Isaac Roth Blumfield

Isaac Roth Blumfield

contact: isaac.blumfield@gmail.comIsaac Roth Blumfield is a composer from Saint Paul, Minnesota, currently based in Basel, Switzerland. He writes experimental music for acoustic and electronic instruments which explores resonance, materiality, and memory through expanded sonic approaches towards instruments and objects. His music looks for the strange spaces between subjective and unconscious experience, exploring uncanny places between beauty, pain, and strangeness. His music has been influenced through through work with performers such as ensemble sonic space basel alumni, Schallfeld Ensembl...

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Jul 5, 2026

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Episodes

Lawrence + Roth Blumfield – live at TurTur Hamburg 05.07.2026

recorded live at TurTur Club in Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg on June 14, 2026 featuring live visuals by schmeeelz Rebecca Lawrence – double bass Isaac Roth Blumfield – electronics mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield

Lawrence & Roth Blumfield – live at Goethe Institut Boston 20.03.2026

recorded live at Goethe Institut Boston on March 17, 2026 Rebecca Lawrence – double bass Isaac Roth Blumfield – laptop & modular synthesizer Sound Engineer: John Pax mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield

live at Unbound Visual Arts – Jan 31, 2026 01.02.2026

solo set at Unbound Visual Arts in Brighton, Massachusetts, curated by Jessica Hernandez January 31, 2026 Isaac Roth Blumfield – laptop

Lawrence + Roth Blumfield – live at Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik 03.01.2026

Rebecca Lawrence – double bass Isaac Roth Blumfield – modular synthesizer, laptop live at Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, September 20, 2025 recorded by Christina Bauer mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield

photographic memory | 2025 19.12.2025

composed and mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield for fixed media original version: 32- channel spatial audio

Like a dream I can' t wake up from | for Yarn/Wire & electronics (2024-25) 14.08.2025

performed by Yarn/Wire at Paine Hall, Harvard University on February 28, 2025 Laura Barger – piano Julia Den Boer – sampler & MIDI controller Russell Greenberg – percussion Dennis Sullivan – percussion recording: Anthony DiBartolo mix: Isaac Roth Blumfield Program note: In English, the word "dream" has a positive connotation, but there is a thin boundary between a dream and a nightmare, and our ex...

Still hollow | for classical guitar (2025) 03.08.2025

performed by Abbey Felton on Aug 1, 2025 at Lichtenbergschule, Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2025 written for the workshop "Co-Lab," organized by Yaron Deutsch and Clara Iannotta recording and mix: Isaac Roth Blumfield

Lawrence+Roth Blumfield – live at Parfümerie 29.07.2025

Rebecca Lawrence – violone Isaac Roth Blumfield – modular synthesizer & laptop sound engineer – Matthias Hoch mixing – Isaac Roth Blumfield live improvised set performed at Parfümerie, Frankfurt am Main, from July 23, 2025 supported by BHV45 concert series, Jazz Montez, and Musikfonds Image credit: Paul Pape

Lawrence + Roth Blumfield – viola da gamba & modular synthesizer 28.05.2025

Rebecca Lawrence – viola da gamba Isaac Roth Blumfield – modular synthesizer Recorded Dec 2024, Frankfurt am Main All sounds produced by viola da gamba and processed by modular synthesizer Mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield

You hold the present as if it were a memory | for percussion and electronics (2024) 13.03.2025

performed and commissioned by Alexandre Silva as a part of the Sustain project, with generous support from the Fachausschuss BS/BL recorded by Santiago Villar Martin mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield recorded on December 17, 2024 at Theaterpavillon, Luzern, Switzerland

strange symmetry | for percussion and ambisonic live electronics (2024) – binaural version (use headphones) 30.12.2024

performed and written for Mikołaj Rytowski for the ATTACCA Festival 2024; premiered on June 1 at Druckereihalle im Ackermannshof, Basel, Switzerland recording: Robin Michel mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield The electronics for this work were recorded in part at the SWR Experimentalstudio in Freiburg, Germany with assistance from sound engineers Thomas Hummel and Luis Miehlich

strange symmetry | for percussion and ambisonic live electronics (2024) – stereo version 29.12.2024

performed and written for Mikołaj Rytowski for the ATTACCA Festival 2024; premiered on June 1 at Druckereihalle im Ackermannshof, Basel, Switzerland recording: Robin Michel mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield The electronics for this work were recorded in part at the SWR Experimentalstudio in Freiburg, Germany with assistance from sound engineers Thomas Hummel and Luis Miehlich link to binaural version...

Half life | for amplified alto flute and double bass (2024) 18.09.2024

commissioned and performed by Blaurenz Duo Rebecca Blau - flute Rebecca Lawrence - double bass electronics – Isaac Roth Blumfield live recording at Theater Pavillion, Lucerne, Switzerland on July 8, 2024 recording - Fernando Manassero mix - Isaac Roth Blumfield

Stained light | for ensemble proton bern (2023-24) 28.07.2024

Youtube video of the performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUf5Ca6_wk0 commissioned by Ensemble Proton Bern as a part of Protonwerk No. 13 live recording of premiere 23. April 2024 - Dampfzentrale Bern Ensemble Proton Bern Conductor- Gregory Charette Alto flute, piccolo - Bettina Berger Oboe - Martin Bliggenstorfer Basset horn, contrabass clarinet - Richard Elliot Haynes Bassoon, Contrabass...

Underglow | for viola, guitar, piano, percussion, feedback network, and electronics (2022-23) 02.01.2024

performed by: Elijah Spies – viola Francesco Palmieri – guitar Jacob Mason – piano Mikołaj Rytowski – percussion recorded by Santiago Villar Martín mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield recorded Nov 30, Klaus Linder Saal, Musik Akademie Basel

Before you were born | for piccolo/alto flute, saxophone, accordion, piano, violin, and cello (2023) 16.10.2023

performed by Schallfeld Ensemble at the Klangspuren Schwaz Composers Lab live recording, September 18, 2023, Schwaz, Austria conductor: Pierre-André Valade recorded by ORF Austrian Public Radio

live at Gare du Nord, 5/11/2023 22.05.2023

live set as a part of nachtstrom 107, a concert of elektronisches studio basel at gare du nord synthesizer, pedals, laptop

darkless | fixed media (2023) 13.05.2023

darkless | fixed media (2023) by Isaac Roth Blumfield

Always | for electric guitar and electronics (2020-21) 25.12.2022

performed by Francesco Palmieri, June 28th, 2022

Once in your life | for saxophone, piano, percussion, and mixer (2022) 23.11.2022

performed by and commissioned by ex-sentia trio live recording from June 21, 2022 in Grosser Saal of Musik Akademie Basel Miguel Fernández - tenor saxophone Jacob Mason - piano Santiago Villar Martín - percussion Isaac Roth Blumfield - mixer recorded and mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield

improvisation 11.17.22 16.11.2022

laptop improvisation, november 17, 2022

End of summer, light between your eyes | for ensemble (2022) 23.10.2022

performed by Schallfeld Ensemble at the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik on October 8th, 2022 in Bludenz, Austria Flute - Elisa Azzarà Bb / Bass Clarinet – Szilárd Benes Soprano/Baritone Saxophone – Matej Bunderla Accordion – Mirko Jevtović Piano – Patrick Skrilecz Percussion – Manuel Alcaraz Clemente Violin – Lorenzo Derinni Viola – Francesca Piccioni Cello – Myriam García Fidalgo Double Bass – M...

deep life | for 31-tone organ and six-channel speaker cube (2022) 23.09.2022

performed by Abel Fazekas (organ) and Isaac Roth Blumfield (electronics) on September 9, 2022 at Martinskirche in Kassel, Germany as a part of BRANDNEU – Internationaler Orgelsommer 2022. mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield

Worn like a map | for fixed media (2022) 09.08.2022

composed, recorded, and mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield mastered by Moritz Wetter first broadcast: SRF 2 Kultur, June 29, 2022 as a part of collaboration between SRF and Elektronisches Studio der Musik-Akademie Basel Program note: "Worn like a map" moves through imaginary spaces, synthesizing disparate worlds into an evolving landscape. It continually searches for a deeper memory than what appears o...

like a stain only you see | for alto flute/piccolo, viola, harp, and objects (2021-22) 15.05.2022

performed by: Clara Giner Franco, alto flute/piccolo Isaac Roth Blumfield, objects Miriam Paschetta, harp Anastasia Agapova, viola recorded live at the Grosser Saal of the Musik Akademie Basel on March 28th, 2022

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