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MIT’s Stefan Helmreich<\/a> and I have collaborated on a mega-mix of music that evokes or otherwise represents ocean waves. Building on Stefan’s anthropological work with ocean scientists and my ideas about telling musical stories musically, this mix carefully stitches together 70 pieces in a 3 movement, 44 minute montage. The pieces were composed between 1830-2018 and range across a wide number of genres and approaches — classical, romantic, modernist, minimalist, electronic and experimental, not to mention surf rock, reggae, bossa nova, jazz, and techno.<\/p>\n

We’re pleased to have the mix published via The Wire<\/em><\/a> as a Wire Mix<\/em>, and I’m grateful to Stefan for putting together a video — see below — which tracks and traces the appearances and layering of each piece in the mix (including full credits) as well as for taking the lead on the brief, evocative essay that accompanies the video (reprinted below, with tracklist). It’s been a wonderful collaboration, over a year in the making — and, no doubt, the most intricate mega-mix I’ve ever worked on — and we’re thrilled to share it with the world and to see what sort of waves the mix itself makes.<\/p>\n

Thanks, always, for listening along. Here’s an MP3<\/a> (100mb, 44min) if you’d prefer to listen “offline,” whatever that means these days.<\/p>\n