Side Yard Sounds

A Noisy Fundraiser

10/5/2025

BYOB

$15 Tickets here.

Join us for a wild and noisy event/fundraiser featuring a line up of experimental sound artists and musicians:

Hedra Rowan

NuAm

Tina LaFauve

Melon Sprout

Nicole Alonso

Hedra Rowan is a computer musician in Chicago. She runs Bodymilk, a concert series and tape label. In addition to solo work, she plays with the band Bimbo Rococo, and the duos Tallulah Bankheist, Hell & the High School, and Squonk. For this set, she will improvise computer sounds on 16 channels.

NuAm Origins found in cassette tape loop installations of feedback drone-movement, masks of altered sound, and the hum of a pink horizon.

@nu_a.m._

Tina Lefauve is a Chicago-based experimental sound artist, motorcycle enthusiast, and "Agitator Gallery landlady" known for her noise busking and performances with the Chicago Noise Free Jazz Orchestra.

Melon Sprout is a performative artmaker focused on ceramics. Melon is a non-binary, queer artist who uses they/them/theirs pronouns. Their practice explores the ways that art can extend communication through performative viewing. Melon creates ceramic sculpture instruments, activated by viewer vocalization. Melon was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and currently works and studies in Chicago, where they received their Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2022, and currently work in their ceramics studio in Humboldt Park. Melon hopes to share their work through performances and sculptural interactions with viewers.

Nicole Alonso blends sampling, field recordings, electronic manipulation, and live performance to explore themes of space, memory, and identity.