Daisuke Terauchi is a composer, improviser, and Associate Professor at Hiroshima
University. He has composed works for chamber ensembles, performance art, improvisation, background music for aquariums and software, school anthems, and more. He also creates musical card games and interdisciplinary works that intersect with the visual arts. As an improviser, he primarily uses his voice alongside an eclectic range of instruments. He holds a Ph.D. for his research on John Zorn’s Cobra. His works have been presented at festivals and concerts in 13 countries, and his scores and recordings have been published both in Japan and internationally. In addition to his artistic work, he leads inclusive workshops that emphasize creative expression through improvisation and collaboration.
https://dterauchi.com

Tamaho Miyake is a composer and improviser who’s work explores free improvisation across genres and disciplines. She earned her Master’s degree from Kobe University, focusing on music education through improvisation. Her works have been presented internationally: she gave a lecture and had her composition “Two or More” for clarinet and cello performed at the Daegu Contemporary Music Festival in Korea (2004), and her string quartet “Uncountable” was selected for performance at the Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival in Indonesia (2005). Her piece “b.” for two violins and percussion received a Special Prize at the I.C.O.M.S. composition competition in Italy. Miyake is active as an improviser on piano, theremin, and other
instruments, collaborating with performers across artistic disciplines. A recording of an improvised performance at White Elephant Live Bar in Rotterdam (2006) was released as a digital download on Ayler Records. She also leads improvisation workshops and develops methods for group improvisation, with a focus on facilitation and direction.
http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/tamaho/

Joshua (he/him) is a multimedia artist, musician and graphic novelist living in nipaluna, lutruwita (Tasmania). He is one half of the beloved experimental classical duo Bing/Santospirito and is known for creating cross-media performances for art festivals as well as composition for theatre and film. His new album of synth music ‘Hope is Not Enough’ is out in July.

Photo by Zara Scully

Raras Sukardi (she/her) is an Indonesian-born, Australian-raised clarinettist, actively exploring improvised and experimental music. Her Indonesian heritage shapes her identity, creating a deep sense of belonging and natural connection towards Indonesian culture, people, and land. This connection inspires her artistic journey, driving her to explore the interrelationship between art, nature, and spiritual energy. Currently engaged in clarinet teaching, Raras continually seeks to learn new techniques and broaden her community to deepen her artistic practice.

Jane Stark (she/her) is a percussionist and improvising musician, and more, based in Boorloo, Wadjuk Noongar land (Perth, WA). She has performed live and in the studio since 2013, including performing regularly with the WA Academy of Performing Arts percussion ensemble Defying Gravity and its guest artists, directed by Tim White OAM. Guest artists include Dr Louise Devenish and Dr Fiona Digney. She recently opened Tone List’s Audible Edge festival with a 90-minute sunrise set at WA Museum Boola Bardip, in collaboration with Josiah Padmanabham (Grievous Bodily Calm, GAZEY, Lyndon Blue), using feedback loops. She has also played ambient music to a sold-out crowd at The Rechabite; documentary glitch/live stochastic remixing at The Rhein-Donau Club, and will perform in Sage Pbbbt’s debut opera O,D,E in August-September, alongside fellow WWIMers Naoko and Saskia. She plays drums for post-rock band Parclo. She helps organise concerts with WWIM.She enjoyed her international debut in August 2022, composing for Studio Kiin’s Haus of Memories exhibition at Tautai, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. This followed her collaboration with Koen Smailes composing and performing the music for WAAPA’s production of Caress/Ache, which received praise in Seesaw and Stage Whispers.

Zendra Giraudo (they/them) is an emerging movement-based performer and maker in Boorloo/Perth. They graduated from WAAPA with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance (2021) and Honours in Performance Making (2022). Zendra works across improvised and choreographed movement, and contemporary theatre, meanwhile developing their craft through visual, tactile, and multimedia artforms. They aspire to make felt, imagined worlds in their work through playful, collaborative, improvisational and anticolonial practice. They are interested in creating work that speaks through the individual to the collective, researching culture and identity through art, to interrogate knowledges held in the body and how they relate to the global experience.

Zendra was in the PAWA award-winning ensemble for The Complete Show of Water Skiing (dir. Laura Liu, 2022). In 2023, they danced in Co3’s Architect of the Invisible and Laura Boyne’s Subliminal Drift. Zendra was also the co-creator and performer for WHITESNAKE3000 (dir. Joe Paradise Lui) which was presented with The Blue Room Theatre (2023) and Co3 (2024). They completed online research residency [CP]³ 2024 with Singaporean dance company Dance Nucleus, supported by STRUT Dance. In 2025, they are co-producing an improvisation platform, Make-Shift Evenings, for artists to practice experimental performance in a supportive, low-stakes environment. Zendra is a passionate advocate for emerging artists and marginalised communities, and has recently been elected to the STRUT Dance board.

Pedro Alvarez is an independent composer, performer, improviser, and activist born in Chile, and currently based on Whadjuk Noongar land (Perth, Western Australia). His musical interests span from Andean folk traditions through chamber music to experimental free improvisation, informed by anti-colonial perspectives, critical theories, and poetry.
Between 2010-2014, a doctoral scholarship allowed Alvarez to concentrate exclusively on his compositional work while living in the UK (London/Huddersfield). Later professional highlights include artistic residencies in Vienna and in Mexico, serving as a peer in various Australia Council funding panels, lecturing in music at several universities in Chile and Australia, and receiving commissions from festivals and ensembles around the world. In addition to musical endeavours, Alvarez currently works in community mental health for a non-for-profit organisation in Perth.
www.pedroalvarez.info