Paul Nash | composer, musician, producer, recording artist aka North Sea Navigator

Markus J. Buehler is the McAfee Professor of Engineering at MIT, and a composer of experimental, classical and electronic music, with an interest in sonification. Using an approach termed "materiomusic", his artistic work explores the creation of new forms of musical expression - such as those derived from biological materials and living systems - as a means to better understand the underlying science and mathematics. One of his goals is to use musical and sound design as a novel and abstract way to model, optimize and create new forms of matter from the bottom up, and to assess cross-system design relationships. He is also interested in research to explore relationships between classical music, mathematics, and the physical and biological sciences, an in the mapping of models of consciousness across systems. In recent work he has developed a new framework to compose music based on proteins – the basic molecules of all life, as well as other physical phenomena such as fracturing, to explore similarities and differences across species, scales and between philosophical and physical models. 

Contact: mbuehler@MIT.EDU

Scottish label Blackford Hill was founded by designer/publisher Simon Lewin. It's the natural development of relationships formed and projects developed through Simon's publishing imprint Random Spectacular.

Tommy Perman plays a key role in the curation of Blackford Hill's audio output and graphic identity. Tommy is an artist, designer and musician who works in a variety of media including visual art, performance, sound and music. He has a particular interest in combining new digital technologies with traditional techniques and materials. www.surfacepressure.net

Our releases will encompass electronica, field recordings, modern classical, spoken word and jazz - all connected to or inspired by a sense of place, created in a variety of audio and print formats.

Choral / spoken-word electronica from Edinburgh + Bristol-based duo @stantondelaplane + @northseanavigator

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