Kevin Blechdom
Hyperactive glitch-pop that sounds like a vaudeville show trapped inside a malfunctioning supercomputer. Chaotic, brilliant, and deeply weird.
Hyperactive glitch-pop that sounds like a vaudeville show trapped inside a malfunctioning supercomputer. Chaotic, brilliant, and deeply weird.
Kevin Blechdom (Kristin Erickson) is a pivotal figure in the early 2000s San Francisco experimental electronic scene. Emerging from the prestigious Mills College music program, she brought a rigorous academic background in composition to the world of laptop performance.
Her work is characterized by a 'post-digital' aesthetic that embraces the error, the glitch, and the absurd. As one half of Blectum from Blechdom, she helped define a genre of chaotic, humorous IDM that won international acclaim at Ars Electronica. Her solo work further explores the intersection of performance art, musical theater, and digital signal processing. Critically, she is viewed as a bridge between the stern world of academic computer music and the vibrant, DIY spirit of the Chicks on Speed-era electroclash and indietronica movements. Her influence is felt in the hyperpop and deconstructed club movements of the 2010s and 2020s, where her 'anything-goes' approach to sampling and vocal processing has become a standard vocabulary.
Shares glitch, idm (subgenres); playful, anxious (moods)
Shares idm, glitch, art pop (subgenres); playful, anxious (moods)
Shares idm, glitch (subgenres); lo_fi, bedroom_production (production style)
Shares idm, glitch, art pop (subgenres); lo_fi, bedroom_production (production style)
Shares idm, glitch (subgenres); basement_show, focused_work, festival (atmosphere)
Shares idm, glitch (subgenres); basement_show, focused_work, festival (atmosphere)
Shares lo_fi, bedroom_production, maximalist (production style); basement_show, festival (atmosphere)
Shares idm, glitch (subgenres); basement_show, festival (atmosphere)
Shares glitch, idm, anxious, focused_work (signature)
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