Artists

Born to Midwestern environs, Christina Chatfield has made the Bay Area her adoptive home. A lifelong musician, she studied synthesis at Berklee College of Music, leading towards her career as a professional sound designer. Her musical upbringing has surely influenced her sound, mellifluous and effortlessly kinetic, designed for consumption and expansion at once. Her psychedelic acid techno sets – performed live on an array of gear – are familiar to dancers in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and beyond. A resident of the Bay Area's venerated As You Like It event series, she's a consummate live artist, each performance tailor-made to its own specifications. Her focus on live practice might explain her relatively few releases: her discography so far is limited to 12"s on Detroit's Beretta Grey and Chicago's God Particle. But in 2019, Chatfield is busy, releasing an acid techno EP on new label Seeder Records and an EP of slower-tempo club sounds on Left Hand Path, followed by her debut album, a cosmic exploration of ambient techno moods, on lauded New York imprint Mysteries of the Deep.

Called both "seminal queercore guitarist" and "an art college library's worth of queer film, art, music, and literary references" by Vice, Scott Moore is best known as guitarist in long-running influential queer hardcore band Limp Wrist, and in the dreamy, dark punk and angular pop group Flesh World - both of whom just released new albums. Less known is Scott's arresting, uncategorizable solo electronica. Scott's debut solo EP "Slow Motion Pictures" (Jacktone Records) masterfully blends elements of psychedelia, broken beat, acid, and industrial.  

Cornerstone of the thriving local modular synthesizer community, musician/producer/composer Guy Taylor is stepping out from behind his role as shopkeeper for Oakland's I/O synth resource to perform in his Droste guise. Informed by deep technical expertise, Guy's complex ambient soundscapes unfold over unknown terrains, blending elements from techno, ambient and contemporary composition.

Bill Wiatroski has had a working interest in video and the arts since his early exposure to video artist Nam June Paik’s pioneering work. He has worked with video for over twenty years, doing independent production, playback for feature film and television, hacking hardware and software for art. With the re-emergence of modular video synthesis Bill has found his core media for visual art, combining commercial and bespoke tools for studio, installation and live performance work. “My artwork is informed by spirits - some hungry, some satiated, some organic, some synthetic.  Early experiments to harness electrons and photons produced visual representations of fleeting and fantastic forms, hinting at an unseen word that could be conjured through the use of appropriate instruments and technique. Obsolete, modern and modified technologies are utilized alchemically, to distill each element to its essence, to allow them to release the spirit form that exists at the heart of each, to re-combine freely or escape as each wants. The aim is to expose a secret, subtler, sometimes unruly world, lying outside (sometimes just outside) our field of perception.”

Kit Young builds video feedback and synthesis systems that incorporate sculpture, robotics, microprocessors, and computer work to produce video stills, loops and short pieces. He also uses his video synthesis systems to perform in a live, improvisational way with other visual artists and musicians. Kit is an avid improvisor, explorer, and collaborator. Though his work is at the forefront of new media technique, his imagery is grounded in the personal and the social, with a focus on the increase of empathy and awareness. He has exhibited work and performed at many Bay Area venues including The Center For New Music, S.F. Cinematheque, Artists Television Access, Other Cinema, Studio Grand, and Krowswork Gallery.