Angel Bat Dawid, RP Boo & XT

Angel Bat Dawid

is a composer, improviser, clarinetist, pianist, vocalist, educator, and DJ celebrated for her contributions to contemporary jazz and Black cultural expression. Her debut album The Oracle (2019), released via Chicago’s International Anthem, received praise for its deep exploration of Black life, history, and spirituality. In 2024, she premiered her solo clarinet piece The Black Queen of Italy Strolls Through Her Garden at Villa Medici in Rome. Her diverse works include Requiem for Jazz, performed at Hyde Park Jazz Festival, and Peace: A Suite for Skylanding, composed and premiered for the Art Institute of Chicago & Chicago Humanities Festival as part of Yoko Ono’s SkyLanding installation in Chicago's Jackson Park. Recognized in DownBeat Magazine’s 2025 Critics Poll as Clarinetist of the Year and Rising Composer of the Year, she was also featured in Pitchfork’s “Pitchfork 25 Next”.

RP Boo

a.k.a. Kavain Wayne Space is a Chicago-based electronic musician, producer and DJ, who is revered and respected amongst the dance music cognoscenti. He’s cited as one of the originators of Footwork, the fast, repetitive, rhythmically syncopated music and dance style that’s a grandchild of Chicago house and which has been brought to the wider world via releases from Planet Mu and others, alongside internet archaeology from fans, experts and enthusiasts.

XT (Paul Abbott And Seymour Wright)

Opening possibilities of language and learning from below, XT bounce questions of the specific material conditions, histories and logics of the saxophone and drum kit in a flexible, manifold process of collaboration, augmentation, bifurcation, antagonism and technological and somatic feedback. Increasingly, they plug in, using synthetic and amplified saxophone and drums to extend, magnify and delay what they do. The project explicitly folds together their overlapping interests in language, learning, politics and an investigative ethics of emancipation.