
M.Sayyid (born Maurice Mboya Greene July 10 1970) is a lyricist, producer, visual artist and a founding member of The New York based Alternative hip hop group Antipop Consortium. In 2017 he was the subject of a feature article in Noisey Magazine covering his move to Paris and his mixtape Error Tape 1. In 2018 the French music television series Tracks ARTE covered the artist in a mini-documentary highlighting his work. Later that year he was invited by Sónar to perform at Sónar by Day. He has appeared in a “how-to” for Billboard (magazine) in 2009 where he was applauded for his use of the MPC 2000XL and plays the role of professor in a 2 part series called Fire in the MP. His visual work has been published in Arts Magazine in 2012 where he was commissioned to create a piece for the “carte blanche” section of the magazine.
Jeffrey James Logan (born May 7, 1978), better known by his stage name Jel, is an American hip hop producer and rapper. He is co-founder of the record label Anticon. He has been a member of Presage,Themselves, Subtle, and 13 & God. Jel is primarily a producer. He is known for his use of SP-1200 and MPC2000XL to create drum beats with little or no sequencing like playing the drums live via the sampler pads. He has produced numerous tracks for underground hip hop artists such as Deep Puddle Dynamics, Atmosphere, Sole, Sage Francis, and Serengeti.
Carmina Escobar (Mexico City, 1981) is a Los Angeles–based extreme vocalist, improviser, and intermedia artist whose work explores voice as rupture, ritual, and collective transformation. Rooted in liminality and migration, her practice spans performance, installation, film, and experimental sound, interrogating musicality, language, gender, race, and embodied communication.
She has presented work extensively across Cuba, Mexico, the United States, Canada, and Europe, with appearances at Fábrica de Arte Cubano, MACO Oaxaca, Museo Morelense de Arte Popular, CTM Festival, Borealis Festival, The Kitchen, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Broad, Machine Project, PST: LA/LA, and REDCAT. Her practice also extends into cinema, composing music for films that have screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
She has held residencies at MacDowell, The Chinati Foundation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and The Hermitage Artist Retreat, and has received major support including the Creative Capital Award (2026), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Artist Award in Music/Sound (2020), NPN Creation Fund (2021), and New Music USA Development Fund (2021), alongside numerous additional fellowships, grants, and residencies.
Her large-scale intermedia works include Fiesta Perpetua!, Pura Entraña, and Bajo la Sombra del Sol. She is co-founder of LIMINAR and HOWL SPACE, and co-directs Boss Witch Productions, creating site-responsive works where sound, ritual, and landscape converge.
5-piece eco-psych-punk band The Velvet Ants scrambled up through the crevasses of the LA Basin in spring 2026. The queer /femme-fronted band uses 3-part harmonies, dance +blast beats, and short-lists of plants and animals of the LA River to build better worlds from the ground up.
When Jacques Derrida defined the lingering Marxism of late-Capitalist society as hauntological, mashing together the words haunting and ontology, he couldn’t have imagined what the era might sound like. Mars Kumari captures the grief and grit of loss we all feel now, haunted as we are by what was here and is now missing."
-Roy Christopher
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