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.

Ears In Space is the term under which Bullock integrates ecological sound, landscape practice, and citizen science with his sound art practice. As Ears In Space, Bullock designs and builds wave field synthesis and other spatial audio arrays for creating hyperreal acoustic ecologies.

With a discography spanning electroacoustic music, solo contrabass works, large-ensemble collaborations, and interdisciplinary projects on labels such as Sedimental, Contour Editions, and Rural Situationism. He has received support from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Bullock’s writing has appeared in Leonardo Music Journal, Deep Listening Anthology, and other publications. Bullock holds a PhD in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has held academic appointments at Mount Holyoke College, Ramapo College, and The New School.

CV as of August 2025