Paige Naylor (she/they) 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. Her direct and interpersonal approach creates live sonic environments which feel vulnerable and intimate. Her work has been featured in The Wire, National Public Radio, Longform Editions, Newcity Art, Chicago Reader, surgeryradio, and WHURK Magazine, among others.
https://paigealicenaylor.bandcamp.com/album/the-unearthing
http://www.paigenaylor.art/
Haruhi Kobayashi is a Chicago-based sound artist and vocal performer. Originally from Tokyo, Haruhi began her career as a Japanese-pop singer-songwriter, releasing solo albums and composing for TV and film. Throughout her formative years in the Japanese pop industry, she became interested in the underlying social and emotional connotations and conditions of her own voice and the inextricable ties between one’s voice and their identity. She started to manipulate her voice into unidentifiable sounds, liberating it from its “human” constraints. She has received an AA in Music Production from the Los Angeles College of Music, a BFA in Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is the current High Concept Labs AIR resident 2024.
PAY DIRT is a post punk, noise band from Milwaukee.