Jesse Perlstein is an LA-based composer/performer who uses a mix of vocals, field recordings dubbed-to-tape, a cassette synth & analog processing to create experimental compositions bridging ambient soundscapes with looped harmonizing voice, resulting in rhythms and melodies that build, swell and explode into noise.

He is also a member of the experimental, neo-classical trio Sontag Shogun, and the improvisational industrial techno outfit AxOxH.

Norman W. Long’s multidisciplinary practice involves walking, listening, teaching, improvising, performing, recording, and composing to create environments and situations in which he and the audience engage in dialogues about memory, place, ecology, race, culture, value, silence, and the invisible.The sounds found in his work has its inspirational roots in the Black music of house and techno, so-called ‘free jazz’, Great Black Music, Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi, Pauline Oliveros, King Tubby, Dub, and the sounds of artists outside and in-between genres. Long’s improvisational and compositional strategies are inspired by Samuel R. Delany’s palimpsest text  “Plague Journal '' chapter of Dhalgren (Science Fiction) and Atlantis: Three tales (Fiction) and Mark Bradford’s survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art: Chicago in 2011 featuring Bradford’s process of collecting and collaging, scraping and pasting materials sourced from his community in Los Angeles. 

 Norman has performed and toured with Angel Bat Dawid and the Brothahood, and has also performed and recorded with the Ali/Harris/Long/McKenna group, Spectralina, Brochure, Todd Carter, John Daniel,  Xris Espinoza, Carol Genetti, Damon Locks, Tatsuya Nakatani, Joe Namy, Cristal Sabbagh, and Sara Zalek. He has released his compositions on Hausu Mountain, Reserve Matinee, LINE, Rural Situationis, and Room40 labels. Calumet in Dub, his soundtrack to his installation exhibited at the Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago, is his latest solo release on Blorpus Editions.