"Industrial Improv with Rock Elements featuring Dadaist and Futurist treatments of "everyday" objects and Chinese traditional instruments." - Cafe Oto, London

Diva Abrasiva was created to find a thread through electroacoustic, contemporary music, noise, free jazz, sound arts, live improvisation, ambient and more. "Free Jazz Noise with hint of industrial post-doom" was how the band was described on the poster for their first gig.

As an improvisational group, collaboration is always one of the most interesting things for us, exploring sound, music and performance from a different perspective.

Lin -
Sound Artist, Sound Designer, Acoustician, Practicer.
Lin moved to Edinburgh after gaining his Master of arts in Sonic Arts, SARC.
He came from China, grown up with cooling towers and humming of high voltage transformers in power factories; went to university studying electronics engineering and playing death metal. And afterward moved to Sweden for two years(via Gävle, Stockholm, Göteborg, Umeå) where he enjoyed a lot. Currently in Edinburgh, beside the music activities, he is doing research in physical modeling sound synthesis, academically tutoring in general physics, music acoustics and supercollider. Work on few projects with experimental side music, and freelance sound design for short films. Meanwhile, he started a organization based around regular events called Grind Sight Open Eye, dedicated to experimental sound and vision, promoting experimental, avant-garde and improvisational music.

Matt -
Trained in double-bass performance and studied composition with Joseph 'Butch' Rovan at Florida State University, USA. Member of a free-form, improvisational group 'The Organ Triumphant', along with Loren Boyer (now with Horse Sinister ) and Nate Hill (The GREATEST Artist of All Time; http://stoproadkill.org/). Played with the (now defunct?) New World Ensemble under Ethan Schaffner and Elisabeth King. Dormant for years concentrating on the work as Particle physicist , re-emerging under the partnership of Diva Abrasiva.

Nick -
Guitarist and Experimental particle physicist. Played in the (largely) instrumental rock band Leda Atomica with Anton and Johnny Hunter for over ten years, who are currently on hiatus due to geographical issues. Now playing in Diva Abrasiva, which allows full and free exploration of improvisational and extended guitar techniques that came to the fore in Leda Atomica's later music.

Daniel -
Experimental musician, percussionist, photographer. Daniel, as active player, also plays in a few other projects, including Mustletusk , an Edinburgh based Noise Rock heavy power unit. His photo works is available here .

Jamie -
Drummer and percussionist in numerous rock, noise and experimental projects in Austin, TX, Los Angeles, CA, and Washington, D.C. He released a noise tape with No Little Kindness (now Jubilee Singers) through Poo-Bah Records, in Pasadena, CA, and appears on a song with Ancient Mariner on a Thor's Rubber Hammer sampler. Most recently he toured North America and Europe as the drummer for Bodies of Water. Jamie also researches the intersection of religious and social theory.