Seth Stiebar-Ekström

Music, physics and acoustics. Also some studies in North Indian classical music. Research in affiliation with the University hospital in Sweden concerning hearing speech in music. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21768731/ Research in how music structures determines heart rate variability of singers. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-23230411 In 2008, got interested in doing a composition experiment with a text written by the Californian philosopher and mathematician Franklin Merrell-Wolff,(1887-1985, Lone Pine) who inspired people to go back to their deeper inner nature. The foreword to this text "Aphorisms on Consciousness-without-an-object" ; "These aphorisms belong to a level of consciousness where thought and music unite. They are seeds which may develope into a comprehensive system of philosophy while, at the same time, they are a substance bringing sustenance to the soul. It is not necessary that the reader should understand them. He should use them as focal points for meditation and permit their meaning to develop in his consciousness as a plant grows from seed. They are symbols first and concepts afterward. As concepts they illumine the way for understanding. As symbols they open the door to the realization of that Reality which cannot be felt or thought."

Presented here are an arrangement of my composition titled Aphorisms. It is for a mixed ensemble consisting of 2 flutes,1 oboe,1 clarinet in Bb,1 basson,percussion,recitation,3singers(sopr,alto,basso),2 violins,1 contrabass. The oboe,clarinette,basson and cello could be exchanged with a saxophone quartet.