The trio of Mike Weis, Matt Christensen and Brian Harding started playing together as Zelienople in the late 90s. Early shows were in loft spaces with performance artists and later at the legendary Lounge Ax and Empty Bottle clubs. The trio wrote new music for each live set and then subsequently scrapped those tunes. This carried on for five years before they finally settled on an album’s worth of material to record their debut. Pajama Avenue was released in 2002 on Chicago’s Loosethread Recordings, run by musician/producer P.M. Tummala. Loosethread released the follow-ups, Sleeper Coach and Ink before moving on to other labels – San Francisco’s Root Strata for Stone Academy, Manchester’s Type for His/Hers, Give It Up and The World is a House on Fire and 2020’s Hold You Up on Miasmah from Berlin. Four years later Zelienople, now expanded to a quartet with Tummala on keyboards, synths and vibraphone, are set to release Everything is Simple on France’s Shelter Press.

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Paige Alice Naylor is a Chicago-based multimedia artist, experimental vocalist/musician, Deep Listener, and curator working within the realms of sound, light, performance, multichannel sound installation, handmade electronics, acoustic ecology, listening practices and poetry. She constructs environments that are vulnerable, direct and interpersonal in order to create new social and emotional realities for others through the breakdown of language, time, and perception. Paige is a classically trained vocalist and performs solo, with Olivia Block and Jon Mueller, and in experimental pop duo 4D Girlz with Corey Smith. She recently released her solo album, The Unearthing, through Chicago label, Monastral.

Paige has exhibited work at Onion City Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Terrain Biennial, Experimental Sound Studio, Elastic Arts, Hyde Park Art Center, Mana Contemporary, Constellation, ADDS Donna, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Center, Zhou B Arts Center, Links Hall, the Empty Bottle, Public Works, The Plan, Museum Villa Stuck (Germany), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Recess (NYC), Black Iris (Richmond, VA), Baltimore Theatre Project (Baltimore, MD), Granite City Art and Design District (Granite City, IL), Live Arts (Charlottesville, VA), D.C. Arts Center (Washington, D.C.), as well as through programs such as The Quarantine Concerts, Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks, and Lumpen Radio.

Her work has been featured in the Wire Magazine, NPR, Longform Editions, Newcity Art, surgeryradio, WHURK Magazine, and the Documentarian.

Paige holds an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Certificate in Deep Listening from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a curator for Elastic Art’s Elastro Series, the program director for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology’s Summer Soundwalks in the Park Series, co-founder of Chicago Sonic Commons, and Sound Sculptor’s Union.

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