A collection of six intense and dynamic techno tracks, crafted using hardware modular synthesizers and drum machines. Ranging from 135 to 145 BPM, these tracks combine raw, analogue sound design with driving rhythms, deep basslines and hypnotic melodies. Focusing on powerful, intricate sound design, each track brings a unique, immersive experience while maintaining the relentless pulse of classic techno.

Scurrilis

High as a Goose

Rumble Number 5

Euclidean Speed Bumps

Groove

V3LV3T AT M.O.D.U.L.A.R
EPISODE 003

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Niska 2.2

Layered improvisations with a feedback system using contact microphones on piano and tam-tam, processed through modular synthesizer filters, played through transducers. Part of electronic preparations for a new work for Yarn/Wire, to be premiered February 28, 2025. Recorded at SWR Experimentalstudio, Freiburg, Germany on Dec 16th and 19th, 2024

Sound engineer: Thomas Hummel
Performed and mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield

piano and tam-tam transducer feedback improvisation layers (2024)

VCV rack experiment with two detuned VCOs :)

Glasnost

~ modular synths & drum machines 
~ techno / hypnotic / ambient

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@seltsamfreundlich
@ signalstoerung

Making music with modular and analog rytm

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.

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