Bianca Janine Pettis is the creator of Bee Wilde Sessions, an experimental music and multimedia project inspired in spirit by the Peel Sessions: intimate, exploratory transmissions where memory, grief, disruption, and reinvention become sound.

A producer, DJ, mix engineer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist, Pettis has spent more than two decades turning sound, image, performance, and participation into shared experience. As co-founder of the experimental duo Beatrix*Jar with Jacob Aaron Roske, also known as JAR DRUGS, she helped lead hundreds of workshops and performances across the United States, building a practice rooted in circuit bending, DIY electronics, collaboration, and play.

With her solo project Bee Wilde, Pettis draws from Black Southern 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 begun as 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.

Rooted in Pettis’s experience becoming a caregiver for her husband and longtime musical collaborator after two brain surgeries, the project transforms ambiguous loss, neurological change, partnership, and creative rebirth into a mythic archive of distortion, care, and survival.