Blevin Blectum: aka Synopterus/BevinKelley/DJ-D84. Half of Blectum From Blechdom (with Kristin Galvin), 1/4 of Sagan (with Wobbly, Lesser, Ryan Junell), 1/3 of Traveling Bubble Ensemble(with KelleyPolar + EliseKuder).

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MESSY BOYS is Bridget Feral and Tim Rovinelli

Drawing on inspiration from such artists and innovators like Wendy Carlos and Ani DiFranco, CHRYSALISAMIDST aims to recreate the singer-songwriter motif, in an electronic age. 

My name is Paul Amlehn. I am an artist working in the mediums of literature, music, visual art, theater, opera, dance, performance art, and film.

My poetry, prose, and texts for theater and opera have been published in literary journals in 23 countries, including Exquisite Corpse, the California Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Evergreen Review.

My paintings, photographs, music, and video art works have been exhibited throughout the world, including at Artist's Space, Luhring Augustine, the Chelsea Art Museum, and Tate Liverpool, and at festivals which include Art 42 Basel (with the Serpentine Gallery - curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist), documenta 14, and the 51st, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, and 60th Venice Biennales.

On my music projects I have collaborated with Robert Fripp (King Crimson), Ulrich Krieger (Lou Reed), Chuck Hammer (David Bowie), Jamie Saft (Iggy Pop), Susan Stenger (John Cale), Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno), Michael Blair (Tom Waits), David Van Tieghem (Laurie Anderson), Michael Johnson (Joy Division), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Joe Gore (PJ Harvey), Terry Edwards (Tindersticks), Mick Rossi (Leonard Cohen), Jem Finer (The Pogues), Mark Egan (Arcadia), Dieter Moebius (Cluster), Jess Stewart (Psychic TV), Eberhard Kranemann (Kraftwerk), Thomas Stern (Einsturzende Neubauten), Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Susan Alcorn, Suzanne Ciani, Keiron Melling (The Fall), Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons), Laurent Petitgand (Wim Wenders), Jen Baker (Werner Herzog), John King (Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Robert Black (Bang on a Can All-Stars), Frank Cassara (Steve Reich and Musicians), Andy Findon (Michael Nyman Group), Mick Rossi (Philip Glass Ensemble), David Crowell (Philip Glass Ensemble), Melanie Russell (Philip Glass Ensemble), Eleanor Sandresky (Philip Glass Ensemble), Frank Cassara (Philip Glass Ensemble), Andrew Sterman (Philip Glass Ensemble), Joan Jeanrenaud (Kronos Quartet), and many others.

On my film and video art projects I have collaborated with actors, actresses, singers, and dancers, including Philippe Nahon (Gaspar Noe), Artur Barciś (Krzysztof Kieślowski), Anne Louise Hassing (Lars von Trier), Kate Moran (Peter Greenaway), Kate Fisher (Robert Wilson), Elisa Lasowski (David Cronenberg), Pamela Flores (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Stefania Casini (Andy Warhol), and many others.

I am currently working on an album of music which has texts and vocals by William S. Burroughs, in cooperation with the Burroughs Estate. I am also presently working on an album of music which reimagines the work of John Cage, in cooperation with the John Cage Trust.

Cover art for my albums has been provided by painter Gerhard Richter and artist, musician, and filmmaker David Lynch.

At the end of 2024, I worked on several re-creation compositions which utilzed sonic elements from pre-existing songs by Brian Eno and David Byrne, Nine Inch Nails, and Grimes, from their albums "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," Ghosts I-IV," and "Miss Anthropocene, combined with new music by myself and other musicians.

Earlier this year, I collaborated with painter Gottfried Helnwein on a short film called: Epigenetic Trauma Painting No. 1.

I'm presently working on a new music recording project. Musicians who have contributed to this project thus far are: Stan Harrison (Radiohead), Bill Gilonis (The Work), Jeroen Visser (Trio Kazanchis +1), Nicholas Currie (Momus), RK Faulhaber (Nurse With Wound), Peter Hess (Philip Glass Ensemble), Hans Peter Kuhn (Robert Wilson), Audrey Chen, Max Eastley, Conrad Harris (String Noise), Pauline Kim Harris (String Noise), Jeff Zeigler (Kronos Quartet), William Klugh Connor III (The Centre for Transgressive Behaviours), Alan Splet, Ann Kroeber, and David Lynch.

Soli Deo gloria.

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Various sound constructions varying in diversity from found sound sampling and orchestrated ambient sound textures to obscure vocal samples taken from film clips of antiquity. Various tonalities of vocals are also utilized to bring the bring the music to life creating a visual that in many respects reminds one of the old films of the forties & fifties with the news shorts appearing prior to the actual film. Almost a Twilight Zone affair mixing the past and present ideologies together to create a anthology of the ages via music. Who knows if that’s the intention of the artist but the imagery presented may be clear to you.

The music gives you the impression that you’re listening in on someone else’s conversation. The tenor of these conversations ranges from the mystic (“They Do A Lot Of Worshipping Around Here”) to the truly disturbing (“Uncle Went Tending and Never Returned”). Part of this sense of “audio voyeurism” stems from the fact that PressureWorks draws the sonic material from intercepted short wave radio broadcasts. Folks who get into radio-inspired electro-acoustic music (think Dan Lander, for example) may be entranced by this stuff. You may be impressed with it for several reasons, not the least of which is the superb audio quality of the recording . On a more artistic level, you are truly drawn in by the rich sense of storytelling. Each of the pieces carries you along effortlessly through a sort of abstract narration. Enthusiasts of inventive experimental music are encouraged to check these recordings out.

Assembling pieces from various recordings and turning the whole into new work. The approach is mostly ambient, favoring vocal samples as focus but remaining decidedly ephemeral. Just enough here to peak further interest.

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