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Stephanie Economou is a Grammy-winning composer and violinist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her early successes have emerged from her exploration and study of widely varying musical styles, including classical, experimental, folk and rock. Stephanie’s experience in film scoring extends from drama to action to comedy, which has demanded the synthesis of an electronic and acoustic musical palette. It is her uniquely hybridized compositional voice which has proven a valuable asset across a wide spectrum of visual media.

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Arbel Bedak (he/him) is the owner and creative agent at Spectra Creative Agency, representing a diverse roster of media composers, music supervisors, music producers, and songwriters, and a catalog of music for licensing. He is a multi-faceted music creative who has worked across many aspects of music in media over the past decade, from creative sync to publishing to composer representation. A creative at heart, Arbel holds a Bachelor’s degree in composition from UC Davis and is passionate about helping composers at all stages develop their careers, taking a hands-on, collaborative approach to working with artists. He firmly believes in giving more opportunities to a more diverse pool of composers and music supervisors and is committed to raising up marginalized voices and promoting inclusion and diversity in the sync and scoring spaces. 

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Molly Nilsson is a Berlin-based songwriter and performer originally from Stockholm. She releases music on her own Dark Skies Association imprint in partnership with Night School Records. Molly Nilsson's version of synth pop clings tightly to a D.I.Y. approach: she records her albums by herself, runs her own record label, and has released an album almost every year since 2008's These Things Take Time. Her insular, stately approach to synth pop is balanced by the swooping synth melodies and detached grace of her vocals. In 2011, she recorded a version a version of "Hey Moon" from These Things Take Time for  CalArts alum John Maus'  2011 album We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves.

 

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Peder Simonsen is a composer, microtonal tuba player and recording engineer. He works mainly in the fields of improvised and experimental music. His practice is centered around working with the texture and materiality of a tone or a timbre, using techniques from just intonation. He has a strong interest in concepts of time and sound, and love to explore long sustained pitches and pattern repetition.

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Dani is a transgender, Canadian, artist advocate, speaker, and music attorney with over 20 years of experience helping talent creators thrive in the music business. Dani was the VP of Business and Legal Affairs for Suzy Ryoo and Troy Carter’s music company Venice. In addition, Dani founded Oliva Law Group, P.C. in 2017 and since has worked through business, legal, and administrative issues with his clients. Dani’s clients range from GRAMMY Award Winners, Billboard Hot 100 #1 charting songwriters to music merchandising companies.

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Madison Greenstone is a New York based clarinetist whose ‘beautiful and haunting’ playing ‘creeps noisily away from the void’ (Foxy Digitalis). They perform across a wide range of experimental music contexts as a soloist, improvisor, and chamber musician. Madison’s solo performance practice, exstatic resonances, pushes the limits of innate instrumental expressivities by treating the meeting of instrument and embodied technique as creative of a site of indeterminacy and generative instability. Their approach to the clarinet embraces and instigates chaotic timbral actions, difficult-to-reign sonorities, and the harmonically rich and noisy resonances that have a vivid inner life and movement. Their practice embraces responsive listening as a mediator between embodied technique and latent instrumental agency.

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Jonathan Snipes is a composer and sound designer for Film and Theater living in Los Angeles. He teaches sound design in the theater and film departments at UCLA, and is a member of the rap group clipping.

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