Performers
The poets, musicians, and artists who have brought Ghost Harmonics to life.
Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo
Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo lives in Philadelphia, where she curates the reading series Spit Poetry. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks "Boring Eclipse" (The Year, 2026) and "DUH" (Bullshit Lit, 2022), and her work appears or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Joyland, The Offing, Poetry Northwest, and The Cleveland Review of Books, among others. She can be followed @tall.spy on Instagram but she can never be caught.
Francesca Kritikos
Francesca Kritikos is the author of The season of lilacs is monstrous (Blush, October 2025), SWEET BLOODY SALTY CLEAN (Feral Dove, August 2023) and In the bed of sickness (Pitymilk Press, April 2023), among other books. She is also the editor in chief of SARKA, a journal and publisher focused on works of the flesh. Her writing has been published in English, French and Greek. She writes the Substack newsletter Body Composition.
The Green Wheel
Baylor, a.k.a. “the green wheel,” is a philadelphia–based musician whose music both resists and defies easy categorization.
A protean experimental artist who combines lyricism with noise art, arresting stage craft with confrontational polemic, and moments of suspended beauty in a sea of sonic chaos. his crooning lyrics sounds like a songbird that’s been trapped in a cage, but never given up the struggle to escape. Baylor finds inspiration from the detritus of the gutter and missives from mars.
In addition to his career as a performing artist, he is the co–revolutionary behind the royalty free music collective and a guitar teacher.
Olivia Muenz
Olivia Muenz is the author of poetry collection I Feel Fine (Switchback Books, 2023), which won the 2022 Gatewood Prize, and chapbook Where Was I Again (Essay Press, 2022). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, The Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere
Moondog: Harp Songs ft. Julian Calv & Gian Torrano Jacobs
American composer, trimbist, and vocalist Julian Calv has been preserving the traditional sound of Louis Hardin, AKA Moondog for a half decade now. Over the last year he's performed concerts that feature solely the music of Hardin and himself, with a rotating cast of musicians. From piano trios, to vocal sextets, and the recent debut of a sax and bass quartet, Julian has displayed a clear dedication to this form of music. Self proclaimed as Moondog’s grand-student, Julian is the sole prodigy of Stefan Lakatos—who, to quote Moondog himself, is “the leading [and only] exponent of the Moondog method of drumming.” Through both this mentorship and dedicated study of Hardin's creative life, he upholds his grand-teacher's dying wish to “please take care of my music.” Learning to build and play the trimba, Hardin’s invented percussion instrument, Julian has sculpted a unique soundscape by preserving the sonic tradition of his mentors. He re-imagines that same tradition in his original compositions. juliancalv.com
Gian Torrano Jacobs
As a composer, harpist, and artist, Gian Torrano Jacobs (@gian.tj | b. 1994) explores the cyclical nature of life, death, order and entropy through sound, sculpture, and improvisation. Informed by his Panamanian, German, and Indigenous heritage as well as his identity as a queer, animist Quaker, his work centers on synthesis and transformation.
Reflecting his interests in the evolving systems of nature and the human experience, Gian often integrates handmade instruments and digitally assisted processes. His practice spans contemporary and early musics, natural and synthetic sounds, spoken word, electronics, acoustics, visual media, and instrument design. giantorranojacobs.com
PJ Lombardo
PJ Lombardo is a writer from New Jersey. He is the co-founding editor of GROTTO, a journal of grotesque-surrealist poetry. His first full-length collection, The Blue Cherub, is forthcoming in 2026
Sungrazer
sungrazer is a 4 piece polyJAMorous indie rock band from philadelphia, pa. sungrazer makes music for ppl to Feel to. they are influenced inspired by all music ever, the pentatonic scale, & fellow dope queer people in their lives 💓 sungrazer loves music and loves sharing it with you!
Kimberly Ann Southwick
Kimberly Ann Southwick is an Aries with a Capricorn Moon & Ascendant. She is the founder & editor in chief of the print lit journal GIGANTIC SEQUINS, which has been in print since 2009, but is on semi-permanent hiatus since this summer. Her debut full-length poetry collection, ORCHID ALPHA, came out via Trembling Pillow Press in April 2023. She currently lives in Saks, Alabama, with her daughter, Esmé, and their dog Nova. She is an Assistant Professor specializing in Poetry and Creative Writing at Jacksonville State University and a member-at-large on the Emily Dickinson International Society board. Go birds.
Mike Alfieri
Mike Alfieri (he/him) is a NY-based musician known for his playing with experimental pop group Tomato Flower and his solo electronic sets using Sensory Percussion. He’s toured widely and performed with artists like Animal Collective, Melt Banana, Susan Alcorn and Matmos. Mike holds a Master’s in Jazz Studies from SUNY Purchase and his work has been featured by NPR, Pitchfork, Modern Drummer Magazine and more.
Wherever You Are
Wherever You Are play songs about growing up. songs about friends. Songs about wind in trees. Songs about unnamed feelings. Songs about our intrinsic responsibility to everything around us. Love! Spread it where you go. You're alive, now do something about it.
Alan Gilbert
Alan Gilbert’s books include the poetry collections The Treatment of Monuments (SplitLevel Texts) and Late in the Antenna Fields (Futurepoem Books), and a book of criticism: Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight (Wesleyan University Press). He has received grants and fellowships from the Warhol Foundation, NYFA, and Creative Capital. He is the web editor for BOMB Magazine and teaches in Columbia’s MFA. The second, expanded edition of his ongoing project, The Everyday Life of Design, a sprawling epic elegy sculpted out of the real and virtual detritus of our times, was published by Winter Editions in 2024.
Alexander Biggs
Alex Gibbs’ music is instantly intimate, the kind of thing that you hear once and feel like it's been with you your whole life. Blown away by it, find it on all the streaming platforms and fall in love with this music as I have. Excited to catch him on this US tour, he’ll be in NY tomorrow. They sent me a really gorgeous bio, so I'm just going to read it.
With the release of his sophomore album Stay with the Horses, Alexander Biggs continues to unfold their eclectic take on bedroom folk. With a delivery that sways playfully between earnest and sardonic, Biggs offers condolences and perspective of life.
Far away from the blanket forts and back room studio set ups of the last record, Biggs’ attitude to self-recording is still apparent in their pursuit to find the words in our shared experience.
Stay with the Horses is a collection of songs written during a period of relentless change. The second album from Alexander Biggs navigates emotional peaks and troughs, capturing moments of sickness and recovery, humor and longing. It's an attempt to express something that defies words. Through its themes and undercurrents, the album invites listeners to connect with the shared, often indescribable, experiences of life.
Alexander Biggs has supported top tier talent including Julien Baker, Frightened Rabbit & Evan Dando of The Lemonheads, and amassed over 31 million streams on Spotify.
They’ve performed in the UK, US and South America.
Sarah Riggs
Sarah Riggs is the author of the poetry collections The Nerve Epistle (Roof) and Pomme & Granite (winner of a 1913 Poetry Prize), and the translator of Etel Adnan’s Time (Nightboat), which received the Griffin Prize. As an artist and filmmaker she has recently presented her work in Marrakech, Marseille, and São Paulo. Her newest book of poems, Lines, published by Winter Editions in 2025, pulls from the momentum of Lyn Hejinian’s My Life and Bernadette Mayer’s Memory to create a survival manual for a Trump presidency and a family crisis.
Ted Babcock
Ted Babcock is a Philadelphia-based composer and percussionist. As a composer, his works ride the boundaries between conceptual electronics, percussive counterpoint, and an instinctual lyricism. Recent premieres include works written for the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, which has been selected by the America Composer’s Orchestra Earshot Program for the Spring 2024 season, and for the Viano String Quartet documenting the lives of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, he is a two-time Grammy-nominated percussionist for his work with The Crossing Choir and has performed with Grammy award-winning contemporary music groups such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and eighth blackbird. He received degrees in composition, percussion, and community artistry from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and the Curtis Institute of Music.
Stephanie Cawley
Stephanie Cawley is a poet in Philadelphia. They are the author of No More Flowers (Birds, LLC) and My Heart But Not My Heart (Slope Editions). Recent poems have been published in Protean, Prolit, and the tiny.
Jarrod Campbell
Jarrod Campbell is a writer living in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. His work has appeared online and in print with Heavy Feather Review, Northwest Review, Bonerworld (Berlin), and Wicked Gay Ways, among others. His collection of short stories, The Reason I'm Here, (Stalking Horse Press, June 2023) was selected the month of its release as an anticipated LGBTQIA+ read by Lambda Literary.
Mike Gallagher
South Philly-based multi-instrumentalist Mike Gallagher has never played original six string music in front of an audience--he'll be performing two pieces for guitar and delay pedal, and one for just guitar. For fans of minimalism and Drop D.
anna moschovakis
anna moschovakis works with poetry and prose as a writer, editor, translator, publisher, teacher, and designer. Her most recent book is the novel An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth (Soft Skull 2024). She is a member of Ugly Duckling Presse and of Bushel Collective and currently lives in the Catskills, where she is slowly getting to know the plants.
Christine Kelly
Christine is a poet and artist based in North Adams, MA. Her work takes the form of slapstick powerpoint presentations, textiles, bibliomancy, drawings and more. She is the author of Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid (PRROBLEM, 2025) and the chapbooks Food Gas Lodging Liquid Solid (Creative Writing Department, 2023), Dopamine Agonist Destiny Forest (Theme Can Print Editions, 2018), and Pudding Time (DoubleCross Press, 2015). She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate College of Arts at Bard College and a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Upholstery
Upholstery makes dark music for curious minds. Their new album Ghouls drops this April via Exotic Fever Records.
Kristin Lueke
Kristin Lueke is a Chicana poet, co-founder of Field of Practice, a social impact-focused design studio, and author of the chapbook (in)different math (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Her poetry has appeared in Sixth Finch, Wildness, Frozen Sea, Maudlin House, and HAD, among others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net. She was a finalist for the 2024 Porter House Review Poetry Prize, and received the Morris W. Kroll Poetry Prize from Princeton University, where she earned an AB in English. She also holds an MA from the University of Chicago. Kristin lives in New Mexico with her husband, novelist Kyle Beachy, where they’re building an off-grid home and future artist residency. She writes at theanimaleats.com.
Inna Krasnoper
Inna Krasnoper is a Berlin-based poet and dance artist. She graduated from the Chto Delat Collective School of Engaged Art in Saint Petersburg and holds a BA in Dance, Context, Choreography from University of the Arts in Berlin. Her multilingual poetry has appeared in her chapbooks Over Sight (Eulalia Books) and Sealed (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press), as well as in Annulet, Vestiges, Gulf Coast, mercury firs, and elsewhere. Krasnoper's first English-language poetry collection dis tanz was published by Veliz Books in 2025. As a performer and choreographer, she has presented collaborative work at PACT Zollverein, Théâtre de la Ville, Serralves em Festa, minus20degree Flachau, Veem House for Performance, Uferstudios Berlin, and other venues.
Cameron Walker
Cameron Walker is the author of three books--most recently, the short story collection How to Capture Carbon. Her writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Orion, and the Missouri Review, and has won awards from the American Society of Journalists & Authors, the School Library Journal, and Terrain.org. She lives in California with her family.
Joe Hall
Joe Hall is a Buffalo-based writer and researcher. His six books of poetry include Fugue & Strike (Black Ocean 2023) and People Finder, Buffalo (Cloak 2024). Current Affairs on Fugue & Strike: “a remarkable poetic project, unlike anything else in literature today.” Hall has performed and delivered talks nationally at bars, squats, universities, and rivers. Protean, The Cleveland Review of Books, Eighteen-Century Fiction, Poetry Daily, Fence Digital, mercury firs, dollar bills, and an NFTA bus shelter have all featured his writing. He has taught community-based poetry workshops for teachers, teens, and workers. Community Mausoleum recently featured his essay “PEN America: Cultural Imperialism’s Avant-Garde.”
Rachel Andie
Rachel Andie is a Multi-Instrumentalist, Vocalist, Songwriter, and Producer. Being raised between Philadelphia and Nagano, Japan - her music reflects her background as a Japanese American with its uniquely ethereal style and spacious sound. She will be joined by her three piece live band here in Philly.
Fern Poppy | In the Flesh
Poppy's deep love for movies dates back to childhood. She began her artistic journey as a surreal portrait photographer and collage maker before entering the world of film. In 2019, Poppy made her directorial debut with the music video for Crumble Boy's "Or Grow." Three years later, she directed a twenty-three-minute dark comedy short titled "A Stop Along the Way." She continues to explore film narratives, with her most recent horror short, "The Herp," premiered in 2023. Poppy currently resides in Philadelphia with her husband (who scores all her films) and their two cats.
Synopsis:
Deena’s perfect romance begins to dissolve when her best friend Daniel warns her about online scams. As truth seeps through the cracks, the illusion melts away, forcing her to confront what was never real. When love is a lie, what happens when the screen goes dark?
Reuben Gelley Newman
Reuben Gelley Newman is the author of the chapbook Feedback Harmonies (Seven Kitchens Press). He writes, edits, and sings in New York City. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, Afternoon Visitor, mercury firs, and elsewhere.
Tangent Universes
Carolyn (she/her) is a writer and artist based in Baltimore, exploring sound and collective memory. Her installations repurpose obsolete technology—such as telephones, cassette players, and typewriters—into new vessels for digital soundscapes. Working under the project name Tangent Universes, Carolyn creates immersive sound environments using modular synths, guitar drones, noise boxes, field recordings, and hydrophones. Her work reflects her Mid-Atlantic context and has been showcased at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, as well as at Philadelphia’s Passages and Velocities and DC’s Rhizome. Her pieces have been featured on labels such as Mystery Circles (Las Vegas, Nevada) and Hyle Tapes (Paris, France). Carolyn also performs with the experimental quadraphonic trio Wooder, alongside Aaron Igler and Eugene Lew.
In addition to her artistic practice, Carolyn contributes writing to Tape Op magazine, conducts artist interviews for experimental electronic label Mystery Circles, and manages a Substack dedicated to cassette culture. She co-organizes DC’s Sound Scene Audio Arts Festival and has taught at American University’s Expanded Media Studio and Rhizome’s Youth Electronic Workshop.
Michael Joseph Walsh
Michael Joseph Walsh is the author of A Season (University of Georgia Press, forthcoming), winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize, and Innocence (CSU Poetry Center, 2022), winner of the Lighthouse Poetry Series. He is co-editor of APARTMENT Poetry, and his poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Guernica, Fence, jubilat, and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia.
Sam Heaps
Sam Heaps is a labor organizer teaching at Temple University. Their first book, Proximity, a memoir about sex and power, was called a “dizzying, heartbreaking punch to the gut masterwork” by Juliet Escoria. They have been supported by VCCA, Gullkistan, and Tin House, and have lived and worked all over the world. They call Philly home.
Ryan Eckes
Ryan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. His new book, Wrong Heaven Again, is available from Birds, LLC. He is also the author of General Motors, Valu-Plus and other books. Much of his writing addresses class struggle and the inevitability of economic justice. With Kim Gek Lin Short, he runs Radiator Press.
Huston West
Huston West plays clawhammer banjo and sings a mix of traditional old time, more contemporary and some originals. He’s been playing gigs and busking around Philly since 2010, formerly with his band the cheddar boys and now as a solo performer.
Alexis Almeida
Alexis Almeida grew up in Chicago. She is the author of I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Duckling Presse 2018) and Things I Have Made a Fiction (Oversound 2023). Her translation of Roberta Iannamico's Many Poems is just out from The Song Cave. She lives in New York and runs 18 Owls Press.
Bhob Rainey
Bhob Rainey is a Philadelphia-based composer, saxophonist, and sound designer celebrated for his innovative contributions to contemporary, experimental, and improvised music. A recipient of the prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts and co-founder of the influential improvisational duo nmperign, Rainey has garnered acclaim for his groundbreaking work across disciplines, including collaborations in theater, dance, and visual art. With performances and commissions spanning prestigious venues and festivals worldwide, his work continuously challenges boundaries of musical thought and instrumental technique.
Warren C. Longmire
Warren is a writer, performer and teacher from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He hosts House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and founded _mixlit. Warren’s work has been published in journals including Action, Spectacle, The Cleveland Review of Books, R&R, The Best American Poetry 2021, and A Black Philadelphia Reader: African American Writings About the City of Brotherly Love. His latest book, Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop] was released in Nov. 2022 through Bunnie Press. Warren is currently a student at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop pursuing an MFA in Poetry.
Oarsman
Oarsman is a poetry and improvisation group founded in Philadelphia.
Sadie Dupuis
Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, songwriter & singer of rock band Speedy Ortiz, as well as the producer & multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13. Sadie heads the record label Wax Nine, edits its poetry journal, and is a regular contributor to Spin, Tape Op, Talkhouse, and more. She holds an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst, where she also taught writing. Mouthguard, her first book, was published in 2018 (Gramma); Cry Perfume, a second poetry collection, was released in 2022 (Black Ocean). She is an organizer with United Musicians & Allied Workers and its local UMAW Philly.
Ollie Becker/Edward Longo
Ollie Becker is a composer/improvisor/guitarist/vocalist based out of Boston. Current projects include: vocals in noise rock band Rong, composition and guitar in ensemble Premium Velvet Headache Pillow, solo guitar, and a couple new groups to be shared soon. This past February they premiered a piece for duo violin called "Ghost Weight" through Subject to Change, a project of the Magari Ensemble. Over the summer and fall they participated in multiple residencies hosted by the Banff Centre, the Australian Art Orchestra, and the Prattsville Art Center. They are also a studio assistant at New Alliance Audio in Somerville, MA.
Edward Longo is a multi-instrumentalist composer/improviser from Montana, currently based in Nashville. Current interests are exploring novel ways of combining raw black metal and noise with rigorous compositional techniques and harmonies as well as classical and jazz improv.
Chris Campanioni
Chris Campanioni’s work on migration and media theory has been awarded the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary research and a Mellon Foundation fellowship, and his writing has received the Pushcart Prize, the International Latino Book Award, and the Academy of American Poets College Prize. His essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and have found a home in several venues, including Best American Essays and Latin American Literature Today. Recent books include a novel named 𝘝𝘏𝘚 (CLASH Books, 2025), a creative nonfiction called 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩/𝘸𝘦𝘴𝘵 (West Virginia University Press, 2025), a notebook titled 𝘈 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 (Unbound Edition, 2023), and the poetry collection 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 85 (Roof Books, 2024). He teaches creative writing and media studies at Pace University in New York City.
William Hazard
William Hazard makes poems with computers. Recent work can be found in Action, Spectacle, At What Cost Catalog, Voicemail Poems, Ghost Proposal, and elsewhere. He teaches at Temple University. He hangs out at llllllll.co.
olga mikolaivna
olga mikolaivna was born in Kyiv and works in the (intersectional/textual) liminal space of photography, word, translation, and installation. Her debut chapbook 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 is out with Tilted House, and "𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢," 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 is forthcoming with Ursus Americanus. Other works can be found in 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴, 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴, and elsewhere. She lives in Philadelphia and co-curates ( 𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘵 )
Yell at God
Yell at God is a South Philly-based dark folk/folk punk queer femme duo using music to facilitate emotional catharsis and collective joy and healing. Using clawhammer banjo, jugband-style bass, wailing vocals, and the occasional fiddle, Yell at God weaves sonic tapestries that make you want to dance, hug your friends, scream, and cry, all at the same time if the occasion calls for it. Yell at God is made up of Orah Ruth and RJ, who love to trade instruments and bring other artists and guests into the performance at every opportunity.
John Pinto
John Pinto is a film lab technician living in Philadelphia. His work has appeared in Little Engines, X-R-A-Y, HAD, Rejection Letters, Back Patio Press, and the Second and Third Bullshit Anthologies. Find him online at pintopintopinto.com. Find him IRL and he’ll give you a copy of his new zine “Bill Kiss,” coming fall 2024 from Tree Trunk Books.