Spring Break
Performer creates music with bugs
JESSICA BROWN
Issue date: 1/13/09 Section: Variety
For anyone who cannot choose what job they want to pursue in the future, take a cue from Irene Moon.
Instead of sacrificing one avenue for another, she combined all of her loves - music, lectures and bugs - into one passionate and eccentric lifestyle.
Originally named Katja Seltman, Moon studied entomology at the University during the early '90s. During her 10 years in Athens, she performed various acts around town and as recorded her first album in 1996.
"(I performed) a DJ Cabaret act, called 'Very Nice,' and started doing shows with the lectures and slide shows."
She has since toured all over the United States and Europe with "noise music" bands, making famous her lectures that are given while insect sounds and electronica music play in the background.
Moon will be performing in the Flicker Theater and Bar tonight with Kevin Blechdom.
Blechdom is something of a kindred spirit to Moon, as another artist to have changed her name - Kevin is actually a female originally named Kristin Erickson.
Moon and Blechdom have "performed together for the past few years," Moon said. "We both presently live in Tallahassee."
Tonight will result in a different kind of music from what both women are used to performing.
"(We will perform) kind of zany, silly, bluegrass types of songs … using traditional and non-traditional instruments … (such as) heavily processed instruments like the banjo." Alongside this bluegrass music, "we will be tap dancing ... it will be very vaudevillian," Moon said.
Blechdom is a Californian who founded her own experimental electronic group right after college. The group was a duo called Blectum from Blechdom whose Web site proclaims their music as "digital confusion, frenetic madness and psychotic delusions."
Receiving little press recognition or fame does not deter Kevin Blechdom. She has been creating music for years at any cost and sometimes only with a banjo and self-made computer programs.
Touring for the past ten years, Blechdom has spent the most recent year touring with her ragtime band Barnwave- yet she will be performing solo tonight at Flicker.
The third and final act performing at Flicker tonight is World Provider. A slightly more accessible band, this indie/electronica group has blown up on MySpace by blogging and posting songs featuring popular indie singer/songwriter Feist.
World Provider was formed as a one-man band in 1999 and is available in all sizes for bookings- solo, duo or full rock band formations.
The mission statement for World Provider would probably run something like "good music for people who want to hear it" - sweet, basic and catchy - just like their songs.
Instead of sacrificing one avenue for another, she combined all of her loves - music, lectures and bugs - into one passionate and eccentric lifestyle.
Originally named Katja Seltman, Moon studied entomology at the University during the early '90s. During her 10 years in Athens, she performed various acts around town and as recorded her first album in 1996.
"(I performed) a DJ Cabaret act, called 'Very Nice,' and started doing shows with the lectures and slide shows."
She has since toured all over the United States and Europe with "noise music" bands, making famous her lectures that are given while insect sounds and electronica music play in the background.
Moon will be performing in the Flicker Theater and Bar tonight with Kevin Blechdom.
Blechdom is something of a kindred spirit to Moon, as another artist to have changed her name - Kevin is actually a female originally named Kristin Erickson.
Moon and Blechdom have "performed together for the past few years," Moon said. "We both presently live in Tallahassee."
Tonight will result in a different kind of music from what both women are used to performing.
"(We will perform) kind of zany, silly, bluegrass types of songs … using traditional and non-traditional instruments … (such as) heavily processed instruments like the banjo." Alongside this bluegrass music, "we will be tap dancing ... it will be very vaudevillian," Moon said.
Blechdom is a Californian who founded her own experimental electronic group right after college. The group was a duo called Blectum from Blechdom whose Web site proclaims their music as "digital confusion, frenetic madness and psychotic delusions."
Receiving little press recognition or fame does not deter Kevin Blechdom. She has been creating music for years at any cost and sometimes only with a banjo and self-made computer programs.
Touring for the past ten years, Blechdom has spent the most recent year touring with her ragtime band Barnwave- yet she will be performing solo tonight at Flicker.
The third and final act performing at Flicker tonight is World Provider. A slightly more accessible band, this indie/electronica group has blown up on MySpace by blogging and posting songs featuring popular indie singer/songwriter Feist.
World Provider was formed as a one-man band in 1999 and is available in all sizes for bookings- solo, duo or full rock band formations.
The mission statement for World Provider would probably run something like "good music for people who want to hear it" - sweet, basic and catchy - just like their songs.
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