Mats Gustafsson is a Swedish free jazz saxophonist, improviser, and composer. His wide-ranging work spans free jazz, rock, electronics, noise, and collaborations with theatre and dance ensembles. He has released more than 250 albums and performed over 2,000 concerts worldwide. He has collaborated with artists such as Sonic Youth, Faust, Dälek, Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Neneh Cherry, Ken Vandermark, The Ex, Merzbow, Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide, and many others.

Erwan Keravec, a genre-crossing composer and Great Highland bagpipe player from Brittany, moves at the boundaries of folk music, classical music, free jazz, noise, and stage music. He belongs to the same class of boundary-defying improvisers as his frequent collaborators, the renowned experimental composer and visionary Heiner Goebbels and Swedish saxophonistMats Gustafsson. His current projects include an adaptation of the legendary composition In C by American minimalist pioneer Terry Riley for a 20-piece bagpipe ensemble, as well as the project 8 Pipers for Philip Glass, which was presented at the Respect Festival in 2024 at Akropolis.

Otomo Yoshihide is a Japanese musician, composer, and producer and one of the most prominent figures in experimental music and free jazz. He became known for his radical use of the turntable as an instrument and for merging improvisation, noise, and electroacoustic music. In the 1990s, he led the bandGround Zero, which combined free jazz, punk energy, and sound collage. He also gained international recognition as the composer of the soundtrack for the TV series Amachan (2013).He has collaborated with numerous major artists, including John Zorn, Peter Brötzmann, Keiji Haino, and Christian Marclay. His work has significantly influenced the development of contemporary improvised and experimental music.