the result of these examinations. Stickland presented sonic incursions in Australian and Japanese audio cultures at JOLT's first WIGGA concert in 2008.

Munson is a Melbourne based AV artist. His early years were focused on classical guitar performance, before he branched out into arty rock adventures and electronic sound art experiences. Munson's earlier sound art performances involved working in collaboration with Robin Fox. More recently, Munson has included video and film to his arts practice. Munson presented original AV work for JOLT's WIGGA CONCERT 1 in 2008.

Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sound and auditory issues. He is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum 2006), and Professor at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway. LaBelle presented his audio visual work CONCERT in JOLT's Westspace Gallery exhibition titled SONIC BODY in 2008.

Jeremy is one of Australia’s most versatile percussionists. His performing career crosses all musical genres from symphony orchestras to rock bands, avant guarde contemporary music to cabaret and musical theatre, his own solo projects to electronica and world music. Recent performances include concerts with Synergy Percussion (playing music of Steve Reich and Iannis Xenakis) and appearances at the Java Jazz Festival (Jakarta, Indonesia) with the band CODA.

He regularly performs with the Sydney Symphony, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and the Sydney Opera House Babies Proms Orchestra, as well as Australia’s only Frank Zappa tribute band, Petulant Frenzy. As a marimba soloist Jeremy has presented his own recital series as well as performances for the New Music Network, Musica Viva and 2MBS FM, and recently appeared as featured soloist on the soundtrack to the major motion picture ‘The Black Balloon’.

Wyana has been an active member of the Canberra musical community since graduating from ANU in 2005. She has been principal percussionist with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Canberra Pops Orchestra, Canberra Choral Society, Canberra Youth Orchestra, ANU Canberra School of Music Symphony Orchestra, ANU Drumatix, Darwin Symphony Orchestra and numerous other local professional and community ensembles. Highlights of her career have included being soloist with the Canberra Pops Orchestra in 2007, appearing on a ‘Tall Poppies’ recording of the music of Sandra France in 2005 and working closely with world renowned percussionists Steve Schick, Mark Ford and Mike Udow at the Australian Percussion Symposium in 2003. Her passion for contemporary chamber music has seen the formation of percussion duo Chix with Stix with friend and colleague, Mary Broughton and the exciting new Canberra based chamber group, Griffyn Ensemble. Wyana is the senior percussion teacher and an ensemble director at Canberra Girls’ Grammar School. Etherington performed in JOLT and the National Film and Sound Archive's SONO PERCEPTION concert  in Canberra in 2008.

Warren Burt is a composer, performer, and writer. Born in the US, Burt attended the State University of New York, Albany (BA, 1971) and the University of California, San Diego (MA, 1975) before moving to Australia in 1975. In Australia he has worked in academia (La Trobe University, NSW Conservatorium, Victorian College of the Arts, Australian National University, Victoria University of Technology), education, and radio (freelance and commissioned productions for ABC and PBAA), and as a composer, film maker, video artist, and community arts organizer. His works have been performed and shown in the USA, Australia, Europe and Japan and he has had grants from the Australia Council, the Victorian Ministry for the Arts and the McKnight Foundation (USA), and has been artist in residence with a number of organizations, such as the Australian Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization, the Los Angeles based art-science think-tank International Synergy, the Broadcast Music Department of ABC Radio, the Monash University Music Department, the RMIT Department of Fine Arts, the American Composers Forum, and Art-Science Laboratory, Santa Fe, and the Djerassi Artists Program.

www.warrenburt.com

Bruce Mowson is a Melbourne based sound and video artist. He has conducted research into the phenomenon of absorption in audio-visual media though a series of exhibitions and performances and teaches at RMIT University. Mowson has presented original works in JOLT's SONO PERCEPTION & SONIC BODY events. http://www.brucemowson.com

berni.m.janssen is one of Australia’s most experienced and skillful text artists. Over a 25+ year career, Janssen has written several books of text art and has been a highly acclaimed international advocate for Australian cutting edge text art, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. Her work is typified by a combination of captivating spoken performance and first-rate poetical writing.

Janssen performs in the text/altered piano duo THE JANSSEN/HULLICK DUO with James Hullick. They created the show EMOTIONOGRAPHY which was JOLT's first show for 2008.

Natasha Anderson is a Melbourne artist who variously uses contrabass recorder, electronics and mixed media to create works that foreground the musician as a framed and gendered bodily presence. Constantly and rapidly shifting between such opposing forces as digital and acoustic sound, abject and processed gestures, extremes of frequencies and visual and sonic moments – she creates for the audience multiple and conflicting points of focus. Ultimately the source of these sounds, images and gestures, whether electronic, instrumental or bodily, become tangled and confused.

“one of the leading lights of Australian experimental music,” (Rare Frequency 2006)

'..a deft touch and a very subtle but complex way of putting together the sounds.' (Andrew Hollo, Hybrid 2004)

Ever since I can remember there's been music, I want that to continue and I want to be involved in the making of it.  From my earliest memories to the most recent I can not separate the aural experience from my other senses and I want my compositions to reflect that.  We are constantly aware of sound even when we are asleep, it influences our thoughts, our perceptions, our experiences in a deeply subversive way.  I hope to bring that experience to the sound I create, to create enveloping aural experiences that are individual to each audience members perception. 

Since moving to Melbourne (from Tasmania) I have composed and designed for over 80 theatre shows, including dance, drama and installations, some 50 plus films and engineered and/or produced countless tracks, Albums, EPs, Demos not to mention making music for the sake of creating.   When not in the studio I can be found attending a wide variety of gigs, enjoying fine food, cooking, climbing mountains, or sailing, and all this with friends.  I want to pursue God where He can be found.

Myles worked with JOLT for the NEBULON show.

Ernie Althoff was recently amused when his earliest experimental music performances at the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre were documented in /WIRE/ magazine - 28 years later. Since these beginnings, he has created a large and diverse body of work. He continues to be charmed by sound worlds generated by his and other people's aleatoric systems, be they score-based repertoire, improvisations, works for the recording and broadcast media, or kinetic sound installations.

Robin Fox is a Melbourne based sound artist currently working with live digital media in improvised, composed and collaborative settings. He has submitted a PhD in composition, at Monash University focussing on the development of multi-channel performance ecologies and the design of interactive electro-acoustic situations that explore the dynamic between performer, space and computer.

He also creates audio-visual works for the cathode ray oscilloscope which have been released on the dvd ‘backscatter’ (synaesthesia records). The DVD has recently screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and the Mittwoschule in Berlin and live audiovisual performances have taken place across Europe in 2004, at the Netmage festival, Bologna, the Wien Modern festival, Vienna and the Transacoustic festival, Auckland in 2005. This work, in constant development, is currently being realised with a high-powered, audio controlled laser system.

"...a blend of precision playing and showmanship, especially on Ughetti's part; he is a musician who relishes challenge and the opportunity to brandish his virtuosity."The Age (21 Aug, 2001)

'Eugene Ughetti seems to live, breathe and, well, speak percussion." The Age (1 June, 2005)

Eugene Ughetti has lived in Yarraville, in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne all his life. Being the son of a refugee and growing up in the West his perspective on art and culture is broad and visceral.

Eugene was interested in sound very early on, he could whistle before he could talk and he was bilingual before he could walk. He used to block his ears and listen to his heartbeat and visualise a tribe of drummers inside his head. He preferred listening to fireworks than watching them and thunderstorms were very impressive to him. He was never allowed to play sport outside of school so when Santa gave him a practice pad and sticks it seemed clear that he should spend his time learning the drums. Fortunately his Dad already played so he was his first music teacher.

www.speakpercussion.com