People Like Us People Like Us Since 1991 Vicki Bennett has been producing music, radio art and video work under the name People Like Us. She has released 3 CD's and a host of records in both Holland and America. She has created sound works for Radio Brandenburg (Germany), Radio 100 (Holland), KPFA, KBOO, Free Radio Berkeley & KFJC (USA) and regularly broadcasts her work on Holland's VPRO. Vicki has frequently collaborated with a variety of audio and visual artists and Spring 1999 sees the release of a CD of remixes by 24 of these groups.

Wobbly
Wobbly began in 1990 as a weekly live mix radio program in Santa Barbara. Shifting participants, content ranging from talk radio parody/critique & cut-ups to narratives to improvisatory tape-electronic sound. Upon relocating to San Francisco in 1994, Wobbly was acquired by the super powerful corporation General Injectables and Signals, and annexed to the Digital Adepts Program as a content provider. Wobbly recordings remain white dots of sound. Documentation of their pure radio work, structured isolationist long form compositions, and by demand, found songs.

photo by Erick Gallun

Mr. Meridies' Optimization Routine Mr. Meridies Mr. Meridies = Bob Boster's thin veil of anonymity in the face of a systematic pattern of cultural poaching. The Optimization Routine includes a dynamic mapping of collage, performance art, found sound, and improvisational elements which will respond to the specific needs of the assembled audience, thereby maximizing their receptive capacities. The Optimization Routine will resemble, but not replicate previous mappings as documented by Illegal Art's _Deconstructing Beck_ CD, Friction Media's _Cognitive Mapping Vol 2_ CD, or Mr. Meridies own eponymous release, as well as various live incarnations. We hope you will consider this one-time shareware package for use with your personal operating system. The Optimization Routine is not Microsoft Certified.
photo by Jon Van Oast

Steev Hise Steev Hise Currently based in San Francisco, Steev Hise has been making experimental music, performance art, and video since approximately 1990. At California Institute of the Arts he studied composition with Morton Subotnick and Wadada Leo Smith, sound design with Tom Erbe, and critical theory with Dick Hebdige. He has performed across North America. His work centers around appropriation and recontextualization of pre-existing culture, in other words, making new art from the old. Steev's recordings appear on several Viral Communications releases and on the Illegal Art compilation _Deconstructing Beck_. For more information on his work and VirComm, see http://www.detritus.net/steev, or write to vircomm@cyborganic.net. At Cosmos Steev will be performing with his sampletar, a hybrid computer/sampler/guitar instrument of his own design. Experimental vocalist Merlin Coleman will also make a guest appearance during Steev's set.
photo by Jon Van Oast