Master's portfolio

New Music Unlisted - 8 (Kitaptan Sonra)

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

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

yet the dew remains in pale (2011-12) Orchestra

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 on the surface, pushing itself to uncover sounds which both undermine and enrich one another. It's inspired by dreams – not the simple ones which tell a story, but the ones which are confusing, where images and people appear in ways which contradict each other, where one has the feeling that some hidden depth is just around the corner, but it always remains inaccessible and out-of-reach.

link to press, including my interview about the piece: https://www.srf.ch/kultur/musik/studierende-komponieren-musik-aus-stimmen-und-schritten-ueber-den-schotter

full broadcast: https://www.srf.ch/audio/neue-musik-im-konzert/classical-and-jazz-talents-live-aus-dem-srf-auditorium?id=12198833

Worn like a map | for fixed media (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

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

2022.10
Commissioned by Huikuan Lin and Taipei C-Camerata
Composer: Chen-Hui Jen
Pipa: Huikuan Lin
Violin: Chia-Lun Chang
Recording: Chia-Lung Huang
Mastering: Jacob David Sudol

Still mountains, still... (2022)for pipa and violin

performed by Francesco Palmieri, June 28th, 2022

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

into silence, and keep falling (2016) cello and piano

Ensemble: 20° dans le noir （www.ensemble20degres.com）
Mastering: Jacob Sudol

until after the twilight (2017) for flute, accordion, cello, contrabass, and electronics

Chen-Hui Jen's "d'un songe" for piano and live electronics performed live by the Jen + Sudol Duo at the Chai Found 101 in Taipei, Taiwan on June 18, 2016.

Chen-Hui Jen: "d'un songe" for piano and live electronics

contact: isaac.blumfield@gmail.com

Isaac Roth Blumfield is a composer from Saint Paul, Minnesota, currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 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 Ensemble, violinists Austin Wulliman and Chris Otto, line upon line percussion trio, Ensemble Modern, Barcelona Modern Ensemble, guitarist Francesco Palmieri and Jamie Monck, and Quartetto Maurice at programs such as the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, the Banff Centre for Creativity, Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, New Music on the Point, Valencia International Performance Academy, Ticino Musica Festival and Freie Universität Berlin im Sommer.  
His music has been broadcast on Swiss Public Radio and supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Fondation Nicati - De Luze, and the Hirschmann Stiftung. He graduated with his Bachelor's degree in composition at New England Conservatory in Boston and a Master's degree in composition at the Hochschule für Musik FHNW in Basel, Switzerland and is currently pursuing post graduate studies at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. His primary teachers have included Stratis Minakakis, Timothy McCormack, Caspar Johannes Walter, Svetlana Maras, and Clara Iannotta. He is currently a PhD candidate at Harvard University, studying with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku.