"Abhilasha Chebolu is a guitarist and electro-acoustic improviser currently residing in Chicago, IL. She attended Capital University in Columbus, OH where she studied with Stan Smith, Mark Flugge, and Dina Lentsner. During her time in Ohio, she performed throughout the state with her solo harsh noise project 'Null Copula' and also led the free-jazz ensemble 'Turtle Boat'. She also held tenure with local groups including Gault, the Ryan Jewell Quintet, and Princsex. Abhilasha also played an active role in curating performances of harsh noise and improvised electro-acoustic music throughout central Ohio.

Abhilasha's modest recorded output can be heard on releases from Breaching Static, Amalgam, Two Rooms, Deathbed Tapes, Lurker Bias, and Very Much Recordings."

"My name is Alex Burgoyne and I am a saxophonist/composer/arranger. I come from Columbus, Ohio.

I received a BM in saxophone performance from the Capital University Conservatory of Music and an MM in saxophone performance from Ohio University. I thought really hard about a DM."

"Dan DiPiero is a musician, writer, and Assistant Professor of Music at Boston University. His research focuses on the affective connections between aesthetics and politics, with a particular focus on improvised and popular music in the US.

Dan is the author of Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl, published with the Tracking Pop series at University of Michigan Press. The first academic monograph to seriously consider feminist indie rock from beyond the 1990s, Big Feelings discusses bands like Soccer Mommy, Indigo De Souza, Vagabon, The Ophelias, SASAMI, and other young artists who are remaking what rock music means in the present moment. It also situates these musicians in essential socio-cultural contexts, helping readers understand how the music matters, and looping in the voices of fans along the way.

Dan's first book, Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life (University of Michigan Press, 2022), is an interdisciplinary exploration of improvisation as it appears across contexts. Through a series of nested comparisons, it aims to explicate a nuanced understanding of what improvisation is, how it appears, and what it helps us to think about, socially, musically, and politically. Contingent Encounters was a finalist for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Book Prize in 2023.

Other writing has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Jazz and Culture, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, liquid blackness, Musicology Now, Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation, Rancière and Music (Edinburgh University Press), the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sounding Out!, the Cleveland Review of Books, Audimat, boundary 2 online, and more.

A fierce advocate for popular music studies, Dan is passionate about working in community both within and beyond the academy. In 2022, Dan co-founded the Music and Sound Studies Working Group at the Cultural Studies Association, remains active in the Popular Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society, and currently serves as the secretary of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US). They regularly present research at conferences such as IASPM, the American Musicological Society, the American Studies Association, the Pop Conference, and more. With Christine Capetola, Dan co-edited a special issue of the journal American Music Perspectives; featuring the work of graduate students and early career scholars, "Sound and Affect in Times of Crisis" was published in early 2023.

An award-winning teacher, Dan has taught interdisciplinary courses across musicology and the humanities. Prior to joining BU, he taught at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Ithaca College, Miami University, and the Ohio State University, where he earned his PhD in the Department of Comparative Studies in 2019. They also hold degrees from the California Institute of the Arts (MA, MFA) and Capital University's Conservatory (BM). Their principal drum teachers are Joe La Barbera, Bob Breithaupt, and Bill Ransom.

Dan is originally from Cleveland, Ohio; he writes and podcasts about popular music studies at cry baby; and is currently working on a project about crushes and popular music."