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| About Marcel Blum |
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Marcel is a coder, musician, and vinyl archaeologist based in New York. As a freelance multimedia developer, he creates educational software, web applications, interactive kiosks for installations, and custom realtime digital audio and video programs, mainly in JavaScript/HTML/CSS, Lingo/Adobe Director, Perl, and PHP. As an experimental turntablist and computer musician, he performs in several groups. And as proprietor of keymap records, he sells vintage vinyl rarities of early electronic and avant garde music. Some freelance projects of note:
- for Thirteen/WNET New York, Home Vision Entertainment, and The Charles H. Revson Foundation, as technical director of the mammoth Heritage Interactive DVD-ROM (now in version 2.5), an educational multimedia project and interactive documentary based around the 9 hour PBS film Heritage: Civilization and the Jews. Check out the New York Times article about the product or purchase it at Amazon.com.
- for Free103Point9 Transmission Arts, as a concert co-engineer and performer at the unique Tune(In))) The Kitchen sound installation/event at renowned arts space The Kitchen, part of the New Sound, New York city-wide concert festival. Check out the review by the New York Times.
- for the television series Showtime At The Apollo, as a developer of custom digital audio software for measuring audience response during their legendary audience-judged amateur competitions.
- for Bryant Park and The Canadian Tourism Commission, as a custom software developer helping to produce the innovative Picture Yourself In Canada photo booth kiosk and interactive installation at the park in midtown Manhattan.
- for EnVision Systems, as a consultant helping to prototype, optimize, and upgrade this computer-based training company's interactive simulations and educational programs for the oil and gas industries which help plant employees safely work with complex chemical interactions and heavy machinery.
- for Docurama Films and The Charles H. Revson Foundation, as digital audio consultant for the Great Speeches Of Abba Eban CD set, helping to digitally restore 4 hours of previously unreleased speeches given at the United Nations and originally recorded on acetates by Eban's wife. The set can be purchased here.
- for PBS, as programmer of the 3d Brain Anatomy Shockwave site which supplements the documentary series The Secret Life Of The Brain, selected by Adobe/Macromedia as a showcase for the educational potential of their Director Shockwave 3d technology.
Contact Marcel (email marcel [at] soundplant.org) for inquiries about software, music, or sound design projects, including customizing Soundplant for your needs.
Music By Marcel Blum
As an improvising avant-turntablist and computer musician, Marcel has released experimental electronic music on the Perhaps Transparent, Maz Sound Tools, Free103Point9, and Tom Furgas Editions labels as well as in self-produced limited editions, and has performed at various New York City new music venues in solo shows and as turntablist of Hoichi The Earless and Izzi Ramkissoon's Electric Eel Multimedia Ensemble. Marcel's music, sometimes released under the alias 'Signplant', incorporates turntables, field recordings, obsolesced appliances, and realtime DSP, drawing influences from early tape music, contemporary classical, bebop and free jazz, hip-hop, and IDM. Currently available:
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Radio Action II CD free103point9 Audio Dispatch 20 (2004)-- A collection of commissioned works that use radio as a sound source or theme, released by Brooklyn-based experimental music/sound art microradio station free103point9. 15 tracks encompassing noise rock, turntable performance, sound collage, free improv, experimental radio theater, and many points in between; artists include Marcel Blum, Christof Migone, Matt Bua, Joshua Fried, Tom Roe, 31 Down, The Dust Dive, Radio Ruido, Keith Obadike, Sabers, Matt Mikas, Hepatitis Youth, Mammal, and Ben Owen. Cover art by Takeshi Murata. Available for purchase at free103point9's web site. |
CD edition sold out but some tracks still available as a free download:
If you've read this far you might as well also check out Marcel's keymap records gallery of avant garde rarities.
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