Bob Bellerue
http://www.halfnormal.com/
| Bob Bellerue is a noise composer, experimental
musician, and creative technician based in Brooklyn NY. Over the last
25 years he has been involved in a wide range of creative activities -
homemade percussion ensembles, Balinese gamelan, dance/performance art
sound scores, and installation art. Bob's work utilizes custom
electronics and programming, incorporating feedback, prepared field
recordings, de-musicalized instruments, and found oscillators. He is in
the midst of long-term collaborations with the choreographer Wanda Z
Gala, and gigs regularly as a solo artist, in KILT (with Raven Chacon
and Sandor Finta), and in collaboration with some of the heavyweights
of the universal experimental music scene (Z'EV, Telecult Powers,
Francisco Meirino, and Circuit Wound among others). Bob's work has been
presented at the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Centre de Cultura
Contemporanea de Barcelona, Issue Project Room, Diapason Sound Gallery,
Roulette, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, New Genre Festival, CEAIT
Festival, Ende Tymes Festival, Denver Noise Festival, Olympia
Experimental Music Festival, PDX Noise Festival, Kunstradio / ORF
(Vienna), Radio Epsilonia (Paris), WFMU, WKCR, WNYC, KXLU, KFJC, East
Village Radio, Stanford University, The New School , UCSD, and UCLA.
His discography includes dozens of releases on Anarchymoon Recordings,
Zelphabet, Banned Productions, P-Tapes, RRR Records, Static Aktion,
EMR, Iatrogenesis, Bastardised, Peyote Tapes, Together Tapes,
Breathmint, Feathering Pines, Baked Tapes, Abandon Ship, 3rd Sex, and
Important Records. He curates and produces noise and experimental music
events on a regular basis, including the Ende Tymes Festival of Noise
and Experimental Liberation. He was formerly based in Los Angeles,
where he ran the sub-garde experimental music/performance space the Il
Corral, and curated the Beyond Music series and festival. Bob lives in
Bushwick NY and runs the boutique noise labels Anarchymoon Recordings
and Sleepy Hollow Editions. Websites: halfnormal.com / bobbellerue.net. Artist Statement: "my work is based in feedback circuits used for synthesis; recontextualized field recordings; texture/drone/nonmusical instruments (shanai, rebab, gambuh, chinese cymbals, hunting calls, junk metal, sheets of glass); and a performance presence best characterized as animist/animalistic. i attempt to harness the sounds within nature, without imposing a deterministic melodic/rhythmic structure." Sendungen im
ORF-Kunstradio |
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