Ross Bencina composes music utilising computers to generate and process sound. Often sounds from the real-world provide starting points, sometimes live instrumentalists provide acoustic input. More often than not, improvisation is an important element of Ross' live performance practice. Ross studied electroacoustic composition in the Latrobe University Music Department. He has performed and been broadcast around Australia and Canada. Ross develops shareware music software called AudioMulch which is available on the internet at http://www.audiomulch.com/

Keith Thorman Hunter graduated with honours from the Canberra School of Music studying percussion under Michael Askill. Keith has performed with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, State Orchestra of Victoria, Geminani Chamber Orchestra, re-sound, Canberra Wind Soloists, Mr. Ting's Chinese Orchestra, was a soloist with the Canberra Youth Orchestra, and has performed live on New Music Australia, ABC Classic FM.

Keith has studied electro-acoustic composition with David Hirst at La Trobe University and has travelled to the United States where he participated in percussion lessons with David Johnson, John Bergamo and Fernando Meza.

As a composer/performer Keith has collaborated with numerous other art forms including Skylark Puppet Theatre, Sue Healy's Vis à Vis Dance Canberra and In Between a contemporary dance production for the 1998 Next Wave Festival. Keith has also co-founded music theatre trio Talking Drums. Talking Drums has performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Moomba and in the Melbourne Fringe Festival. The Wicked Festival has also commissioned this group to produce Storm, which will be performed at Gasworks Art Park (Planet ART) in August 2000.

In 2000 Keith founded one + one an improvised music duo. So far one + one has been heard on Radio National's Sound Quality program, Triple J's Creatures of the Spotlight and live over the internet on RTRFM's Difficult Listening Website.

As a flautist, Melanie performs regularly with contemporary music ensemble re-sound and is featured as a soloist on their latest self titled CD.

Interested in collaboration and mixed media, Melanie has also played with electronic dance groups White Sirens, tree and Hybrid Intelligence. Melanie toured with White Sirens to Adelaide for Womadelaide '98.

In July 1999 she attended a two-day workshop with experimental improviser Jim Denley of Machine for Making Sense. Currently Melanie is completing her Honours in Composition at Monash University under Thomas Reiner and is a member of RMIT's sound collective, ((tRansMIT)).

Newton Armstrong is a composer/performer working with technologies of sound. Current work is based around the implementation in software of real-time generative systems that are erratically sensitive to input from haptic controllers.

Recent projects include Not yet (Not yet and the death of the diaspora); an opera, of sorts, with Chris Mann. And unsaying, for cantor with various electronic appendages; an extended mangling of texts by 13thC Sephardic Kabbalist/combinatoric poet Abraham Abulafia.

Tim O'Dwyer is a saxophonist, improviser and composer. He has studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, and in Amsterdam and London, where his teachers included Richard Barrett and Evan Parker.

Tim often performs solo and with his group Bucketrider, as well as being a member of ELISION Ensemble. He has played with Spiderbait and has performed at the Perth Festival, the Melbourne Jazz Festival, the Melbourne Festival and the Big Day Out.

Vox Australis released his solo CD, Solo sax show, in 1999. Tim also appears on ELISION Ensemble's CD, The Intertwining, the chasm, and several Bucketrider CDs. He also runs the "Make It Up Club", a regular improvisation evening, upstairs at The Planet café in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

Melita White is a composer and flautist, originally from Adelaide. She has studied at the Canberra School of Music and Flinders Street School of Music and is currently studying Arts as a Dean's Scholar at Monash University.

Melita has had over sixty of her compositions performed since she began composing, including performances by Auricle, the Seraphim Trio, The Firm, ACME New Music Co., flautist Geoffrey Collins, pianist Anna Goldsworthy, and soprano Tessa Miller.

She has had works performed at the National Portrait Gallery in London, at the 1998 Barossa Music Festival, and at the 3rd Australian Women's Music Festival in Sydney. Her music has been broadcast on national and local radio stations.

Melita founded Auricle in 1995, and has directed and administered four seasons of concerts for the ensemble. She was administrator for the Seraphim Trio's 1999 Gallery Series, held in conjunction with the Art Gallery of South Australia.

In January 2000 she took part in a two day workshop with Philip Glass, as part of the Perth International Festival's OSSIA program.

Alexander Waterman studied cello with Andor Toth, George Neikrug and Frances Marie Uitti. Trained as a classical musician Waterman has given premieres of works by composers such as Brian Ferneyhough and Param Vir. Since moving to Holland in 1998, he has focused on improvising with ad hoc ensembles and solo, and composed music for dance, theatre and film.

He is also interested in new instruments and is developing a new string interface at STEIM-the electroacoustic institute in Amsterdam, and working on his Masters in composition and electro-acoustic music at the Institute for Sonology in The Hague.

He has collaborated with the Freiburg Ballett and Amanda Miller, works in the Magpie Music and Dance Company from Amsterdam and is active in creating new installations and work for alternative spaces.

He has performed in the U.S., Japan, Holland, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, and Great Britain and works regularly with musicians and composers such as Mary Oliver, Tristan Honsinger, Richard Barrett, Steve Heather, and Jon Rose.

As a performer he has moved into work that includes not only extreme music but extreme physical activity and is seen on stage with or without cello in varying states of mind and body.

Auricle is a new music ensemble hailing from Adelaide, administered and directed by composer Melita White. A number of outstanding musicians, new music specialists and ensembles, have come together since 1996, to play under the banner of Auricle, which is, by definition, a flexible new music ensemble.

Auricle is flexible also in terms of its programming. Its many concerts have presented new music from a wide range of sources: emerging and established Australian composers, classic 20th Century repertoire, improvisation, and electro-acoustic music.

Musicians that have worked with Auricle include pianist Anna Goldsworthy, cellist Zoë Barry, violinist Michael Milton, composer/flautist Melita White, and electro-acoustic improviser Ross Bencina. The group has presented twelve concerts to date (mostly in Adelaide), including a performance at the 3rd Australian Women's Music Festival in Sydney.

Autonomic will be Auricle's first concert in Melbourne, presenting some of the finest musicians and composers Melbourne has to offer. We look forward to your company on the night.

email: melitawhite@hotmail.com