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Paige Alice Naylor is a Chicago-based experimental vocalist, sound artist, technologist and educator. Through sound-making and performance, she investigates the dissolution of time, the breakdown of language, and themes of death & rebirth by way of multichannel sound installation, electronically processed voice, tape loops, handmade electronics, field recordings, text scores, poetry, and repetitive, layered production. Her direct and interpersonal approach creates live sonic environments which feel vulnerable and intimate. Paige is a classically trained vocalist and performs internationally: solo, with Olivia Block and Jon Mueller, and in experimental pop duo 4D Girlz with Corey Smith. She released her debut solo album, The Unearthing, through Chicago label, Monastral.
Paige has exhibited work at Museum Villa Stuck (Germany), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Recess (NYC), New Media Contemporary (Dallas), Baltimore Theatre Project, D.C. Arts Center, Black Iris (Richmond, VA), Samek Art Museum (Lewisburg, PA), Jay Pritzker Pavilion (Chicago), Zhou B Art Center, Terrain Biennial, Experimental Sound Studio, Hyde Park Art Center, ADDS Donna, Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the Art Institute, Mana Contemporary, and others. She has performed at Rewire Festival, Variations (FR), Public Records (NYC), The Lab (San Francisco), Indexical (Santa Cruz), 2200 Arts & Archives (LA), Onion City Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Granite City Art and Design District, Constellation, the Empty Bottle, Public Works, The Plan, the Quarantine Concerts, Lumpen Radio, amongst others.
Her work has been featured in the Wire, NPR, Longform Editions, Sixty Inches from Center, Newcity Art, sun-13, CAMP Radio, surgeryradio, WHURK Magazine, the Documentarian, and was one of Comfort Station’s 2025 “Artists to Watch.”
Paige gained an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on full scholarship where she currently teaches and holds a Certificate in Deep Listening from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a curator for Elastic Art’s Elastro Series, served as program director for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology’s Summer Soundwalks in the Park Series for 3 consecutive years, and co-founder of Chicago Sonic Commons.