Niloufar Shiri’s musical world lies at the intersection of classical Iranian music, contemporary music, and improvisation. Her focus revolves around exploring the concept of displacement in relation to familiar and distant environments. Her music closely examines textural and timbral spaces, drawing inspiration from staggered pitch relations found in the Radif, as well as bird sounds, noise, and feedback. Her unique and radical approach to kamancheh performance significantly expands the sonic capabilities of the instrument and places her at the forefront of its practice. 

Jessika Kenney is a vocalist, composer, sound artist, writer, educator, and improviser channeling warbled poetics and visceral blossoms through studied and experiential learning towards liberatory possibility. Her recorded work includes the exegetical nuances of the album "Atria" on Sige, as well as six acclaimed records in collaboration with Eyvind Kang including 2023's "Azure" on Ideologic Organ. Kenney's work always remains close in spirit to her punk roots, revealing a sonic imagination that hovers on the edge of knowability, from her recording of Alvin Lucier's final vocal piece "So You" with Charles Curtis, Anthony Burr and Tom Erbe on Black Truffle, to Sarah Davachi's "Two Sisters" recorded remotely with Dorothy Berry.  Kenney has also recorded and performed with Niloufar Shiri, Lori Goldston, Holland Andrews, Trimpin, Simone Forti, and Melati Suryadarmo. Her early work includes renegade shadow theater, punk bands, compositions for choir and orchestra, as well as sound and video installations, including Anchor Zero, filling 5 rooms at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle in 2015.