Biography
Bob Bellerue is a composer, experimental musician, and creative technician based in Brooklyn NY. Over the last 20 years he has been involved in a wide range of live creative weirdness - homemade percussion ensembles, Balinese gamelan, dance/performance art sound scores, installation art. Bob's work utilizes custom electronics and programming, incorporating feedback, prepared field recordings, de-musicalized instruments, and found oscillators. He is in the midst of long-term collaborations with the choreographer Wanda Z Gala, and gigs regularly as a solo artist, in KILT (with Raven Chacon), and in collaboration with some of the heavyweights of the universal experimental music scene (Ecomorti, Telecult Powers, David Kendall, Smegma, Joseph Hammer, Phroq, Albert Ortega, Tecumseh, Jarrett Silberman). Bob's work has been presented at the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, New Genre Festival, CEAIT Festival, Roulette (as part of Shinkoyo Circus), Olympia Experimental Music Festival, PDX Noise Festival, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Stanford University, Radio Epsilonia, WFMU, KFJC, KXLU, UCSD, and UCLA. His discography includes dozens of releases on Anarchymoon Recordings, Zelphabet, Banned Productions, P-Tapes, RRR Records, Static Aktion, EMR, Iatrogenesis, Bastardised, Peyote Tapes, Together Tapes, Breathmint, Feathering Pines, Baked Tapes, Abandon Ship, 3rd Sex, and Important Records (as part of Tecumseh). Bob directed the feature-length concert footage movie Live at The Smell, was cameraman and sound recordist for People Who Do Noise by Adam Cornelius, and is in the midst of shooting The Lowest Form of Music: LAFMS and the Origins of Folk Noise. He was formerly based in Los Angeles, where he ran the sub-garde experimental music/performance space the Il Corral, and curated the Beyond Music series and festival. As a theater technician, he has designed lights and sound for hundreds of theater and dance performances. Bob lives in Bushwick NY and is employed by The Kitchen as Technical Director, as well as running Anarchymoon Recordings and Cold Hands Video.
