Fascinating! Astronomers of old talked about the 'music of the spheres'.  What we hear on the track is of course an outcome of musical decisions by the researchers, but not invalidated by that.  It would be interesting to hear other viruses put through the exact same process.  I thk that could bring out further insight.  Amused to see this piece classified as 'classical'!

Soothing tempo, sublime harmony. Why this choice of scale, instrumentation? Are the MIDI files available? I wonder how others would reharmonize, reorchestrate, rearrange the same musical form and structure. This is how COVID sounds to MIT researchers. How does it sound to a death metal enthusiast? I would love to hear more variations to reflect the wide variety of experiences we have all had with this same pathogen.

After 30 minutes of listening, it started to feel kind of torturous.

С первых звуков почувствовала дискомфорт в солнечном сплетении  Потом стало полегче.

Tracklist

01. Celer - Melancholy Movement
02. Ambalek -  Dark Pines Beachen Leaves
03. Maps and Diagrams - The Colour of Numbers
04. City Of Dawn - Where The World Quietly Sing Their Song
05. Hawgood - Hüwels - Murray - Dusk Filters
06. Andrew Tasselmyer -  Forgotten Futures
07. Moss Covered Technology - Night #4
08. Federico Durand - Cedrón
09. Dudal - Van Harte Wederkerige Wensen
10. Morimoto Naoki -  Nod
11. Alex Bober - Burning Moths
12. M. Grig - Mount Carmel

239. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

April 1st will see Peter Broderick’s classic Erased Tapes debut Music For Falling From Trees reissued on vinyl and CD.

Through relentless touring and multiple album recordings, Portland-based Peter Broderick has established himself as a contemporary composer, known for his innate gift as a musical medium to picking up any instrument, turning his musings into poignant songs.  The scope of Peter’s work is vast – his recordings and original score work currently feature in dance arrangements, art installations, films and documentaries. He collaborated with many like-minded contemporaries such as Nils Frahm and Greg Haines, and featured on Clint Mansell’s Last Night soundtrack. Peter’s signature emotional depth cuts through any instrument to create stirring, personal music that is full of artistic detail. Currently an artist in residence at Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, Ireland, 2016 has much in store for Peter.

2009’s Music for Falling From Trees, a 30-minute piece in seven sections, was created for a contemporary dance by London-based choreographer Adrienne Hart at Neon Dance. Adrienne was looking for a score of piano and strings, so Peter left the guitar and his voice aside and focused entirely on those two timbres. 

The dance tells the story of a man in a psychiatric hospital, and his struggle to maintain his identity. The music is sometimes melancholic, sometimes playful, sometimes chaotic, but with the combination of piano and strings, full of beauty, reverence and awe. 

IN HIS OWN WORDS: “In late 2008, Adrienne Hart contacted me about scoring her new work, Falling From Trees. In Adrienne's words, ‘the piece is set in a psychiatric hospital and centered around one man's struggle to retain his identity in the most extreme of circumstances.’ There are four dancers in the piece. One male playing the patient, and three female hospital workers. 

I had been making music for a variety of film projects, but the thought of scoring a dance was very exciting to me. I was on tour at the time, so I wasn't able to start writing the music until I had a break in early January. The dance premiered on January 21st, so I had about three weeks to create the score. I camped out up in the top of my father's barn with some minimal recording equipment, my violin and viola, and an old broken piano. 

Given the time constraints, I approached the music in a very open way. Rather than sit down and try to compose something, I just set up a microphone and started playing. After coming up with a couple of themes on the piano, I started recording, using those small themes and improvising around them. Most of the sections have a small core that is composed, and then the rest is improvised. Luckily for me this method seemed to work. I would work all day and then send a sketch over to Adrienne, and every time her response was positive. So in this way we worked very well together. I give my hugest thanks to Adrienne for trusting me to create the music for her wonderful work. 

Adrienne told me from the beginning she was looking for a score of piano and strings. So I decided to take this literally and make a rule not to use any other instruments. In the script it called for the sound of a ticking clock. I made this sound by tapping on the body of the violin with my fingernails. The sound of an electric shock given to the patient is depicted by a quick, distorted piano chord. And all other droning and bass tones were made by extending and processing violin and/or piano tones, etc. Thank you very much for listening.” – Peter Broderick, March 2009

'Painfully young and unnervingly talented' 
– The Economist’s Intelligent Life

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Opening track from the album "Flüstern macht gemeinsam" (FDL#03).

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La Granja Ibiza: Tranquilo Sueño de Belleza
 
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Eclectic melting pot of sounds and textures drawing on everything from deep and soulful house through to african and oriental. Folktronica. Minimal Cumbia. Andean Step. Tropical Bass. Global Spirit. Keta-Pop. Bummeltechno. Basso Nova. Macarena Dub. Slowhouse (aka "Slouse"). Slothdisco (!). Uplifting Downtempo. Spiritual House. Chill Rave. Aya Tech. Desert House.

Summer 2016/2017: La Granja - Design Hotel Project, Ibiza, Spain

 1 Elif - Duduk
 2 Erik Wøllo - Kaleidoscope
 3 Lazy Hammock - Sanctuary
 4 El Búho - Pehuenche (Live/Movie/Mix from Live/set)
 5 YEAHMAN - Pismo Ceniza
 6 Leonard Cohen - The Partisan (Anton Feine Edit)
 7 Ash Walker - Thunder feat. Lord Laville
 8 DJ Nirso - La Tronca (Spaniol Tronca Na Cabeça Remix)
 9 Kerala Dust / Leonard Cohen - Dance Me to the End of Love (Kerala Dust Rmx)
10 Anton Feine - The Sun
11 Makossa - Nada Mas
12 Cigarettes After Sex - K
13 Da Vince - Dimanche
14 Acid Pauli - Que Ha Dejado Con Quererte / Violeta Parra / Mixed by NU + Acid Pauli
15 Ninze feat. Luca Bandt - Birds
16 Azamat Vs Buika - Mamita (Live Reshape)
17 Makossa - Vital Victory
18 Ninze - Prae
19 Dat Garcia - Feliz CumpleanМѓos
20 Barrio Lindo - Saudade
21 Kondi Band - Yeanoh (Powe Handa Blingabe)
22 Maguera - The Fox And The Swan (Pt.2)
23 Diagrams - Crimson Leaves
24 Penelope Trappes - Gravel Mouth
25 FKJ - Why Are There Boundaries
26 Mark McGuire - To Continue
27 Drake - Passionfruit
28 Mute Forest - Deforestation
29 Perera Elsewhere - The Other Side
30 Timid, the Brave - November Fear
31 Arto Lindsay - Pele de Perto
32 Gaussian Curve - Breathe
33 Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow & Bobby Previte - Everyday (feat. Iggy Pop)
34 Phonetic MusiQ, Percy B - Memories Of You	
35 Selffish - Willing Suspension of Disbelief
36 Szymanowski Quartet, Marina Baranova & Damian Marhulets - Ecartele: Less than a Year
37 Ólafur Arnalds - Take My Leave of You (feat. Arnor Dan)
38 Justin Adams	 - Deep C
39 Bhonstro - Pov
40 Eric Schaefer - Pavane De La Belle Au Bois Dormant
41 Dat Garcia - Anfibio
42 Sweet Baboo - Badminton
43 Hampshire & Foat - All Washed Up
44 Six Organs of Admittance - Reservoir
45 Fabiano do Nascimento - Já Que Tú
46 Mew - Zanzibar
47 Dubsahara - Angelixx
48 Elliot Moss - Boomerang
49 Danit - Amanecer
50 Joep Beving - An Amalgamation Waltz 1839
51 Hadouk - Le jardin d'Hadouk
52 Das.RBT - 2 Consciousness
53 Lorenzo Masotto - Desert
54 Alice Coltrane - Er Ra	
55 Mary Lattimore - Bold Rides
56 Angus MacRae - Cry Wolf
57 Daigo Hanada - Close

La Granja Ibiza: Tranquilo Sueño de Belleza

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A very special 6 Music Recommends session, hosted by Sigur Rós, who have created a magical Christmas mix especially for us to enjoy.

The Icelandic band mark the end of an 18 month world tour and return to home soil for the first time in five years, with 4 intimate gigs at Harpa in Reykjavik, as part of the "Norður og niður" festival.

tracklisting

paul corley - sidings  https://paulcorley.com
JFDR - white ferrari (frank ocean cover) http://jfdrcurrent.com
sigrún - hringsjá  https://s1grun.bandcamp.com
sin fang, sóley & örvar smárason - the sun will go out  https://sinfang-soley-orvarsmarason.bandcamp.com
alex somers - between http://facebook.com/alexsomersmusic/
julianna barwick - cloudbank http://www.juliannabarwick.com
my bloody valentine - to here knows when  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6egkD3KNbPuvrNLuWpB0bM
jo berger myhre & olafur bjorn olafsson - 1000%  https://www.facebook.com/joandobo/
kaitlyn aurelia smith - an intention http://kaitlynaureliasmith.com
blanck mass - please 1  https://blanckmass.bandcamp.com
dan deacon - when i was done dying  http://dandeacon.com
bee xlaura - clay and vapour  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNDlvRmnilQ
alexis taylor - crying in the chapel (beatrice dillon version) http://www.alexistaylorsolo.com
mary lattimore - the quiet at night http://www.marylattimore.net

bbc radio 6 - christmas mix - dec 27th, 2017

Japanese vocal performer Hatis Noit will release her enigmatic EP Illogical Dance via Erased Tapes worldwide on 23rd  March 2018. The arresting 4-track record creates unique song-worlds with transcendent vocal interpretations that at once deconstruct and recombine Western Classical, Japanese folk and nature’s own ambience atmosphere. Illogical Dance also features Björk-collaborators Matmos, who were so impressed with Hatis Noit’s recordings, they volunteered to edit the lead track Illogical Lullaby. 

Hailing from the distant Shiretoko, a small town in Hokkaido, which is the largest island in north Japan, Hatis Noit’s accomplished range is astonishingly self-taught, inspired by everything she could find from Gagaku — Japanese classical music — and operatic styles, Bulgarian and Gregorian chanting, to avant-garde and pop vocalists. The sounds she created on Illogical Dance, co-produced by Haruhisa Tanaka and Matmos, bring to mind the experimental vocal patterns of Meredith Monk with the attentive production of Holly Herndon.

It was at the age of 16, during a trek in Nepal to the Buddha’s birthplace, when she realised singing was her calling. While staying at a women’s temple in Lumbini, one morning on a walk Hatis Noit heard someone singing. On further investigation it was a female monk singing Buddhist chants, alone. The sound moved her so intensely she was instantly aware of the visceral power of the human voice; a primal and instinctive instrument that connects us to the very essence of humanity, nature and our universe. 

The name Hatis Noit itself is taken from Japanese folklore, meaning the stem of the lotus flower. The lotus represents the living world, while its root the spirit world, therefore Hatis Noit is what connects the two. For Hatis Noit, music represents the same netherworld with its ability to move and transport us to the other side; the past, a memory, our subconscious. It is the same for Illogical Dance, a set of transformative songs that taps into our most primal instincts. 

“The human voice is our oldest, most primal yet most powerful instrument. I use it to describe nature’s many sounds, a language that isn’t logical. Yet it forms a beautiful conversation that isn’t restricted to words like the human language is. I want my music to remind us of that.” — Hatis Noit

Wanting to interpret and mimic the sounds Hatis Noit hears in nature, Illogical Dance is as unpredictable, beautiful and mysterious as the world around us. Each track is made up from multi layers of vocals, all improvised and without words, before being carefully pieced together. Astonishingly no samples are used throughout, even the sound of crushing leaves came from Hatis Noit’s own vocal chords. The result is a stunning array of sound sculptures that see her switching between multiple styles with great ease. From the sweet operatics on Illogical Lullaby, the manipulated vocal loops duplicating electronic production on Anagram c.i.y. to the primordial chanting call to arms of Angelus Novus, a 10-minute odyssey that features whispering and leaves crunching, it showcases Hatis Noit’s full range and introduces a truly original artist. 



After participating in a memorial and appreciation ceremony tailored to the withdrawal of the evacuation area in Fukushima on 31st March 2017, Hatis Noit collaborated with renowned visual artist Nobumichi Asai on a project titled INORI (prayer) which they premiered live as part of an Erased Tapes showcase at Mutek Japan in Tokyo. 

Having recently moved to London and performed a first string of UK shows, followed by a special live performance at the Milan Fashion Week and Mutek Japan appearance, Peter Broderick has invited Hatis Noit to support him at the Jazz Cafe on April 15th. She’s also been announced as part of this year’s Sea Change Festival line-up, and asked to participate in a workshop with the London Contemporary Orchestra.

Illogical Dance

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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)

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‘The Letdown’ is a record better identified by the vibe it creates rather than a particular genre or style. It’s dirty, unapologetically loud and charmingly haphazard. It’s the sort of self-educated, non-jazz record that critics of Moondog would have written off as impure. Frankly, we’re good with that. The strength of the record lies not with any collegiate-level classification, but in its ability conjure moods that just feel good, are instantly familiar and invite a certain nostalgia. The gritty, noir side of it, brings to mind the old black and white detective stories. The jovial, 1920’s romanticism, lends a bit of class and gives the sense that even though everything is falling to shit, we are going to power through it with a bit of song and dance.

Whatever one happens to take away from this album, ‘The Letdown’ is meant to be fun, help the whisky burn just a bit less, and keep the blood flowing. Read into it too much and you might spoil it. Guaranteed it is unlike any Fritch record to date.

The Letdown

Unhinged

William Ryan Fritch - Unhinged (from The Letdown)

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

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

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