mobile music maker iii is a modular, interactive sound making structure which invites multiple players at once to explore their sonic environment.
mobile music makers iii
Madeleine Aguilar
on view Friday – Sunday
June 26 – 28, 2026
Performances by Madeleine + friends
Friday | June 26
6 – 9 pm
hosted intermittently on the stairs,
near the monument
Madeleine Aguilar is a multidisciplinary artist + musician from Chicago. Their work is often mobile / modular / interactive and can be found in backyards, libraries, gardens, storefronts, homes, galleries, artist-run spaces & book fairs. They respond to existing environments, building structures + furniture + instruments that prompt users to actively reconsider & redefine their function(s) and freely engage with their sonic landscape. Using the archive as form, they mark time by cataloging lived spaces, collected objects, familial histories, personal relationships, natural phenomena, mundane routines, and collected ephemera.
Madeleine runs bench press, a risograph press based on friendship, play & collaboration. bench press often partners with artists + designers who are new to the book as form, utilizing the risograph as a tool for skill sharing and cultivating new friendships. They co-teach a risography & bookmaking course every summer at Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency. Their books live in the Franklin Furnace Archive in the Pratt Institute Library, the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the 8-Ball Library in NY, New York, the VCU Art Book LIbrary at Virginia Commonwealth University, and elsewhere. They currently run the Print Lab in the School of Design at the University of Illinois Chicago.