some colleagues, friends, mentors, influences :

Bohob Rainey
soprano saxophone and super collider luminary from Boston
Los Glissandinos
Kai Fagaschinski and Klaus Philip band
Burkhard Beins
Berlin based percussionist
Michael Renkel
Berlin based guitarist
David Gross
alto saxophone, Boston
Nicolas Collins
composer, Chicago
Sukandar Kartadinata
Instrument inventor, Berlin
Ignaz Schick
B erlin based turntablist, sound artist and label mastermind
Greg Kelley
B oston based trumpet player
Chris Forsyth
guitarist nyn
Werner Herzog
movie director, artist, writer
Terre Thaemliz
musician, artist, Japan
Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin
Maulwerker
performance and music theater ensemble, Berlin
John Duncan
sound artist and musician, now based in Bologna
Antje Vowinckel
radio and sound artist, director, Berlin
Eric La Casa
sound artist, Paris
Andreas Bick
sound artist, filmusic composer, Berlin
Sven Ake Johannson
sound and visual artist, one of berlin's living treasures
Fernwaerme
performance collective
mpld
mpld is gill arno's photo-phonic project.
The Books
one of my favorite bands at the moment..
Michelle Nagai
artist NY
Studiobeige/Beige oscillator
Nicholas Bussman's studio
Larry Peacock
performance group, Berlin.
Christian Kesten
performance artist, vocalist, director, based in berlin
Suzanne Lacy
context artist
Adrian Piper
artist, philosopher
Steffi Weissmann
video and performance artist, based in berlin
Ella Ziegler
context kunstlerin, germany-south africa
Sean Shanahan
artist,dublin-montevecchia
Steve Lacy
soprano saxophonist
Steven Feld
ethnomusicologist, now researching bells
Mike Cooper
musician, traveller

labels, venues, places, resources :

Absinth
Bowindo
e-static
(sound)art gallery. torino.
Fringes
label, milano
Potlatch
run by Jacques Oger in Paris
Grob
Cologne noise label
Rossbin
italian-catalan label run by Alessandro Bianco
hibari music
Taku Unami's label in Tokyo, check out hibari comics too !!
Charhizma
Hapna
Johan Berthlig, Klaas Augustsson Stockholom label
Intransitive
noise label from Boston
Antiopic
web and concrete ny
Addenda
web sound art platform, ny.
Improvised music pages
huge documentation on improvised music
Improvised Music form Japan
A+M bookstore
Ethnologue
huge language atlas, one of my most important work resources and favorite websites !
Echzeitmusik
news about the off scene in Berlin
Klangquadrat
office for media and sound art, Berlin
Metamkine
label, cellule d'intervention audio/film, distributor
Ausland
space for art, music and theory, Berlin