Luke Wyland
Luke Wyland is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and cultural organizer based in Portland, Oregon. As a person who stutters, his work is rooted in disability justice and the rich terrain of speech diversity. In collaboration with the nonprofit SPACE, he curates the Library of Dysfluent Voices—a first-of-its-kind living archive that reimagines stuttering as a generative, expressive mode of communication. Through sound art, community exchange, and immersive installation, he explores the textures of voice and the politics of fluency, inviting new ways of listening and learning.

For over two decades, Wyland has released critically acclaimed music with the groups AU and Methods Body, as LWW, and under his own name, working with labels including New Amsterdam, Beacon Sound, Balmat, The Leaf Label, and Aagoo Records. He has performed internationally at venues and festivals such as the Whitney Museum, Ecstatic Music Festival, Issue Project Room, PICA’s TBA Festival, End of the Road, and Les Nuits Botanique.

Briana Marela
Briana Marela is a Peruvian American composer, vocalist, and performing artist based out of Oakland, CA. Using her voice as a focal point, she makes use of visually engaging elements of tech augmented gestures and objects to compose and perform her music live. Her gestural and lyrical song performances draw from elements of both experimental electronic music and vocal driven pop music. Using a visual programming language and machine learning, she is able to make custom tools to create compositions with varying fixed elements that transition into moments of improvisation. She was most recently a spatial sound artist in residence at Audium in San Francisco for their residency New Voices IV, performing her multi-channel piece live every weekend from February to April 2025. She is currently a Montalvo Lucas Arts Music and Composition fellow. She received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College in 2020.

Her newest full length release My Inner Rest, is due to be released on June 6th 2025 via AKP Recordings. Marela has self-released past albums, as well as releasing records with Jagjaguwar, Surface World and PIAPTK.