Sound artist Kikù Hibino and Chicago footwork pioneer Traxman present NOONNOONNOON, a live exploration of new forms of dance music built from rhythm, noise, chopped vocals, and repetition at 160 BPM. Rooted in Chicago’s South Side, the collaboration connects footwork’s rapid-fire rhythms with the minimalist structures of experimental electronic music. Using an MPC, synthesizers, and SuperCollider, the duo moves between dance music, noise, and abstraction.

Originally developed for the 24-channel speaker array at Chicago’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion as part of Sonic Pavilion 2026, the work has been reimagined as a 60-minute stereo live performance for Roulette, with improvisation at its core.

Kikù Hibino SuperCollider and monome devices
Traxman MPC and 303

Composer and interdisciplinary artist Chantal Michelle opens the evening.

Roulette’s annual Mixology Festival highlights novel approaches to technology in music and media arts, since 1991, and is supported in-part by mediaThe Foundation.

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

Kikù Hibino is a Japanese-born, Chicago-based sound artist and composer working across multichannel installation, spatial sound, and experimental electronic music. Through voice, text, synthesized sound, and noise, he explores the interference between language and electronic sound, creating immersive sonic environments that examine perception and non-linear temporality. He is also the founder and director of Signal Noise, an independent platform for avant-garde sound and video art. Recent releases include Sky Trajectories (2024), Fell to Fern (2022), and Rococo ∞ Echomatter (Superpang, 2026), a collaborative album with Merzbow.

Traxman (Cornelius Ferguson) is a foundational figure in Chicago footwork and one of the longest-serving producers in Chicago house and footwork, with roots reaching back to the 1990s ghetto-house era on Dance Mania. A member of the Teklife crew and founder of Tekk DJz, he helped define the genre’s rhythmic language across releases on Planet Mu, Lit City Trax, and Teklife—including the acclaimed Da Mind of Traxman (Planet Mu, 2012). A prolific crate-digger, he remains a central architect of Chicago’s footwork sound.

Chantal Michelle is a composer and interdisciplinary artist whose work engages the spatial, tactile, and perceptual dimensions of sound. Her practice incorporates feedback systems, multichannel composition, and psychoacoustic phenomena to question the mutability of perception and its capacity to be disrupted or reconstructed. Her projects include site-responsive installations, hand-blown glass instruments, conceptual scores, and recorded works. Her latest album, All Things Might Spill (Shelter Press, 2026), stretches time into tense, long-held tones and clear melodic lines that resolve into suspended, dynamic soundscapes.

Michelle’s work and collaborations have been presented internationally, including at institutions and venues such as MoMA, the Royal Academy of Arts, Fridman Gallery, and Café OTO. She is a 2027 Cité internationale des arts Artist-in-Residence and a 2026 Villa Aurora Fellow in Composition. She is also a recipient of the Arbeitsstipendium Ernste Musik und Klangkunst from the Berlin Senate. Her practice has been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Goethe-Institut, and the Feminist Center for Creative Work. Michelle holds an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.