Harmony, Synergy & Symbiosis Inside & Out.

Synthesizing insights, music and wellness practices from diverse fields and cultures.

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Harmony

Harmony is not what most people think it is.

It is not softness, forced positivity, or the absence of conflict.
Harmony is the constant dance between dissonance and consonance, tension and resolution.
It is what happens when differences weave together instead of clashing.

Music taught me this, and harmony is now the orienting principle for all that I do.

Music, insights and practices: different languages for this same universal pattern.

The full argument, with the musical examples

01 Music

Music to spark your soul. Music to awaken something inside you. Music as a lifeline to the present moment.

Samuel Wexler playing violin at dusk beside a lake in Atlixco, with the Popocatepetl volcano behind him. Atlixco, Puebla

The right violin, at the right moment, for the right feeling.

I have built a career on being able to step into almost any music on the fly, find tasteful lines to support it, lift it to a new level, and make hearts soar. (I wouldn't make this up. This is the feedback I consistently get.)

Classical training gave me the instrument and technique. Improvisation showed me what I personally am meant to do with it.

Sensitivity makes the difference between playing over a piece of music and playing with it. That tastefulness is what makes people call me, for the studio and for the stage.

A musician with exceptional sensitivity and musical taste.Izcacel, bassist and composer

Violinist, composer, producer and live loop artist. Classically trained, genre‑fusing.

Violin Viola Mandolin Bouzouki Guitar Bass Ukulele Charango Keyboard Drums Percussion Voice

What musicians and listeners say

Better than me telling you about my music, read what fellow musicians and fans say.

Benny Oyama with a guitar.

He plays with the technique of a well formed classical musician and the improvisational sensitivity of a jazz musician. His music transmits beauty, refinement, and a full and generous heart.

Benny OyamaSinger, songwriter and virtuoso guitarist, Medicine Music
Izcacel playing upright bass.

He is a musician who listens, who responds to what is happening in the music, and who knows how to find exactly what the moment needs. His creativity and his taste make every event where we share a stage special.

Es un músico que escucha, responde a lo que está sucediendo en la música y sabe encontrar exactamente lo que la situación necesita. Su creatividad y su buen gusto hacen que cada evento en el que compartimos escenario sea especial.

IzcacelBassist, multi-instrumentalist and composer

What you do with that violin, my God, it is a joy in something so wonderful it could not be explained, a connection that is not of this plane. Where listening to each melody takes you is astonishing.

Lo que haces con ese violín, Dios mío, es un regocijo de algo tan maravilloso que no podría explicarse, una conexión que no es de este plano. A dónde te lleva a escuchar cada melodía es impresionante.

DebbieAfter a performance

It was an experience that touched my heart and left me without words. The music, the sound of the violin, the voices, all of it came together to create an atmosphere that carried me to a place of peace and connection. At one point I felt that my body was too small for the love I was feeling.

Fue una experiencia que me tocó el corazón y me dejó sin palabras. La música, el sonido del violín, las voces, todo se unió para crear un ambiente que me transportó a un lugar de paz y conexión. En un momento sentí que mi cuerpo era muy pequeño para el amor que sentía.

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Music as a lifeline to presence

Most of us spend the day inside our own heads, mistaking our thoughts for the world and looping through them instead of hearing what is actually happening.

When I immerse my full attention in the sound I am making, that sound becomes like a center of gravity, and you are invited into it.

When a room full of people gets hit by the same sound at the same moment, it can grab them and pull them out of their own story, into the raw experience of hearing.

Shared presence. Here, now, outside the individual stories.

The violin chose me

I could say I chose the violin, but really the violin chose me. It called to the deepest part of my soul and I just answered the call.

I am the instrument of the violin.

You could definitely say that the violin is my instrument, but I often feel more like I am the instrument of the violin.

The voice of the violin is transcendent of any one violinist and touches our hearts in a potent and healing way. I am honored to be the instrument this voice flows through.

The violin has only existed for a relatively short piece of human existence, and we have no idea what exactly the sound is doing to us, or what role it is playing in our evolution. I feel honored to be a part of its story.

Selected work

01 KAN 2022 Solo, studio

A 105 minute journey, in six movements.

KAN album artwork by Morgan Mandala and Randal Roberts. Interwoven ribbons of color running through forest, water and sky, with the six movement titles printed along the top.
Artwork by Morgan Mandala and Randal Roberts
105Minutes
6Movements
2022First fully solo major work

In Mayan symbolism, KAN is the glyph of abundance, fertility, maturation and harvest. Producing it felt like exactly that kind of maturation, and it brought me to a point of bearing musical fruit like never before.

The soundtrack to a film you create within your own mind.

Listen straight through the full 105 minutes and let it take you on the journey, or go to the movement that makes you feel how you want to feel. Not quick listening. Deep listening.

  1. I

    Peaceful &
    Meditative

    Lo IntempestivoNeither Time, Nor Eternity

    Artwork for Lo Intempestivo, by Morgan Mandala and Randal Roberts.

    9 min

    A dreamy ambient track of rich violin in a resonant sonic wash.

    Story and excerpts

  2. II

    Grounded &
    Free

    Wind Sings the Trees

    Artwork for Wind Sings the Trees, by Morgan Mandala and Randal Roberts.

    7 min

    A contemplative guitar and violin duet on a vibrant textural soundscape, buzzing with life.

    Story and excerpts

  3. III

    Inspired &
    Wondrous

    Tocando las Estrellas

    Artwork for Tocando las Estrellas, by Morgan Mandala and Randal Roberts.

    27 min

    Like a tour around the world and through time. I surrendered control and let it tell its own story, and it goes places even I never expected.

    Story and excerpts

  4. IV

    Energized &
    Vital

    Rhythm of the Jungle

    Artwork for Rhythm of the Jungle, by Morgan Mandala and Randal Roberts.

    10 min

    Heavy hitting electronic and instrumental fusion. Electronic beats, latin rhythms, soaring synths and orchestral strings, with violin riding on a deep bass drive.

    Story and excerpts

  5. V

    Emotive &
    Deep

    Lluvia AzulBlue Rain

    Artwork for Lluvia Azul, by Morgan Mandala and Randal Roberts.

    34 min

    Weaves you deeper into lush emotive strings in a continually evolving flow. I let the story write itself, and only later began to understand the narrative. The full cycle of death and rebirth.

    Story and excerpts

  6. VI

    Fresh &
    Hopeful

    Between Earth and Sky

    Artwork for Between Earth and Sky, by Morgan Mandala and Randal Roberts.

    15 min

    Light, free, luminous. Transcend the weight of this world, then merge with the beyond. It carries you full circle, back to the hopeful and mysterious birth of KAN.

    Story and excerpts
The full story of KAN Listen in full Bandcamp Apple Music Spotify

02 Less Than Three 2020 Solo, live

14 Violin Live Loop Compositions. Each under 3 minutes. One continuous take. Beautiful locations in Mexico.

What you see is what you hear. No overdubs, no play along, no pre production. Just violin, effects, a loop pedal and the moment. These are not music videos, they are live performances captured on video.

Then it sat at ninety percent complete for six years. Becoming a father clarified what mattered, and closing that loop mattered. Finishing it was never only about releasing more music. It was about becoming a person who finishes what he starts.

The full story and all fourteen Listen on Bandcamp Watch on YouTube Sheet music

The live project

Samuel Wexler Samueltaneous

Samueltaneous is the live loop project, and Less Than Three is one specific body of work inside it. The project itself is a blank musical canvas, painted with a unique blend of sounds every iteration. No two performances are the same, and the goal is always to share something real, pure and alive with attentive listeners.

Enquire about booking Music channel
Mastodon album cover by Samuel Wexler and Cualli.

03 Mastodon with Cualli, 2023

Neither of us could have imagined making music like this without the other person.

Instrumental and electronic fusion, with parts that sound recognizably Cualli, parts that sound clearly like me, and parts neither of us can untangle.

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Buddha Bar Beach ten year anniversary compilation cover, featuring Rain of Melody.

04 Rain of Melody with Jocan Deka

Released through Buddha Bar. Currently my most streamed track.

A collaboration with Jocan Deka, released through Buddha Bar, with currently over 300,000 streams.

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The albums, the collaborations, and the live project.

Explore all the music

02 Live

From massive festival stages to intimate circles.

Solo looping, ensemble collaboration and cross-cultural fusion. The room changes. The intention does not: build something in real time that people can actually feel.

Samuel Wexler performing with an ensemble on a large festival stage in front of a full-height video wall. Feria Internacional del Libro
Samuel Wexler live looping by candlelight for a seated audience in a jungle clearing in Tulum. Live looping Tulum

Kirtan and cacao Huerto Roma Verde

Huerto Roma Verde

Once a month for the last three years we have met in the geodesic dome at Huerto Roma Verde to drink cacao, play music, and sing all together. The collective energy of everyone singing, and sometimes dancing, has to be experienced to be understood.

People consistently tell us it was exactly what they needed without knowing they needed it, that it transported them to a totally different world and made them feel things they needed to feel. Some have told us it may have saved their life, that they were in a very dark place and feeling like giving up, and that the music brought them back and made them feel hope again.

It is hard to know what to say in the face of feedback like that. It makes me feel honored and grateful to do what I do, and it keeps reminding me that the impact of playing music from the heart is impossible to really understand, measure or predict.

From the feed

Anything can form out of thin air.Samueltaneous, live looping A soaring violin solo over Luna, by Zoé.With Santiago, 2022 Letting loose over a loop.With @rodgordoa, 2023
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03 Insights

Harmonious Reality.

Insights synthesized from diverse fields and cultures, written down so they stay present instead of slipping back out of focus. Cut through the noise by turning up the signal on what matters.

Publication

Harmonious Reality

Essays and audio on harmony, attention, meta-learning and human potential. A single insight can make all the difference.

Read and listen on Substack
Channel

Spoken insights on YouTube

Synthesize and spread the insights that actually make a difference, in your personal life and in the world. I do not have all the answers, but I feel like I am asking the right questions. Not a guru, just a guy constantly learning things worth sharing.

Watch the channel

Current series

Demystify the Ego & Harmonize the Mind What is not working in our relationship with our own minds, and what can be done about it. The series Reasons for Hope in Humanity Enough wallowing in despair. Enough forced or naive optimism. Eyes wide open to both the horrors and the wonders of our world. Every reason
All the insights

04 Practices

An insight that stays only on the mental level misses the point. Harmony needs to be embodied, not just intellectualized.

The insights are in service of something larger: a real change in how you act, how you feel, how harmonious your internal experience is, and how harmoniously it interacts with the shared reality. The practices are where that integration happens. They draw from many fields, primarily yoga, meditation, breath work and martial arts.

500 hour certified yoga teacher

  • Teaching since 2013
  • Practicing since 2006
  • Two ten day Vipassana silent courses
Samuel Wexler seated in lotus with a violin, in front of a Sri Yantra sculpture on a living wall.
Samuel Wexler in a yoga pose on a mat in front of the same Sri Yantra living wall.

Rewire Lab Mexico City

Samuel Wexler holding a mandolin in front of a mandala string artwork.

05 Who I am

A violin arrived in my hands at nine, in Colorado. Classical training gave me the instrument. Improvisation turned out to be the real strength, and it sent me looking for what else the violin could do.

Electronica, jazz, manouche, Indian, bluegrass, soundtrack. One instrument was never going to be enough either, so I picked up most of the string family, and percussion. Then languages, as the doorways into different cultures and an exploration of consciousness. French, Spanish, Mandarin, German, each one a different way of organizing a root inspiration into a distinct thought. Being multi-instrumental and multilingual come from a similar instinct.

I have lived in Colorado, China and Mexico, and a life spent moving between cultures is in everything I make. I am a husband and a father. I try to share what is real and pure, whether it takes the form of music, words, motion or art, and I am honored to contribute my voice to the rich legacy of human music.

Another breath is never promised to me, so I want to contribute as much beauty, wisdom and love as possible while I am still here.

Newsletter

A single insight can make all the difference.

New writing, new music and new practices, sent when there is something worth sending. No noise.

Or start with Reasons for Hope in Humanity, the doorway into a twenty video series on why the case for us is stronger than it looks.

Work with me

Let's harmonize.

Three ways this usually starts.

Live

Performance and collaboration

Solo looping, ensemble work, ceremony, festivals and studio sessions. From massive stages to intimate circles, anywhere the music goes.

Talks and workshops too: speaking.

booking@samuelwexler.com

Sync and licensing

Music for picture

Ambient, electronic, orchestral, world fusion and soundtrack, most of it instrumental. KAN alone is 105 minutes written to carry a scene. I own every right to my own recordings, so licensing is one conversation, not five.

licensing@samuelwexler.com

Commissions

Original music, written for you

If you are creating something that needs its own music, I would love to hear about it: a soundtrack for a space or a film, music for a brand or a ceremony. Tell me the feeling you are after.

commissions@samuelwexler.com