performed and commissioned by Alexandre Silva as a part of the Sustain project, with generous support from the Fachausschuss BS/BL

recorded by Santiago Villar Martin
mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield

recorded on December 17, 2024 at Theaterpavillon, Luzern, Switzerland


You hold the present as if it were a memory | for percussion and electronics (2024)

Portuguese Percussionist
Based in Basel
Member @ Trio Abstrakt & RePercussion Trio

A passionate music lover who always shares her love for different genres with everyone around her.

Turning steps into a moment through dance

Upcoming

10.10.2025, 17h, Berlin, Berliner Philharmonie, Kammermusiksaal - Breakdown Resonanzraum No. 2 (2025) - Kammerakademie Potsdam 


24.10.2025, 20h, Paris, Cité de la musique, Salle des concerts - SOUTH MEMPHIS, BITCH (*UA 2025) - ensemble intercontemperain, Festival d'Automne


29.10.2025, 20h, Berlin, Kesselhaus in der Kulturbrauerei - Confections of the Mind, Version 2 (*UA 2025), thermo_doxa (2024), Orchestra (2025) - ensemble mosaik


18.11.2025, 19:30, Wiener Konzerthaus, Berio-Saal - Isolation Forest (2023) - Ensemble Phace


20.11.2025, 20h, Wien, Musikverein, Gläsener Saal - thermo_doxa (2024) - Black Page Orchestra


24.2.2026, 20h, Rudolf-Oetker-Halle, Grosser Saal - Sketch for KOLOSS (AT) (2025) - Trickster Orchestra


21.3.2026, 19:30, Wiener Konzerthaus, Berio-Saal - thermo_doxa (2024) - Ensemble Phace


29.5.2026, 20h, Theater am Alten Markt, KOLOSS (AT) (2025) - Bielefeld Theater






Photos: 
Profile: by Camilo Pachón, Stiftung Künstlerdorf 2024
Simulation - Part One: © IEMA/Wonge Bergmann

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.