Bob Bellerue: halfnormal is a noise artist, theater designer, writer, composer and curator. His work utilizes electronics and custom programming for live performance, sound installation, and prepared ambient (public & private) field recordings. Bellerue has a background in punk / acid rock, Balinese and Javanese gamelan, and Tibetan Buddhism. Over the last 20 years he has played in various percussion / rock / improvised projects, created original sound scores for many performance art, dance, theater and film pieces, and released dozens of recordings. He has collaborated with many powerful members of the west-coast noise / improvisation community, including Smegma, Raven Chacon, Albert Ortega, Circuit Wound, Frozen Body, and Tullan Velte. His work has been presented in Indonesia, across Europe, and throughout the United States, including the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona, Beyond Music Sound Festival, Olympia Experimental Music Festival, Dairy Center for the Arts, Machine Project, 7Hz, the Il Corral, the Smell, Kill Radio, Stanford University, Naropa University (BA 1995), and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA 2003).
ACRE plays heavy minimal drones by way of feedback from equalizer pedals and reverb, creating a minimal but massive wall of sound. It is similar to the likes of Phil Niblock, Sonic Boom, and Earth. ACRE also spent the last 5 years in Olympia, Washington playing in the power drone duo DEAD.WEATHER.RADAR, the Black Metal Lords of Lightspeed (pre Wolves in the Throne Room/post Behead the Prophet), and booking noise/ experimental shows at the historic Lucky 7 House. Acts included, Burning Starcore, Growing, Yellow Swans, Whip, Emil Beaulieu, Thrones, and so many others . ACRE was also involved in the short-lived Exploder Tapes label. ACRE’s alter ego Aaron Davis is currently playing bass in the bay area band Gowns.
Zaimph is the solo project of Marcia Bassett. Her work freely moves within walls of sonic distortion, layers of heavy drone and blurred riffs that loop into warm blurs before crumbling away into decay. She has worked on a number of collaborations with Tom Carter, Spencer Yeh, Carlos Giffoni; Dominick Fernow, and is a member of GHQ, Hototogisu and Double Leopards.