Five parts reflecting a journey through I - Emergence, II - Evolution, III - Division, IV - Spring and V - Retreat

As biological systems are structured, this music follows a bio-inspired construction principle to reflect structural features at distinct, non-self-similar scales and mechanisms. Each part follows its own evolution in the flow of musical concepts, but the series of five parts in turn follow a pattern, at a larger scale. These multiple scale construction principles, rooted in variations of themes while retaining a set of order, reflects a realization of the Universality-Diversity-Principle, in musical form.  

Emergence defines the roots, and sets the foundation.  Evolution brings about change and transformation. Division reflects the fine struggle between distinct outcomes - life or death. Spring represents the victory of life.  Retreat represents the return to a dormant, cooler, state, from which emergence can commence yet again.

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Swamps are incredibly interesting ecosystems that produce variations of materials and conditions across the seasons. Interfacial in nature, they live at the division between solid and liquid, and evolve continuously. They recycle, change, and adapt, and materialize the actions of variegated species over time.

Swamp Variations: Emergence, Evolution, Division, Spring, Retreat

Clásica

Klasik & Sounds

Music: Three Pieces, Op. 1 — No. 1 Étude in D flat major
Composer: Sergei Lyapunov
Artist: Margarita Glebov, piano
Album: Sergei Lyapunov: Piano Music
Label: Toccata Classics - TOCC0218

Purchase: http://bit.ly/1ic0puO

The piano music of Sergei Lyapunov (1859–1924) blends the Russian nationalism of
the Balakirev circle – of which Lyapunov was a member – with the virtuosic tradition
of Liszt. Although his superb piano-writing combines contrapuntal dexterity and a rich
vein of lyricism, much of his output for piano has been neglected, and this chronological
survey, covering three decades of Lyapunov’s composing life, contains a number of first
recordings.

Lyapunov: Piano Music — Three Pieces, Op. 1, No. 1 Etude in D flat major

Sergei Lyapunov- Round Of Phantoms, Transcendental Etude

Swamp Variations: Emergence, Evolution, Division, Spring, Retreat 

Part of a series of 5 parts: This is Evolution.

Ambient version (reduced orchestration, focus on piano and flute, string instruments)

Swamp Variations - Part II - Evolution (((AMBIENT SPACE VERSION )))

Perfectly Splendid

quizá algún día(música para disociar)

La Sïkuame es una fantasía para oboe y orquesta de cámara en tres movimientos. El oboe toma representa a la sïkuame, traducido al español como bruja; y cada movimiento representa un aspecto sobre la misma.
El primer movimiento representa a los embrujos que crea este personaje. El segundo su capacidad de transformarse en tecolote y mediante su canto "hacer el mal" a una persona. El tercer movimiento representa su capacidad de volar gracias a un par de alas de petate confeccionadas por ella misma.

La Sïkuame

La Sïkuame: 3. Alas de Petate

Ensayo Requiem solistas fragmento Benedictus

Fragmento ensayo Benedictus solistas

Birds chirping and singing 1

Electricity going through an electrical post, at nigh in the desert. Sound recorded really close to the mast, to have a deep-bass sound.

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41+CCM8
Sound Devices 552 mixet + Sound Devices 744T recorder
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
sound reference: @KT_111113T042
recorded in november 2011

The same sound on Freesound :
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/135038/

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Electricity going through an electrical post, at night in the desert.

Wind is blowing and howling in the salt desert of Atacama (Chili)

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41&CCM8;
Sound Devices 744T Recorder
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
recorded in 2012 during the shooting of "CAMANCHACA // Notes pour un Film à venir" directed by Clio Simon (http://www.wix.com/cliosimo8/cliosimon - cliosimon@gmail.com) 
Photography : Sergio Nahuel

The same sound on Freesound :
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/142335/

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Wind is blowing and howling in the salt desert of Atacama (Chile)

Swamp Variations: Emergence, Evolution, Division, Spring, Retreat 

Part of a series of 5 parts: This is Spring.

Swamp Variations - Part IV - Spring

Swamp Variations: Emergence, Evolution, Division, Spring, Retreat 

Part of a series of 5 parts: This is Emergence.

Swamp Variations - Part I

Swamp Variations - Part I - Emergence

Swamp Variations: Emergence, Evolution, Division, Spring, Retreat 

Part of a series of 5 parts: This is Evolution.

Swamp Variations - Part II - Evolution

Swamp Variations: Emergence, Evolution, Division, Spring, Retreat 

Part of a series of 5 parts: This is Division.

Swamp Variations - Part III - Division

Swamp Variations: Emergence, Evolution, Division, Spring, Retreat 

Part of a series of 5 parts: This is Retreat.

Swamp Variations - Part V

Swamp Variations - Part V - Retreat

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