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Guest Artist: Daniel Warner

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Post date February 4, 2024
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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.

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Bleep Blorp 2022: Photos

Bleep Blorp 2022 featured a dozen+ acts performing a great variety of music. Here are some images from the event . . .

2022 Guest Artist Dr. Stephanie Vasko delivering the keynote.

Student from the UMass Lowell Contemporary Electronic Ensemble.

Don Nothing performing on his Eurorack setup.

Travis Johns making some friends through a 20 minute bass solo!

Will Auringer’s band shredding up the hall.

Overclock Orchestra featuring Marcus Monteiro on reeds and Brian Cass on knobs.

Maestra Chameleon performing *The Space Inbetween*.

Michael Bierylo performing on his modular setup.

2022 Guest Artist Stephanie Vasko performing on tape loops and VCV Rack!

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xperseai

xperseai is a synthesizer enthusiast and electronics hobbyist interested in the way that art and technology intersect.

xperseai performed “lost in the sauce” at Bleep / Blorp 2022. He will be performing at 6:00PM at Bleep / Blorp 2024. You can check out his work below.

lost in the sauce 01:

lost in the sauce 03: Access Virus Ambient Jam:

lost in the sauce 04: Ambient Tape Loops:

lost in the sauce 05: minidrone diy drone box + erebus filter ambient:

xperseai: nesf planetarium:

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Stephanie Vasko

Dr. Stephanie Vasko is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. She works with sound (field recordings, virtual synthesis, hardware synthesis), circuit bending, sculpture, video, photography, and extended reality. Her work explores warping perceptions and creating mashups of cutting-edge and obsolete technologies.

Dr. Vasko was the guest artist for Bleep / Blorp 2022. As guest artist, she delivered the festival’s keynote lecture, “Synthesizing the Sound of Space.” This lecture chronicled Vasko’s digital humanities project of the same name. The project explored how the development of the silicon transistor has shaped the ways in which the sounds of space are recorded and created. Initial work during the pilot year of this project focused on archival and online research, creating a beta version of a website, and developing an open-source lesson plan to teach about how to synthesize your own space sounds. This keynote covered an introduction to this project and deep dive into the sound creation activity, including addressing accessibility concerns, sound samples, and a tools/platforms comparison. Her performance, Layers, at the end of the Bleep/Blorp 2022 featured patches created using VCV Rack, sound samples, and tape loops.

Dr. Vasko was scheduled to perform her work “Ghosts” at Bleep/Blorp 2024. Unfortunately due to an injury she was not able to attend. Hopefully she’ll return for a future Bleep/Blorp. You can check out her work on her Instagram page, as well as by checking out the videos below.

Anxiety: A VCV Rack and Tape Loop Performance: