Composer and performer Erin C. Blake uses music to create collaborative experiences and bring magic into ordinary life. Deeply influenced by an eclectic combination of meditation and video games, Blake’s music simultaneously takes listeners on adventures and emphasizes the importance of slowing down in a fast-paced world.

Blake’s work has been performed by contemporary music groups such as loadbang, NOTUS Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, FLYDLPHN, and the Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble. Additional projects include Archaea, her three-movement brass quintet premiered by Ascension Brass as a part of their concert A Common Thread; Waterworks, a mixed sextet composed for the ecological lecture-recital Conserve Bloomington; and a score for the original film “Good Enough” by Mallory Daunhauer.

Blake is active in the performance of new music for keyboards, electronics, and voice. She recently traveled to Appalachian State University for Tui @ 100, a symposium celebrating the legacy of composer Tui St. George Tucker, where she reprised Xenexhibition by Dmitri Volkov, a microtonal composition for electronic keyboard using the pitch-shifting plugin Pivotuner that she premiered the year prior. She is also active in choral music, having performed on multiple choral premieres as well as with the NOTUS Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, with which she performed at the National Collegiate Choral Organization National Conference in November 2023 and with William Shatner for the total eclipse in April 2024. Blake has performed with composers Natacha Diels and Joo Won Park on their own music and has been coached by Andy Meyerson and Travis Andrews of The Living Earth Show, John Pickford Richards of the JACK Quartet, and Juraj Kojš in improvisatory settings at the New Music On The Point Artphibian Experience. Her performance of more popular styles includes as a pit musician for musical theatre and in rock bands.

A lover of video games, Blake loves to create arrangements of tracks from game soundtracks, including a choir of Lena Raine’s “Confronting Myself” from Celeste, which was performed on the NOTUS Voices and Video Games concert, and “Mettaton Medley,” a mashup of different tracks from Toby Fox’s Undertale that was premiered by the Indiana University Music in Games Society. Her video game scoring debut is the track “Cinnamon Caldera” from Gum Game, which was developed for the 2025 Global Game Jam. Further arrangements include the strings for Megan Blake’s single “Darling I Love You,” produced by Brian Kehew.

Blake has held positions as President, Secretary, and Vice-President of the Indiana University Student Composers Association. Collaborations she has coordinated include two successful years of Community Ballet, the first of which she also participated in as a composer, in which student composers were paired with student choreographers in the IU Ballet Department and scenes written by local elementary schoolers to produce a short ballet, performed for the elementary schoolers and as a part of the Choreography Project on the IU Musical Arts Center stage. She also served for two years on the IU Jacobs Student Representative Committee as the composition representative.

Upcoming projects include a collaboration with body percussionist Brandon Gouin and a work for concert band through Kids Compose, adapting melodies written by local elementary schoolers.

Blake is currently studying at the Jacobs School of Music, where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Music in composition with a minor in electronic music. She has studied with Han Lash, Aaron Travers, Chi Wang, and Don Freund.