Beatrix*JAR
Hypercreatives (2010)
TRACKS
1. Action Art Star (1:03)
2. Surface Noise (3:10)
3. Thank You Jesus (2:24) - Mixed by Lance Conrad @ Human's Win! in Minneapolis
4. Mono%Momo (2:13)
5. Colour Sound Experiment (2:29)
6. Sound Is (2:16)
7. Pusher Oval (3:12)
8. Queen Beatrixx (2:39)
9. Lazer Beak Trix Jar (4:01) - Produced by LazerBeak
10. Your Superhero Power (4:15)
11. Cage*J (4:33)
12. Waking Up Next To You (2:11)
13. Electronic Birds Softly (1:56)
14. Organ Jane (1:45)
"Get ready to ride the frequencies and paint with sound, as Beatrix*JAR bends the circuits of discarded toys to release a fresh music all their own." - Minnesota Original
PRESS RELEASE
The Beatrix*JAR Art Star Disc was made available initially as 50 audio discs made by the band. The disc was released digitally on Tuesday, August 10th.
Art*Star is a three year culmination of live audio exploration recorded during the summer of 2010 and their most anticipated release since 2007’s Golden Fuzz.
Beatrix*JAR's third release is an explosive, beat driven sonic manifesto, infused with the sonic lovebirds signature golden instrumentation: AM radios + flash cameras, modified machines and unique samples.
Art*Star features two new collaborations that give an additional dimension to the already dynamic Beatrix*JAR sound. Track Number 3, “Thank You Jesus” was remixed by The Alpha Centauri’s Lance Conrad; Owner and Head Producer of the Minneapolis Recording Studio Human’s Win! Lazerbeak, the Minneapolis based production genius behind almost every Doomtree Release, steps out of the world of hip-hop production and into the world of audio abstract collage with Track Number 9 “Lazer Beak Trix Jar”.
With the release of Art*Star came the first ever Beatrix*JAR screen-printed poster designed by Jonathan Schuster at the Minneapolis screen-printing house Aesthetic Apparatus.
GOLDEN FUZZ
Beatrix*JAR
Hypercreatives (2007)
Click on the image above to order a copy of Beatrix*JAR's second cd release: Golden Fuzz. (CD Baby)
"Golden Fuzz may be the most accurate album title I’ve seen all year. It’s a shimmering mosaic of beats and samples layered with a smattering of live vocals, samples, circuit-bent toys and AM interference.” – Michael Una, Create Digital Music.
TRACKS
1. Open Lava Entropy (:55)
2. Arthur Golden (3:06)
3. Sunshine Western (2:22)
4. Golden Fuzz (2.33)
5. Afternoon Wedding Vow (2.46)
6. 123 Beatrix*JAR (2:12)
7. Abbreviated Layover (2:45)
8. Fuzzy Frequency (2:34)
PRESS RELEASE
Minneapolis, MN – Best known for touring the country spreading the good word of D.I.Y. electronics with uniquely playful performances and Circuit Bending Workshops, sonic love-birds Beatrix*JAR make a dynamic return with their highly anticipated second release: Golden Fuzz, the follow-up to the duo’s first cd release: I Love You Talk Bird (April 2006).
Surpassing their own sonic boundaries and delving deeper into the world the duo appropriately calls “Fuzzy Sound Collage”, Golden Fuzz expands on Beatrix*JAR’s non-traditional style by combining beautiful improvised moments courtesy of Bianca Pettis’s rhythmic layer of sample collage, glitched-out chance sounds summoned from Jacob Aaron Roske’s homemade modified electronics and tender reinforcing beats that bring it all together into a blissfully appropriated cohesive whimsy.
One of the most obvious differences between the duo’s first release, I Love You Talk Bird, and the more recent Golden Fuzz is the duo’s decision to leave the vocal tracks at the studio door. “There are a few tracks where we sample our own voices (Open Lava Entropy and 123 Beatrix*Jar) but we really have simplified, Golden Fuzz is all about the music.” says Beatrix*JAR member Bianca Pettis.
“Golden Fuzz is also about the frequency we tune into as Beatrix*JAR.” says member Jacob Roske (JAR). “We feel so lucky to have found each other and to be able to release our sonic expression into the world.”
The release of Golden Fuzz comes subsequent to the couples decision to turn their work as Beatrix*JAR into a full time venture. “We went on tour for the first time in August 2006 and realized that this is what we were meant to do.” says Bianca Pettis (Beatrix). “We have started to turn our focus to booking ourselves across the country doing circuit bending workshops and performances.”
The duo recently gave a Circuit Bending Workshop at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition: Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling, featuring the work of artists Sean Duffy, Christian Marclay and Celeste Boursier-Mougenot.
I LOVE YOU TALK BIRD
Beatrix*JAR
Hypercreatives (2006)
Click on the image above to order a copy of Beatrix*JAR's first release: I LOVE YOU TALK BIRD. (CD Baby)
"The Minneapolis duo approach electronic music with the notion that the future is the past, and that instrumentation is readily available at Goodwill. Their layered backing tracks depend heavily on circuit-bent keyboards—a collection of electronic Frankensteins that have been rewired and tricked out with new knobs and looping mechanisms." - Lindsey Thomas, City Pages.
“In the glitchy, garbled, sonic universe of Beatrix*Jar, anything that makes a sound can be channeled into a song.” – Chris Roberts, Minnesota Public Radio.
TRACKS
1. Paint By Numbers
2. Spy Eye
3. Verse
4. Meany
5. P.T.R.
6. French Binaural
7. Atlast
8. Sunday Ditchers
9. Sea of Sleeves
10. Ready to Rock
11. Oral Fixation
12. Easy Monday Office
13. Talk Bird
PRESS RELEASE
Beatrix*Jar is Bianca Pettis (Beatrix) and Jacob Aaron Roske (JAR). Formed in March 2005, this charismatic sonic duo has adopted a do-it-yourself method for coaxing audio out of familiar and unfamiliar sources. Layering electronic beats, circuit bent devices and spontaneous samples the pair creates distinctly futuristic sounds with machines of the past.
Beatrix*Jar also offer Circuit-Bending Workshops at home and on the road to share their appreciation for non-traditional instruments and unintentional sounds.
Hypercreatives (2010)
TRACKS
1. Action Art Star (1:03)
2. Surface Noise (3:10)
3. Thank You Jesus (2:24) - Mixed by Lance Conrad @ Human's Win! in Minneapolis
4. Mono%Momo (2:13)
5. Colour Sound Experiment (2:29)
6. Sound Is (2:16)
7. Pusher Oval (3:12)
8. Queen Beatrixx (2:39)
9. Lazer Beak Trix Jar (4:01) - Produced by LazerBeak
10. Your Superhero Power (4:15)
11. Cage*J (4:33)
12. Waking Up Next To You (2:11)
13. Electronic Birds Softly (1:56)
14. Organ Jane (1:45)
"Get ready to ride the frequencies and paint with sound, as Beatrix*JAR bends the circuits of discarded toys to release a fresh music all their own." - Minnesota Original
PRESS RELEASE
The Beatrix*JAR Art Star Disc was made available initially as 50 audio discs made by the band. The disc was released digitally on Tuesday, August 10th.
Art*Star is a three year culmination of live audio exploration recorded during the summer of 2010 and their most anticipated release since 2007’s Golden Fuzz.
Beatrix*JAR's third release is an explosive, beat driven sonic manifesto, infused with the sonic lovebirds signature golden instrumentation: AM radios + flash cameras, modified machines and unique samples.
Art*Star features two new collaborations that give an additional dimension to the already dynamic Beatrix*JAR sound. Track Number 3, “Thank You Jesus” was remixed by The Alpha Centauri’s Lance Conrad; Owner and Head Producer of the Minneapolis Recording Studio Human’s Win! Lazerbeak, the Minneapolis based production genius behind almost every Doomtree Release, steps out of the world of hip-hop production and into the world of audio abstract collage with Track Number 9 “Lazer Beak Trix Jar”.
With the release of Art*Star came the first ever Beatrix*JAR screen-printed poster designed by Jonathan Schuster at the Minneapolis screen-printing house Aesthetic Apparatus.
GOLDEN FUZZ
Beatrix*JAR
Hypercreatives (2007)
Click on the image above to order a copy of Beatrix*JAR's second cd release: Golden Fuzz. (CD Baby)
"Golden Fuzz may be the most accurate album title I’ve seen all year. It’s a shimmering mosaic of beats and samples layered with a smattering of live vocals, samples, circuit-bent toys and AM interference.” – Michael Una, Create Digital Music.
TRACKS
1. Open Lava Entropy (:55)
2. Arthur Golden (3:06)
3. Sunshine Western (2:22)
4. Golden Fuzz (2.33)
5. Afternoon Wedding Vow (2.46)
6. 123 Beatrix*JAR (2:12)
7. Abbreviated Layover (2:45)
8. Fuzzy Frequency (2:34)
PRESS RELEASE
Minneapolis, MN – Best known for touring the country spreading the good word of D.I.Y. electronics with uniquely playful performances and Circuit Bending Workshops, sonic love-birds Beatrix*JAR make a dynamic return with their highly anticipated second release: Golden Fuzz, the follow-up to the duo’s first cd release: I Love You Talk Bird (April 2006).
Surpassing their own sonic boundaries and delving deeper into the world the duo appropriately calls “Fuzzy Sound Collage”, Golden Fuzz expands on Beatrix*JAR’s non-traditional style by combining beautiful improvised moments courtesy of Bianca Pettis’s rhythmic layer of sample collage, glitched-out chance sounds summoned from Jacob Aaron Roske’s homemade modified electronics and tender reinforcing beats that bring it all together into a blissfully appropriated cohesive whimsy.
One of the most obvious differences between the duo’s first release, I Love You Talk Bird, and the more recent Golden Fuzz is the duo’s decision to leave the vocal tracks at the studio door. “There are a few tracks where we sample our own voices (Open Lava Entropy and 123 Beatrix*Jar) but we really have simplified, Golden Fuzz is all about the music.” says Beatrix*JAR member Bianca Pettis.
“Golden Fuzz is also about the frequency we tune into as Beatrix*JAR.” says member Jacob Roske (JAR). “We feel so lucky to have found each other and to be able to release our sonic expression into the world.”
The release of Golden Fuzz comes subsequent to the couples decision to turn their work as Beatrix*JAR into a full time venture. “We went on tour for the first time in August 2006 and realized that this is what we were meant to do.” says Bianca Pettis (Beatrix). “We have started to turn our focus to booking ourselves across the country doing circuit bending workshops and performances.”
The duo recently gave a Circuit Bending Workshop at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition: Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling, featuring the work of artists Sean Duffy, Christian Marclay and Celeste Boursier-Mougenot.
I LOVE YOU TALK BIRD
Beatrix*JAR
Hypercreatives (2006)
Click on the image above to order a copy of Beatrix*JAR's first release: I LOVE YOU TALK BIRD. (CD Baby)
"The Minneapolis duo approach electronic music with the notion that the future is the past, and that instrumentation is readily available at Goodwill. Their layered backing tracks depend heavily on circuit-bent keyboards—a collection of electronic Frankensteins that have been rewired and tricked out with new knobs and looping mechanisms." - Lindsey Thomas, City Pages.
“In the glitchy, garbled, sonic universe of Beatrix*Jar, anything that makes a sound can be channeled into a song.” – Chris Roberts, Minnesota Public Radio.
TRACKS
1. Paint By Numbers
2. Spy Eye
3. Verse
4. Meany
5. P.T.R.
6. French Binaural
7. Atlast
8. Sunday Ditchers
9. Sea of Sleeves
10. Ready to Rock
11. Oral Fixation
12. Easy Monday Office
13. Talk Bird
PRESS RELEASE
Beatrix*Jar is Bianca Pettis (Beatrix) and Jacob Aaron Roske (JAR). Formed in March 2005, this charismatic sonic duo has adopted a do-it-yourself method for coaxing audio out of familiar and unfamiliar sources. Layering electronic beats, circuit bent devices and spontaneous samples the pair creates distinctly futuristic sounds with machines of the past.
Beatrix*Jar also offer Circuit-Bending Workshops at home and on the road to share their appreciation for non-traditional instruments and unintentional sounds.