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PLAYING SHOWS WITH THE POWERS!

PACIFIC NORTHWEST!
JULY 5 - 6 - 7 - 8
2018

Thursday, July 5 at 7 PM - 11 PM 2018

Victoria at Upside Studios

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a night of wild n wonderful electronic music, "music", Muzak and performance

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BLEVIN BLECTUM
http://www.blevinblectum.com/

Blevin Blectum is an electronic music / multimedia composer, performer, and sound designer residing with avian animals in Seattle WA. Incorporating elements of text, video, acoustic and electronic instruments, her multimedia work is centered around a scored musical core, and inspired by the imagined realms of radio plays and speculated science fictions. Working solo and in collaboration she has released dozens of critically acclaimed recordings since 1998. As the duo Blectum from Blechdom, with long-time collaborator Kristin Grace Erickson, she received the Digital Music Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica 2001 in Linz, Austria. She is a recent co-founder of the Traveling Bubble Ensemble, with co-composer and violist Michael Kelley, violinist Elise Kuder, and performer/builder Marjorie Gere. Blevin's work has been featured and reviewed in publications including Wire magazine (UK), Neural, Pitchfork, Time Out (New York and London), Signal to Noise, Art Forum, Blow Up (Italy), Vogue (Italy), and Rolling Stone.

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THE POWERS

http://emilypelstring.com/The-Powers

The Powers is the collaborative project of Katherine Kline, Emily Pelstring and Jessica Mensch.

Drawing inspiration from mythological archetypes, particularly trinities of sisters such as the Graeae, the Gorgons and the Fates, the Powers create a feminist pantheon of their own. The angry ghosts of our maternal lineages are conjured in a live, participatory ritual, where power is redistributed and the classical "hero's journey" is redefined.

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CIAO

https://soundcloud.com/regfant/ciao-piano-a-la-playa

Italo new beat house gone 2018

UPSIDE STUDIOS 18 1/2 Fan Tan Alley 2018

7pm

$12 at the door or PWYC

Friday, July 6 at 9 PM - 12 AM 2018

VANCOUVER

VIVO Media Arts Centre

2625 Kaslo Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V5M 3G9

“Vancouver finally achieves transcendence through drone. Quiet City looks to provide a proper home for the deep-listening experience.” -Scout Network

Quiet City is a series of concerts in Vancouver focused on live performances of experimental, electronic and improvised music in a comfortable and intimate setting. Established in January 2010, we are now in our ninth year of programming.

The forty-eighth edition of this series will be featuring performances by:

⊚ Blevin Blectum (Seattle)

⊚ Crotch (Nanaimo)

⊚ Maskara

⊚ The Powers (New York/Kingston/Pender Island)

Presented by VIVO Media Arts Centre, Soundscape & Panospria

Advance tickets are available for purchase at a discounted rate: https://scantintone.bandcamp.com/merch/quiet-city-48-blevin-blectum

SATURDAY JULY 7 2018

SEATTLE
TBA

2017 NOVEMBER QUICK EUROPE TRIP

NOVEMBER 16 Thursday - BERLIN

NOVEMBER 17 Friday - HAARLEM, NL

NOVEMBER 18 Saturday - PARIS (record release party!)

NOVEMBER 19 Sunday - PARIS (kids party!)

May 5th 2017 - Friday

ANCHORAGE, AK

At the Anchorage Museum.

September 16th 2017 - Saturday

PHILADELPHIA, PA

As part of the Megapolis Audio MegapolisFestival as part of the larger Fringe Festival.

Saturday August 27

sharing the bill with BROMP TREB at Tommy’s Place in Providence, RI

Saturday August 20

at the DOT AIR fest at Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket RI

Saturday July 23

Action Beat & GW Sok Neptune Opening Bell Blevin Blectum at Machines with Magnets

Sunday July 17

playing records as revivified anicent-alter-ego-persona DJ D84

(with Alex Dupuis doing triptacular visual things, and many more special guests doing special things) at Machines with Magnets' 1/4 VOLUME NOISE LOUNGE, Pawtucket RI

February 27, 2016
Playing at the Closing Party for Ricky Katowicz's show!

at The Aviary, 48 South St, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130

February 5 - 6, 2016
performing at:

2016 Women in Music Technology Symposium at University of California Irvine

January 25, 2016
I'll be performing a new radio play adaptation with Kate Bergstrom
at Aurora and in such amazing company!
-:- wolfstuff presents -:-
a special multimedia performance edition of free mondays
-:-> Kate Bergstrom, Alex Dupuis, and Bevin Kelley <-:-
-:-> Domestique <-:-
https://www.facebook.com/domestiquemusic
home appliances and costumes make musical performances
-:-> Martim Galvao and Todd Anderson <-:-
-:-> #000000 <-:-
AND the amazing -:-> MARK MILLOFF <-:- presenting the rarely screened 'the little friend'!
AND the wonderful -:-> RACHEL BLUMBERG <-:- = film and improvised percussion.
at Aurora Providence
free show
all ages
8pm

Friday, December 11, 2015
at LaMama, NYC

Sunday, December 6, 2015
Verdant Vibes Launch Party
with
Traveling Bubble Ensemble
(blevin blectum, kelley polar, elise kuder, electroacoustic scifi)
and
The Verdant Vibes Ensemble
(music by RI composers)
and
Providence Research Ensemble
(kaleidoscopic ambient acoustic)
at
Aurora
276 Westminster Street
Providence, RI

Friday, November 6, 2015
from 7pm to 7am (Saturday)
Annual Bach Marathon
at Manning Chapel
Brown University
Providence, RI

Wednesday, November 16, 2015
with Bile Sister (feat. New Chance) + Jack Toft + Taskmaster :::
wolfstuff presents FREE MONDAYS
8:30pm, all ages
Aurora, Providence
FREE!
free mondays, weird mondays, wild mondays
let's be all a monday can be

September 24 - October 18, 2015
I'm writing music and designing sound for Bridge Rep's production of Oscar Wilde's Salome! So excited about this! All details here.

Saturday, October 10, 2015
LIFE'S A GAS 3
8:00pm
The Parlour in Providence, Rhode Island
with
Leiko
Warblers Roost
Allysen Callery
More TBA

Thursday, October 8, 2015
at the Musical Ecologies series,
8:00 PM
The Old Stone House 
in Washington Park, 3rd Street & 5th Avenue 
 Park Slope, Brooklyn

 718-768-3195
Admission by contribution ($10 suggested)
BLEVIN BLECTUM (BEVIN KELLEY) – Deviant Sonic Parlor Tricks

Friday, October 2, 2015
contributing live disco violin, 3rd year running, w DJ Nick de Paris at
the 5th Annual New England Builders’ Ball: Celebrating Bikes & Bike Culture!
Roger Williams Park Casino
Providence, RI

Sunday, September 13, 2015
at Machines with Magnets
facebook invite
9 pm
Pawtucket, RI
_with_
FINAL BOSS
NYC bunkerbeat ensemble featuring members of Action Beat(UK), Opening Bell, Nassau Coliseum, etc
finalbossnyc.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/sleepinggiantglossolalia
_and_
-ANIMAL HOSPITAL-
(Member of Neptune named Kevin Micka)
animalhospitalmusic.com

Saturday, September 12, 2015
A Simple Procedure: Estuary, Ltd.'s Epic release party!
6pm–1am / $5 before 8 / $8 after
Machines with Magnets / 400 Main St. Pawtucket RI / Facebook event page
Epic release party. 42 one-of-a-kind lathe cut 7"s & 2 CD set available in letterpress-printed, hand-numbered editions (200 sets of CDs, only one copy of each lathe will be sold).
Performances by:
BLEVIN BLECTUM & ED OSBORN • JEFF CAREY • MORGAN EVANS-WEILER • SARAH HENNIES • SHAWN GREENLEE • JEREMY HARRIS • DONNA PARKER & VIC RAWLINGS • ANDREA PENSADO • SOFT TARGET • TIMEGHOST • MATT UNDERWOOD • WORK/DEATH
+ live realizations of JOHN CAGE’S IMAGINARY LANDSCAPE NO. 5 between acts.
Lathes available by:
AREA C • GILLES AUBRY • BLEVIN BLECTUM & ED OSBORN • JEN BOYD & JOE CANTRELL • JEFF CAREY • DALGLISH • ROBERT DONNE & STEPHEN VITIELLO • MORGAN EVANS-WEILER • ATTILA FARAVELLI • CHRISTOPHER FORGUES • IDO GOVRIN • KRAIG GRADY • SHAWN GREENLEE • SARAH HENNIES • AGNES HVIZDALEK & HARALD FETVEIT • INTIMACY & INTRIGUE • DAVEY HARMS • JEREMY HARRIS • ERNST KAREL • VAL MARTINO • MEM1 • DANIEL MENCHE • GEOFF MULLEN • YANN NOVAK & ROBERT CROUCH • CHRISTINE ÖDLUND • DONNA PARKER • ANDREA PENSADO • POWER MONSTER • VIC RAWLINGS • STEVE RODEN • RROSE • REN SCHOFIELD • SOFT TARGET • REUBEN SON • TIMEGHOST • TITANS OF JAZZ • KEN UENO • MATT UNDERWOOD • MAIA URSTAD • KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN • AMNON WOLMAN • WORK/DEATH
+ JOHN CAGE’S IMAGINARY LANDSCAPE NO. 5 realized by MARK CETILIA using contributed works from artists above (on the B side of each lathe).
All recordings also featured on 2 CD set.
Schedule roughly as follows:
6:00 - 6:40 Work/Death (gallery)
6:50 - 7:10 Matt Underwood (bar)
7:20 - 7:40 Blevin Blectum & Ed Osborn (gallery)
7:50 - 8:05 Jeremy Harris (bar)
8:15 - 8:45 Sarah Hennies (gallery)
8:55 - 9:10 Soft Target (bar)
9:20 - 9:40 Morgan Evans-Weiler (gallery)
9:50 - 10:20 Timeghost (bar)
10:30 - 10:55 Shawn Greenlee (gallery)
11:05 - 11:20 Andrea Pensado (bar)
11:30 - 12:00 Donna Parker & Vic Rawlings (gallery or bar / no pa necessary)
12:00 - 12:30 Jeff Carey (bar)
12:30 - 1:00 Raffle announcements / Imaginary Landscape No. 5 (bar)

Friday, August 21, 2015
Gel Set
Spa Moans
Blevin Blectum
Virusse
Time Base Corrector
at Aurora, Providence, RI

Thursday, July 23, 2015
performing with Ricky Katowicz as part of The Great Green Room!
Kennedy Plaza Burnside Park, for kids!
Providence, RI

Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music
KEENE, NH
**WORLD PREMIERE**
NEW SCIFI FOR LIVE STRINGS, VOICES, AND ELECTRONICS
**THE TRAVELING BUBBLE ENSEMBLE**
Bevin Kelley, Michael Kelley, and Elise Kuder
...picking up where Terms of Addition left off...

Saturday, July 18, 2015
RISD Museum
Providence, RI
4-8 PM
Design the Night: It's Elemental
(I will be playing in the Porcelain Room!)
The RISD Museum presents a weekend Design the Night. Engage with the elemental principles of art and nature through chance encounters, musical reverie, poetic musings and hands-on explorations by artists. Galleries, refreshment, and activities await audiences of all ages. Following your visit to the Museum, attend Providence’s popular WaterFire. Free.

Friday, July 10, 2015
186 Carpenter Street, Providence
HOLLIS MICKEY, RICKY KATOWICZ, BLEVIN BLECTUM

Wednesday, June 24, 2015
The Midway - 3496 Washington Street, Jamaica Plain, MA
8:30pm
$5 • 21+
SUBSTRUCTURE is a bi-monthly night showcasing talent by female producers and DJs focusing on the live hardware production of dark electronica, techno, house, grime and experimental. Hosted by BATHAUS and Isabella Koen.
::•LIVE SETS•::
Blevin Blectum
Joss
O. Je11y
::•DJ SET•::
Recepticide (PVD)

Sunday, June 21, 2015
MONTREAL at La Plante.
Psychic Handshake and Fluorescent Friends present One Cool Night:
Summoners of midsummer solstice bliss include:
Bevin Blectum (Providence, RI)
Monika Heidemann (Brooklyn, NY)
Ylang Ylang (Montréal, QC)
The Powers (Montréal, QC)
9h : $7 : BYOB : Free watermelon

Friday, June 12, 2015
at Aurora, International Arts Weekend, PROVIDENCE, RI
THE POWERS (Montreal)
BLANKETS (Montreal)
WORK/DEATH (Providence)
ALEX DUPUIS (Providence)
DOMESTIQUE (Providence)
TASKMASTER (Providence)
BLEVIN BLECTUM (Providence)
Doors at 8!
Music from 9 pm to 2 am!
5 dollars!

Monday, June 8, 2015
at La Vitrola in MONTREAL, QC.
Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, CKUT FM et Fluorescent Friends présentent:
BLEVIN BLECTUM + BLAKE HAIRGREASE + BABI AUDI +TOBIAS ROCHMAN
MONTREAL

Thursday, June 4, 2015
BB solo atmospherics at Justine's 10 pm - 1 am
OLNEYVILLE, RI

Sunday, May 31, 2015
Julian Lynch w/ Blevin Blectum and JPA Falzone at AURORA
Julian Lynch - meticulously arranged, multi instrumentalism.
Blevin Blectum - Electronic Music celebrated as an "icon of deviant and cerebral electronic music"
JPA Falzone - Mellifluous arpeggiations abound.
$8
PROVIDENCE

Wednesday, May 20, 2015
THOMAS DIMUZIO + WORK/DEATH + BLEVIN BLECTUM + PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT + NELL GROSS + V.SINCLAIR @ MachinesWithMagnets
PROVIDENCE

Sunday, May 10, 2015
BBlectum and many more - BROOKLYN

Thursday, April 30, 2015
LILLE, FRANCE
AMIKAL SONIC 10 ans de fête
at L'Aéronef Spectacles Sans Gravité
168 avenue Willy Brandt, 59777 Lille, France

Wednesday, April 29, 2015
WARSAW, POLAND
at Klub Eufemia

Monday, April 27, 2015
BERLIN, GERMANY
at Roter Salon
with Jasmine Guffond

Sunday, April 26, 2015
PARIS, FRANCE
La Gaîté Lyrique
Extravaganza for children, written and produced in collaboration with Ryan Junell!

Friday, April 17, 2015
Live set on WFMU! With Bryce!
12 - 3 pm

Saturday, April 11, 2015

at Aurora, PROVIDENCE
A is for AWESOME 2

Tuesday, March 24, 2015
at Muchmore's, BROOKLYN, NY
7 pm - facebook invite
with HEIDEMANN,
Julie LaBlahblah
and Briii Belukha!

Sunday, March 22, 2015
at RadioBean, BURLINGTON, VERMONT
with HEIDEMANN!

Saturday, March 21, 2015

at Coolfest, MONTREAL
8pm - 2am facebook invite
10$ Canadian
Fluorescent Friends and Psychic Handshake Recordings present two evenings of music, art, and other sensory delights to coincide with the new moon, total solar eclipse, and vernal equinox of March 20 - 21, 2015.
The Soupcans (Toronto, ON)
Blevin Blectum (PVD)
Bile Sister (Toronto, ON)
HEIDEMANN (NYC)
Drug Train (Montreal, QC)
The Powers, (Montreal, QC)

Thursday, March 19, 2015
at Machines with Magnets, PAWTUCKET
OPENSIGNAL v2.2
- FREE -
7:30 - 8:30pm: Artist talks/ demos
9pm: Performances
Angela Sawyer
House Red
Bridget Feral
HEIDEMANN
DJ D84 (sometimes aka Blevin Blectum)

Wednesday, March 18, 2015
at Aurora, PROVIDENCE
5$
facebook invite
Bar open at 5 pm, Music begins at 9 pm - 1 am
with HEIDEMANN (NYC), S. Hollis Mickey (PVD, chapbook release party!),
Rachel Rosenkrantz (PVD), hntrhntr (PVD), and Alex Dupuis vs Blevin Blectum (PVD)

Tuesday, March 17, 2015
at Dusk, PROVIDENCE

begins at 10pm
with Reverse Engineering
and dialpainters

and there will be a SYNTH RAFFLE!

Saturday, February 21, 2015
Goethe-Institut, BOSTON
RENE HELL + BLEVIN BLECTUM + HOWARD STELZER
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
Doors: 7:30pm | Music: 8pm
See more at: http://www.nonevent.org/upcoming/rene_hell_blevin_blectum_howar/
with
RENE HELL is the synthesizer-based project of Jeff Witscher, a visual artist, avid chess player, and music obsessive, who has explored a variety of underground styles since his teens. His aesthetic choices, expressed over dozens of recordings released under many pseudonyms, have anticipated the shifts in U.S. experimental music spanning the last decade. Most recently, he received acclaim for synth albums Porcelain Opera and The Terminal Symphony (Type), a 2012 split release with Oneohtrix Point Never, and his newest recording, Vanilla Call Option (PAN). Witscher’s practice is peripatetic —- encompassing roving styles, changing monikers and wide-ranging influences. Travel is central to Vanilla Call Option, with its digital palette constructed on the move between airports, performance spaces, and public libraries, to evoke the musique concrète of Bernard Parmegiani and the computer music of Charles Dodge. He is currently based in Western Massachusetts.
and with
HOWARD STELZER has been composing music out of cassette tapes since 1997. He ran the Intransitive Recordings label until 2012. When he’s not hunched over dusty tape machines, Stelzer teaches middle school math and science in Lowell, MA. He has recent releases on Phage Tapes, Obsolete Units, Dokuro, Copy For Your Records, Banned Productions, and Noise Below. A forthcoming album, The Case Against CD is due out shortly on Monotype.

Thursday, February 19, 2015
OPENSIGNAL at Machines with Magnets, Providence, RI

Friday, February 13, 2015
Columbus Theatre, Providence

Thursday, January 29, 2015
Hunt Club Studios, TORONTO, CANADA
BLEVIN BELCTUM + NAW
709 College St.
Doors at 8pm
Tickets: $10 adv / $12 door
www.twitter.com/WavelengthMusic
www.facebook.com/WavelengthMusicSeries
www.wavelengthtoronto.com
with
NAW
http://www.neilwiernik.net/

Thursday, January 15, 2015
Madame Claude, BERLIN, GERMANY
JEUDI FOSTER: BLEVIN BLECTUM + FRED RAPID + DJ NEKROBOT
Lübbener Straße 19,Berlin
Madame Claude Berlin
Open 7 days/week from 19H. Live music starts at 20.45 and ends at 23.45 with the bar remaining open much later...
See more at: http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Madame-Claude-Berlin-JEUDI-FOSTER-BLEVIN-BLECTUM-FRED-RAPID-DJ-NEKROBOT
with
FRED RAPID (Electronic/DE)
Nickel-plated snares cut through the tune's gelatinous nebula in halftime, polite synth sequences flutter into the murk, and bubbles of sub-frequencies swell under the oily surface, unable to burst the thick ooze. Underneath those palpable sounds is a wellspring of metaphysical resonance you could trace back to more than a few sources, but playing connect the dots would betray the track's significance. Vocal samples get pitched and sliced until they resemble extraterrestrial chatter, while the music around it pops and revs up,
disparate sounds smacking one another. Fred Rapid corrals them into a piece of music that never devolves into a mess, but manages the chaos as it bubbles with overwhelming feeling.
http://www.fredrapid.net/
and with
NEKROBOT (DJ-Set/Experimental, Eclectic, Wave/GR)
http://www.mixcloud.com/nekrobot/

Wednesday, January 14, 2015
LAS, POZNAN, POLAND
KONCERT #34 | KAKAMINA, BLEVIN BLECTUM (US)
at LAS
8:30 PM
Małe Garbary 7a, Poznan, Poland
Wstęp 10 zł
with KAKAMINA
(post something/something something dark side)
cztery ręce, pokrętła, przyciski, suwaki, kable
http://soundcloud.com/kakamina

Sunday, January 11, 2015
Golden Pudel, HAMBURG, GERMANY
http://www.pudel.com/

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Kraak Helder live in Haarlem : Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum)
7:00pm
Appel Brasserie en Podium in HAARLEM, NETHERLANDS
https://www.facebook.com/events/1379126005723338/

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**missing some history here but will fill in eventually**
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The second performance of Terms of Addition took place on August 27th 2013, at the RISD Museum in Providence, Rhode Island.

The first performance of Terms Of Addition took place on June 25th 2013, at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music in East Sullivan, New Hampshire.

The Stone, NYC, Saturday, June 23rd 2012, Blevin Blectum at 10 PM. Yuka Honda's EUCADEMIX performs at 8 PM. These performances are part of an ongoing series curated by Shayna Dunkelman.

May 12th 2012, Arrington de Dionyso & Thollem McDonas/Bellows/Blevin Blectum