Plaid + Zoe Martlew Zoe Martlew studied at the Royal College of Music,Clare College,Cambridge,the Royal Academy of Music and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw.She has appeared with improvisation groups at home and abroad,many rock,pop and jazz artists,and is much in demand for educational activities. This year for Faster Than Sound she will be collaborating with Plaid. Plaid is a British electronic music duo comprised of Andy Turner and Ed Handley, taking their name from the different interweaving threads of plaid cloth. They are former members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic (Andrew Turner) and Balil (Ed Handley), before settling on Plaid. They have collaborated with female singers Mara Carlyle, Nicolette and Bjork, and have released records on the labels Clear, Peacefrog, Black Dog Productions, and Warp Records.

www.plaid.co.uk

Pierre Bastien (born Paris, 1953) post-graduated in eighteenth-century French literature at University Paris-Sorbonne. In 1977 he built his first musical machinery. For the next ten years he has been composing for dance companies and playing with Pascal Comelade. In the meantime he was constantly developing his mechanical orchestra. Since 1987 he concentrates on it through solo performances, sound installations, recordings and collaborations with such artists as Pierrick Sorin, Karel Doing, Jean Weinfeld, Robert Wyatt or Issey Miyake

www.pierrebastien.com

Philip Jeck is an English multimedia composer and choreographer. He is perhaps best known for his highly subversive work Vinyl Requiem with Lol Sargent (a performance for 180 Dansette record players, 12 slide-projectors and 2 movie-projectors) which won the Time Out Performance Award in 1993. He is signed to the UK label Touch.

www.philipjeck.com