Shows
Isaac Roth BlumfieldUnderglow | for viola, guitar, piano, percussion, feedback network, and electronics (2022-23)performed by:
Elijah Spies – viola
Francesco Palmieri – guitar
Jacob Mason – piano
Mikołaj Rytowski – percussion
recorded by Santiago Villar Martín
mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield
recorded Nov 30, Klaus Linder Saal, Musik Akademie Basel
2024-01-0218 min
Isaac Roth BlumfieldBefore you were born | for piccolo/alto flute, saxophone, accordion, piano, violin, and cello (2023)performed by Schallfeld Ensemble at the Klangspuren Schwaz Composers Lab
live recording, September 18, 2023, Schwaz, Austria
conductor: Pierre-André Valade
recorded by ORF Austrian Public Radio
2023-10-1711 min
Isaac Roth Blumfieldlive at Gare du Nord, 5/11/2023live set as a part of nachtstrom 107, a concert of elektronisches studio basel at gare du nord
synthesizer, pedals, laptop
2023-05-2332 min
Isaac Roth Blumfielddarkless | fixed media (2023)darkless | fixed media (2023) by Isaac Roth Blumfield
2023-05-1428 min
Isaac Roth Blumfieldsnare drum & feedback improvisation 2/27/23improvisation with feedback and transducers on snare drum with guitar pedals, mixer, bow, e-bow
2023-02-2815 min
Isaac Roth BlumfieldAlways | for electric guitar and electronics (2020-21)performed by Francesco Palmieri, June 28th, 2022
2022-12-2542 min
Isaac Roth BlumfieldAlways | for electric guitar and electronics (excerpt 1) (2020-21)performed and commissioned by Jamie Monck as a part of "Dark is a way," a cycle of works for electric guitar and electronics, inspired by Dylan Thomas' "Poem on his Birthday".
recorded April 16, 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky
Production, mixing, mastering: Andrew M Rodriguez
Photo credit: Andrew M Rodriguez
Guitar: Jamie Monck
Buy the album on Bandcamp: https://jamiemonck.bandcamp.com/album/dark-is-a-way
2022-12-0212 minIsaac Roth BlumfieldAlways | for electric guitar and electronics (excerpt 2) (2020-21)performed and commissioned by Jamie Monck as a part of "Dark is a way," a cycle of works for electric guitar and electronics, inspired by Dylan Thomas' "Poem on his Birthday".
recorded April 16, 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky
Production, mixing, mastering: Andrew M Rodriguez
Photo credit: Andrew M Rodriguez
Guitar: Jamie Monck
Buy the album on Bandcamp: https://jamiemonck.bandcamp.com/album/dark-is-a-way
2022-12-0206 min
Isaac Roth BlumfieldOnce in your life | for saxophone, piano, percussion, and mixer (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
2022-11-2308 min
2022-11-1719 min
Isaac Roth BlumfieldEnd of summer, light between your eyes | for ensemble (2022)performed by Schallfeld Ensemble at the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik on October 8th, 2022 in Bludenz, Austria
Flute - Elisa Azzarà
Bb / Bass Clarinet – Szilárd Benes
Soprano/Baritone Saxophone – Matej Bunderla
Accordion – Mirko Jevtović
Piano – Patrick Skrilecz
Percussion – Manuel Alcaraz Clemente
Violin – Lorenzo Derinni
Viola – Francesca Piccioni
Cello – Myriam García Fidalgo
Double Bass – Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka
Conductor – Leonhard Garms
Sound engineer - Davide Gagliardi
recorded by Chris Swithinbank
mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield
commissioned by the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
Program note:
“End of summer, light between your eyes” deals with memory: not as something which flows easily and envelops you like a dream, but as a series of sensations, zoomed in, never able to regain the momentum or consistency of experience.
Only the essence of the feeling, the strange details that remain after years, more present than the significant moments which always seem to disappear and reappear without reason, without a thread to hold them together.
It deals with memory as distraction, as the inability to stay present in a moment, as a kind of zig-zag through realities both present and obscure; as something which binds together and something which is irredeemably isolating, which constantly presses on the abilit
2022-10-2313 min
2022-10-1912 min
Isaac Roth Blumfieldimprovisation 10.10.22testing a set up in live, one-take improvisation with ms 20, mixer, contact mic, electromagnetic mic, pedals
2022-10-1010 min
Isaac Roth Blumfielddeep life | for 31-tone organ and six-channel speaker cube (2022)performed by Abel Fazekas (organ) and Isaac Roth Blumfield (electronics) on September 9, 2022 at Martinskirche in Kassel, Germany as a part of BRANDNEU – Internationaler Orgelsommer 2022.
mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield
2022-09-2316 min
Isaac Roth BlumfieldWorn like a map | for fixed media (2022)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 ot...
2022-08-0909 min
Isaac Roth BlumfieldBorn being | for ensemble & electronics (2022)performed by ensemble sonic space basel, june 14, 2022
alto flute - Tatiana Timonina
clarinet/bass clarinet - Hugo Queirós
soprano/baritone saxophone - Luis Homedes López
accordion - Nejc Grm
harp - Miriam Paschetta
percussion - Joao Carlos Pacheco
piano - Helga Karen
double bass - Pierre Dekker
rehearsed by Yaron Deutsch and Uli Fussenegger
2022-07-1121 min
Isaac Roth Blumfieldlike a stain only you see | for alto flute/piccolo, viola, harp, and objects (2021-22)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
2022-05-1521 min
Isaac Roth Blumfieldhollower | for string quartet and phone speakers (2021)premiered by Quartetto Maurice on October 10, 2021 at the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik
2021-10-2110 min
Isaac Roth BlumfieldOutside (2021) | for flute, bass clarinet, and cellolive recording of the Swiss premiere on Nov 22, 2021 in Grosser Saal, Musik Akademie Basel
flute – Phoebe Bognár
bass clarinet - Ábel Fazekas
cello – Caspar Johannes Walter
2021-08-0408 min
Isaac Roth BlumfieldSunken Landscape: thread of light | for percussion trio (2020)for percussion trio
Instrumentation: three bass drums, each prepared with six electric bass strings, vibrators, aluminum foil, and coins
premiered and commissioned by line upon line percussion: Adam Bedell, Cullen Faulk, Matthew Teodori
Program note:
The internet is ubiquitous but largely experienced as immaterial. Often it is experienced like a ghost or spirit; an invisible, ethereal animating force rapidly reshaping what we think of as reality.
While learning about the United States National Security Agency’s global spying program, exposed by Edward Snowden, I was struck by the descriptions of the physical infrastructure that makes the internet function. I knew no...
2020-12-2117 min
2020-05-0810 min
2020-05-0314 min2020-05-0106 minIsaac Roth Blumfieldquartet texture study no. 1study of textures for an upcoming string quartet. All tracks are me improvising on viola
2020-04-2509 min
Isaac Roth Blumfieldin the mirror it is sunday (from "I see you")in the mirror it is sunday (from "I see you") by Isaac Roth Blumfield
2020-03-0806 min
2019-11-0704 min
Isaac Roth Blumfieldda caccia a 4 (excerpt) | for piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, cello, and piano (2019)played by Ensemble Modern
2019-08-2302 min
Isaac Roth BlumfieldEKDYSIS / undertow (excerpt) | for amplified solo bass flute and ensemble (2018-19)Stratis Minakakis, conductor
Carlos Aguilar, Bass Flute
Barret Ham, Bass Clarinet
Bennett Parsons, Baritone Saxophone
Robyn Smith, Trombone
Abigail Hong, Violin
Robbie Bui, Cello
Jacob Kalogerakos, Double Bass
2019-04-1303 min
Isaac Roth Blumfielddarker | for two violins (2017)Camille Poirier-Lachance - violin I
Christopher Otto (JACK Quartet) - violin II
recorded at Rolston Recital Hall, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2019-01-2507 min
Isaac Roth Blumfieldmimaamaqim || for 3 violins, 2 violas, and 3 cellos (2018)mimaamaqim || for 3 violins, 2 violas, and 3 cellos
premiered july 27 in rolston recital hall, banff, alberta, CA
violins – camille poirier-lachance, mana ohashi, christopher otto
violas – martine thomas, eunice cheng
cellos - ethan sandman, daniel smith, alexa ciciretti
2018-08-2015 min
Isaac Roth Blumfieldsome rain must fall (excerpt)| for two violins, viola, cello, and contrabass (2018)Austin Wulliman – violin
Yaz Lancaster – violin
Elijah Spies – viola
Louise King – cello
Laura Nygren – contrabass
2018-07-1508 min
Isaac Roth Blumfield...node lecha unessaper tehilatecha... | for 8 voices (2018)...node lecha unessaper tehilatecha...
for 8 voices
performed by Roomful of Teeth
conducted by Brad Wells
2018-06-2806 min
Isaac Roth Blumfieldqumran ii. rentier | for bass flute and contrabass (2018)carlos aguilar - bass flute
ross wightman - contrabass
2018-05-1605 min
Isaac Roth Blumfieldno stars - ii. lovesong || for four cellos (2018)performed by "Holes in the Floor"
2018-04-1608 minIsaac Roth Blumfieldeverything that grows ii (spoke) || for string quartet (2017)violin - giancarlo latta
violin - leerone hakami
viola - martine thomas
cello - stephen marotto
2018-02-1640 minIsaac Roth Blumfieldblue rose \\ for solo amplified flute (2017)blue rose \\ for solo amplified flute (2017) by Isaac Roth Blumfield
2017-09-2813 min
Isaac Roth BlumfieldPoems And Fragments || for string quartet (2016)"Poems and Fragments" by Isaac Roth Blumfield. Recorded live at New England Conservatory's Pierce Hall on February 3rd, 2016 in Boston, MA. All rights reserved.
Geneva Lewis - Violin
Gergana Haralampieva - Violin
Martine Thomas - Viola
Francesca McNeeley - Cello
2017-02-1419 min