LEVIATHE
Leviathe is a Sacramento-born multi-disciplinary media artist living in the Bay Area. They hold a double bachelor's degree from the University of California at Davis in Music and Design. Their expertise extends to a wide range of fields, including record engineering, ADR, music composition, production, editing, and mixing.
Since 2015, Leviathe has been serving as the co-owner and co-head engineer of Different Fur Studios in San Francisco, alongside Grace Coleman. They are also the co-founder of LIEMA, a post-audio and film production company, and a core member of the queer Vietnamese media collective, Sunkissed Productions.
Currently, they produce on a myriad of projects spanning in electronic, indie, hip hop, and Rnb. Most currently, they are working with Tia Nomore, Stoni, Cindy Zhang, Karri, Matthew Rare, QI.X, Coco Layne, Horsepower, and a few fictional and documentary films. They also often work Text Me Records artists in both the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York. They also perform as the drummer for Tia Nomore, Claire George, Coco Layne, and Ruby Roman. They also are working on two solo projects under the name Leviathe (experimental electronic) and Lydie (Asian Electronic Rnb)
Lastly, Leviathe is professor of post-production film audio for the MFA Graduate School program SOCDOC at UC Santa Cruz. They also teach at Women’s Audio Mission as a lecturer and engineer. They have delivered guest lectures at various institutions, including UCLA, other community groups and summits. Also, they were featured as an artist in residence at SFMoma's Open Space, where they presented a physics sound installation that explored the potential of harnessing Sympathetic Resonance through future climate change and its impact on communication.
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Today is Bandcamp Friday, the once-monthly event where the music retail platform waives its service fee from every sale and sends it directly to the artists. We've already shed the spotlight on two very worthwhile charity compilations, and Arca is one of dozens of musicians with new music featured on a benefit collection called MUTANTS VOL. 2: RIOT.
Arca has released the latest installment in her Mutants Mixtape series, compiling tracks by producers who are part of the Mutants1000000 Discord community. In addition to dozens of other tracks, MUTANTS VOL. 2: RIOT features a new song from Alejandra Ghersi called “Mallorca.” All proceeds from the collaborative release will “be donated to over 50 POC, queer, and sex worker related charities via ActBlue.” Check out the comp below and buy it at Bandcamp.
The duo is called Genuis, and no, that’s not a typo. It’s pronounced like genius. Or genuous. Or take a softer, more French-sounding approach: “zhahn-wah.”
Genuis does not have anything particular in mind.
“We admire geniuses but we couldn’t spell it right,” says Anthony Leedom, half of Genuis.
Ha ha, very funny. But that doesn’t explain why Genuis released an album in December called Vtruea. Or why some of its song titles almost resemble real words, like “Wprds” or “Orphilian.”
“You know how some people have synesthesia, when they hear a sound they see a color? I have that with word patterns,” says Lien Do, the second half of Genuis.
“At first, instead of calling it a band, we said ‘we’re collaborating,’ so we wouldn’t have a ton of expectations of each other,” Do said. “In the beginning, we were just having fun. We didn’t really think about what would happen in the future.”
Today, the duo has opened for popular musicians Giraffage, Au Revoir Simone and Shabazz Palaces at venues such as The Chapel and Slim’s in San Francisco. They released their first album “.//WAV” last July on KDVS recordings and Popgang records, a collection of wispy and ethereal sensations coupled with elemental beats.
Band crush. Genuis is a San Francisco based experimental electronic duo that makes incredibly classy darkwave outer space tracks that holds your attention for every second their music is emitting from your speakers. These young musicians are sonically versatile and have an understanding of sound and layering that many musicians don't possess. Genuis' music has an intense amout of depth to it, but the music doesn't overwhelm you with layers that are dissonant, misplaced or out of key. Also, there can be one moment where you'll hear an intense intergalactic song and the next you'll find yourself listening to a minimal acoustic anti folk track. Nonetheless, by the time you get through their album, whether your ear catches a lofi or heavily produced song won't matter.
nenci’s sound encompasses a variety of influences: from playing classical music on flute to bumping 80s and 90s R&B/soul alongside experimental electronica. in this first look at their collaboration, nenci and Leviathe perform their rendition of james blake’s “f.o.r.e.v.e.r.”, and we had the honor of chatting with them more about the project and how the video came together.
Local songwriter and producer Leviathe has been behind a huge number of our Text Me favorites in the last few years here at The Bay Bridged. Today, she's releasing a project with new musician nenci — tomorrow, for sure.