Bob Familiar is a performer, composer and producer of minimalist electronic, ambient, and orchestral compositions.
Bob Familiar will be performing at 5:40PM. You can check out his work below.
Please Welcome to the Virtual Garage family Bob Familiar:
Bob Familiar: Synthetica I:
Akito van Troyer, Ph.D., is a creative technologist, Associate Professor at Berklee, and Research Affiliate at MIT. His innovative Garakutakara (“junk-to-treasure”) instruments collapse boundaries between digital and physical worlds and reveal the sonic potential of everyday objects.
Akito van Troyer will be performing his work at 6:20 PM. You can check out his work below.
2017 Guthman Final Concert:
John Mallia lives and works in the Boston area and is a member of the Composition Faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music where he also directs the Electronic Music Studio. Additionally, he is a member of the faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, as part of their low-residency M.F.A. program in Composition. His compositional process is informed by spatial constructs and concepts, and a fascination with presence, ritual, and the thresholds standing between states of existence or awareness.
John Mallia will be performing his work at 6:40 PM. You can check out his work on his SoundCloud site.
Dave Seidel composes and performs electroacoustic music with an emphasis on long tones and microtonal sonorities. Along with many Bandcamp releases (mysterybear.bandcamp.com), he has two CD releases: “~60 Hz” on Irritable Hedgehog (2014) and “Involution” on XI Records (2021). In a previous life as a guitarist, he is best known for the premiere recording of Lois V Vierk’s “五 Guitars” (“Go Guitars”) on Vierk’s CD “Simoom” (XI Records, 1991) . He lives in New Hampshire.
Dave Seidel will be performing his work at 7:00PM. You can check out his work below.
Live at New England Synth Fest
Simon Hutchinson is a composer and interdisciplinary artist who uses technology as both a creative medium and a thematic focus. His work emphasizes the human dimensions of technology, challenging contemporary technoculture and advocating for a thoughtful approach to our digital age.
Simon Hutchinson will be performing at 7:20PM. You can check out his work below.
Benjolin Synthcore
Benjolin & Live Granulation
Accelerometer-Controlled Analog Feedback
Audio Downloads:
Performance from Bleep Blorp 2024
Andy Zimmermann grew up in West Virginia. He graduated from Harvard College in 1975, where he majored in psychology. He exhibits paintings, welded steel sculptures, and digital multimedia works at major venues including the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the DeCordova Museum Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA, and the Cedarhurst Sculpture Park in Mt. Vernon, IL. He has had solo gallery exhibits in Boston and New York City, and has participated in group shows internationally. He earned an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2003. His multi-media installation “Cars and Stars” was exhibited at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, MA. Zimmermann is also a musician and has collaborated on theater projects as a video and sound artist.
AndyZee will be performing his work “SNULPTURE” at 7:40PM. You can check out his work below.
13NotMe:
Fliers:
Here&here&here
Leaving On A Jet Plane (collaboration)
SNULPTURE performance from Bleep / Blorp 2024:
Oxalis plays improvised electronic music that explores non-traditional tonal music with a focus on modular synths and samples. Oxalis has been performing around Boston and Providence for the past two years.
Oxalis will be performing at 8:00PM. You can check out their work on Instagram.
Olga Vechtomova composes and records electronic music as Every Constant Is Obsolete. She is a Professor at the University of Waterloo, conducting research in computational systems for music and creativity. The goal of her research is to design systems that can inspire music artists and help them find new forms of creative expression. She recorded three albums as Every Constant is Obsolete and performed live at Bleep/Blorp 2023.
Every Constant Is Obsolete was scheduled to perform their piece “Where the Shadows Become Us” at Bleep / Blorp 2024, but could not attend. Hopefully we will be able to add them to a future festival. You can check out their work below.
Every Constant Is Obsolete: Live Performance
Every Constant I Obsolete: Live Performance (December 2022) on Vimeo.
We’re please to announce that Daniel Warner will be the guest artist for Bleep / Blorp 2024. Warner, Professor of Music at Hampshire College, holds an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. in music from Princeton University. He is a composer and electronic artist whose sound and installation work has been presented at The Festival Synthèse in Bourges, France, The Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival in Vancouver, The AV Festival in Newcastle, UK, and most recently at the Sines and Squares Festival in Manchester, UK. He is co-editor of Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music is published by Bloomsbury Press. His latest book, Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music, is published by Reaktion Books, London.
Warner will give his keynote address at 11AM, and will be performing at 8:40PM. You can check out his music on his SoundCloud page.
Bleep / Blorp is a festival of synthesizer music that was founded in 2022. This year’s festival is on April 20th at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. All performances will be in Alumni Hall. Parking is available in the Alumni lot.
Performances:
11:00AM Keynote: Daniel Warner
12:00AM Will Greene “Mind is a Symbol”
12:20PM Nick Homenda
12:40PM Build.
1:00PM Doomsdroid
1:20PM Consecrated Venom “Don’tgno” & work from “Thor’s Pile Drivers”
1:40PM NoizCode
2:00PM Ralphykeys
2:20PM Wizard Peter
2:40PM Nathaniel Cohen
3:00PM TotoRobyn
3:20PM Winterr
3:40PM Mute City
4:00PM Metal Tiger
4:20PM Rich Silva
4:40PM Ryan Campos
5:00PM Sam Marston
5:20PM Deftly-D “Deftly Demolition”
5:40PM Bob Familiar
6:00PM xperseai
6:20PM Akiko van Toyer
6:40PM John Mallia
7:00PM Dave Seidel
7:20PM Simon Hutchinson
7:40PM AndyZee “SNULPTURE”
8:00PM Oxalis
8:20PM Sherisa Sterling
8:40PM Daniel Warner