michael bierylo

Electronic Musician

News

August 2024

Lifeline and Cloud Chorus reissued Fruit Street Records will be released on vinyl, Bandcamp, and all streaming platforms on September 3, 2024.

After the original release of Life Line and Cloud Chorus, I recorded four new pieces that are currently available on Apple Music:

April 2024

This week I’m looking forward to an interview I’ll be doing for the Composers Corner on Thursday, April 11 at 7:30 PM EDT on Zoom. This will be a wide ranging discussion where I’ll be talking about my creative work through the years. If you’re free at that time, I’d love see you. Interview Zoom Link 
 

April 2024

I’m working on a new performance series that I’m promoting with fellow electronic musician Bob Familiar. New Edge Sessions is a series of events that will present ambient electronic performers in collaboration with acoustic improvisors. While there are a number of electronic music shows happening throughout New England, our hope is that by pairing some of these performers with players from Jazz and other improvisational traditions, we can provide audiences with a unique listening experience. We look to forward to expanding this series to venues throughout New England.


The first of these shows will be next Tuesday, April 2 at the Lilypad in Inman Square. For this, I’ll be performing on modular synthesizer along with local artist TotoRobyn on synthesizers. To start the series, I can think of no better improvisor than my friend and colleague Ken Field. I’ve shared the stage with Ken in Birdsongs of the Mesozoic and many other settings over the years, and his playing always inspires.


I invite you to join us next Tuesday and to share this event with your friends.

January 2024

Completed mixes for vinyl reissues of Life Line (1986) and Cloud Chorus (1987). These have been out of print since the original releases and will come out on Brooklyn-based Fruit Street Records in late Spring 2024 with a digital release on all major streaming platforms to follow. New cover art by Diane Menyuk.

 

November 2023

Worked with composer Roger Miller to produce 68 cues for the soundtrack to Borderland-The Line Within a feature length documentary film for Skylight, an award winning New York City production company that focuses on films that raise awareness of humanitarian issues in Latin America.
 

September 2023

Featured interview in the Fall 2023 edition of Performer Magazine.

 

About

Berklee College of Music

Electronic Production + Design

As Chair of the Electronic Production and Design Department at Berklee College of Music he led the development of Electronic Digital Instrument program and artist residencies with Suzanne Ciani, Richard Devine, Hank Shocklee, Robert Rich, and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. He is also active in Berklee Online, Berklee’s online school, where he authors and teaches music technology courses.

Musician

Performance

Bierylo has performed throughout the United States as a member of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. As a solo electronic artist, he has performed with laptop computer and modular synthesizer in the US, Berlin, Shanghai, and Krakow including concerts with Grammy-nominated electronic musician BT and Terrance Blanchard. As an active member of the Audio Engineering Society he has chaired the Electronic Instrument Design and Applications Track at national conventions, bringing together industry innovators such as Dave Smith and Dave Rossum as well as design teams from Moog, Roland and Korg.

Music

Modular Synthesizer Performances 

Performance: Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY

October 27, 2023

This performance is from October 27, 2023 at an event sponsored by ShapeShifter Plus and captured at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn, New York. 
 
ShapeShifter Plus is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that seeks to promote innovative artistic expression and provide a home for artists to push the boundaries of musical, educational, and creative conventions. Special thanks to Mathew Garrison.
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Shapeshifter Lab

Performance: Stonehill College

March 26, 2022

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Stonehill College

Performance: David Friend Recital Hall

Berklee College of Music, February 22, 2022

Connect

The best way to get in touch with with me is through email. Send me a note at mbierylo@berklee.edu

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