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GlitchKraft - Emerson Gallery, Boston, 2019

Square Cat Vinyl, Indianapolis, August 2018

GlitchKraft - Emerson Gallery, Boston, 2019

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Ambient Works - 2021 (Albany)

Released in May 2021 on Albany Records, Ambient Works charted #1 on the North American College and Community Radio Chart (NACC) on the Chill Genre in the summer and fall of 2021. The album was developed through improvisation and studio sessions over 15 year period 2005-2020 in notable spaces: The Electroacoustic Studios at Bowling Green University, OH; the C.L.E.A.R. Lab at the Purdue School of Engineering, IN; Studio A in Washington, DC; Studio B at MTSU, Nashville, TN; and Shillman Studios at Northeastern University, Boston.

Ambient Works serves as a musical travelogue of experiments in the world of electroacoustic, ambient, and experimental music. Each piece serves to punctuate Bielmeier’s eclectic industry and academic career path, with his current destination being Boston, where Bielmeier is currently an associate professor at Northeastern University. This “best of” compilation was carefully curated to create a cohesive and fresh statement revealing the creator’s innovative process of Windowing: the manipulation, layering, and temporal placement of found sound files to create larger sonic landscapes. The album expands the ethos of commercial ambient music in tracks like “Another Pilot Down” and “No Time,” while extending the definition of a soundwalk piece in tracks such as “Photo Lab Sanctuary” and “Manumed.” The album is rounded out by a fresh take on a Schaefferian sound object montage in “St. Martin’s Summer.” Bielmeier explains, “The album reveals the context and emotion often missing in modern computer and electroacoustic music.”