What the Bleep Do We Know!? & What the Bleep!?

California Science Center
August 12th from 1-9pm

What the BLEEP has a lot to celebrate. Not only do we have the new 6-sided, 3 disk Quantum Edition of Down the Rabbit Hole being released August 1st, we also have the Official Soundtrack from What the BLEEP Do We Know!? coming out at the same time.

To celebrate we are having a ONE DAY FESTIVAL bringing together some of the stars of the movie along with /a great line-up of soundtrack and other musical artists, surrounding them with visual delights and interactive activities, all in a scientifically provocative venue.

BLEEP Fest 2006, presented by the BLEEP Store, will be held at the California Science Center – Wallis Annenberg Bldg in a gorgeous atrium "lab" beside the Exposition Park Rose Gardens, August 12th from 1pm-9pm. Actress Elaine Hendrix (Jennifer) will serve as festival host, and guest speakers Dr. Joe Dispenza and Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. will give talks during the day. Performing live are official soundtrack artists Patrick O'Hearn, John Serrie and Aeon Spoke, as well as Bosendorfer artist Alan Roubik, Gordie Grobelny, Lili Haydn, and other surprise talents.** Filmmakers Will Arntz, Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente will be there for book and DVD signings.

An open floor area for dance and movement (and a DJ, of course) will feature prominently, along with Community Sharings, Art by Coe Kitten, a Bamboo Garden, Raffle Drawings, a Sneak-peak at DVD footage and more!

General admission costs for BLEEP Fest 2006 is $35 advance; $45 at the door at bleepstore.com. First come, first serve festival seating, as well as a copy of a collector's edition Dr. Quantum Comic Book and a chance to win official BLEEP merchandise. The California Science Center is located at 700 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90037.

**Appearances are subject to availability

Click here to see sponsors and Exhibitors for BLEEPFest 2006

A special thanks to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for being a proud sponsor of our upcoming 2006 BLEEPFest at the California Science Center in downtown Los Angeles, August 12th. Fox Home Entertainment is also our DVD distributor for What the BLEEP Do We Know!? and the distributor for the 3 DVD disc set, What the BLEEP - Down the Rabbit Hole. www.foxhome.com. Now available at major retail locations.

MUSICIANS PERFORMING AT BLEEP FEST 2006

AEON SPOKE is Paul Masvidal, Sean Reinert, and Evo. The official self-titled SPV debut mixed by three-time Grammy award winning mixer/producer Warren Riker (the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Down, Santana, Aerosmith), contains material from the self-released Above The Buried Cry re-recorded and mixed in combination with new material is scheduled for release October 2006.

Paul had worked as a caretaker for the dying while writing many of the songs for this record, doing music therapy for transplant patients and other critically ill people. "I came to find out what was most important about living through working with the dying."

"Lyrically the record explores the depths of spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition," explains lead singer and lyricist Paul Masvidal, "which beckons awareness, if we can surrender to the present."

"The journey of the human experience from birth to death and the underlying stages of consciousness are told sequentially from track one to ten on this record. Kind of like a tree growing inward toward the source of it's own seed".

"Our new album is an evolution/involution and a conceptual work".

Aeon Spoke ´s sound is at once earthy and ethereal. Song themes describe the rawer emotions of human experience and reflect on unanswered questions of living in the here and now. Deceptively simple rhythms lay the foundation for soaring vocal melodies and otherworldly harmonic guitar textures. The bands’ conviction is "to push the envelope and to keep growing as artists." Says Masvidal, "It´s important to us that our music add new shades of color to the existing palate of songwriting and sound."

“I envision a certain depth, an experience of sound that gives space for the listener to repose. My goal is to combine the elements of space and spirit, creating a delicate backdrop to the soul.”

This is the philosophy that has propelled composer/producer Jonn Serrie to the forefront of the contemporary instrumental and space music field. Serrie’s imaginative playing and visionary compositional skills have revolutionized today’s contemporary electronic music.

Jonn’s premier release, And The Stars Go With You, is a journey into the depths of deep space. He was later selected by NASA to compose the music for the Teacher in Space program of the mid-80’s. Serrie’s recorded works include Century Seasons, Hidden World, Flightpath, Tingri, compilation albums from his various space theatre projects entitled Planetary Chronicles Volume 1 and Volume 2 and many other fine works. Jonn’s latest album, Sunday Morning explores a musical connection between the theories presented in the movie and neuro-brain dysfunctions in autistic children. The arrangements are soft and gentle, perfect for contemplative listening.

In addition to compositions for What the Bleep Do We Know!? and David Carradine’s Tai Chi series, Serrie has composed music for George Lucas and the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, PBS, Discovery Channel, the U.S.Navy Blue Angels, and created a unique presentation of educational narrative and live music with NASA astronaut Story Musgrave called “Space Stories”. He recently completed a project with IMAX Corporation and the Space Telescope Science Institute on a feature film about the discovery of Deep Field galaxies beyond the known universe.

“My music exists to help us explore a sense of ourselves and our place in the universe”.

ALAN ROUBIK was a child prodigy playing organ keyboard by ear at age three. By age nine, he had performed his own classical and ragtime compositions in numerous talent shows, competitions and fundraising events.

As a teenager, Roubik sustained severe and painful damage to the ulnar nerve in his right arm, making it nearly impossible to move his fingers., hold a fork or anything else in his right hand. Refusing surgery, Roubik focused on creating compositions that suited his limited hand movements, and, quite unconsciously began utilizing a form of music therapy that would eventually strengthen his hand and allow him full mobility to perform again. Some of his most well known compositions are his music therapy recordings.

In 1992, Alan produced the album "Promises," the popularity of which lead to the production of the music video "Promises." An instant hit on MTV, Star TV Asia and MOR Music, Roubik became the only independent American recording artist to have his video featured on MTV, Star TV and PBS (Classic Arts Showcase).

Since then, Roubik has produced numerous popular recordings, music videos, a film score and commercials. Considered one of the worlds top "healing music" artists and producers, his first music therapy release in Japan in 1996, entitled Hado Music Series 1 (also known as The Four Seasons), fetched an unprecedented retail price of $100 per CD. Scientifically tested and endorsed by an independent research laboratory in Tokyo by Dr. Masaru Emoto, Roubik’s music is said to have the greatest healing properties of any modern music. He is the only non-Japanese recording artist to be inducted in the National Archives of Japan for his healing music. Today, his music is used by doctors, professional athletes and trainers, health, fitness and yoga instructors, as well as spiritual healers.

FWAP (formerly Zazen) was formed by Andy West and Joaquin Lievano as a new vehicle for music that is, in some ways, the opposite of the highly orchestrated and complex song forms they used in Zazen. At the same time it is similar, in that it seeks to evoke a sense of adventure, imagination, and beauty. Creating music on the fly with minimal orchestration, fwap employs familiar song structures, counterpoint, and repetitive patterns that build on each other, all the while retaining a sense of musical cohesion.

Andy West first started the Dixie Dregs (later The Dregs) with Steve Morse, eventually releasing six albums. Later he recorded Crazy Backwards Alphabet with Henry Kaiser. Eventually, he met guitarist Joaquin Lievano and formed Zazen, which released over a dozen albums on private labels and produced 4 commercial releases. Today he is fully occupied with fwap.

Self-taught musician Joaquin Lievano first gained international recognition as guitarist with jazzfusion violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. Later he worked with people like Terry Bozzio, Steve Smith, Steve Kindler, Sheila E., Narada Michael Walden, Jerry Goodman, Simon Phillips, Yanni, Santana keyboardist/ songwriter Tom Coster and many others. His acclaimed 1987 solo debut, One Mind (Global Pacific), was followed by Ecologie.

Hilary Jones started playing drums professionally at age 16, later joining the U.S. Navy Band. After discharge, she joined Girlfriend, a hand picked group of musicians formed by acclaimed producer, Narada Michael Walden. Since then she has worked with such artists as Maria Muldaur, the Mamas & the Papas, Pete Escovedo, Lee Ritenour, Doc Severinson, and Brazilian guitar virtuoso Badi Assad. A frequent writer for Drum magazine, she offers seminars and in May 2001, released her debut CD, Soaring.

ELAINE HENDRIX, who plays Marlee Matlin’s elfish creative roommate ‘Jennifer’ in the sleeper-hit What the BLEEP Do We Know!?, is hosting BLEEP FEST 2006, an all-day festival of live music, scientific lectures, food, vendors and fun. She is also co-producing the event with BLEEP filmmaker Betsy Chasse, who is executive producing the Fest presented by The BLEEP Store and FOX Home Entertainment.

The festival celebrates the release of the Quantum Edition What the BLEEP - Down the Rabbit Hole DVD, in which Hendrix plays both ‘Jennifer’ as well as the voice of ‘The Circle’ in the “Flatland” sequence, and the official BLEEP soundtrack in which which Hendrix also performs the Rabbit Hole’s end title song What the BLEEP? which she wrote with veteran songwriter Barry Coffing (#1 hit How Do You Talk to an Angel.)

As an actress Hendrix is best known for her performances in The Parent Trap, Inspector Gadget 2, Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion, and as the scientifically provocative ‘Ms. Lischak’ on the acclaimed CBS show Joan of Arcadia.

She has spent time behind the scenes producing such varied projects as the wildly popular Peep Show…for your viewing pleasure which sold out performances during an 18-month run in Los Angeles, and other live events for major fashion magazines, charity events, night clubs and dance company performances both in Los Angeles and Atlanta, GA.

Currently, she is an associate producer of Coffee Date, a feature length film which is has begun the festival circuit this summer to rave reviews, and co-producer of a series of Kabbalah projects with the Israeli company ARI Films

Hendrix currently resides in Los Angeles with her rescued animals Australian Cattle Dog Tiloc (pronounced TEE-Lock) and cat Goodie Cornbread where she pursues work, play, spirituality, and shopping. She is an advisory board member of ISE-LA (The Institute of Spiritual Entertainment, Los Angeles ), a member of Women in Film, and is actively involved in humanitarian efforts on behalf of animals, children, cancer research and the environment.

Gordie Grobelny, AKA Croon Ella, singer songwriter, guitar player, rock star. Please note I’m not calling myself a musician, as there is a big difference. Musicians get paid for playing music. Rock stars go to cool parties, get chicks and spend lots of money on frivolous things. Did I mention I buy kilts from Scotland and Utilikilts from Seattle… and wear them? And I got chicks too – two of them. Thinking I would get a song in the movie, I slept with one of the filmmakers of What the BLEEP (the one that’s a chick). After a professional recording at Homers Big Groove studio in Olympia, WA, and actually being filmed performing my song, the filmmaker (who I even MARRIED!) cuts the song out of the movie. But hey, I hit the jackpot with the marriage gig ‘cause I picked up this beautiful little goddess along the way who is the inspiration for the band name Croon Ella, two hit songs, and the main reason the frivolous spending in the life of this rock star has ground to a halt in favor of buying perambulators and setting up college funds. She is now 27 months old and loves to sing with Papa.

Oh yeah - back to my music career. I begged for a guitar when I was 10 so I would not have to play accordion. I played on and off, then took trombone for a year in 9 th grade, and wasted a whole HOUR of practice when I took it home once. My family said, “If you ever bring that home again, young man, we’ll sabotage your motocross bike.”

Finally inspired to really get into music in ‘97 thanks to Greg Guy, my Aussie friend who wrote “God that I Am,” (Yes, the song that got cut from the movie), I played in several classic rock bands, including the infamous “Irritating Nancy.” Then I got into solo gigs and the rest is history – right up to the part about the song being cut from the movie. (Bother me? Why do you think that bothers me?) Most recently I formed a trio with Din Wilkie, who plays a mean upright bass and regular bass, and singer songwriter, keyboard player (previously with Leanne Rymes), studio engineer, and producer Brent Pendleton on congas.