Antarctica Ambient Music

Mytherrella Part 2 - Story

Recording of our unnanounced secret live set at U? Festival / Le Guess Who? at restaurant Warmoes - Hof van Cartesius Utrecht.

Live electronic hardware act with modular synths, drummachines, homemade radio sequencer and trumpet. 

Reccomended to play on subwoofers. :)

ØDD @Warmoes U? Festival

Γιωrhighness - Sinefoh

Εύγε

Antarctica

Multi-layered, dark drone that even depresses myself …

Image: Dave Pape (Public Domain)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpg

The Australian Voices
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

View the score: https://bit.ly/32Cd8AX

I wrote Antarctica during and after a trip to Casey Station, Antarctica onboard the icebreaker Aurora Australis – an Australian icon, nearing the end of her service. I was the lucky guest of the Australian Antarctic Division on an Aurora Legacy Fellowship.

The opening movement is an aria set against the backdrop of a recording I made of the ship cutting through sea-ice (standing in the bow while my stinging hands clenched the microphone! – I soon learned to glove-up!). A solo voice sings, hand-in-hand with mighty bricks of harmony: a blazing seascape coated in white. Aeliatoric music follows, depicting a hill near Casey Station where the scene can be divided into three colossal horizontal strips of sky, sea and ice. ‘Whalesong’ is a harmonisation of a finback whale call: the Aurora Australis recovered a hydrophone which had been recording the crooning of sea mammals. Over a year’s worth of sound was logged; I picked the bit in D-minor. Infinite Monochrome is a pock-marked canon inspired by – in the words of Voyage Leader James Maloney – “...the vision of a brilliant bright expanse where ice, snow and cloud coalesced, holding the ship suspended in white nothingness.” Every direction is a hiss of white (painful to the naked eye!) and the frozen sea bristles, splintered by town-sized icebergs. In the last movement ‘Reeve Hill’ short chorale-like utterances are sown among long thoughtful stillnesses, played over my recording of ice gently melting on Reeve Hill, far-off Adélie penguins and snow-petrels nattering to each other.

The work is for voices (their type unspecified), with various moments of solo singing.

Antarctica (for choir)

We Regret To Inform You_not in summer

A dreamy sonic exploration of the eternal ice realm. Played live. 
Equipment used: Lyra-8, Monologue, Pigments 2.

Instructions of use: Listen while in a meditative state, in a low volume environment. Enjoy.

While we cannot see small nanoscopic objects like proteins or other molecules that make up virtually all living matter including our cells, tissues, as well as pathogens such as viruses, our computational algorithm allows us to make its material manifestation audible.  This piece is a musical representation of the amino acid sequence and structure of the spike protein of the pathogen of COVID-19, 2019-nCoV (protein data bank identifier 6VSB [1]). 

MUSICAL DECEIT

A virus’ genome hijacks the host cell’s protein manufacturing machinery, and forces it to replicate the viral genome and produce viral proteins to make new viruses from it.  This musical art teaches us something about the fine line between beauty of life and death as an opposite pole.  As you listen to the protein you will find that the intricate design results in incredibly interesting and actually pleasing, relaxing sounds. This doesn’t really convey the deadly impacts this particularly protein is having on the world. This aspect of the music shows the deceiving nature of the virus, how it hijacks our body to replicate, and hurt us along the way. So, the music is a metaphor for this nature of the virus to deceive the host and exploit it for its own multiplication. 

HOW IT IS DONE: 

What you hear is a multi-layered algorithmic composition featuring both the vibrational spectrum of the entire protein (expressed in sound and rhythmic elements), the sequence and folding of amino acids that compose the virus spike structure, as well as interwoven melodies - forming counterpoint music - reflecting the complex hierarchical intersecting geometry of the protein [2].

Scientific references:

[1] Wrapp et al., "Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation," Science, 2020, DOI: 10.1126/science.abb2507

[2] Buehler et al., "A Self-Consistent Sonification Method to Translate Amino Acid Sequences into Musical Compositions and Application in Protein Design Using Artificial Intelligence," ACS Nano, 2019, DOI: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b02180

Viral counterpoint of the coronavirus spike protein (2019-nCoV)

Viral Counterpoint of the Coronavirus Spike Protein (2019-nCoV)

Midsommar

Afternoon session 2 is a mix that was made for you, with the goal to create a calm and stable atmospher for the listener.
A journey through sound that gives you the space to enfold your thoughts, and enhance your creativity while discovering a divers track selection.

Artist ID (in the sert order) are:

Zann
Autechre
Federico Durand
Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri
Martina Lussi
A strangely Isolated Place
Halo
Loscil
Parks
Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri
Brian Eno,Jon Hpkins & Leo Abrahams
Vladislav Delay
Dalot
A strangely Isolated Place
Loscil

Afternoon Session 2

Meditative abstraction

Born in 1981 in the concrete jungle of Athens and i'm still alive, mostly.

Antarctica

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