Hisham Akira Bharoocha is a Brooklyn-based musician and performance maker working across percussion, voice, electronics, and large-scale durational composition. Emerging from Black Dice and shaped through longstanding work with Boredoms, his practice moves between ritual, improvisation, and ecstatic collective sound. He has collaborated with Ikue Mori, Otomo Yoshihide, YoshimiO, and EYE, creating performances as sonic ceremony and embodied experiment. He is a 2026 music resident at Pioneer Works.

Chuck Bettis was raised in the fertile harDCore soil, nourished within Baltimore's enigmatic avant garde gatherings, and currently blossoming in New York's experimental realms. His unique blend of electronics and throat has led him into various collaborations with great musicians from around the globe.
https://chuckbettis.com

NYC-based synthesist Matthew Ryals will present an improvised set for solo modular synthesizer. Described as “a sonic explorer on the frontier of experimental music” (Plastic Mag), Matthew’s music has been praised as “brilliant” (PopMatters) and for treating sounds “as if they were alive, breathing” to create something “truly immersive and unforgettable” (Beats Per Minute).
An active performer as both a soloist and in ensembles, Matthew has been was featured at the High Zero in Baltimore and the Ex Nihilo Festival in Omaha in Fall 2025. Matthew received a 2025 Art Omi: Music Residency, a 2025 Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant, a 2022-23 New Music USA Award and a 2021 IEA Electronic Media Residency.
A dedicated educator, Matthew teaches worldwide, including workshops for Art Science Connect at The CUNY Graduate Center and Indexical in Santa Cruz, CA. He also co-curates Artifact, a Brooklyn-based experimental music series that was awarded a 2025 Brooklyn Arts Council grant.

Kristina Warren is a sound artist, composer and improviser, based on Narragansett land (also known as Providence, Rhode Island). For this hsow at Striped Light, Warren will present a reimagined version of Tusk, her concertina-electronics album (2026). This uses free and structured improvisation to highlight the expansive, chaotic resonance of the concertina, in combination with analog processing. Tusk has been praised as "advanced and innovative" (Frédéric Cardin, PanM360) and "aural inscriptions cast against a smooth surface" (Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis). Recent performances include Flux Festival (Montréal), Synth Library (Prague), MuseumsQuartier (Vienna), Experimentik (Berlin), Light & Sound Design (Brooklyn), and Rhizome (DC).