About Marcel Blum
Marcel is a coder, consultant, musician, and vinyl archaeologist based in New Jersey. As a freelance software developer, he creates high performance web applications, custom realtime audio and video programs, and technology for art and education, mainly in JavaScript, Electron, Node.js, PHP, Perl, and Lingo/Adobe Director. In the open source community, he has contributed to codebases serving millions of users (marcelblum on GitHub). As a turntablist and electronic musician, he has performed in several groups. And as proprietor of keymap records, he sells vintage vinyl rarities of early electronic and avant garde music and makes his collecting expertise available for curatorial and consulting services.
Contact Marcel (email soundplant [at] soundplant.org or @soundplanter on Twitter) for inquiries about software, music, or sound design projects, including customizing Soundplant for your needs.
Music By Marcel Blum
As an improvising experimental turntablist and computer musician, Marcel has released experimental electronic music on the Tom Furgas Editions, Perhaps Transparent, Free103Point9, and Maz Sound Tools 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 the groups 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:
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Hoichi The Earless: Fields 1-6 CD self-released (2009)-- Numbered limited edition of 50 printed CD-Rs by Marcel's electroacoustic improv group. Featuring Marcel Blum on turntable+computer, Jerrold Kavanagh on drum set, and guest Jesse Blum (Twenty One Pilots, MisterWives, Outernational) on trumpet+cornet+flugelhorn.
cd edition sold out but now available as a free download |
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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 |
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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 under his electronic beat music alias Signplant, and a data track with the registered Windows verion and Mac versions of Soundplant, plus sample files and bonus mp3s.
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If you've read this far you might as well also check out Marcel's keymap records gallery of avant garde rarities.