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Mike Bullock is a composer, improviser, and environmental sound recordist based in Western Massachusetts, USA. He creates electroacoustic sound work with field listening, contrabass, synthesis, and spatial audio systems. Bullock has presented projects at Harvestworks, ISSUE Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, the Park Avenue Armory, Fylkingen (Stockholm), Instants Chavirés (Paris), Café OTO (London), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Waterworks Museum, the Goethe-Institut (Boston), and EMPAC (Troy, NY). His recent projects include Ephemerospheres, a series investigating hidden, temporary acoustic ecologies.
Bullock’s work integrates media studies, ecological sound practices, and extended instrumental technique; with a discography spanning solo contrabass works, large-ensemble collaborations, and interdisciplinary projects on labels such as Sedimental, Contour Editions, and Fine Noise & Light. He has received support from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Under the name Ears In Space, he designs and builds wave field synthesis and other spatial audio arrays for creating hyperreal acoustic ecologies. and his writing has appeared in Leonardo Music Journal, Deep Listening Anthology, and other publications. Bullock holds a Ph.D. in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has held academic appointments at Mount Holyoke College, Ramapo College, and The New School.