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Kajsa Antonsson (SE) recently finished her BA in composition at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg, Sweden. She did her last year at Universität der Künste in Berlin, where she is currently based. In her practice, Kajsa explores how sound exists in relation to bodies and how bodily presence and other multisensorial impulses silently shapes the experiences of music. Her works often seeks to decentralize the audible aspect of sound through focusing on tactile interaction with various materials. Kajsa has been an active member of Konstmusiksystrar since joining in summer 2015, and has been involved as producer in several of the network’s projects. In 2016 – 2017, she collaborated with composers Kajsa Magnarsson and Madeleine Jonsson Gille, with the network’s own ensemble KS Rock at 24kvm in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2019, Kajsa was nominated chairperson of the inter-nordic organization and festival Young Nordic Music (UNM).

Letizia Carigiet holds a Master degree in German Literature (focus on Medieval German Literature and Digital Humanities), gained a diverse range of experience in organisations working on gender equality and youth policy, has been working for Helvetiarockt for 1.5 years as project manager of the Female Bandworkshops, which offers young women their first band and stage experience

Evelyn Saylor is a composer and performer living in Berlin, originally from New York City. She writes electronic music for the concert, for the theater, for modern dance, and for film. She finds arresting sounds in unexpected places and explores their materiality and sonic properties in her compositions through close recording and electronic manipulation. Found and created instruments, synthesis, processing, field recordings, and the human voice play a large role in her music. She has performed her work in the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper, the Akademie der Künste, HAU2, Dock 11, and other spaces in Berlin, and has received performances in Merkin Hall and Trinity Church Wall Street in New York, in California, and throughout Europe. As a composer, she regularly collaborates with the choreographer Ruben Reniers, as well as with the artist Holly Herndon as a performer. She has received commissions from the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, the Heroines of Sound Festival, the Orfeo Duo and the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City, and was the recipient of the Mellon Elemental Arts Award. She received her BA in composition from Pomona College in southern California and her MA in electronic music composition from the Universität der Künste Berlin. She currently teaches electronic music at the Universität der Künste Berlin, and is co-founder and current active member of FEM*_ MUSIC*_ at UdK Berlin. Evelyn Saylor is also active as a singer, performer, pianist, synth player, and sound technician for live electronics.

Klara Andersson is a sound artist and composer working with questions of identity, hierarchies and power. Through her art she researches unexplored digital materials and human stories like archaeological artifacts from her generation; chat conversations, webcam videos, forgotten websites which contain information about our times. Text, sound and the performative presence are all tools which borderless moves the works between different artforms and contexts where sound is allowed to act more or less musically.