Tom Dale Company

With music released by Mordant Music, and Rough Trade.  Sam Shackleton began working with Laurie ‘Appleblim’ Osborne in 2005 releasing tracks together on their newly created Skull Disco label as well as running the (now defunct) Skull Disco nights in London. His maverick take on big basslines and complex beats doesn’t fit into easy categories, although associated with Dubstep. Shackleton has been carving out his own brand of eclecticism with intricate, snaking percussion, hypnotic melodies, seriously deep bass lines and dubwise sensibilities.

Sophie Clements a visual artist working specifically in relation to sound and music.  Her recent work includes a six hour sculpture/live performance with Scanner at the ROH, visuals with Tal Rosner for Thomas Ades’ arrangement of ‘Study No.7′ commissioned by the Barbican, video for J.Peter Schwaim at Punkt Festival 08 as well as video for music with the National Youth Orchestra and the Barbican and music videos for Jamie Woon, John Hendicott and Scanner.

Jo is a London based composer/producer and Bass player. He studied Double Bass and Electronic music at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama. His credits include work with Brian Eno, Joanna MacGregor and the BBC symphony orchestra, collaborations with Wampa, Royce Rolls and Reprazents Onallee.

He has performed at many of Europes leading concert halls including The Albert Hall, Viennas’ Konzerthause and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.  He regularly performs across the UK with Live Drum and Bass Band Sion, Samson and A Flexible Harmonica.

Jo is part of production team Hooligan, working on remixes for various artists/labels and creating music for TV and Film.

Jow_FishY on MySpace

Mo Stoebe has previously worked with Kode9 and The Spaceape. HE holds an MA from the Royal College of Art.  Recent exhibits and festivals; ‘Milano Film Festival’, Milan, Sept 2008, ‘Il Gesto Del Suono’, Milan, Bozen, July 2008, ‘Global Dialogue’, Shine Art Space, Shanghai, October 2007, ‘Cybersonica’, event at Tate Britan, London, June 2007

Guy Wood is a drummer, producer, composer and arranger currently based in London. He has studied Jazz drum kit, Contemporary and Classical Orchestral Percussion, Composition and various world musics, at Leeds College of Music and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.  His multi-faceted work as a musician has seen him working as a music leader for the RPO, LSO, NYO, Symphonia Viva and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  Collaborations include such luminaries as: Brian Eno, Mike Garrick, Martin Hathaway, Seb Rochford, Brains and Hunch, Johnathan Bratoeff, Pete Wareham, Tom Arthurs, Dave O’Brien (Porpoise Corpus), Netsayi, Justin Adams (Robert Plant and the Sensations), Kdelight, TMDuke (Tru Thoughts Records), Nel Catchpole, Chris James (Stateless) and Alice Russell.

Ben’s recent lighting design for dance includes Handmade/Manmade for Wired Aerial Theatre (Royal Opera House and tours), Quick! – the winner of the Place Prize 2006 – for Nina Rajarani, Forest for Maxine Doyle and Felix Barrett (Place Prize semi-finalist, 2006), and Noor for Anurekha Ghosh (international tour, 2007).

His recent lighting design for theatre includes It Is Like It Ought To Be – A Pastoral for Uninvited Guests (national tour 2006), Frozen at Theatre by the Lake (2006), national tours of Shiver and Bella and the Beautiful Knight for Silver Tongue Theatre (2005-7), and This Lime Tree Bower for The Young Vic (Theatre 503, 2005).

Recent devising work includes I Am Waiting For The Opportunity To Save Someone’s Life (Mailbox, 2006) the lighting design for which is featured in the Collaborators: UK Design for Performance exhibition at the V&A.

Ben has also recently collaborated with artist Lali Chetwynd, on her performance events The Fall of Man – A Puppet Extravaganza (Tate Britain, 2006) and Delirious (Serpentine Pavilion, 2006).

For more details, and photographs, of his previous work, please visit www.benpacey.co.uk

Dan Coppock’s website

Tom has also collaborated with Cassetteboy on the place prize 2006 piece, “Whose Futures”.

Cassetteboy is the stage name of Steve Warlin and Michael Bollen (an author and librarian from Brighton). It was only upon the confirmation of their third album’s release date in 2008 that they came forward and made their identities known. Their initial appearance was on the Di and Dodi Do Die 7″ Record released on the record label Barry’s Bootlegs which is somehow related to the electronic music label Spymania. As well as producing two albums of their own, they have appeared on an album with DJ Rubbish entitled Inside A Whale’s Cock Vol 1, which includes humorous cover versions of songs by Alanis Morissette and Jennifer Lopez (a skiffle cover of “Jenny from the block”), along with a parodical take on a song by The Streets.

Their musical approach can be traced from the origins of sampling, musique concrète and the modern approach sometimes called plunderphonics. Most pieces are painstakingly constructed from thousands of audio snippets taken from TV, radio, film and popular music; The Parker Tapes was constructed using the laborious, primitive process of manually splicing segments of audio together via a two-deck tape system, or “ghettoblaster”; later albums are constructed digitally using sound editing software.

The context of their work is often political, but always maintains a humorous aspect.

Cassetteboy on MySpace