Nicole Alonso is a Chicago based plasma donor and experimental sound artist. She also creates sampling based music under the moniker Mrs. Hands.
Here’s her work:
https://www.tiktok.com/@thebretcrowshow/video/7337431375588461867
Rush Falknor is a Chicago label head, multi-instrumentalist, crafter of challenging electronics, curator, producer, sound designer, DJ, life as gesamtkunstwerk.
Amongst booking & promoting shows around Chicago, Rush is constantly recording, while also spearheading multiple labels & imprints (Clinquant Pudendum & Medieval Magick, to name a couple of the current projects) that release a plethora of recordings on CD & cassette tape.
Rush performs solo as Reek Of Divinity & Necklace Jar, and is a member of Everlasting Light & IG Metall, amongst a slew of other monikers and collaborations.
Always exploring & forever evolving.
https://peyotetapes.bandcamp.com/album/on-site-out-of-mind-in-tulsa-oklahoma
https://flagdayrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hello-from-the-lover
Gordon Fung (b. 1988, San Francisco, CA; lives in Chicago, IL) is a transdisciplinary artist-curator who works with large-scale curatorial/collaborative practices, experimental audiovisual performances, new media installations, noise music, experimental film/video, media archaeology, participatory works, and happenings. His works highlight unconventional executions like equipment misapplication, lo-fi presentations, and glitches. Such aesthetics confront the viewers’ understanding, perspective, and point of view on reality through a more philosophical and esoteric investigation.
Expanding the traditional caretaking role of the curator, he applies stewardship to artworks, artists, history, culture, and the community at large to ensure constructive dialogue between them. Recognizing the cultural significance of media and technology, his curations bring equilibrium to art scenes where media arts are underrepresented. Serving as a mediator and facilitator, he builds a heteroglossic bridge to foster a more supportive environment that elevates both institutions and independent DIY scenes.
Inspired by the unique Chicago video/media arts lineage and collectivity in Fluxus, Gordon forms and directs the experimental time-based arts collective //sense to showcase large-scale experimental community theater performances, exhibitions, and screenings. Counteracting the marginalization of experimental time-based arts, he curates and fosters a collaborative common ground for sound, video, performance, and media artists to create gesamtkunstwerk through synergy. By democratizing media tools, he empowers and mobilizes the community to rectify media injustice imposed by corporations.
As an experimental audiovisual performer, he has presented in major locations in Chicago and California including Comfort Station, Elastic Arts, Experimental Sound Studio, Links Hall, MacLean Ballroom, No Nation Art Lab, Non Plus Ultra (Los Angeles), NOT NOT, Tritriangle, the Red Museum, Mosswood Chapel, Cali Pink, Cafe Mustache, Asian Improv aRts Midwest, Lot 49, DADS (Digital Arts Demo Space), and beyond.
https://gordondfung.wordpress.com/audiovisual-performance/
Nick Meryhew is an experimental musician, arts educator, improviser, and passionate home cook. Their work explores the elasticity of time and the absurdity of the mundane through a sculptural approach to found sound. Their work has been presented at Tritriangle, No Nation, MCA Chicago, the Neo-Futurists, Babycastles (NYC), Mirrorlab (Minneapolis), Experimental Sound Studio, and Roman Susan, among others. They currently perform solo and with Tallulah Bankheist, Heavy Tiny, Paradise Complete, The World’s Greatest Drum Programmer, and Runaway Labs Theater.
performer/improviser/educator
Allen Moore
www.allenmooreart.net
Allen Moore is a Black Interdisciplinary Visual Artist, Experimental Turntableist, Sound Artist, Educator and Youth Mentor born and raised in the Historic Village of Robbins IL. Moore holds a Bachelors of Arts from Chicago State University, a Masters in Arts from Governors State University and a Masters of Fine Arts from Northern Illinois University in 2016. His recent body work investigates both the audio and visual element of black death and black grief. His conceptual premise is to analyze the signifiers of Blackness through performative Improvisation and experimentation. Moore is driven to nurture and expand the agency of the Black Imagination. Currently he is a Makerspace Manager specializing in STEM/STEAM and DIY education in the greater Chicagoland area. Moore has exhibited and performed across the greater midwest, including exhibitions at Heaven Gallery, Compound Yellow, Experimental Sound Studio, Elastic Arts, Threewalls, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Roots & Culture Gallery, Lula Cafe, The Star Media Group, Union Street Gallery, The Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, etc.
Hedra Rowan
benska.bandcamp.com/album/this-beautiful-moment-sours