Charlottesville-based noise duo Trash Cats frequently perform amalgamations of some (or all) of the following things: saxophone, guitar, cassette tapes, DIY circuits, pedals, drum machines, lightbulbs, masks, contact mics, batteries, wires, knobs, strings. Electronic and electric. Trash and cats. Alex Christie and Kittie Cooper. 

Alex Christie is a composer, intermedia artist, instrument builder, curator, and lighting designer whose work explores the agency of non-human actors and the collision of creative media. Their pieces blur the distinctions between dynamic lighting systems, musical compositions, and new electronic music instruments. 

Kittie Cooper is a sound and intermedia artist, performer, and educator based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Kittie makes work that explores the spectrum between silliness and seriousness, and in particular where those two qualities overlap with spookiness. Much of their work deals with the messy insides of humans, electronics, and other everyday things.