| Abraham Kobena Adzenyah | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Jonny Allen | Person | Male | Brooklyn | | instrument (as “thunder sheet”) |
| Enrique Almendros | Person | Male | Spain | | instrument (as “sartenes”) |
| Kriton Beyer | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “daxophone”) |
| Don Brooks | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “jew's harp”) |
| Paul Burwell | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “idiophones”) |
| Henry Campos | Person | Male | Peru | | instrument (as “cajita”) |
| Coro galego Cántigas da Terra | Choir | | A Coruña | | instrument (as “conchas”) |
| Gaiteiros del coro galego Cántigas da Terra | Group | | Galicia | | instrument (as “conchas”) |
| Luis Delgado | Person | Male | Spain | | instrument (as “cántara de Oaxaca”) |
| Hamid Drake | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “idiophones”) |
| Ron Emoff | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “kaiamba”) |
| John Eriksson | Person | Male | Sweden | | instrument (as “flexatone”) |
| Michael Fellerman | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “Metaphone 1”) |
| Michael Fisher | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “bowed metal”) |
| Jeff Funt | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “bowchime”) |
| Yeltaz Guenneau | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “kayamb”) |
| Bill Hayes | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “flexatone”) |
| Itom Lab | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Sunny Jain | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “chimta”) |
| Mamadou Kouyaté | Person | Male | Mali | | instrument (as “karingnan”) |
| René Lussier | Person | Male | Canada | 4 | instrument (as “daxophone”) |
| Thibault Niobé | Person | Male | Quimper | | instrument (as “kayamb”) |
| Kristo Numpuby | Person | Male | France | 5 | instrument (as “bottle”) |
| Reynaldo Ortiz | Person | Male | Valledupar | 5 | instrumental supporting musician (as “Guacharaca”) |
| Javier Paxariño | Person | | | | instrument (as “caña rociera”) |
| Erica Pinto | Person | | | | member of band |
| Puerko Pitzotl | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “tambor”) |
| Giorgio Presti | Person | Male | Italy | | member of band (as “objects”) |
| Ariel Rechtshaid | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “flexatone”) |
| Hans Reichel | Person | Male | Germany | 5 | instrument (as “daxophone”), instrument, member of band (as “daxophone”) |
| Michael Roberts | Person | Male | Oregon | | instrument (as “flexatone”) |
| Catalina Robles | Person | Female | Peru | | instrument (as “cajita”) |
| Adam Rudolph | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “idiophones”) |
| 坂本弘道 | Person | Male | Japan | | instrument |
| Federico Sanesi | Person | Male | Italy | | instrument (as “African water drum”) |
| Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “flexitone”) |
| Rob Schwimmer | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Baba Sissoko | Person | Male | Mali | | instrument (as “caragnan”) |
| Magnampy Soa | Person | Male | Madagascar | | instrument (as “kaiamba”) |
| Nofy Soa | Person | | Madagascar | | instrument (as “kaiamba”) |
| Emile Sornin | Person | Male | Paris | | instrument |
| Amund Sjølie Sveen | Person | Male | Norway | | instrument (as “tuned glasses”) |
| Νίκος Τερψιάδης | Person | Male | Greece | | instrument |
| Théodore | Person | Male | Madagascar | | instrument (as “kaiamba”) |
| Keith Tippett | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Joe Tomino | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “Mini Marvin”) |
| Mahamadou Tounkara | Person | Male | Mali | | instrument (as “karingnan”) |
| 内橋和久 | Person | Male | Japan | | instrument (as “daxophone”), instrument |
| José Vargas | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “chajchas”) |
| Sam Walton | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “Tam Tam”) |
| Jan Wolff | Person | Male | | | instrument |