Beatrix*JAR is real-life couple Bianca Pettis (Beatrix) and Jacob Aaron Roske (JAR) from Minneapolis. The duo travels extensively spreading the good word of do-it-yourself electronics with uniquely playful sound collage performances and Circuit Bending Workshops. Beatrix*JAR audio releases include I Love You Talk Bird (2006) and Golden Fuzz (2007).
Beatrix*JAR have been featured on MAKE TV, ABC’s Nightline, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Wexner Art Center in Columbus, The American Visionary Museum in Baltimore, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Spark Electronic Art and Music Festival at the University of Minnesota, High Art Museum in Atlanta and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. For more info, visit http://www.beatrixjar.com/ and http://www.myspace.com/beatrixjars
Beatrix*JAR will perform at 8pm Friday and conduct circuit-bending workshops at 2pm on Saturday and Sunday. Bring some battery-powered electronics and toys!!!
Artistic Statement: “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.
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