Ajay Kapur (Sitar and EDholak)
Ajay Kapur graduated with a BSE computer science degree from Princeton University in 2002. He studied tabla and sitar in Mumbai, India, for 6 months this year at the Alla Rakha Institute of Music and The Ustad Siraj Khan Institute of Sitar. Ajay has been playing percussion instruments for 12 years while studying world rhythms, composition, Indian classical theory, and computer based music theory. He is currently a music technology researcher and developer at Princeton University, working with his mentor and guru Professor Perry Cook. http://cs.princeton.edu/sound/people/ajay

Perry Cook (DigitalDoo)
Perry R. Cook attended the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music from 1973 to 1977, studying voice and electronic music. He worked as a sound engineer and designer from 1976 - 1981. He received the BA in music 1985, and the BS in Electrical Engineering in 1986 from UMKC. He received a Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1990. He continued at Stanford's Technical Director of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, until joining the faculty of Princeton University in 1996, where he is now Associate Professor of Computer Science, with a joint appointment in Music. He has published nearly 100 technical/music papers, and presented lectures throughout the world on the acoustics of the voice and musical instrument simulation, human perception of sound, and interactive devices for expressive musical performance.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc

Ge Wang (Digital Spoon)
Ge Wang received his B.S. in computer science from Duke University in 2000, and is currently a graduate student of Perry Cook in Computer Science at Princeton University. Ge studies and researches computer music languages, interactive systems for synthesis, composition, performance, and physical modeling.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~gewang

Philip Davidson (Real-Time Graphics)
Philip Davidson is a Brooklyn-based graphics programmer and visual artist. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Princeton University.
http://veldt.lobitlandscapes.org/

Dan Truman (6-string electric Violin and RBow)
Dan Trueman is a composing performer on both the 6-string electric violin and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. He has been active as an experimental instrument designer and has built sensor bows, spherical speakers, and the Bowed-Sensor-Speaker-Array (BoSSA). Dan is an assistant professor of music, teaching composition and electronic music at Princeton University.
http://music.princeton.edu/~dan

Tae Hong Park (Bass Guitar)
Tae Hong Park received his B.E degree in Electronics at Korea University in 1994 and has worked in the area of digital communication systems and digital musical keyboards at the GoldStar Central Research Laboratory in Seoul, Korea from 1994 to 1998. He received his M.A. from Dartmouth’s Electroacoustic Music Program in June 2000 and is currently a Ph.D. student at Princeton’s Composition program. His current interests are primarily in musical and technical issues in computer and electroacoustic music, which include composition and research in multi-dimensional aspects of timbre.
http://silvertone.princeton.edu/~park

Manjul Bhargava (Tabla and EDholak)
Manjul received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 2001. He is now a Long-Term Prize Fellow with the Clay Mathematics Institute, and holds visiting positions at both Harvard University and Princeton University. As a child, he learned classical Indian music in Jaipur, India, and has since studied tabla extensively from his gurus Pandit Prem Prakash Sharma and Ustad Zakir Hussain. This concert marks Manjul's first performance on the "EDholak".