“Here’s the suffering: I just made the statement ‘I really appreciate music when people are being honest.’ And then we bring in ‘voice’ into that. Now, when someone puts pen to paper if they’re concerned about being honest and being true to their voice, I feel like that is a recipe to not write anything at all.”
Boston based, Doug Bielmeier creates commercial and experimental music tailored for boutique audiences and media described as an extension of Xenakis’s early tape pieces (American Record Guide, 2018) and “drone work meant to shake you out of your shell of complacency (Midwest Record).” Bielmeier has been featured on over 10 Album including Plague Tape (Boston Hassel, 2021) and Monophonic (SEAMUS, 2020) and his recent releases Ambient Works (Albany Records, 2021) Beast of Bodmin Moor (2019), and Betty and the Sensory World (Ravello, 2017). Performed and broadcasted internationally: over 100K listeners at Somafm.com. Performed by the Unheard-of Ensemble and Hypercube Ensemble.
Doug is exceptional at seeing different ways in which something can be understood; for example, he finds ways to reframe negative self-talk into something more constructive. This ability to search for different perspectives is certainly consistent with The Process, a podcast where he talks to composers about their process for creating music. Although we set out to have a thorough conversation about his podcast, which we eventually did, our conversation took many twists and turns: like writing honest music vs. writing to your voice, a technique Doug like to use which he calls “windowing,” silly social media trends, living in Bowling Green, different accents throughout the United States, and so much more on episode 20 of The Making Noise Podcast.
We had planned for a 45-minute conversation and ended up talking for 1 hour and 40 minutes. That alone I think is an indicator of how much we enjoyed the conversation.
I hope you enjoy it!
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The Process Podcast: https://theprocessmusic.podbean.com/
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