WMBR 88.1 FM - MIT Cambridge, MA - October 28, 2019
Noise People, February 18, 2021
AES, Indiana 2016
WMBR 88.1 FM - MIT Cambridge, MA - October 28, 2019
PRESS
ReVIEWS
"...Doug Bielmeier’s relentlessly busy Corporate Responsibility Pledge...builds in texture and volume until it collapses."
- ( Review of "Corporate Responsibility Pledge") Mike Telin - ClevelandClassical.com - May 6, 2022.
“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.
This isn’t ambient music to fall asleep to — but it’s consistently interesting and frequently deeply beautiful.
- (review of Ambient Works, Albany Records) Rick Anderson - CD HotList - October 2021
"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."
- (review of Ambient Works, Albany Records) Tom Haugen - Take Effect Reviews - June 2021
"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
"...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
"Electronic Music for Meditation..." Read Full Review
- WRUV 90.1 FM, Burlington, VT, November 19, 2017
“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
“Drone work that's meant to shake you out of your shell of complacency.” Read Full Review
- The Midwest Record, June 15, 2017
"extension of Xenakis’s early tape pieces"
- American Record Guide, 2018
"Gentle"
- Cinemusical
"Aural and visual trash heaps—really!”
- Larry Austin, Computer Music Journal, 2005
INTERVIEWS
December 13, 2021
PODCAST
Interview with William F. Montgomery and Hillary Lester, hosts of
Sounds of the World Podcast, Episode 46
August 2, 2021
PODCAST
Interview with Adam Kennaugh, host of
Making Noise Podcast, Episode 20
May 2021
ARTICLE
Fifteen Questions Interview with Doug Bielmeier - Windowing
15questions.net
15 Questions.net
AUG 10, 2020
INTERVIEW
Anharmonic Online Film Festival
MAY 13, 2020
ARTICLE
Somerville Composer Doug Bielmeier: His music brings him to a ‘quieter’ place
The Somerville Times
JUNE 7, 2020
PODCAST
Art + Music + Technology podcast
Episode 329 - Doug Bielmeier
OCT 28, 2019
RADIO SHOW
Not Brahms and Liszt (with Alley Stoughton)
WMBR 88.1 FM - MIT Cambridge, MA