LEWIS SYKES is a musician, interaction designer, digital media producer and curator and qualified Youth & Community Worker specialising in the Arts. A veteran bass player of the underground dub-dance scene of the 90s he performed and recorded with acts such as Emperor Sly, Original Hi-Fi and Radical Dance Faction, was a partner in the respected underground dance label Zip Dog Records and more recently composed for and performed with the progressive AV collective The Sancho Plan. Lewis is Director of Cybersonica - an annual celebration of music, sound art and technology (now in its eighth year) - and between 2002- 2007 was Coordinator of the digital arts agency Cybersalon - founding Artists-in-Residence at the Science Museumʼs Dana Centre. Lewis has recently started a practice-led PhD at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University exploring artistic representation of modal wave phenomenon.