B e e W i l d e
Director · Artist · Music Producer
Emotionally electric worlds across sound and moving image.
Bee Wilde is the music and moving-image world of Bianca Janine Pettis, a Minneapolis-based artist, producer, director, and mix engineer and founder of Beatrix*Jar.
As Bee Wilde, Pettis creates emotionally charged work through sound, comics, AI-assisted media, and speculative storytelling.
Her work moves through several connected projects:
What I Am up these days
I’m currently creating music and moving-image work as Bee Wilde and The Listening Office.
Bee Wilde is my vocal music project, combining songwriting, sampled voices, found sound, and fragments of my own vocals. Songs including “Hydrocephalus” and “Cut the Current” move through grief, caregiving, memory, disruption, and reinvention.
The Listening Office is my instrumental project: bass-heavy cinematic electronic music inspired by abandoned streets, late-night broadcasts, malfunctioning public-information systems, and robots approaching from the darkness.
I’m currently completing a new Listening Office album, Unauthorized Music from the Robot Cinema Archives. The album is accompanied by a growing series of indeterminate music videos presented as fragments from a fictional history of robot cinema.
Bee Wilde Sessions her comic autobiography
The National Robot Film Archive for speculative robot cinema,
MUSIC
BEE WILDE: THE BEE WILDE SESSIONS
With her solo musical project Bee Wilde, Pettis draws from baptist church choirs, country radio, quiet storm, soul, punk clubs, mixtapes, college radio, rave culture, DJ sets, and the underground Ohio scenes surrounding Antioch College. Her music lives where choir meets cassette hiss, quiet storm meets distortion, and post-punk meets machine soul.
Originally a comic, Bee Wilde Sessions has grown into an audio-visual universe of AI-assisted music, sound collage, video comics, animation, and speculative storytelling. At its center is Echo City, a fictional audio-reactive world where sound behaves like memory and grief becomes broadcast.
THE Listening OFFICE:
The Listening Office makes music for films that never existed, broadcasts nobody remembers, and rooms that may still be listening. Built from heavy bass, primitive grooves, damaged electronics, dusty samplers, analog synthesizers, field recordings, and stubborn little loops, the project moves between underground hip-hop, experimental electronics, imaginary soundtracks, and whatever turns up next.
VIDEOS
PRESS
BOOK BEE WILDE
Bee Wilde creates immersive artist talks, performances, zines, and media works that combine music, AI-assisted visuals, grief storytelling, and experimental sound.
ARTIST TALKS
LIVE PERFORMANCES
AI VISUAL AND SOUND WORKSHOPS
CONSULTATIONS
Notes on USE OF AI
I’m an artist, writer, performer, and creative collaborator working across comics, visual art, sound, video, performance, and experimental storytelling. I work with AI as a collaborator. I was born into a world of dial tones, rotary phones, black and white televisions, film projectors, cassette hiss, fax machines, Xerox machines and heavy machines. I watched those machines shrink into screens, feeds, timelines, clouds, prompts, and video phones.
My practice is shaped by late night tv, film, theater, photography, playwriting, fine art, performance, music, comics, punk, Dada, Fluxus, mix tapes, editing rooms, stage lights, and broken equipment. I love technology and how old mediums collide with new tools. That is how movements are born.
So - this world - Echo City TV, Bee Wilde Sessions, Bee Wilde Comics, it lives between the hospital room, days of ambiguous loss, late night television broadcasts. I am grieving the only way I know how - through pop culture, punk humor, medical diagrams, analog machines and the weird little jokes we make when the pain gets too enormous to look at directly.