Gerald Bennett was born in 1942 in New Jersey (USA). He graduated from Harvard University in 1964 before transferring his residence to Switzerland. From 1967 until 1976 he taught at the Basel (Switzerland) Hochschule, and acted as director -from 1969 until 1976. He is co-founder of the Swiss Center for Computer Music and the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (ICEM). In 2005 he founded and -until 2007- directed the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology at the Hochschule Musik und Theater, Zurich.

Maria Radeschi lives in Turin, where she attends composition courses at the “G. Verdi” conservatoire. In 2008 she was finalist in the “Musica e arte” competition dedicated to Luciano Berio with her work “Bèla” for violin solo, wind quartet, percussion and string quartet. In 2009 she won the Xenia Ensemble East-West composers’ contest, and as a result was commissioned to write a new work for string quartet on the theme of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Her works have been performed in Turin (Photography museum and modern art museum) in the “rive Gauche” contemporary music festival, in Rome (Auditorium Parco della Musica) and in Japan.

Born in 1977 in Izmir (Turkey) she began her musical education in 1989 at the Istanbul State Conservatory studying oboe and was accepted to the Composition department of the same university in 1992. From 2001 she started to study composition with Theo Brandmüller at the music Hochschule in Saarland. At the same time she studied electronic music in the experimental music studio “Rendez-vous Musique Nouvelle” in Forbach, and participated to the electronic music workshops of Daniel Teruggi and François Donato. Her debut as a composer took place in 1994 with performances of music written to several plays, including Beckett's “Act Without Words 2” and Bond’s “The Prison of Olly”. Gedizlioglu has also attended the Darmstadt New Music Summer School, the Ircam school in Metz and has participated in Ivan Fedele's composition courses at the Strasburg conservatory. Amongst various prizes she has won is “Franz-Liszt Scholarship Composer Award” from the music Hochschule in Weimar. She has taken part both as composer and performer in various music festivals in Germany and at Istanbul.

Born in 1930 to a family with a western music education (his father, Moroi Saburô, studied composing in Berlin in the 1930s), he was among the first musicians to introduce electronic music in Japan during the 1950s, when he often visited Germany. Like other composers of his generation (Takemitsu, Ishii, Hirose) he took an interest in traditional Japanese music and wrote many pieces for shakuhachi, koto and sangen.