Chris Monson is a musician, composer, film animator, and computer programmer. He served as animator and tools programmer for the four episode animated series INC’d (2014 – 2016), produced by Tom Rasky.

He also served as animator, sound-engineer, and co-director (with Tom Rasky) for the animated short Journey to the Moon (2017), which was selected for the “Animation Block Party” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and he was also animator and co-director of Michelle Rasky’s music video, Dancing on My Own (2021).

His composing, performance, and sound engineering can be heard on his recent jazz album, Seldom in the Well (2018).

Tom Rasky is an independent filmmaker, animator, cinematographer, jazz musician, sound engineer, and visual artist.

His production credits include: A People Uncounted (2012), the first full-length documentary concerning the fate of the Roma during the Holocaust, which was nominated for the Producers Guild of America Award; Dolls of Darkness, (2017) a feature film that explores the mysteries and profundities of dolls, puppets and marionettes in the context of the grotesque rag dolls of contemporary French artist Michel Nedjar;  the animated short Journey to the Moon (2017); the animated mini-series INC’d, (2019), for which he and his team have developed several new animation techniques; the critically acclaimed jazz album Seldom in the Well (2018).  

As a sound engineer, he has recorded many major artists in all genres of music on the Toronto scene, including work on several Juno Award winning albums.

Alex Waterman is a composer, performer, producer, and scholar, exploring how social bodies could interact in more musical ways. He has created a diverse body of works including sound installations, television operas, film and video works, exhibitions, amateur choral works, radio and film scores, and solo performances as a cellist, electronic musician and storyteller.

His work has been shown at the ICA London, The Kitchen, Miguel Abreu Gallery,Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, the Serpentine, White Columns, Swiss Institute, Eva Presenhuber Gallery, and the Whitney Museum.

Alex Waterman and Robert Ashley were artists in the 2014 Whitney Biennial where he built a television studio and installation space inside the Whitney Museum and directed three of Ashley’s operas.

He has produced five books on poetics and musical notation with British typographer Will Holder.

Allen S. Weiss is the author and editor of over forty books in the fields of performance theory, landscape architecture, gastronomy, sound art, and experimental theater, including Le livre bouffon (a novel about the poet Baudelaire) and Métaphysique de la miette (a culinary autobiography).

He directed Theater of the Ears (a play for electronic marionette and taped voice based on the writings of Valère Novarina, which ended its run at the Festival Off Avignon), and Danse Macabre (a marionette theater for the dolls of Michel Nedjar, most recently produced at the Centre Pompidou Metz).

His radio productions have appeared on France Culture, France Musique and Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and he produced (with Tom Rasky) Dolls of Darkness, a documentary film on Michel Nedjar.

His work has been supported by Fulbright, Japan Society, and Étant donnés grants, and he is Distinguished Teacher in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.