Blevin Blectum + naw @ Wavelength Pop Up Gallery

Wavelength Series

Wavelength Presents:

BLEVIN BLECTUM (Providence, R.I. Experimental Electronic Icon)
NAW (Live Ambient Dub)

Thursday, January 29
@ Wavelength Pop Up Gallery (709 College St.)
8 p.m.
$10 adv/$12 door (adv tix at Ticketfly.com)

Wavelength is proud to present American experimental electronic music pioneer Blevin Blectum, one half of Blectum from Blechdom with on-again, off-again partner Kevin Blechdom. Part of the same warped, glitch-crazy California crew as Kid606, Cex Lesser, that emerged from the digital underground in the early 2000s, Blectum from Blechdom made hyperactive, strangely danceable IDM that never took itself too seriously. Now based in Providence, Rhode Island, where she completed her PhD in Computer Music and Multimedia at Brown University, Blectum's sound has evolved towards immersive sound art over the course of several solo releases, including her most recent, 2014's Irradiance. This special intimate performance at Wavelength Pop-Up Gallery will also feature a live set by Toronto's own electronic music innovator, ambient dub artist naw a.k.a. Neil A. Wiernik, who also serves on Wavelength's Board of Directors.

Blevin Blectum (born Bevin Kelley) = polyphasic avitronic wordless sonic worldbuilding, sound vision costume object spectacle. Blevin is perhaps most infamously known as one half of the recently reformed and reunited groundbreaking digital duo Blectum From Blechdom (with Kevin Blechdom / Kristin Erickson), recipients of the 2001 Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in Digital Musics for their album The Messy Jesse Fiesta.  In 2013 she co-founded the electroacoustic-radioplayers The Traveling Bubble Ensemble with fellow sci-fi enthusiast and sibling Kelley Polar (Michael Kelley). Left to her own devices, Blevin produces turbulent 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 poststeampunked parallel universe potentiality, puffing and straining as it struggles to reach escape velocity, conjured and bounced to the breaking/boiling point, generally fucked-with samples of everything from hand-slapped rain-drenched leaves in celestial courtship gardens and antique broken Beatnik banks to classic, utterly dancefloored, floridly dangerous disembodied-dismembered half-remembered vocals. She can be heard in radio plays, electronic toys, theater spaces, film/television scores, advertisements, clubs, concert halls, headphones, and galleries. She has releases on labels including Aagoo, Estuary Ltd., Tigerbeat6, DeluxeRecs, Praemedia, Vague Terrain, and Phthalo.

Neil A. Wiernik: Audio contortionist, image alchemist, art pharmacist, community engager, content developer, web weaver and open source maker. By day, Neil works in the not-for-profit sector managing digital strategy and communications for a national organization. By night, Neil is better known to the underground music community for his audio-visual dub-inspired sound textures, subdued beats and glitchy visuals as the artist naw, or for his experimental bass axe wielding in the post-rock band Whisper Room. Neil has also been deeply involved for decades as both an organizer and curator of many regularly occurring DIY underground music showcases in both his hometowns of Montreal and Toronto. He was a founding member of the now defunct online digital arts publication Vague Terrain and previous to the Wavelength Board of Directors, Neil had stints on both the board of directors for MusicWorks Magazine and Somewhere There.