Paige Alice Naylor is a Chicago-based experimental vocalist, sound artist and educator. Through sound-making and performance, she investigates time, perception, the breakdown of language, and themes of death through the use of hardware electronics, tape loops, samplers, and live processed vocals. Her direct and interpersonal approach creates live sonic environments which feel vulnerable and intimate. She has performed at Rewire Festival (NL), Variations Festival (FR), Public Records (NYC), The Lab (SF), amongst others. Her work has been featured in The Wire, NPR, Longform Editions, NewCity Art, Chicago Reader, and others.
http://www.paigenaylor.art/
Kirsten Carey is a guitarist, composer, shamisen player, and pop culture writer. She has traveled back and forth to Japan on grants from the Asian Cultural Council and Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her primary project is experimental rock band Throwaway, and her music is featured on The One Piece Podcast.
Emily Rach Beisel (they/them) is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, educator, curator and woodwind specialist. Beisel is known for visceral performances blending extended vocal and instrumental techniques with analogue electronics.
Erica Miller is a cellist and painter based in Chicago. They create music that interweaves the sound of acoustic cello with electronics and is a wide ranging exploration of stormy sonic landscapes, drones, and unique sounds that are evocative and cinematic.
