Biography
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 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 certified veterinary nurse. She has
been a composer-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in
California, and at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in
Nebraska. 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. (from Blevin's website 5/16/2009)
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 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 certified veterinary nurse. She has
been a composer-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in
California, and at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in
Nebraska. 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. (from Blevin's website 5/16/2009)
