Universal Cell Unlock w/ special guest Pulsing Nerve Garden

w/ special guest Pulsing Nerve Garden

Saturday, January 10th, 2026 | 7pm Doors / 8pm Show
Schlafly Tap Room (Upstairs) ( 2100 Locust St, 63103 / map )
all ages event (please bring id)

$20 - $10 suggested (sliding scale admission)

CF – self-built electronics

Milena Zink – electronics
Austin Zink – electronics

additional info: newmusiccircle.org

Universal Cell Unlock

Universal Cell Unlock, also known as Christopher Forgues (RI/NYC), is an electronic musician and visual artist, often known for his unique approach to sound collage and noise music as well as his experimental comics under another moniker, CF. His work often explores themes of technology, communication, and the human experience, utilizing handmade devices and unconventional methods. Forgues is well known for his devotion to the electronic craft through numerous aliases and collaborations over the past few decades (Kites, Daily Life, Mark Lord, and others) that begin at the fertile early 2000’s underground music scenes of Providence, RI.

Bandcamp: https://psychicsounds.bandcamp.com/album/quasimodo-the-street-sweeper

The inner-workings of Universal Cell Unlock, Forgues builds hand-built tabletop circuit systems of small kinetic devices that gently strike various metallic objects, the majority of which are “street sweeper bristles which he collected from the street, cleaned, and sometimes cut to tune.” The results are captivating and meditative in homespun minimalism; passive and active at the same time as they cycle through without ever repeating. From 2017 onwards there have been a handful of UCU releases (usually on cassette), and in 2025 he released the LP, Quasimodo The Street Sweeper, on the Psychic Sounds label.

Pulsing Nerve Garden

Pulsing Nerve Garden is the newest moniker of the ongoing duo of Milena and Austin Zink (STL).

Over the past 10 years both artists have performed in a number of St. Louis projects: Deux Plex, Aura, Willis, and Esse (amongst others). As Pulsing Nerve Garden they combine synthesizers, drum machines and various effects to create an avant-industrial sound steeped in psyche.