. b a c k g r o u n d .
With the project name "Insect Deli" Julia has composed, recorded, produced, and performed audio pieces since 2000. Prior to this incarnation, she was involved in various genres of experimental music as a listener, sometime writer, and college radio disc jockey in Honolulu, Hawai'i who occassionally dabbled in recording. Between 1993-99, her home-recorded sound experiments appeared on a handful of cassette tape label releases and one various artists 10" compilation. During the late 1990s, the creative focus of her work laid mainly with studies in experimental theatre production and playwriting. Julia moved to Chicago, Illinois in 2000 and began using the name "Insect Deli" (previously the name of her college radio show) as a name for a solo recording project. After 2001, she began to record and perform more regularly in the female noise duo Winter Carousel with fellow artist Diane Nelson. In 2004, the two were awarded an artist residency at Experimental Sound Studio on Chicago's north side where they worked closely with a professional staff to complete a noise music video for Winter Carousel. Insect Deli has appeared on several experimental music compilations and independent releases. These include the "Chaorin Kombat Phase I" CD and the Lumpen Media Group's "Lumptronic 6" CD.

. s t a t e m e n t .
As with insects, noise is commonly regarded as an annoyance that may be suppressed but defies elimination. The subject of Insect Deli's work often involves permutated elements of sounds that are familiar to our popular culture, from telephone beeps and canned laughter to radio broadcasts and industrial machinery. An adolescent pasttime she indulged involved fooling around with tape cassette recorders. The preteen joy of breaking open the cassettes and dissecting the magnetic tape into manual loops has, in her adult life, crossed into the realm of digital audio editing. Desktop and notebook computers provide the core tools of Insect Deli's current work. Her artistic style often employs a beat or rhythm foundation which is laid under a series of various cut-and-pasted sounds. The intensity of the music's volume and pace is evocative of the anxious pangs associated with ravenous hunger. Turning that which is generally regarded as vile, grotesque, and unnecessary into an unexpected source of humor, energy and sustenance.