Bob Bellerue
Encyclopedia
Bob Bellerue is an American
composer
and performer of music.
In 2003, Bellerue studied at California Institute of the Arts
, with contemporaries Mark Trayle
, Morton Subotnick
, Vinny Golia
, and Dick Hebdige
, and received an MFA in Music.
He has been a performer of experimental noise music
, the founder of the Il Corral
venue, a sound engineer, and videographer, and runs his own web sites, Anarchymoon Recordings and Cold Hands Video.He has published recordings, and has performed in the United States, Europe, and Indonesia, either solo, with the ensembles KILT and Purple Pansy, or in collaboration with experimental music artists: Circuit Wound, Jarrett Silberman, Raven Chacon
, Francisco Meirino, Albert Ortega, and David Kendall
.
Bellerue has composed soundtracks for theater and dance artists Wanda Gala, Carol McDowell, Lauren Hartman, Michael Sakamoto, Rochelle Fabb, Empire of Teeth, and The Greatfruit Collective.
He lives in Bushwick, New York.
United States
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composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and performer of music.
In 2003, Bellerue studied at California Institute of the Arts
California Institute of the Arts
The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...
, with contemporaries Mark Trayle
Mark Trayle
Mark Trayle is a California based musician and sound artist working in a variety of media including live electronic music, improvisation, installations, and compositions for chamber ensembles...
, Morton Subotnick
Morton Subotnick
Morton Subotnick is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch...
, Vinny Golia
Vinny Golia
Vinny Golia is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in woodwind instruments. He performs in the genres of contemporary music, jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation....
, and Dick Hebdige
Dick Hebdige
Richard "Dick" Hebdige is an expatriate British media theorist and sociologist most commonly associated with the study of subcultures, and its resistance against the mainstream of society.-Life and career:...
, and received an MFA in Music.
He has been a performer of experimental noise music
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
, the founder of the Il Corral
Il Corral
Il Corral was a venue located in Los Angeles, CA. that provided performance space for underground artists. It was founded by Bob Bellerue and Stane Hubert in January 2005...
venue, a sound engineer, and videographer, and runs his own web sites, Anarchymoon Recordings and Cold Hands Video.He has published recordings, and has performed in the United States, Europe, and Indonesia, either solo, with the ensembles KILT and Purple Pansy, or in collaboration with experimental music artists: Circuit Wound, Jarrett Silberman, Raven Chacon
Raven Chacon
Raven Chacon is an American composer and artist. He is known as a composer of chamber music as well as a solo performer of experimental noise music...
, Francisco Meirino, Albert Ortega, and David Kendall
David Kendall
David Evan Kendall is an American attorney who advised President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal and represented Clinton during the impeachment trial.-Background and Education:Kendall was born in 1944 and grew up in Sheridan, Indiana...
.
Bellerue has composed soundtracks for theater and dance artists Wanda Gala, Carol McDowell, Lauren Hartman, Michael Sakamoto, Rochelle Fabb, Empire of Teeth, and The Greatfruit Collective.
He lives in Bushwick, New York.
Discography
- Power/field and Power/field 2 2xCDr compilations (Anarchymoon 2007 / 2009)
- Live at The Smell DVD (Cold Hands Video, 2009)
- Bob Bellerue & Jarrett Silberman Amplified Piano Duets 12" & CDr (Anarchymoon, 2009)
- Telecult Powers and Bob Bellerue Baked In The Kitchen C40 (Baked Tapes, 2009)
- People Who Do Noise DVD (Cold Hands, 2008)
- KILT Chrome Bellows C42 (Peyote Tapes, 2008)
- KILT Vaya Con Nada 3" CDr (Small Doses, 2008)
- KILT, Feed The Dragon, Improvisatyrs T.U.R.D. 3 x 3" CDr (Banned Productions, 2008)
- Zelphabet Vol. B CD with The Beast People, 16Bitch Pile-up, blackhumour, and Bob Bellerue (Zelphabet, 2008)
- Redwound Dog Bog Blaze 12" (Anarchymoon / Sentient Recordings, 2008)
- KILT Snow White in Hell LP (Anarchymoon 2007)
- Redglaer American Masonry CD and 10" (Anarchymoon, 2006-7)
- Redglaer cranky 7" (Static Aktion, 2006)
- LANoisescape CD (Bastardised, 2006)
- Microphone Compilation CDr (Iatrogensis, 2005)
- Bob Bellerue / halfnormal Threat Level Charlie CD (Anarchymoon, 2002)