Cultural scholar, Ph.D., writer, and translator from Kazakh to Russian. She is a screenwriter, a volunteer consultant at the S. Kondybay Memorial Museum (Shetpe, Mangystau Region), and a member of the volunteer archaeologist team "Petroglyph Hunters."

Composer, performer, and improviser from Kazakhstan, currently living and working in Ankara, Turkey. Her work blends the timbral characteristics of Kazakh traditional music with elements of contemporary composition and electronics, drawing on concepts of nomadic ritualism and Central Asian spiritual heritage.

Sound artist and researcher exploring the intersection of sound, architecture, and urban landscapes. In her work, she transforms the rhythm of cities into immersive auditory experiences, where sound narratives merge with visual forms

Musician and a doctoral candidate in the Eurasian Studies program at Nazarbayev University. Her research focuses on contemporary music in Kazakhstan and translanguaging. She is a co-author of the anthology "Qazaqstan. Kazakhstan, قازاقستان: Labyrinths of Contemporary Postcolonial Discourse".

Researcher, sound artist, and educator exploring listening in an anticolonial context and its intersections with violence at Europe's borders. In his practice, Oliveira investigates the material connections between listening and racially driven forms of violence at European borders, approaching them through an anticolonial lens.

Slovak-Hungarian musician and singer whose works weave together elements of Central European folklore, contemporary vocal techniques, minimalistic compositional structures and experimental electronics.

Basel-based researcher and artist working with sound and listening practices. Exploring a variety of sonic and listening practices—both labeled as indigenous and otherwise—Stas focuses on how these interactions transform political imagination into direct action, and vice versa, examining the process that turns these practices into tools for community-building, cultural and language revitalization, and the preservation of collective memory.

Artist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer from Kazakhstan, currently based in Berlin. His performances incorporate a wide range of instruments, including computers, analog synthesizers, guitars, and found objects. Through his work with the2vvo, he explores culture by reinterpreting traditions, engaging with ecological themes, and examining the nature-culture dichotomy in the context of the Anthropocene.

Multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer. Chattopadhyay produces large-scale works for exhibition, installation and performance addressing contemporary issues of environment and ecology, migration, and decoloniality. His works have been widely exhibited, performed, or presented across the globe.

Artist and musician working at the intersection of sound, performance, and technology. She explores supernatural vocal techniques and sonic affects. She is the curator of the experimental sound event series ŞU ŞAŞU in Almaty and a laureate of the Kuryokhin Award (2017).

Sound artist and electronic music composer. He creates sound devices and technological objects.

Transdisciplinary artists and researcher. He focuses on contemporary media-art, paticularly the interplay between between emergent systems and new forms of technological synthesis

Sound engineer and sound artist. She graduated from the sound engineering workshop at VGIK. Yulia composes music, creates sound design, installations, and performances, exploring audiovisual relationships, the sense of time, and perception processes. She has also taught field recording.