Benjamin Shirley is a musician, composer, educator, and organizer based in Atlanta, GA. He has sought to incorporate his love of avant-garde jazz, old-time string music, and experimental classical traditions into a dynamic, creative, and personal vernacular.  As a cellist, he has performed in hundreds of concerts across the U.S. and Europe with groups such as Faun and a Pan Flute, Mute Sphere, BASrelief, Whispers of Night, Artifactual String Unit, Atlanta Improvisers Orchestra, Bent Frequency, and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. In 2018, Benjamin founded the Past Now Tomorrow record label to document and foreground the creative music happening in Atlanta and beyond.

Matthew Zhou is a third year undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science with threads in Intelligence and Systems & Architecture and a minor in Mathematics. He has taken piano lessons with Mr. David Kuperstein since the age of five and throughout high school. He has won various international piano competitions, and as the winner of the Howard County High School Concerto Competition, Matthew performed Beethoven’s 1st Piano Concerto with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2019. Most recently, he was the winner of the 2022 GTSO Concerto Competition, and performed Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra.

Jeremy Muller (jeremymuller.com) is a percussionist, composer, and multimedia artist. He’s been described as “highly creative” by Take Effect and has performed as a featured soloist at many venues throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia including International Computer Music Conference, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Transplanted Roots, MoxSonic, NYCEMF, ZeroSpace, Southwest Electroacoustic Festival, Jacksonville Electroacoustic Music Festival, IEEE VIS conference, Art on the ATL BeltLine, Balance-Unbalance International Conference, the Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, and PASIC. He has given world premieres of works by many composers including Matthew Burtner, Alexandre Lunsqui, Cristyn Magnus, and an evening-length tour de force solo work by Stuart Saunders Smith. Jeremy released his debut solo percussion album on Albany records which includes several world premieres, and his music can also be heard on Arcomusical’s third album “Emigre & Exile.”

Praised by The New York Times for her “appealingly melancholic sound” and “entertaining array of distortion effects,” Alexandria Smith is a multimedia artist, audio engineer, scholar, trumpeter, and educator that enjoys working at the intersection of all these disciplines. Her creative  practice and research interests focus on building, designing,  theorizing, and performing with wearable electronics that translate  embodied, biological data into interactive sonic and visual environments. To explore how electronic music is embodied through  practice, she has been experimenting with ways to integrate biofeedback  training and sensor observation into her electronic music, build  controllers that go beyond keyboards and drum pads, and perform with  interactive visual environments. Her research in this interdisciplinary  area was recently published in Arcana Musicians on Musicians X and presented at MOXsonic.

In Fall 2023, Alexandria Smith will be joining the faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor of Music Technology. She recieved her Ph.D. from  the University of California, San Diego, and holds an M.M. and B.M. from  Mannes the New School for Music.