​Rob Forman, Board President
For over thirty years Rob has been a writer, curator, and facilitator in providing forums for experimental musicians and sound artists through his Sedimental imprint founded in 1993, generating live events (Non-Event in Boston est. 2001), and through community and non-profit radio programming, both in the Northeast and in Austin and Dallas where he has lived. His activity is intentioned towards highlighting lesser established or exposed artists whenever possible, creating new connections to the global community with recorded documents and the local community with live events. Rob records and performs live and DJs as MentalDrift. He is an Italian wine industry veteran and currently lives in Franklin County, MA.
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Dr. Alexander Meszler, Vice President
Alexander is an organist dedicated to interdisciplinary performance and research. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Organ and College Organist at Luther College in Decorah, IA. With Kimberly Marshall, he is the General editor for a forthcoming online Encyclopedia of the Organ that will contain 4,000 articles about the organ. He has performed or presented at conferences of the European Association for the Study of Religions, The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the American Guild of Organists, and the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies. As a Fulbright recipient, he studied in Versailles, France and he holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University.
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Dr. Nick Brooke
A professor at Bennington College since 2004, Nick’s instrumental works have been performed by Talujon, Bang-on-a-Can All Stars, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Nash Ensemble of London, Orchestra 2001, Dan Druckman, Speculum Musicae, Sekar Anu, and New York’s Gamelan Son of Lion. His work has been performed across the United States and in Europe and featured at the Lincoln Center Festival, the Ecstatic Music Festival, the Spoleto Festival, and the MATA Series. Brooke has received awards and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, ASCAP, the Rockefeller Foundation, Djerassi, and the MacDowell Colony.
During a two-year fellowship to Central Java, he studied gamelan and collaborated on musical projects with Javanese composers, dancers, and visual artists. He holds degrees in music composition and philosophy from Oberlin College and a PhD from Princeton University.
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Victoria Keddie
An artist working with electronic sound and video, transmission, and televisual broadcast. Victoria's recent projects include customized software to sound space debris, the sounding of a Utopian landmark building, and a televisual installation within a vacant flagship retail store. Keddie is Co-Director of E.S.P. TV, a nomadic TV studio and cable access series, that realizes synthetic environments and deconstructs the televisual for live performance. Keddie has performed live productions, with commissioned compositions, and exhibited internationally at: The Barbican (London/UK), Fridman Gallery, Performa Arts, The Swiss Institute, Pioneer Works, The Kitchen,The Museum of Art and Design, Queens Museum of Art, Anthology Film Archives (New York/US), Human Resources, (Los Angeles/ US), KØS Museum, (Kuge/DK), Espace de l’art Concret (Paris/FR), The Goethe Institute (Bogotá/CO),Syros International Film Festival (Syros, GR), Sight +Sound Festival (Montreal/CA), among others​
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Ven Voisey
Ven is the Design Production and Installation Specialist at Oakland Museum of California and a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, robotics, and sound installation. He has a degree from San Francisco State University combining Humanities, Electronic music, Film, and Conceptual Art. He continued his education outside of school by working, touring and collaborating with kinetic sculpture and installation collective Amorphic Robot Works. Voisey has worked with a variety of Western MA arts organizations including MASS MoCA, MCLA Gallery 51, and Clark Art Institute. He was Artist-in-Residence at the Berkshire Museum and awarded the Individual Artist grant from the Local Cultural Council of Northern Berkshire. His work has been included in the deCordova Biennial at deCordova Museum and he is a fellow of the Roswell Artist in Residence Program in Roswell, New Mexico. Ven is also a director and co-founder of the annual Mojave Sound Art Festival in Twentynine Palms, CA.
John Lightfoot
A resident of Brattleboro, John is active in the local nonprofit community. He has been involved with technology, lighting and sound since his youth, and is passionate about music. For the past four years he has been the President and Chief Engineer of WVEW, Brattleboro Community Radio, where he hosts a weekly radio show. During his time with WVEW he has focused on technology, fundraising, underwriting and governance, and helped the station secure over $35,000 in grants. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer for a healthcare IT company and is a Certified Broadcast Technologist by The Society of Broadcast Engineers.​​​