I feel like i just found a new world here im so elated I have chills 

Amazing! Can you share it? I'm a biologist and amateur dj ;)

i wish there were two versions. one with rhythm on with out.. 

New single

For piano, organ and violin. Recorded at a little studio in the middle of the English countryside.

Performed/produced by Jessica Roch. Mastered by Mike Day and cover art photography by Edmund Curtis

Power Dynamic

experience

waiting so much

ONE OFF.mp3

Going deeper inside a spider web. Multiple spider web variations interact across a spectrum of sonic textures. The sounds are based on a sonification method of a spider web as described in the references below [1-2], part of a larger collaboration with Tomás Saraceno, Saraceno Studios, Ally Bisshop, Thomas Muehletahler, and Evan Ziporyn, and the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST).

Several individual webs constructed by Cyrtophora citricola are played in this piece, creating an overlaying soundscape of different shades. The piece includes a rhythm track for added structure, but all other sounds you hear are generated from the sonification of the spider web. 

The image [3] shows a 3D spider web, lit up using a green laser during scanning. The spider is visible in the top middle as she constructs the web. 

References:

[1] Su, I.; Qin, Z.; Saraceno, T.; Krell, A.; Mühlethaler, R.; Bisshop, A.; Buehler, M. J. Imaging and Analysis of a Three-Dimensional Spider Web Architecture. J. R. Soc. Interface 2018, 15 (146), 20180193. doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2018.0193.

[2] Su, I.; Qin, Z.; Bisshop, A.; Muehlethaler, R.; Ziporyn, E.; Buehler, M. J. Sonification of a 3D Spider Web and Reconstitution into Musical Composition Using Granular Synthesis. in submission

[3] Image by I. Su, MIT and M. Buehler, of a tidarren sisyphoides spider building a web, in collaboration with Tomas Saraceno Studio (Berlin)

Spider Variations

Through the two tracks 'Hidden' and 'Lost' Demetrio Cecchitelli combines field recordings with filtered piano chords for a beautiful, nostalgic yet eerie, dive into long forgotten worlds.

Pianos & Fields

Lost

Demetrio Cecchitelli - Lost

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Ümlaut is Jeff Düngfelder, a U.S. experimental sound artist based in Queens, New York. The thematic concepts distinguishing his work are absence and silence; the ineffable exchange between viewer and image; random moments of stillness within a landscape in flux. The listener sets out on a richly layered journey into the unknown. With computer-as-instrument, fragments of sounds, textures and a warm palette of noise patch together. Found acoustics will tweak the listener's inclination to reflect and discover. Manipulation of sound seamlessly juxtaposes the digital world with field recordings. The universal assimilates with the personal. Sit very quietly, and when the scenery shifts, slip between it.

Insight

Ümlaut - Insight

Marching Parades

Vinny Golia - tenor, soprano & baritone saxdes
John Hanrahan - drums
 Henry Kaiser - guitar
Wayne Peet - Hammond B3 & Yamaha YC-45D organs
Mike Watt - bass

A LOVE SUPREME ELECTRIC "Acknowledgement" from "A Love Supreme and Meditations" (Cuneiform Records)

Elephant9 - Rite Of Accession

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

Spider Variations

Markus J. Buehler

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