Isaac Roth Blumfield

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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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Isaac Roth Blumfield

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hollower | for string quartet and phone speakers (2021) 21.10.2021 10:01

premiered by Quartetto Maurice on October 10, 2021 at the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik

Outside (2021) | for flute, bass clarinet, and cello 04.08.2021 8:24

live recording of the Swiss premiere on Nov 22, 2021 in Grosser Saal, Musik Akademie Basel flute – Phoebe Bognár bass clarinet - Ábel Fazekas cello – Caspar Johannes Walter

Sunken Landscape: thread of light | for percussion trio (2020) 21.12.2020 17:46

for percussion trio Instrumentation: three bass drums, each prepared with six electric bass strings, vibrators, aluminum foil, and coins premiered and commissioned by line upon line percussion: Adam Bedell, Cullen Faulk, Matthew Teodori Program note: The internet is ubiquitous but largely experienced as immaterial. Often it is experienced like a ghost or spirit; an invisible, ethereal animating fo...

strange light (2019) 07.11.2019 4:38

strange light (2019) by Isaac Roth Blumfield

da caccia a 4 (excerpt) | for piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, cello, and piano (2019) 23.08.2019 2:59

played by Ensemble Modern

EKDYSIS / undertow (excerpt) | for amplified solo bass flute and ensemble (2018-19) 12.04.2019 3:24

Stratis Minakakis, conductor Carlos Aguilar, Bass Flute Barret Ham, Bass Clarinet Bennett Parsons, Baritone Saxophone Robyn Smith, Trombone Abigail Hong, Violin Robbie Bui, Cello Jacob Kalogerakos, Double Bass

darker | for two violins (2017) 25.01.2019 7:47

Camille Poirier-Lachance - violin I Christopher Otto (JACK Quartet) - violin II recorded at Rolston Recital Hall, Banff, Alberta, Canada

mimaamaqim || for 3 violins, 2 violas, and 3 cellos (2018) 20.08.2018 15:12

mimaamaqim || for 3 violins, 2 violas, and 3 cellos premiered july 27 in rolston recital hall, banff, alberta, CA violins – camille poirier-lachance, mana ohashi, christopher otto violas – martine thomas, eunice cheng cellos - ethan sandman, daniel smith, alexa ciciretti

some rain must fall (excerpt)| for two violins, viola, cello, and contrabass (2018) 15.07.2018 8:58

Austin Wulliman – violin Yaz Lancaster – violin Elijah Spies – viola Louise King – cello Laura Nygren – contrabass

...node lecha unessaper tehilatecha... | for 8 voices (2018) 28.06.2018 6:13

...node lecha unessaper tehilatecha... for 8 voices performed by Roomful of Teeth conducted by Brad Wells

qumran ii. rentier | for bass flute and contrabass (2018) 16.05.2018 5:51

carlos aguilar - bass flute ross wightman - contrabass

no stars - ii. lovesong || for four cellos (2018) 15.04.2018 8:14

performed by "Holes in the Floor"

everything that grows || for string quartet (2017) 16.02.2018 40:03

violin - giancarlo latta violin - leerone hakami viola - martine thomas cello - stephen marotto

blue rose \\ for solo amplified flute (2017) 28.09.2017 13:11

blue rose \\ for solo amplified flute (2017) by Isaac Roth Blumfield

Sonar || for solo piano 14.02.2017 14:48

Poems And Fragments || for string quartet (2016) 14.02.2017 19:54

"Poems and Fragments" by Isaac Roth Blumfield. Recorded live at New England Conservatory's Pierce Hall on February 3rd, 2016 in Boston, MA. All rights reserved. Geneva Lewis - Violin Gergana Haralampieva - Violin Martine Thomas - Viola Francesca McNeeley - Cello