"Aided and abetted by Hypercube and Unheard-of//Ensemble, two groups expert in the uncategorizable, Bielmeier stakes his claim as one of the brightest lights in electroacoustic music."

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- (Review of Music for Billionaires) Jeremy Shatan - An Earful Music - Dec 31, 2023

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"Dripping with Sarcasm…and a dose of minimalism.”

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- (Review of Music for Billionaires) John Schaefer - New Sounds #4809, WNYC/New York Public Radio - Oct. 2023

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"Ambient, Electronic +Chamber Music. Varied. Play!"

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- (Review of Music for Billionaires) WRUV Reviews - WRUV 90.1 FM - October 24, 2023

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“Doug Bielmeier…has a strong “the sound’s the thing” orientation… in its curtain-of-sound approach ...producing an uncertain aural environment that is best experienced without analyzing it too closely."

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- (Review of Music for Billionaires) INFODAD.COM - November 9, 2023

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"Corporate Responsibility Pledge. There are no vocals, so it’s hard to say just how responsible anyone is here. But there is fine fiddle work and a tight rhythmic loop, and I do, in fact, feel slightly more responsible. I think I will recycle more, it’s the least I can do." 

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- ( Review of "Corporate Responsibility Pledge") Carl F. Gauze - INK 19 - November 3, 2023

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"...Doug Bielmeier’s relentlessly busy Corporate Responsibility Pledge...builds in texture and volume until it collapses."

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- ( Review of "Corporate Responsibility Pledge") Mike Telin - ClevelandClassical.com - May 6, 2022.

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“It felt impossible to look away from the hallucinatory visuals as they were carried up to the audience by the pulsating music.”

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- ( Review of "Corporate Responsibility Pledge") Sam Shafiro - The Emory Wheel - April 4, 2022.

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This isn’t ambient music to fall asleep to — but it’s consistently interesting and frequently deeply beautiful.

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- (review of Ambient Works, Albany Records) Rick Anderson - CD HotList - October 2021

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"Certainly atypical, highly unpredictable and capable of both meditative and exciting gesturing, Bielmeier’s version of ambience is one that’s fascinating, comforting and unusual in all the best ways."

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- (review of Ambient Works, Albany Records) Tom Haugen - Take Effect Reviews - June 2021

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"The album reveals the context and emotion often missing in modern computer and electroacoustic music.” Read Full Review

- (review of Ambient Works, Albany Records) Cristina Porriño - Wootmag - May 2021

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"...your sound manipulations generate some interesting sounds...combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion. Not [just] digital, electronic or midi sound manipulation."

- Jean-Yves Duperron - Classical Music Sentinel, May, 2021

 

"A composer with many things to say."   Read Full Review

       - Sonograma Magazine, December 29, 2018

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"Electronic Music for Meditation..." Read Full Review

- WRUV 90.1 FM, Burlington, VT, November 19, 2017

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“Hypnotically static yet ever moving within itself,” and not having, “a feeling of minimalism per se so much as an organicity of internal presence that rivets the listener through a natural world kind of difference and sameness in dialectic balance.” Read Full Review

- Grego Applegate Edwards of Classical-Modern Music Review, September 8, 2017

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“Drone work that's meant to shake you out of your shell of complacency.”  Read Full Review

- The Midwest Record, June 15, 2017

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"extension of Xenakis’s early tape pieces"

         - American Record Guide, 2018

 

"Gentle" 

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"Aural and visual trash heaps—really!”

- Larry Austin, Computer Music Journal, 2005

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