This page documents recent musical excursions of Marcel Blum, often involving the use of turntables along with Soundplant and other homebrewed digital audio tools. Marcel's solo music project has also been known as 'Signplant.'

Marcel's music is currently available on the following CDs:


purchase through
Marcel Blum: Soundplant + Music CD-R. Purchase Soundplant on CD along with music by the author for $22 including shipping anywhere. You will receive an Enhanced-CD-R featuring the latest registered Windows verion and Mac Classic and OS X versions of Soundplant, plus sample WAV files for use with Soundplant, plus a selection of recent work in progress by Marcel Blum. Marcel's latest music incorporates turntables, computer, obsolesced appliances, randomization routines, homebrewed software, non-audio data from the Soundplant source code, and other instruments, often joined by collaborators from the underworlds of jazz and electronic music. *Email marcel [at] soundplant.org if you'd prefer to send payment by mail instead of using PayPal.



purchase at
Radio Action II free103point9 Audio Dispatch 20-- A collection of new works that use radio as a sound source or theme. Compilation cd 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.


No longer available:

Signplant: than from any other source -- Enhanced-CD with 8 audio tracks, and a data track featuring the latest registered Windows verion and Mac versions of Soundplant plus sample files and bonus mp3s. CD-R limited to 300 homemade hand-numbered copies, with each cover printed on a unique piece of Soundplant source code scrap paper.
Some preview MP3s:
than from any other source [2 MB / 1mins 44secs] -- two faderless turntables, computer. Erik Sjoblom guest stars on turntable #2
spdata 4 [2.8 MB / 2mins 27secs] -- faderless turntable, non-audio data rhythm section, computer.
free garment [2.9 MB / 2mins 31secs] -- Vectrex, faderless turntable, computer, etc.
tell us at 10 [2.4 MB / 2mins 05secs] -- composed lo-fi field recordings.



If you are in the market for interesting music and sounds on vinyl, I often offer LPs of early electronic music, free jazz, psych, and 20th century avant garde classical on eBay under the username 'keymap'; you should check out my ebay sales from time to time if you are interested in this sort of music, and you can also view my records sale page for my current list of records available for sale or trade.