Artist description dataBitch is driven by a composer/producer who forces digital material to sound expressive and imaginitive. The band is completely virtual, although the human element is constantly maintained with words, voice, and solid musicians in the mix.

Music Style Progressive electro-breaks, trance, wacked-out drum and bass; all backing spoken word and translucent female vocals

Musical Influences Peter Gabriel, NIN, Aphex Twin, Danielle Dax, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Soul II Soul, Chemical Bros., Fluke, Massive Attack, Diamanda Galas

Similar Artists Chemical Bros, Crystal Method, Fat Boy Slim, Low Fidelity All-Stars

Artist History dataBitch is a professional composer and music producer — and she’s Chicago’s premier female digital audio maven. After years of songwriting and fronting bands varying from jazz to rock, to contemporary music to techno, she realized that her work needed to pack more than just vocal punch to truly make her musical mark. Classically trained in violin and voice from an early age, at college she transmuted into a composer of genre-bending new music, completing her BFA in music composition at the University of Washington’s School of Music in Seattle. Her compositions and performance works were widely presented at local contemporary music venues in the Pacific Northwest, as well as at national music festivals such as the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), New Music Across America, and Montreal Musiques Actuelles. She received a Metro Regional Transit Grant Award to create a radio artwork, and an Eyes of Chaos Foundation Grant Award to push her music studio into the digital domain. After relocating to Chicago, she firmly stepped up to the digital platform and began freelancing in the commercial and post-production industry. She has created music and sound design for radio and television broadcast, video, film, new media, and theatre. Her professional recognition includes a Chicago/Midwest Regional Emmy Nomination for WCIU-TV’s “In My Shoes” documentary and a Communicator Award of Distinction for “Astrobot,” a computer animated promotional short subject.

Group Members Calliope Sol and other occasional personnel. Most recently George Blaise on Guitar.

Instruments Digital Audio, Electronics, Guitar, Vocals

Press Reviews When you hear dataBitch tracks, you may be inclined to grasp at comparisons to Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, Fat Boy Slim, or the Low Fidelity All Stars. You will, however, duly perceive that dataBitch has compressed these elements into a richly original, semi-organic sphere, permeated by membranes of translucently tight jazzy vocal harmonies. You will enter an atmosphere of electro-breaks interlaced with contagious trance overtones and a nasty techno-industrial bottom edge. This sonic journey is all about transformations. It could begin with a vocal performance, a sampled spoken word, or a choral tidbit; digitally manipulated until it is fundamentally unrecognizable. Massive signal processing creates multiple modes of musical behavior branching from a single source. These freshly crafted virtual instruments perform like intelligent entities, expressively and seamlessly transforming from one sonic moment to the next, all the while riffing deep into the track’s groove. Listen now, and follow the infectious trail of digital expression to the center of this new sonic universe.

Location Chicago, IL - USA

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