FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contacts: Jewl Petteway
jewl@symbolicinsight.com

Wesley Davis
biostatic@symbolicinsight.com

Phone: 303-258-3376

SYMBOLIC INSIGHT PRESENTS,
TRANSISTOR ELECTRONIC SOUND ART FESTIVAL
BENDER'S TAVERN, DENVER, CO

THE 2ND ANNUAL TRANSISTOR electronic sound art festival, presented by Denver/Boulder production company Symbolic Insight, will be held at Bender's Tavern, 314 E. 13th Denver, Colorado on Friday, June 13, and Saturday, June 14. The festival showcases live performances from over 25 innovative electronic artists with more than 13 hours of modern sounds flooding two rooms, and hundreds of ears.

The festival's mission is to showcase innovative electronic artists, providing an outlet for community, networking, education, and fun for both the patrons and the performers.

The lineup includes a variety of electronic styles and acts including;
yvat - "experimental IDM glitch" (Romania)
Submodern - "ambient electro IDM" (Bay area, CA)
Cursed Chimera - "dark electro screamo" (Anahiem, CA)
SQUARE WAIL - "8-bit electro IDM" (Seattle, WA)
BlipVert - "alien schizo grind dancehall" Los Angeles, CA)
Vertigo Venus - "industrial electro metal punk" (Alb, NM)
Math You - "techno ambient glitch electronica" (Denver, CO)
kuxaan-sum - "audio-visionary-artist" (Lakewood, CO)
GLOAM - "ethereal experimental electronic rock" (Lafayette, CO)
sporadik - "breakcore, industrial, gabbertron" (Boulder, CO)
Ronnie Cramer - "experimental multi-media/short films" (Denver, CO)

Advance tickets are available from Bender's website, benderstavern.com, or at the door for $10 per night. More information and detailed lineup can be found at transistorfestival.com.

Symbolic insight is an experimental electronic music production company founded in 1998. The studio is owned and operated by producer Wesley Davis (aka bios+a+ic), and includes a music studio, label, and event production. Wesley's partner Jewl Petteway (aka bahiya) assists with organization, operation, event promotion, and management.

Wesley Davis has been creating and performing music for over 20 years. He has produced over a dozen electronic experimental cds, most released on his label, symbolic insight. He has also been very active with productions, creating and promoting such multi-media events as the Seattle Noise Festival, Dronerama 1 & 2, textures, and numerous entropic advance multi-media shows, which include video, dancers, and music. He currently works as a live sound engineer, studio producer, and a professional musician/sound artist with the projects super_position, entropic advance, sonolumina, and bios+a+ic.

Julia "Jewl" Petteway has been a musician, dancer, and performing artist since she was a child. She has performed in theater, directed/co-directed multi-media collaborations with performing groups, and with sound artists like entropic advance and Legion Within of Seattle, and has played music with many bands and projects. Her inspiration began with her father, Al Petteway, who is a well-known guitarist based in Asheville, North Carolina, and her mother, Pat Petteway, a highly acclaimed vocal and piano teacher. She is currently exploring experimental electronics with her partner Wesley in a collaboration of "transglobal experimental IDM" called sonolumina, which consists of manipulated eastern percussion, processed trumpet, processed violin, vocals, and more.

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