CV / Biography
Bob Bellerue / halfnormal
662 No. Heliotrope Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90004
bob_AT_halfnormal.com
http://www.halfnormal.com
Compositions (performance, installation, recording)
OROBOROS (installation and performance 2004): recorded vocal tones, feedback
Untitled News Systems (video installation 2004): VCR and 2 televisions, news footage
Material Spirits (performance 2004): amplified metal, amplified bamboo flute, electronics, programming
Lose Me on the way (performance score for event by the Greatfruit Collective, 2004): electronics, programming
Tastes Like Candy (performance collaboration with Wanda Gala, 2004): movement score
Gong Listrik (performance 2003-4): Javanese gong, Balinese flutes, electronics, programming
Sweet Mud (performance collaboration with video artists Carole Kim and Astra
Price, 2003): light sensors, soundfiles, programming
Out of Me and Into You (performance environment 2003): sound environment
for performance by Lauren Hartman and cast
Chthonic Discourse (performance 2003): long wires, sound sources, electronics
Cane-Ar Obsoletronestra (collaborative improvisation 2003): folk computer technology
hacking
Full Xtent (performance 2003): radio, amplified flute, structural pickups, programming
bocaFantasma (installation 2002): voice samples, quad surround programming
Hellbox / Hellish Discourse (installation / performance 2002): ambient filters,
feedback instruments, soundfiles
Tube~ (performance 2002): tubes, laptop, voice, sound objects, food and text
Out of the Box (performance 2002): laptop, body
Threat Level Charlie (performance 2001-2): glass, metal, laptop, space(s), body,
power
Imaginary Landscapes #5 for any 42 Phonograph Records by John Cage (performance
a realization in code) (1952/2002): score, soundfiles, laptop
Blazing Grace (performance 2001-2): speakers, microphones, acoustic space(s),
laptop
Muddler (tape 2001-2): broadband noise generation
TCEX (tape 2001): extreme time expansion and a pair of old Saab speakers
Shredware (performance 2001): ring modulation frenzy
Score for a walk (tape 2001): recording project, a piece of text by the same
name
Oleander (performance 2000-1): concrete sound design for dance
She's the dog and i'm the dog's dog (performance 2001): voice and guitar
Randomplay (tape 2001): 8 CD players set on random, and various ambient and
percussive CDs
Half Full (tape 1999): sound design for dance with ambient and instrumental
material
Holy Footnote (tape 1998): score for dance with guitar, metal percussion and
voice, text by Allen Ginsberg / Bob Bellerue
Lullaby Fugue (performance 1995-8): score for dance/performance with acoustic
and electric percussion instruments, tapes, voice, flute and noise.
Kill The Apple (performance 1995): performance art with tape, text, activities
Screaming Geezer (performance 1995): solo performance art with prepared electronics,
tape, text
Heartpiece (performance 1995): sound scoring and improvisations for group dance/performance
piece directed by Carol McDowell
Selected Performances/Presentations
Il Corral, Los Angeles - OROBOROS improvisation (Jan 30, 2005)
Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles - OROBOROS improvisation (Nov 20, 2004)
Beyond Baroque, Venice - Material Spirits (Nov 14, 2004)
Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles - Material Spirits (Nov 6, 2004)
Nightmare on 18th Street, 18th St Arts Center, Santa Monica - OROBOROS installation (Oct 30, 2004)
Nude Media Night, CalArts, Valencia - Out of the Box, and laptop choir (October 14, 2004)
BxAxRx tour 2004: The Trunk Space, Phoenix; High Mayhem Festival, Paramount Night Club, Santa Fe; Solarts, Albuquerque; The Old Curtis Street Bar, Denver - performing Material Spirits solo, travelling with Adam Overton and Raven Chacon (Oct 7 - 10, 2004)
Brewery Project , Los Angeles - Untitled News Systems (Sept 11 - Oct 8, 2004)
FreeEars, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica - Material Spirits (June 28, 2004)
SoundShift, aka Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, Henry Miller Museum, Big Sur - noise improvisation (May 29, 2004)
Lose Me on the Way, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica - live performance score for group movement / performance by the Greatfruit Collective (April 16 - 17, 2004)
Physic3, Beyond Baroque, Venice - event producer (April 4, 2004)
Stanford University, Palo Alto - Gong Listrik, Out of the Box, Threat Level Charlie (January 25, 2004)
Portastatics, Salvation Theater, Los Angeles - Tastes Like Candy (event producer and artist, January 22, 2004)
Line Space Line, Los Angeles - Gong Listrik (January 5, 2004)
The Smell, Los Angeles - Improvisatyrs (Nov 2, 2003)
Midwest Tour 2003: Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; Cordell Taylor Gallery, Denver; KGNU, 88.9 FM, Boulder; New Genre Festival, Living Arts of Tulsa; Monkeymania, Denver; The Space ?, Albuquerque - Threat Level Charlie, solo and collaborative improvisations with Farrel Lowe (Sept 29 - Oct 12, 2004)
Beyond Music Sound Festival 2003, Beyond Baroque, Venice - Improvisatyrs (August
3, 2003)
8th Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia - Gong Discourse
(July 10 - 16, 2003)
Improvisatyrs West Coast Tour: KXLU, 88.9 FM Los Angeles; Trummerflora Collective,
San Diego; 21Grand, Oakland; 7hz, San Francisco; Coffee Messiah, Seattle; Olympia
Experimental Music Festival, Olympia; Soundvision, Portland; Jasmine Tree, Portland;
SIMM, Music Union Hall, San Francisco - collaborative improvisations with David
Kendall (June 18 - 29, 2003)
IMbedded, CalArts, Valencia - Sweet Mud (May 1, 2003)
Out of Me and Into You, CalArts, Valencia - performance environment (April 17/18,
2003)
Recit*l, Main Gallery, CalArts, Valencia - Chthonic Discourse, Threat Level
Charlie (April 8, 2003)
Knitting Factory, Hollywood - Out of the Box (April 2, 2003)
Broken Antlers, Castaic - Full Xtent (March 15, 2003)
Physic2, Beyond Baroque, Venice - Cane-Ar Obsoletronestra (curator and performer)
(February 23, 2003)
The Smell, Los Angeles - Full Xtent (January 29, 2003)
CEAIT Festival 2003, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia - Out of the
Box (January 11, 2003)
The Smell, Los Angeles - improvisation with David Kendall (January 8, 2003)
KSPC - improvisation with David Kendall, Pomona (December 13, 2002)
Beyond Baroque, Beyond Music Series, Venice - bocaFantasma (curator and sound
artist) (November 24, 2002)
Northwest Tour 2002: Luggage Store, San Francisco; Jasmine Tree, Portland;
Polestar Music Gallery, Seattle; 21Grand, Oakland; KDVS, FM radio Davis; KFJC,
FM radio Los Altos Hills - Threat Level Charlie, Hellish Discourse, Out of the
Box, Shredware (Sept 26 - Oct 4, 2002)
Wedge Installation Gallery, Los Angeles - Hellish Discourse installation (September
1- 15, 2002)
line space line, Salvation Theater, Silverlake - Out of the Box, Hellbox
(August 12, 2002)
Platinum Oasis, Outfest 2002, Coral Sands Motel, Hollywood - Monster in the
Closet (July 13-14, 2002)
max10, Electric Lodge, Venice - Out of the Box (July 1, 2002)
Flophouse, Crazy Space, Santa Monica - June Incident/ No Hula (performance installation
with Carol McDowell) (June 22, 2002)
Glossalalia, KXLU, 88.9 FM - Threat Level Charlie (June 5, 2002)
Maintaining the Myth (Remix) (an installation by Michael Casselli), CalArts
- feedback mixing (May 3, 2002)
Integrated Media Night, CalArts - Tube~ (May 2, 2002)
Errrorclub, Game-B, Barcelona - Outside the Box (April 20, 2002)
PERIÒDIC Sound Art Competition, Centre de Cultura Contemporània
de Barcelona, Spain - Threat Level Charlie (April 19 and 20, 2002)
Physic, Beyond Baroque, Venice - Threat Level Charlie (curator and performer)
(March 17, 2002)
Cage Festival, CalArts - Imaginary Landscapes #5 (February 22, 2002)
CEAIT Festival 2002, CalArts - Threat Level Charlie (January 13, 2002)
Darkness & Light, the Judson Studios, Pasadena - Threat Level Charlie (performance
installation with Carol McDowell) (October 27, 2001)
Beyond Music Festial 2001, Venice - TCEX (August 24, 2001)
Rainforest IV, California Institute of the Arts/Getty Research Center - TCEX
(gastank and truckspring) (May 15-17, 2001)
Max10, Venice - She's the dog and i'm the dog's dog (May 7, 2001)
Translations Concert, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica - Oleander,
Half Full, Solo for Eko, In The Present, Games (a full-evening dance concert
by Carol McDowell) (March 16 & 17, 2001)
Honors / Awards
Top Honors: Threat Level Charlie, Periòdic Sound Art Competition, Centre
de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona (April 19 - 20, 2002)
CalArts Interdisciplinary Grant (for Out of Me and Into You, November 2002)
Discography / Publications
Threat Level Charlie, Anarchymoon Recordings, CD (2002)
Blazing Grace, banned productions, CD (2002)
Score for a walk, Trepan, text score (2001)
Education
MFA Composition - New Media, California Institute of the Arts (May 2003)
BA Writing & Poetics, Naropa University (May 1995)