Sophie Chin

Sophie Chin is a percussionist+pianist+vocalist+improviser+composer from Seattle. They write and perform works that are quiet, comfortable, uncomfortable, nostalgic, and intimate. They have a penchant for toy instruments, their pink toy piano, and the vocal+percussion works of John Cage. Sophie also hosts Deep Listening workshops around the Seattle area. You can find Sophie at sophiepercussion.com or as @vibes_solo on instagram.

CZ

Harsh noise out of Bremerton, WA.

Lukas Dickson

Lukas Dickson is a noise artist from Bremerton.

Jordan Eller

Jordan Eller’s songs intend to make you feel like you’re walking through an art gallery; observant, curious, and submerged. Drawing from the indie sleaze era and women of avante-pop, her current sound swells together grounded electronic beats, sweet, distant guitar, and floaty angelic vocals. Eller’s debut album Death By Another Name (2023) is a cerebral, cinematic ode to early 20s growing pains and the lessons of impermanence. Eller was born, raised, and still resides in the lovely PNW.

Sullivan Forderhase

Sullivan Forderhase is an experimental poet. Their work examines the spaces between shame, desire, joy and grief. They create by asking questions; they draw inspiration from the art around them, their loved ones, their own experiences, and nature. Currently they reside in Seattle, though their roots will always be Tennessee.

Lori Goldston

Lori Goldston plays written, traditional and spontaneous work on cello, and works as a composer, teacher, bandleader, and prolific, widely varied collaborator. Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, her voice as a cellist is singular, deeply textured and original, investigating thresholds, instability, and connections between far-flung modes of thought. She works internationally and locally in Seattle with composers, film makers, writers, theater directors, choreographers, visual artists, orchestras and bands.

A.F. Jones

As both a musician and audio engineer, A.F. Jones creates rich, ephemeral soundscapes that blend environmental recordings with electro-acoustic instrumentation, creating what reviewers describe as "abstract, occasionally frightening, and consistently inhuman sounding electronics," and "finding magical spaces between abstraction and structure." He is based in Tracyton, WA, where he runs the Laminal Audio mastering and sound design studio, and Marginal Frequency, record label and performance series of the same name.

Nadine Antoinette Maestas

Nadine Antoinette Maestas is a poet's poet and believes that the empire of the sentence is an extremely oppressive totalitarian regime. She prefers the company of poems so much that she would rather read a bad poem than a good novel, but when she is not doing poetry, Nadine loves mountain biking and trail running in dangerous and remote places in the Northwest. Her hybrid poem play “Hellen on Wheels: A Play of Rhyme and Reason” was performed at California College of the Arts. She is the author of Imperialism As Sweet As Insult (Really Serious Literature Press), the co-author with Karen Weiser of “Beneath the Bright Discus” (Potes & Poets Press, 2000), and is a co-editor for the poetry anthology Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia. You can find more of her poems published in Snail Trail Press, Pageboy Magazine, Lyric &, The Germ, the bilingual anthology Make It True Meets Medusario, and Ofrenda Magazine. She has poems forthcoming in The Glittering Field: A Gathering of New Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Poetry.

Emma McVeigh

Emma McVeigh (she/her) is a poet and sound artist based in Seattle. Her sound work explores the conversations between Word and Field, culminating in ekphrastic poetry exercises with recordings from a variety of settings. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from the University of Washington Bothell. Her words have been published in Silly Goose Press, Clamor Magazine, Disposable Parts, and Ancient Technology News. Her first chapbook, Folly, is forthcoming from Milk & Cake Press in December. Find her sound work on SoundCloud, connect on instagram @ekmcveigh.

Rhea Melina

Rhea Melina (she/her) is a queer multi-ethnic poet, birth-worker, parent, herbalist, educator, and hopeful romantic. She is a co-host of Soeak Out Seattle, a monthly poetry and talent showcase.  Her chapbooks include a place to put things (Bottlecap Press, 2023), Not My Wasteland (Bone Machine, 2024), and Ballard Coyote (Scumbag Press, 2025).  Her poems have been published by Elizabeth Ellen’s Hobart, Gnashing Teeth, Literary Underground, Hare’s Paw Journal, Fiilthy Glo, Blood+Honey, Text Power Telling, and Black Lily Zine, among others, and her poem "Faith," calling for a free Palestine, was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She believes that all illegal occupations and wars should cease and refuses to settle for less. found confetti is her first full-length collection and is available now from Carbonation Press and www.antiquatedfuture.com

Silas Morrow

Silas Morrow is a sculptor, improviser, and noise artist from Seattle, Washington. Through a contemplative sculptural and sound practice he explores the memory of his grandmother’s spiritual devotion as well as his great aunt’s monastic home on the coast of Northern California. He makes use of found and gifted objects along with hand built wind instruments. Silas encourages items to interact through electronic amplification or percussive movements. His great aunt utilized labyrinths in her spiritual practice and constructed one in her yard which he would be directed to walk through when visiting.

Shankar Narayan

Shankar Narayan explores identity, power, mythology, and technology in a world where the body is flung across borders yet possesses unrivaled power to transcend them. Shankar is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the winner of prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, Hugo House, Jack Straw, Flyway, and River Heron. He is a 4Culture grant recipient for Claiming Space, a project to lift the voices of writers of color, and his chapbook, Postcards From the New World, won the Paper Nautilus Debut Series chapbook prize. Shankar draws strength from his global upbringing and from his work at the intersection of civil rights and technology. In Seattle, he awakens to the wonders of Cascadia every day, but his heart yearns east to his other hometown, Delhi. Connect with him at shankarnarayan.net.

Tom Scully

Tom Scully is a Seattle-based guitarist, improviser, and teacher. His solo work ranges from the dynamic and frenetic exploration of an amplified guitar with no effects, to the use of miscellaneous objects and multiple amplifiers to create fleeting sonic gestures that bring attention to the fragile relationships of the space, objects, and our bodies.  He currently plays in the improvised noise duo CSTMR, and for “Gunk-Pop” Seattle band Black Ends.

Till the Teeth

Till the Teeth (Seattle, WA) is an interdisciplinary art collective founded by Jonathan Rodriguez and Sandesh Nagaraj. Engaging sound, movement, and visual media, their work spans performance, sculpture, and multimedia installation. Grounded in the cultural and contested landscapes of the U.S.-Mexico border and southern India, Till the Teeth serves as a lens for framing sonic and spatial ecologies, using improvisation, ritual, and metamorphosis as central methodologies. Their practice embraces a rasquachismo ethic—making do with available resources—alongside experimental approaches that interrogate the boundaries of music, performance, and art-making. By activating found objects, field recordings, and reimagined instruments, Till the Teeth explores sound as an unpredictable, ephemeral, and communal medium for resistance and renewal.

Translucent Envelope

Bob Desaulniers started recording under the name Translucent Envelope in 2016, giving a proper title and some focus to a burgeoning obsession with tape manipulation and noise. Having played guitar in bands for twenty years, Bob wanted to create a new relationship to sound that had nothing to do with muscle memory or what he thoughtheI knew about music. He primarily works with tape loops, electronics and found sounds to create textural, psychedelic noise. The project has evolved sonically over time but has remained focused on exploration and the pursuit of a sort of transcendental irrationality. Bob has had a handful of releases on labels such as Chocolate Monk, Joy De Vivre, Royal Sperm, and his own disorganized vanity imprint Permanent Green Light.

Ulfire & Jale

Ulfire and Jale is a two-piece sound manufacturing unit in Bremerton, Wa employing synth, percussive elements, free reed instruments, and “guitar,” Ulfire & Jale is a musics of nervousness played by effete cat dads... sound piled grossly, the sum of which has (somehow) failed to deter... a TV that takes 15 minutes to warm up.

Sage Westfall

Sage Westfall feels lucky to live in beautiful Kitsap County, where she could probably enjoy the outdoors a lot. Instead, she reads and writes way too much science fiction.