Friday, May 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Zum + Deathbomb Arc present a far-out Friday of music and visual fantasias with Bay Area scifi music pioneer Blevin Blectum and the brilliant Santa Barbara bug lady Irene Moon! Jonathan Snipes of clipping kicks off the night. ∆ Since 1997, **Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon** has been presenting musical lectures about insects and other arthropods in an attempt to elevate entomology as a rock genre. Performing at basement house shows and more famous music venues like Café Oto and the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Irene Moon has toured the U.S., Europe, and Australia. She has created over 30 musical volumes during her career and has performed live radio broadcasts on entomological topics on WFMU in New York and other radio stations. Irene Moon (a.k.a. Katja C. Seltmann, Ph.D.) is the Director of the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studies insects. She brings the aesthetics of the entomology laboratory to alternative audiences through absurd, factual presentations about insects that incorporate psychedelic imagery, pop-styled torch songs, and comedy. ~ **Blevin Blectum** (Bevin Kelley) develops electronic sound-sci-fi fantasy in its most decadent A/V technicolor forms, plays solo, and is half of classic early-noughties-era San Francisco duo Blectum From Blechdom. “Her work is a sonic dream of an optimistic (if sometimes disquieting) future-electronic-music fantasia. “Nocturn” unspools like a fever dream of whispers, birdcalls, metallic jangles and florid piano samples, breaking into an alien discotheque with playful electro sequences, bouncing rhythmic filters. I find it impossible not to be charmed by this project. It has the awed scope of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, the earnestness of 70s Vangelis, and the alluring naffness of Ron Jones’s early soundtracking for StarTrek. A winning combination.” In performance, she creates an extended, expanded version-variant, spinnings-out of omnii-materials and new unreleased material - including electronic outtakes of an opera in progress in collaboration with author China Miéville as librettist.