Erica Dawn Lyle / Wing/Kite / Matt Weston / Widow

Erica Dawn Lyle is a writer, musician, artist, and curator who lives in New York and Florida. One half of the art and filmmaking collective, SOBBETH, Lyle is the author of several books, the founder of Bermuda Triangle Press, and, most recently, was the guitar player of Bikini Kill.

Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an award winning Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, composer and academic, known for her sound and video performance with her Machine Learning hair-braid interface. Kite’s practice explores contemporary Lakota ontology through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Kite often works in collaboration with family and community members.

Robbie Wing (Cherokee Nation) is an artist, musician, and composer. His artistic practice focuses on immersive and spatialized sound installations, ecological sound art, and composition for acoustic instruments, electronics, and field recordings. Robbie holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Sustainability and a master’s degree in Urban Design from the University of Oklahoma where he developed sound art installations based on his research on environmental psychology and acoustic landscapes.

Matt Weston plays percussion and electronics. He has studied and/or collaborated with Arthur Brooks, Bill Callahan/Smog, Bill Dixon, Kevin Drumm, Paul Flaherty, Charles Gayle, Milford Graves, Mary Halvorson, Le Quan Ninh, Bob Marsh, Ben Miller (ex-Destroy All Monsters), Roger Miller (Mission of Burma), Jim O’Rourke, Jeff Parker, Jack Wright, and many others. His work has earned critical praise from such publications as the Wire, the Village Voice, Signal To Noise, Cadence, All About Jazz, Grooves, and Bananafish. His solo works have garnered international acclaim, as have his recordings with Barn Owl, Tizzy, and Thrillpillow. He has recorded for the Tautology, Sachimay, Breaking World Records, Imvated, Crank Satori, BoxMedia, and Drag City labels. He currently records for his own 7272Music label. In addition to his solo work, Weston is currently a member of the Arthur Brooks Ensemble V; and Arc Pair with drummer Amanda Kraus.

Widow (A.Vitacolonna) gathers and directs sound in collaboration with living environments. With a background in movement, they imagine feeling the pulse in the room and amplifying it back like an echo in the space. Their work is improvisational and ephemeral, and their palette ranges from minimal & acoustic to layered & immersive, at times punishing. They often utilize bells, chimes, strung instruments, feedback, symbols, vocals, breath, the human body, household objects, and electronic distortion to create various sonic and spatial manipulations. Outside of their musical endeavors, they practice hypnotherapy, and take up their time with studies in consciousness, the extra sensory, communication, nature, ancient medicine, and energetic practices.