Intrepid players include Sam Shalabi, an Egyptian-Canadian artist who began in punk rock in the late '70s and evolved into experimental Arabic music incorporating traditional Arabic, shaabi, noise, classical, text, free improvisation, electronics, and jazz; Mark Haynes, an American-born bassist, songwriter, and composer known for his tenure as a songwriter and session musician at Flyte Tyme Studios in Minneapolis and Michael Zerang, a first-generation American of Assyrian descent and has been a professional musician, composer, producer, and educator since 1976.

Lisa E. Harris, Li, is an independent and interdisciplinary artist, creative soprano, performer, composer, improvisor, filmmaker, writer, singer/songwriter researcher and educator from Houston Texas. She received a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts and is also the 2021 recipient of the Dorothea Tanning Award in Music/Sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Art.