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John Mallia

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.

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Dave Seidel

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

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Simon Hutchinson

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

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AndyZee

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:

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Oxalis

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.

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Every Constant Is Obsolete

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.

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Guest Artist: Daniel Warner

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 2024

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

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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 . . .

The marquee outside the video gallery.
2022 Guest Artist Dr. Stephanie Vasko delivering the keynote.
Student from the UMass Lowell Contemporary Electronic Ensemble.
Metal Tiger performing a set.
Don Nothing performing on his Eurorack setup.
J. Lym laying down some sweet vocoder!
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.
Lost in the Sauce by xperseai.
Michael Bierylo performing on his modular setup.

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

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Michael Bierylo

Michael Bierylo is an electronic musician, guitarist, composer, and sound designer. He has been a faculty member at Berklee College of Music since 1995 and is currently Chair of the Electronic Production and Design Department where he led the development of Berklee’s Electronic Digital Instrument Program, the Electronic Performance Minor and the Creative Coding Minor. Major projects include artist residencies with Suzanne Ciani, Nona Hendryx, Hank Shocklee, Richard Devine, and Robert Rich He is also active in Berklee Online, Berklee’s online school, where he authors and teaches music technology courses.

Bierylo has performed throughout the U.S. as a member of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. His compositions are featured on the group’s albums Dancing On A’A, Petrophonics, The Iridium Controversy, and Extreme Spirituals, all on Cuneiform Records. As a solo electronic artist, Bierylo has performed with laptop computer and modular synthesizers in the US, Berlin, Shanghai, and Krakow including concerts with Grammy-nominated electronic musician BT in 2012 and Terrance Blanchard in 2015. His composition Koralate appeared on The Hundred Dollar Guitar Project CD.

Bierylo will be performing at 8:20PM. You can check out his work below.

Koralate:

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Petrophonics: