Piano pieces produced and performed by Ruben Garcia are available on the CD The Gatekeeper. For more information see closetolerancemusic.org & cdbaby.com

The text for Dancing in Space: Where the Bird Flies was originally written and performed live by Jacki Apple for the Rudy Perez Ensemble premiere performance of Shifts at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, November 2003.

JACKI APPLE is a visual, performance and media artist, audio composer, writer, director, producer, and educator whose interdisciplinary works have been performed, exhibited, and broadcast in art spaces, galleries, museums, theaters, festivals, and on radio internationally, and featured on numerous anthology CDs since the 1970s. In the 1980s Jacki staged a number of interdisciplinary collaborative performance operas, and site specific spectacles, as well as producing many recorded works for New American Radio into the 1990s. A major retrospective of her audio and radio work 1979-1997 was presented at the international SoundCulture '99 festival Auckland, NZ. Jacki's CDs include Thank You For Flying American, ghost.dances, eco-geographies, L.A. Noir, and Star Tripping. From 1982-95, she was the producer/host of Soundings, a weekly one hour radio show featuring performance, sound, and music works, KPFK-FM, Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles. Jacki's performance works since 2000 include A Stone's Throw... (with Julie Adler), Kokoro No Mai, and a live spoken word performance for Rudy Perez's Shifts. She was the creator, and co-producer with Julie Adler of the annual EARJAM new music festival in Los Angeles 2000-2004. Jacki is an adjunct professor at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.

BRUCE FOWLER is a musician, composer, and orchestrator whose work has encompassed a wide range of musical forms from experimental new music to jazz to rock. Renowned for his explorations of the sound possibilities of the trombone, Bruce played with Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart in the 1970s and toured with Toshiko Akiyoshi. He also composed scores for numerous theater, dance, and performance works in the 1980s including Jacki Apple's The Garden Planet Revisited, and The Amazon, The Mekong, The Missouri and the Nile with Apple and choreographer Mary Jane Eisenberg, as well as his trombone performance band The Enormous Bones. In the past decade Bruce has orchestrated the scores for more than 100 feature films, including the current TV series Desperate Housewives. He performed his own music in the EARJAM festival 2000, 2001, 2002, and he continues to play trombone with a variety of bands in Los Angeles.

Minimalist composer RUBEN GARCIA is a self-taught pianist, engineer, and producer, with six CDs to his credit. He is best known for his collaboration with famed composers Harold Budd and Daniel Lentz on the CD, Music for 3 Pianos which made #4 Best Ambient Piano Release in the UK in 1994. In the tradition of Harold Budd's simplicity and Brian Eno's electronic ambience, Ruben creates simple instrumental music that is poised on the razor's edge between ambient and new age styles. His compositions possess a superior sense of spaciousness and dream-like soundscapes of delight. Ruben's music is also on Jacki Apple's radio performance work Voices In The Dark. (see http://somewhere.org). Garcia currently lives in New Mexico.