You're looking at a single snowflake. What an excellent reminder of the underlying mathematical structure of our universe. Even our music can be expressed with math. But it takes Love and hard work to turn that math into a unique thing of Beauty. Congrats to Is. for nominating this months theme.

This is my first attempt at something without percussion. This does not represent my intended destination, but is rather a marker to record my location in the journey this month. Hopefully one day i will get there, because I feel a long way off right now.

5 tracks of improvised piano

I've been crazy busy this month, but found a few hours today to crank out my contribution to this month's mission. I actually started three other tracks over the past few weeks for this month's theme, but they just didn't go anywhere. This is a dubby piece that revolves around a frosty patch I put together on the Virus immidiately after rolling out of bed this morning. I came up with a bunch of bluesy guitar licks, but ended up throwing them all out and going with a stripped-down Burning Spear kind of vibe. I put this together in about 6 hours, and it kinda shows. But dub's supposed to be a little grungy, right?

I think it sounds pointy and icey, like a snowflake. It's unfortunate, it was actually originally conceived as a cool island tune but things went horribly awry. I used my PX-7 w/ Vintage ROM (most sounds) and my new G2 Engine (the slightly random-sounding sequenced bleepy sounds most prominent in the intro and outro and for the pad sound heard throughout) for this track. Also, a bunch of plugins.

I tried to make this as cold sounding as I could. kinda quirky and simple. I didn't get as much time to spend on this one as I could have with effects and whatnot, but I think i still like the outcome okay.

Here's a little sumpthin' I whipped up. I'm extremely new to this type of music. I tried to make it sort of "glitchy" because that's what "the kids" seem to be "in to" these days. Feel free to tear me a new one if you don't like my track. I can take it. I really did try to make it fit the image.

The initial idea was to compose a cool atmospheric piece, but itís turned out to be something more energetic that hopefully represents the form, pattern and symmetry of the snowflake. Iíll shut up now before I sound any more pretentious.

Been wanting to participate, so here's my effort. This is called Quiet Morning Snow - getting up really early and heading way out in the country. Hiking a few miles out with the dogs and when the sun starts to come up a heavy snow starts and all you can hear are the trees and the air.

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I've gone for the idea of an ice crystal forming and taking shape over time.

Hello, Here I post my improvisation piece. It is an abstract soundscape recorded on the fly without any MIDI or audio overdubbing or external effects so don't expect fireworks :-) The piece, Crystalline Tales is mostly inspired by our main theme and some imaginary intelligent microscopic creatures that have their dwellings on the intricate surface of the snow flake and lead their busy but short lives as their homeworld is inevitably changing into liquid water. Part One: Curiosity Part Two: Fear Part Three: Melting Synthesizer played: Yamaha CS2x

A short piece inspired by the image above. Meant to not only paint the picture of the single snowflake, but also reflect the calm associated with snow in general. Made with Creamware synths and Steinberg software.

I was going for the death of winter here. The slow end of the snow. The young bird-like sounds of spring vs. the deep cold throbs of old man winter, refusing to die. The battle happens every year and always has the same ending.

imagine frozen tundra amidst a landscape of snow capped mountains and glaciers. Morning snow has just started falling. In the afternoon, it becomes a blizzard. Got to get home soon, it's getting way too frigid.

this is a very short, simple

Snowflakes scatter dreamily on to a land long white. Cutting through the falling dreams stands a man with the gift of hurt and fingers of steel.

This is the abstract representation of the abstract image that evoked the exploration into the beautiful unexplored abstract direction...