About

Isaac Roth Blumfield is a composer from Saint Paul, Minnesota, currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He writes experimental music for acoustic and electronic instruments, exploring resonance, materiality, and memory through expanded approaches towards instruments, objects, and electronics. His music looks for uncanny places and expressions that embrace the beauty, pain, and strangeness of life.

His music has been influenced through work with performers such as Schallfeld Ensemble, Ensemble Proton Bern, line upon line percussion trio, Ensemble Modern, and Quartetto Maurice at programs such as the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Klangspuren Schwaz, Impuls, the Banff Centre for Creativity, New Music on the Point, and Ticino Musica Festival. Upcoming projects include new pieces for percussionist Alexandre Silva, Yarn/Wire, and catinblackblack ensemble.

Additionally, he is active as a copyist, preparing scores for composers such as Stratis Minakakis, Simone Movio, Malcolm Payton, and Chris Otto. He also works as a mixing engineer specializing in contemporary music and has mixed recordings for composers such as Carola Bauckholt, Michele Selvaggi, Joshua Alvarez Mastel, Eli Korman Hacohen, and Erik Ona.

His music has been broadcast on Swiss and Austrian Public Radio and supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Fondation Nicati - De Luze, and the Hirschmann Stiftung. He studied composition and electronics in Boston, Basel, and Vienna with Stratis Minakakis, Timothy McCormack, Caspar Johannes Walter, Svetlana Maraš, and Clara Iannotta. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Harvard University, studying with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku.