Educated at The Royal Swedish University College of Music in Stockholm where she studied composing with Professor Sven-David Sandström and Daniel Börtz and electro-acoustic music with Pär Lindgren during 1988-1995. She has composed both instrumental and electro-acoustic music. Samuelsson´s works have been played by many ensembles and orchestras, e.g. in Paris, Moscow and Kobe in Japan. She has also written music for Landscape based on Verlaine by Carl-Henrik Svenstedt.
MUON SONG
The music consists of an electro-acoustic piece realised in EMS (The Electro-Acoustic Studios in Stockholm) in 1998.
The sounds of the composition are recorded from the materials and objects represented; the stone of the room, the glass and the metal of the sculpture and the word which is present by the voice of Maria Küchen. These recorded sounds has been processed electronically and are sometimes unrecognisable.
During the process of composing I have looked upon them as building stones, one after one. Some of the sounds are forming a sort och percussion and others have more of ringing materia in them; the sounds have been classified into different groups of sounds playing the role of different instrumental families.
They represent for example different pitch registers, they are forming different rythm material; for short attacks or long ringings, they are building different harmonies and so forth.
The music is inspired by the state of this room and the idea that it is not exactly predictable how often the particle showers of cosmic rays will hit the room and the sculpture. Sometimes the sounds are non-frequent, sometimes sudden activities occur.
Part of their course has been composed directly after the mathematical probability model, the poisson distribution, which is used as calculation model of how often these muons hit the surface of the earth. Different time distributions of this kind occur simultaneously in the music now and then.
The piece is building up a sort of state; not to be described as a direct translation of physics into music, but as an artistic reflection and adaptation.
Marie Samuelsson