BEATRIX + JAR
Bianca Pettis (Beatrix) and Jacob Aaron Roske (JAR)
Influences
unintentional sounds - the moments between moments - glitch - hiss - drag - purr - scratch - a.m. radio - robots sonic collage - childhood - getting sexy with the finger paints
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We spent most of our youth stuck in the mind-set that music must sound a certain way, that musical instruments are THIS… and if you have never been trained to play music then you have no right to be a musician or even think about making music. Approaching music in outrageous ways and circuit bending gave us a new vocabulary to express our love of music and to create a world where musical expression is not limited to just those people with formal training. We believe that anything that makes sound can be a musical instrument.
Circuit-bending is a great metaphor for our whole process. It is the process of unlocking the true voice of an electronic toy. Here is a little Speak-and-Spell, a slave to uttering the ‘right’ things at the proper time…but once we start exploring its circuitry we allow it to express crazy, often emotional sounds that defy propriety and behave unpredictably. These new voices are the crux of our compositions.
BOOKING: To Book Beatrix*JAR for a Performance and/or Circuit Bending Workshop email: beatrixjar@beatrixjar.com
Download a copy of Beatrix*JAR's Golden Fuzz. Click on image for iTunes Link.
Beatrix*JAR is real life couple Bianca Pettis (Beatrix) and Jacob Aaron Roske (JAR). The duo travels extensively spreading the good word of do-it-yourself electronics with uniquely playful sound collage performances and Circuit Bending Workshops.
"The roots of the circuit-bending Minneapolis electronics duo's style stretch far back, from 1950s musique concrete to Kraftwerk's "Numbers," from Negativland and MC 900 Foot Jesus to today's mash-up artists, such as Girl Talk. What sets Beatrix*JAR apart from these various media manipulators is its particular method of music generation -- Roske and girlfriend Bianca Pettis rely for their sound sources on rearranging the innards of electronic devices." - Manny Theiner, Pittsburgh City Paper
Beatrix*JAR have been featured at: The ARTS at Mark's Garage (Honolulu), Ong King Arts Center (Honolulu), The Warhol Art Museum (Pittsburgh), Wexner Art Center (Columbus), Denver Art Museum (Denver), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Minneapolis), American Visionary Art Museum (Baltimore), Columbus College of Art and Design (Columbus, Ohio), Milwaukee College of Art and Design (Milwaukee), University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), Spark Electronic Music and Art Festival (Minneapolis), Erie Art Museum (Erie, PA), Santa Monica Art Museum (Santa Monica), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego and La Jolla), Hotcakes Gallery (Milwaukee), Blaffler Gallery, University of Houston (Houston), High Mayhem (Santa Fe), Zeum, Art of This Gallery (Minneapolis), Altered Aesthetics (Minneapolis), Bent Festival (Minneapolis, New York), Parish Hall (Cleveland), Leonardo's Basement (Minneapolis), The Neutral Zone (Ann Arbor), University of Wisconsin (Madison).
Only a few weeks until a limited amount of collectors gatefold CDs drop exclusively via WarpMart and DealmakerRecords. Com......after that you're going to have to wait until the 18th August when "Lemurian" lands in all good record shops!!
"Like Boards of Canada with an extra scoop of codeine and better drums...." - Rustie "By golly we like it" - Mixmag - 4/5 "This is daydream music....." - Bibio (Mush Records) "FRESHNESS!!" - Varan "lone is the one!" - Red Bull Music Academy "He has drunk from some our our Los Angeles waters" - Daedelus (Ninja Tune)
