Blevin Blectum is an electronic musician. Recently relocated from the industrial armpit of Oakland, California, to the humid lovecraftian greenery of Providence, Rhode Island, Blevin releases her fourth solo album, GULAR FLUTTER, on an unsuspecting public via the AAGOO label (New York).
Blevin is one half of the recently reformed and reunited groundbreaking digital duo Blectum From Blechdom, recipients of the 2001 Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in Digital Musics (for their album "The Messy Jesse Fiesta"). Blevin moonlights with audio/video band SAGAN alongside her husband and fellow e-musician Lesser, keyboardist Wobbly, and video artiste Ryan Junell.
Blevin produces continued electronics "with a more oblique slant on the basic BFB sensation of things-not-quite-right-here, clanking, creaking grooves and anti-grooves as a coal-powered spacecraft from some steampunk parallel universe potentiality, puffing and straining as it struggles to reach escape velocity, chopped, noise-reduced and timed/stretched to the breaking/boiling point, generally fucked-with samples of everything from hand-slapped rain-drenched leaves in courtship gardens and antique broken Beatnik banks to ProTooledFree classic utterly danceable disembodied-blissful-transvestite-stand-up-comic vocals".
Blevin holds degrees in English and Violin from Oberlin College/Conservatory, and a masters in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College. She is a licensed and registered veterinary nurse. She was the recipient of a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, California. She has toured extensively through the USA and Europe since 1998. In 1999 she was the winner of the 1999 New Langton Arts Music award for her first solo CD "Pirate Planets" on the Phthalo label out of Los Angeles. Her second and third albums, "Talon Slalom" (2004) on Deluxe Records, and "Magic Maple" (2006) on the Praemedia label, were greeted with much critical acclaim.
Tour
05/07/2008
Wednesday 09:00 PM
Spasibar
St. Olavs gate 32,
Oslo, Norway
Cost: 50
Blevin Blectum solo and others.
05/08/2008
Thursday 08:00 PM
Sound of Mu
Markveien 58,
Oslo, Norway
Blevin Blectum solo and others.
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05/10/2008
Saturday 08:00 PM
Sprawl, Sonic Recycler
London, UK
Blevin Blectum solo and many more!
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SonicRecycler4 - Reduce, Re-use, Recycle A unique evening of provocative, entertaining and experimental music, presented by Sprawl, Brentford Recycling Action Group and Watermans. SonicRecycler4, the fourth in an annual series, is an event showcasing the many different strands of eclectic ideas in music, based on the idea of recycling. With performers, DJÕs, films, stalls and interactive presentations, itÕs a packed evening of radical sounds in a lovely Thameside venue with the Restaurant and River Terrace Bar will be open until late. with live in the theatre (8-10.30pm): Blevin Blectum (US) David Toop Sean OÕHagan ( High Llamas/Microdisney) Aleks Kolkowski (Recording Angels) Simon Bookish DJs and live in the bar / on the balcony (4-8pm and 10.30-11.30): L¾titia Sadier (Stereolab/Monade) - dj set Aleks Kolkowski - CD recycling lathe - turning CDs into vinyl records! Iris Garrelfs - DJ set Janek Schaefer - DJing the Oxfam box Dithernoise and Simon Storey - pedal-powered installation films in the theatre (6-8pm): tbc stalls: Hounslow Borough Recycling Team Ealing Friends of the Earth Brentford Recycling Action Group Zobi la Mouche (recycled accessories) Tickets £10 (Conc £8) from WatermanÕs Box Office or online from wegottickets.com/event/28432 For a feel of what SonicRecycler is about visit http://www.myspace.com/sonicrecycler venue: Watermans Artcentre , 40 High Street, Brentford, London, TW8 0DS time: 4pm-11pm admission: free entry to the foyer, £10/£8 to the theatre from Box Office 020 8232 1010 or online www.wegottickets.com residents/curators: si-cut.db and Iris Garrelfs
05/13/2008
Tuesday 7:30 PM
Star and Shadow Cinema
Stepney Bank and Crawhall Road, Newcastle, UK
On the corner of Stepney Bank and Crawhall Road, opposite the Tanners pub.
Cost: 6 pounds
Description: BLEVIN BLECTUM - SCORCES -MONOTONIX
Blevin Blectum, one half of the infamous Blectum From Blechdom, brings her audio visual electromania to the Star&ShadowÕs cinema. The Star And Shadow Cinema is in Battlefield, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
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05/21/2008
Wednesday
11:45 PM - Berlin Hilton @ NBI
Schoenhauser Allee 36
Berlin, DE
Cost: 3 euros
Description: Blevin Blectum live at Berlin Hilton @ club NBI, Schoenhauser Allee 36, Berlin. Berlin Hilton takes place every wednesday at the club NBI.
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05/22/2008
Thursday 09:00 PM
Cafe Miesna
garabary 62/wejscie od mostowej
Poznan, Poland
Cost: 20, 25 pln
Description: ENON and BLEVIN BLECTUM
05/23/2008
Bologna ITALY Description: Blevin Blectum solo, details TBA.
05/24/2008
Saturday 10:00 PM
Clandestino
Faenza, Italy
Blevin Blectum solo and others.More info.
