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About Marcel Blum about Marcel Blum
Marcel is a coder, musician, and vinyl archaeologist based in New York. As a freelance software 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.

Contact Marcel (email marcel [at] soundplant.org) for inquiries about software, music, or sound design projects, including customizing Soundplant for your needs.

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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 digitally, all free:


Hoichi The Earless: Fields 1-6 CD self-released (2009)-- Numbered limited edition of 50 printed CD-Rs by Marcel's electroacoustic improv group Hoichi The Earless. Featuring Marcel Blum on turntable+computer, Jerrold Kavanagh on drum set, and Jesse Blum (of Outernational and The Silent League) on trumpet, cornet, and flugelhorn.
cd edition sold out but now available as a free download

Hoichi The Earless: S/T CD self-released (2008)-- Group's debut CD-R featuring Marcel Blum on turntable+computer and Jerrold Kavanagh on drum set.
cd edition sold out but now available as a free download

Signplant: than from any other source Enhanced-CD self-released (2003)-- CD-R limited to 300 homemade hand-numbered copies, with each cover printed over a unique piece of Soundplant source code. Contains 8 CD audio tracks by Marcel, and a data track with the registered Windows verion and Mac versions of Soundplant, plus sample files and bonus mp3s.
cd edition sold out but now available as a free download
Or grab some individual preview MP3s:
than from any other source [2 MB / 1mins 44secs] -- two turntables, computer. Erik Sjoblom guest stars on turntable #2
spdata 4 [2.8 MB / 2mins 27secs] -- turntable, non-audio data rhythm section, computer.
free garment [2.9 MB / 2mins 31secs] -- Vectrex, turntable, computer, etc.
tell us at 10 [2.4 MB / 2mins 05secs] -- composed lo-fi field recordings.




If you've read this far you might as well also check out Marcel's keymap records gallery of avant garde rarities.