Louis d'Heudières is a composer, sound artist and researcher based in Hamburg. He works across the mediums of writing, live performance and installation to speculatively (re)imagine pasts, presents and futures of musical production and reception. His work has been performed, shown or broadcast in everything from underground corners of small DIY scenes to state-funded international festivals, galleries and museums. His collaborations with Annika Kahrs have included music for sound and video installations at the 16th Lyon Biennale, IMAGINE THE CITY Hamburg and Berlin Festspiele, amongst many others.

Annika Kahrs lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin. She has been awarded a number of prizes and scholarships including Villa Aurora, L.A., USA; VILA SUL, Brazil; Max-Pechstein-Förderpreis; Stiftung Kunstfonds; and the George-Maciunas-Förderpreis donated by René Block. Kahrs has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at the 16^th Lyon Biennale, at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin; 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art; Kunsthalle Bremerhaven; Savvy Contemporary, Berlin; On the Road exhibition project in Santiago de Compostela; the Bienal Internacional de Curitiba, Brazil; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Hybrid Art Festival in Moscow; KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin; Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Goldsmiths University of London; Flat Time House, London, and the Velada de Santa Lucia festival in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Alessandra Buonanno is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute). She studied theoretical physics in Pisa, and held faculty positions in Paris and at the University of Maryland, where she became full professor in 2010. She is a Principal Investigator of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and a member of the LISA Consortium Board. Buonanno is interested in understanding the origin and nature of black holes and neutron stars in our universe through the observation of gravitational waves. For her contributions to gravitational-wave research, she was awarded several prizes, including the 2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz prize – the most prestigious research prize in Germany. In 2021 she was co-awarded the Galileo Galilei Medal, the Dirac Medal and the Balzan Prize. She received the 2022 Tomalla Prize for her outstanding work on gravitational-wave physics. She is an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, of the US National Academy of Sciences, of the Italian National Academy of Sciences, and of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Buonanno is a Fellow of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, and of the American Physical Society. She holds a research professorship at the University of Maryland, and honorary professorships at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and at the University of Potsdam.