Bitpanic is a computer music collective based in Los Angeles that explores networked compositional systems, experimental sound practices, and improvisation. The group follows the computer music lineage pioneered by The Hub. Current members are all former students and colleagues of The Hub co-founder Mark Trayle and include Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, David Paha, Stephanie Smith, and Clay Chaplin.

Casey Anderson (they / them) is designing and repurposing technologies to activate participatory practice, primarily involving explorations of sound, in diverse cultures and communities. Performances, exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA - Los Angeles (CA), ISSUE Project Room (NY), STEIM (NL), Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL), Mass MOCA (MA), The Walker Art Center (MN), and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (CA). Over the last two decades they have lead numerous initiatives at the intersection of arts programming and community organization, including hybrid web-journal/festivals (the Experimental Music Yearbook, with John P. Hastings and Scott Cazan), as well as community arts centers/venues like Trade School (with Arden Stern), the wulf., BETALEVEL, and Machine Project. As an educator they have taught at ArtCenter College of Design and UCLA. They currently live in Los Angeles, California, own and operate the organizational initiative a wave, and teach at KAOS Network.

https://www.caseyanderson.work/

Scott Cazan is composer, performer, and sound artist from Los Angeles working in experimental music, sound installation, and software art exploring cybernetics, aesthetic computing, and emergent forms resulting from human interactions with technology. His work often involves the use of psychoacoustics and feedback networks where misunderstanding and chaotic elements act as a catalyst for emergent forms in art and sound.

https://scottcazan.com/about

Clay Chaplin is an electronic musician, improviser, and audio engineer from Los Angeles who explores the realms of sampling, field recording, analog electronics, and computer synthesis for creative sonic expression.    His solo performances often utilize custom electronics in combination with computer processing and stochastic code structures to create chaotic instruments for improvisation.

https://claychaplin.com/

DP is a composer and visual artist based in Chicago, IL

he makes electronic music under the name Fiction Wisdom

plays guitar/keys in the synth pop band BAUGS

the head engineer of Khaki Sounds recording studio in Logan Square

an independent researcher of comparative religion and occult studies 

has a white pitbull named ‘Mac’

https://fictionwisdom.com/

Stephanie Cheng Smith is an L.A.-based composer, performer and programmer who creates interactive pieces, installations, improvisation, and through-composed works. Often using electronics, violin and light elements, Smith’s work stretches from ensemble performances and the realization of others’ scores to a solo practice that has included several projects that each utilize a novel technology-driven instrument of her own devise. Developing software and designing circuitry to control motorized elements, she has imagined a unique hybrid form where physical materials such jingle bells, plastic cups, or pieces of paper can be deliberately – or aleatorically – controlled to “perform” expressive and organic sound events. A recent work, Life Cycles, uses such apparati to vibrate vellum, evoking the sound of cicadas. Smith's 2021 album, Forms, was released on A Wave Press.

https://music.stephiescastle.com/