Damon Locks

Damon Locks is a Chicago-based musician, deejay, multimedia artist, and educator. He has worked with a wide variety of individuals in several disciplines. As a musician, he has explored the margins of post-hardcore in the 1980s with Trenchmouth; dub, jazz, and vanguard improv with the Eternals; and as a core member of Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra. In 2015, Locks founded the Black Monument Ensemble. After years of rehearsal and public performance, Where Future Unfolds, their International Anthem debut, appeared in 2019. Now, recorded outdoors during the pandemic, followed in 2021. In April 2023, Locks appeared on Exploding Star Orchestra's Lightning Dreamers, while July saw the release of New Future City Radio, a multimedia duo collaboration between Locks and Mazurek.