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alex NO.EL miller (they/she) is a nonbinary mixed media Chicago-based artist, marketing professional & ex-figure skater.

They are bending lullabies with their newly released debut record, moondog, stereo pressed in vinyl + designed for digital immersive listening.

moondog is to foster consent culture and allow space for listeners to express autonomy in navigating their own lens of big feelings as they relate to big life things here in the moment via tangible design.

So not as an over-complicated, activated, a little egotistical coping mechanism… smoke the shoulds!

Connect the dots! Blend those colored pencils!

Exercise autonomy to:

! ! ! T A K E U P S P A C E ! ! !

From the artist:

“moondog is me designing my way into survival. i made this because i needed to. and i desperately wish i had this sa + c ptsd trauma toolkit since middle school. but alas, it is 2024.

so, i actively use the cycle of moondog as a safe way to hold my self accountable while reparenting my inner child. because to show up in this world among other individuals, it seems as if i first need access to my unique sense of self. moondog affirms my capacity to be aware of how my body takes up space shared with other humans.

moondog is physical proof to my self that i am an observer of my psychosomatic healing experience. huh? the contents of my experience are now melted in plastic - i can hold this vinyl in my hands. it’s my way of actively showing up for my self to move forward.

over 10ish months i wrote, learned to produce, produced, recorded, mixed, mastered and released moondog plus my first music video, hovering over the honey tree, with the support of my community. i designed the artwork + sound production for moondog by collaging my psychosomatic feelings (both physiologically and neurologically) beat by beat + interconnecting them with abstract paint spots of my most activated mosaic of emotions.

today, i use moondog as a tool to exercise autonomy from my psychosomatic body and traumatized brain as i’m activated in real-time. because with moondog i already trust i have the capacity to flow through the emotion’s cycle safely through my unique frame of reference at that point in time. i already know that i can come back to reality at the end of it grounded with the affirmation i am okay.

my version of accountability is showing up, resting, giving a crap and taking swings to foster a culture of consent in real life community with other humans like you.

as long as i’m living, i’ll be here taking up space.

so, now that i’m aware i have a choice in how i do that, i keep making the choice to take up space with my passion projects.

in my journey of healing i continue to work with healthcare providers and within the art therapy community to translate observations into somatic patterns.

i'm so thrilled to share this project to work its contents out of my system. And to grow forward within my art therapy community in support of consent culture.” -alex NO.EL miller

Personal Brand: Holding space for autonomy through art therapy for collective healing in efforts to liberate a culture of CONSENT

What I'm promoting: my art therapy passion project in the form of music (moondog trauma toolkit)

How I'm promoting it: talking about art therapy on social media + singing live performances throughout the summer (including talking points about consent from social media between songs)

@NO.EL.moondog for the latest

A handful of alex NO.EL miller’s top-tier inspirations:

• Fiona Apple “sullen girl”

• Lucy Dacus “thumbs,” “vbs,” “brando”

• Tori Amos “me and a gun”

• Chappel Roan “california”

• Sinead O’Connor “john, i love you”

• Alanis Morisette “wake up,” “all i really want”

• The Chicks “travellin’ soldier,” “godspeed (sweet dreams),” “top of the world,” “i believe in love,” “long time gone,” “a home”

• Imogen Heap “just for now,” “hide and seek”

• st vincent’s masterclass + “paris is burning”

• Brittany Howard literally everything

• Caroline Polachek’s “look at me now”

• boygenius… everything

• MUNA “number one fan,” “kind of girl,” “it’s gonna be okay, baby”

• Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes “home”

• Mac Miller “good news” + all of circles + swimming

• Modest Mouse “lampshades on fire”

• Kimbra “settle down”

• Indigo Girls “power of two”

• Brandi Carlile “that wasn’t me”

• The highwaywomen “crowded table”

• Tracy Chapman “fast car,” “rape of the world”

• Anna Nalik… “citadel”

• Nick Cave “o children”

• PJ Harvey “down by the water”

• Christina Aguilera “hurt”

• David Bowie “sound and vision”

• Halsey “929”

• Janelle Monae “make me feel”

• Lady Gaga “angel down,” “just another day,” “gypsy,” “speechless”

• Taylor Swift “cassandra,” “haunted,” “the last great american dynasty”

• Phoebe Bridgers literally everything, summed perfectly with “that funny feeling”

• Remi Wolf literally everything

• King Princess “too bad”

• Hobo Johnson “you & the cockroach”

• Kesha “rainbow”

• Miley Cyrus “rainbow land,” “just a girl”

• Joni Mitchell “both sides now”

• Melanie “brand new key”

• Arkells “and then some”

• Funny girl “don’t rain on my parade”

• The temper trap “sweet disposition”

• The smiths “asleep”

• Jimmy eat world “the middle”

• The paper kites “bloom”

• David Lanz “christophori’s dream”

• George Winston “the holly and the ivy”

• kermit the frog “rainbow connection”

• joseph and the amazing technicolour dreamcoat “pharaoh story”

• wicked “i’m not that girl”

• the Japanese House “saw you in a dream”

• The Civil Wars “i’ve got this friend,” “poison & wine”

• Kasey Musgraves “oh what a world 2.0”

• Adrienne Lenker “anything”