Northeastern Synth Fest Performers

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New England Synth Fest, Northeastern Univ., May 3, 2025

12:00

Othercast

12:30

Switch Angel with visuals by Jame Coyne

1:00

David Dawson with visuals by Digital Awareness

1:30

Doug Bielmeier with visuals by Christie Bielmeier

2:00

A. Campbell Payne with visuals by Digital Awareness

2:30

Bill T Miller with visuals by BTMTV

3:00

Bob Familiar with visuals by Swan

3:30

Andrew Neumann

4:00

Leftroman with visuals by Anagram

4:30

EHMN with visuals by pand0ravirus

5:00

Snowbeasts

5:30

Todd Reynolds with visuals by Gabe Henkin

Othercast

Othercast is the electronic music project of Kelman Wolfkostin, an Ann Arbor musician/multidisciplinary artist. Their work often incorporates aspects of hauntology, with recurring themes of Nature, Technology, Time, and the Void. Othercast has released several narrative concept albums on the Internet, but exists in a live context as ethereal ambient textures made with a DIY synth and looper pedals.

https://linktr.ee/othercast

Switch Angel

Switch Angel creates highly energetic performances using live code and custom instruments. She performs her unique ear-wormy blend of electronic pop, breaks, shoegaze influences, and vocal performances while coding on a laptop. Her debut album: https://jaderose.bandcamp.com/album/switch-angel

Jame Coyne

Jame Coyne is a Somerville-based new media artist who often works with live visual performances, video, sound, light, and interaction. Inspired by the delicate patterns found in biology, Jame’s creative process usually involves utilizing computer programming and other tools to generate complex patterns and organic forms that provide vignettes into ambiguous landscapes of self-contained, chaotic, organic worlds. Jame’s live visual work blends cellular automata, recorded content, abstract forms, bold colors, recorded and found footage, and audio reactivity to create a persistent immersive synthesized experience.

David Dawson

A lifelong musician, David has been exploring electronic music as a way to challenge the formality of his past as a classical musician. Formerly releasing early tracks under Mallowdrone, David is looking to push further as he forms a new sound identity. 

Digital Awareness

DA is a live video art performance and installation project, created in an Allston basement in 2021! DA sets combine video synths, mixers, and live camera feeds to create live visuals that boggle the mind and delight the eyeballs. The team is composed of Harley Spring, Josh Artman, Nate Scaringi, and Abbey Franz. Follow @digital__awareness to become Digitally Aware!

Doug Bielmeier

Boston-based Doug Bielmeier crafts commercial and experimental music catching ears from boutique audiences to media giants. Internationally performed, notably by NYC’s Unheard//of and Hypercube Ensembles, his 2021 “Ambient Works” topped NACC’s Chill Genre. With broadcasts on prominent stations like WMBR and KALX, and accolades likening him to Xenakis, Bielmeier’s sonic palette captivates, challenges, and mesmerizes. His rich discography highlights a distinctive voice in contemporary music.

Christie Bielmeier

Christie Bielmeier, PhD, is a Boston-based mixed media artist and design engineer known for her abstract video art that explores the dynamic interplay between fore and backgrounds. Using scientific principles to construct immersive visuals, Christie creates compelling, abstract landscapes that captivate viewers.

A. Campbell Payne headshot

A. Campbell Payne

A. Campbell Payne is a Massachusetts-based musician with a practice rooted in pattern, chance, time, and perception. Payne’s approach to composition utilizes generative structures, extended polymeter, and idiosyncratic tuning systems built around just intonation. Drawing influence from dance, astronomy, geometric artwork, and the history of mathematics, Payne creates sonic environments that are at once approachable and disorienting.

(Photo credit: Jonathan Beckley)

Bill T Miller

BTM is a chameleon of sonic exploration… a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, recording engineer, producer, remixer, filmmaker, photographer, artist, instrument builder, and cat lover. Painting sound with a Buchla Easel & TipTop Buchla Eurorack rig with stereophonic sound for NESF 2023. BTMTV VISUALS include a meltdown of assorted mutations of Super 8 film, digital video, glitch art, spin art, wet show, time lapses, stop motion, toy cameras, iPhone cam, trip glitch overload editing of decades of BTM Vault media archive. 
SEE: http://btmtv.com (via youtube)

Bob Familiar

Bob Familiar has been involved in the Boston music scene since the early 80s as a synthesist for bands such as The Dark, November Group, and Death in Venice. Bob’s music often explores the intersection of technology and art, utilizing both traditional instruments and cutting-edge digital tools to create immersive soundscapes. His performances are noted for their dynamic improvisation, often incorporating live looping and sound manipulation techniques. 

Swan

Swan is a Boston based live coder and visual artist. He works with Hydra and TouchDesigner to create dynamic and audio-reactive visuals where no two performances are ever the same. 

Andrew Neumann

Andrew Neumann is an American artist who works in a variety of media, including sculpture, film, video installation, and electronic/interactive music. His work is largely concerned with developing hybrid systems that integrate sound, image and text into performative and installation situations.. He it the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has had residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ucross Foundation, STEIM, and elsewhere. He was included in “ROCKS ROLE (after Ryoanji)” at Artist Space, NYC. He has had solo music/video performances at numerous venues, including the List Visual arts Center, MIT, Experimental Intermedia and Roulette, both in NYC.

Leftroman

Leftroman is the artist name of Ian Condry, professor of media anthropology at MIT since 2002.  He is the founder of the MIT Spatial Sound Lab, a community studio for immersive sound projects.  He has released four albums designed for multichannel playback, and he publishes a monthly mixtape revolving around Japanese hip-hop, experimental, and electronica.  https://linktr.ee/iancondry 

Anagram

Anagram is the live visual performance moniker of toolmaker/multimedia artist Michael Dewberry. As Anagram he improvises immersive, audio-linked somewhereness out of past and future electronics. He has performed and/or installed work at Together Festival, First Night Boston, Illuminus, HUBWeek, Burning Man, and various under and overground spaces.

EHMN

Donnie Martin is a Boston-based electronic music performer-composer, sound synthesist, and educator committed to exploring and sharing unique sonic experiences and perspectives. Pronounced like a subtle clearing of the throat, EHMN is his expressive Avant Garde project drawing influence from the dichotomies and imperfections of nature and the human condition. He primarily works with modular synthesizers exhibiting complex control and dynamic movement of organic timbres within a space. Currently, Donnie teaches electronic music synthesis and modular synthesis techniques at NYU Steinhardt and at SynthCube. He has also performed at Woodstockhausen as well as various venues in the Greater Boston area, Rhode Island, and New York City.

https://solo.to/dmartin_sound

pand0ravirus

Olive Green, aka pand0ravirus, has been DJing industrial music for 3 years and producing visual art for a lifetime. She has been bringing grungy backrooms into the main room, as well as improbable DIY spaces. She also does stage lighting for a major independent venue. She’s recently wedded her passions to produce video art that explores subversive sexuality, the politics of brokenness, and the joy that comes from exceeding the boundaries of perfection. https://www.instagram.com/pand0ravirus/

Snowbeasts

The Providence-based dark electronic duo Snowbeasts, consisting of Robert Galbraith and Elizabeth Virosa are mining unique territory between ethereal, experimental, and heavy dance music. Since 2014, they have released over 20 projects, including collaborations with Dead Voices on Air. Their unique performances feature gritty techno beats created with live electronics, combined with otherworldly chants. (Photo credit: Derek Rush)

Todd Reynolds

Bang on a Can, Steve Reich Ensemble, Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road Project, Meredith Monk, Jason Robert Brown, Joe Jackson, Todd Rundgren, Bruce Springsteen – Violinist, Electronic Musician, Modular Explorer. Faculty at Manhattan School of Music, The New School, and NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. Artist in Residence and Director of Special Programs at Fresh Grass Institute’s Studio 9, North Adams. Pursuing a mission to personalize education by coaching musical artists to increase their engagement with their own personal and artistic vision, building community and technological practice with passion and heart.

Gabe Henkin

New York-based clarinetist, composer, & visual designer Gabe Henkin is deeply interested in the exploration of how modern technology can impact our lives, contemporary culture, and the arts. His compositions focus on the intersection between musical genres, implementing lighting and projection work to create visceral multi-sensory experiences. Gabe is currently pursuing a Master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music.