The Kinds of Kings / ~Nois collaboration grew from a friendship between Gemma Peacocke and ~Nois that formed at the Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab in 2018. After a year of planning, the premiere of the first iteration of the Kinds of Kings and ~Nois program took place at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, New York, with performances following in Chicago and Los Angeles during the Winter of 2020. As the musical world went on hiatus during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the collaboration between ~Nois and Kinds of Kings did not. Instead it has continued to morph into the final product that we have today: Kinds of ~Nois.