Kyle Blanton Ross
is a multimedia composer based out of LA and London who works primarily with Max/Msp/Jitter to transform everyday sounds and numerous acoustic and electronic instruments into a prolific assortment of textures and styles. These works are most often presented in collaborations with painters, animators, film makers, and choreographers.


Antony DiGennaro
is a modern goat enthusiast. He is renowned as a master of prepared goat technique and is currently working on 8-15 goats per day. He graduated from the Goatborg Institute of the Goat with a Bachelor's in the Fine Art of Goatgineering. Someday, Antony plans on going back to school for a Doctor of Goatsciences degree. Current non-goat ensemble projects include the death metal band Whale (Jake Vossler, John Wash IV), Tinhorn Justice (Cory Beers, Ian Carroll, James Barry, Chris Stewart), Feedback Wave Riders (Michael Jon Fink, Ulrich Krieger, Vinny Golia, Chas Smith, Brian Walsh) and work as a solo goattarist.


Igor Korvolych
was a multi-instrumentalist and folk music historian, originally from the city of Novosibirsk in Central Russia. He came to the United States in the mid 1990's to study folk music and ethnomusicology, having a strong interest in the indigenous music of North America. Igor spent many years living between New York, Louisville and Chicago before settling in the Los Angeles area around 2005. It was in the fall of '07 when he was discovered by Tears of the Moosechaser and asked to handle mandolin and mandocello parts. Korvolych's young life was cut short, however, just months after recording tracks for Songs for a Sinister Woman when he was mysteriously killed in a bizzare accident while purchasing produce from a farmer's market near his home in Ventura.


David Tranchina
is an up and coming bassist on the Los Angeles scene, known for his big warm sound, solid groove and inventive melodic solos. Originally from Forestville, California, he started playing bass at age 13, and was self taught until he began studies with Classical bass virtuoso Barry Green at UC Santa Cruz where he earned his Bachelor's Degree in Music. While at Santa Cruz he also studied Jazz with Stan Poplin, John Clayton, and Karlton Hester. In 2006 He moved to Los Angeles to attend Calarts, where he studied with Charlie Haden, and Darek Oles, and received his Master's Degree in Jazz Performance in 2008. Other influences and mentors are Larry Koonse, Joe LaBarbara, Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, David Roitstein and Alfred Ladzekpo.
David has composed music for animation, and has done quasi-improvised music music for experimental Dance and Theatre. His compositions range from post-bop-ish to experimental and avant-garde and have been described as "jive", "fishy", "stinking", "bass-tastic", "beautiful man", "absolutely delightful", and "decomposed". He looks for inspiration everywhere, and seeks to find humane and environmentally friendly ways to compose music.
He's also has recorded with Slumgum, Dirty Squid, Clinton Patterson, Brandon Sherman, Hanna Rifkin, The Botticellis, Chariman Mouse, and It'sawhale, and the 16th and 17th Annual Calarts Jazz Album recorded at Capitol Records.
David has performed with Bennie Maupin, Gary Fukushima, Matt Otto, Nate Wood, Gonzalo Bergara, Lorca Hart, Walter Smith III, Bobby Watson, Mike Barone, Butch Morris, William Winant, Smith Dobson, Vinny Golia, Larry Koonse, and Joe LaBarbara. David has played some of the top jazz venues in Los Angeles, including The Jazz Bakery, Catalina's, Vibrato, The Temple Bar, 2nd Street Jazz, Cafe Metropol, The Mint, and REDCAT.



Paul Fuller
hails from Southern California, where he spent half of his youth in the Pacific Ocean, and the other in front of his parents' record player listening to everything from Beethoven to Billie Holiday. In High School he dropped the drumsticks in search for a more melodic instrument, which turned out to be the five-string banjo. Just after a few months of playing, Paul placed as a finalist in the Topanga Banjo Contest. And in 2007 went on to win first prize. While attending college at UCSC, Paul was a founding member of the popular bluegrass fusion group "Blue Lady Quintet." After several years up north he returned to finish his degree at the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts. There he co-composed the theme to the popular cult surf movie One California Day, and appeared on the Fox TV show Glee. Paul has a diverse musical background and a deep love of all genres of music. He has studied North Indian Classical music with Maestro Ashish Khan, and with Jazz banjo master Pat Cloud. The result is a deep, rooted musical understanding, passion in his compositions and an expert touch on whatever instrument he is playing. Recently Paul has begun experimenting with instrument building. The goal is to create a range of sonically superb instrument for his performing demands.


Chris Stewart
started playing violin in a public school orchestra in 1995. While continuing his classical education through high school and college, he also developed interests in several other styles of music including bluegrass, jazz, experimental noise music, heavy metal, and rock. Currently, Chris plays in several groups all of varied styles. To Tears of the Moosechaser, he blends noise music and traditional styles on acoustic violin.


Mr. James "Jimmy" Barry
is too busy doing God knows what to get a bio to us...


Daniel Corral
is a composer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Eagle River, AK. Currently residing in the L.A. area, his unique voice has found a diverse range of outlets. He has accompanied avante-garde puppetry all across the USA, had his music performed by an orchestra riding the Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel, been featured at a USC faculty concert of original player piano music, displayed his massive multi-movement music boxes at galleries all over Los Angeles, composed for a number of films and dance performances, and much more.


Ulrich Krieger
is a composer and saxophone player. His pieces are widely performed by ensembles in Europe and the USA. Krieger's recent interest lies in the experimental fringes of contemporary pop culture, the limbo between noise, metal, ambient and silence. So did he transcribed and arranged Lou Reeds 'Metal Machine Music' for classical instruments. He has won several awards and residencies for: New York, Los Angeles, Venice, Rome, Bologna, Darmstadt and others. Collaborations include: Lou Reed, Lee Ranaldo, LaMonte Young, Phill Niblock, Christian Marcley, Mario Bertoncini, Merzbow, Michiko Hirayama, John Duncan, Zbigniew Karkowski, DJ Olive, Alan Licht, Kasper T Toeplitz, Radu Malfatti etc. He calls his way of saxophone playing 'acoustic electronics' and often uses his instrument as an 'analogue sampler' from which he can call his quasi-electronic sounds, which then get processed.
Recent projects are Metal Machine Trio (with Lou Reed), Text of Light (with Lee Ranaldo), and zerfall-gebiete (with Thomas Koner) - somewhere in the nirvana between experimental rock, ambient and contemporary composition.