Wednesday September 4 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Paige Alice Naylor is a Chicago-based experimental vocalist and musician touring work from her latest album, The Unearthing, released by Chicago label Monastral. Paige uses her voice, electronics, vinyl samples, tape loops, field recordings, and synthesizer to take listeners on a journey through a transitory space of a new euphoric ambient genre. She has exhibited work through the Wire Magazine (UK), Museum Villa Stuck (Germany), Recess (NYC), Vox Populi (Philadelphia),  Black Iris (Richmond, VA), Chicago Cultural Center, Terrain Biennial, Hyde Park Art Center, The Chicago Park District, and many more.

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.


APHRODITE’S POLYP is the latest project of Chester Hawkins of Tucson, AZ: Veteran of the 1980s cassette noise underground as Blue Sausage Infant, composer of cinematic soundscapes and kosmische electronics under his own name, and most recently as the maximal drone project nil. This event will be a rare return to DC and the first public outing under the Aphrodite’s Polyp name, reflecting a new vision of sonic adventure.


Jeff Surak - live musique concrète improvised.