Seven Leg Spider Tim Wright and John Richards have worked on numerous projects together since the 1990s, most notably in the group Sand who have released three albums on Soul Jazz Records. Despite their work together, they have had separate career paths. Tim Wright’s music has been released under his own name and a host of pseudonyms by some of the key electronic record labels of the last fifteen years, including Mute Records and Tresor. He has remixed artists such as Goldfrapp, Cristian Vogel, Laurent Garnier and Scorn. John Richards’ work explores performing with self-made instruments and the creation of interactive environments. He is known for his work with electro-noise improvisers kREEPA and collaborations with Nic Bullen, Vex’d and Merzbow, and directing the Dirty Electronics Ensemble. In 2007, they began collaborations as Seven Leg Spider to explore the crossover between dance music, noise, improvisation and visual arts. They have worked with Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara to create the music for Glass Fragments of Time that involved dancers performing on a bed of thousands of broken glass pieces; and in 2008 they presented a paper discussing their work at the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA). In 2009 they produced copper, a limited edition 8cm mini CD with handmade stamped solid copper back plate individually patinated. Their current works is concerned with the symbiotic relationship between sound, image, found art and sculpture, and the investigation into hybrid systems contact: info@sevenlegspider.com John Richards John Richards’ (1966) work explores performing with self-made instruments and the creation of interactive environments. He performs regularly with electro-noise improvisers kREEPA and the post-punk group Sand (Soul Jazz Records), and is he is actively involved in the performance of improvised music and community music projects. He is also a founder member of the composers’ collective nerve8: an experimental electroacoustic diffusion group. In 2002, his work with kREEPA helped initiate the OIK project at STEIM, Amsterdam, that involved the hacking of commercially available hardware to create economic musical interfaces. He has worked with many leading improvisers and musicians in the field of live electronics and has performed extensively across the globe, predominantly in Europe, as well as Japan, Australia and the USA. Recent concerts have included performances at IRCAM, Paris, Fylkingen, Sweden, the Bent Festival, Los Angeles, and Sonar, Barcelona. His work has received support from the Arts Council of England, The Performing Rights Society Foundation, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He has written numerous articles on hybridity, post-digital theory and dirty electronics: DIY and bricolage approaches to working with sound. John Richards completed a doctorate in electroacoustic composition at the University of York, UK, in 2002, and he is currently part of the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Since 1990, he has also taught improvisation at Dartington International Summer School. www.jsrichards.com Tim Wright Tim Wright (1969) is an enigmatic character. Bearded and softly spoken, he is the unlikely producer of some of the most ground-breaking and genre defying electronic dance music since the early 1990s. Falling between the cracks has been Tim's speciality. Seemingly always going against the grain of current musical trends, his music has often been described as years ahead of its time, or simply ignored by music press and fashionistas. His music as Germ (1992 to date) has been described as "one of the most influential, under-recognized forces of innovation in the European experimental electronic music scene" (Sean Cooper, All Music Guide). Glitchy, bass heavy and unpredictable, Germ offers ghostly pre-echos of the current dubstep and minimal genres. He has attracted the support of some of the key electronic record labels of the last fifteen years with album and single releases on Mute Records, Tresor, General Production Recordings, PIAS, Sativae and has remixed artists from Scorn, through Crsitian Vogel to Laurent Garnier and Goldfrapp. His work has been released eponymously and under the pseudonyms Tube Jerk, Moondog, Pin, Germ and Jackson Clark. He has performed live extensively in Europe, in Japan, Australia and the US with notable dates including Sonar by Night and Transmusicales in 2004. Tim currently works as a sound designer and composer with Saburo Tesshigawara and Karas. He is also a founder member of Sand (Soul Jazz Records) and is recording engineer for New Flesh (Big Dada/Ninja Tune). www.timwrightmusic.com