Samuel Wexler | Harmony, Synergy & Symbiosis

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. Counterpoint, where independent lines each go their own way and form something none of them could form alone. 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 get this feedback almost every time.) 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.

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

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

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.

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 inspiration started in the Riviera Maya. I recorded all of it in Mexico City, in the first acoustically treated studio I built with my own hands. I composed every note, played every part, placed every microphone, recorded every element and mixed it. After a decade working alongside other people, this was the first full length work made completely alone, up to a professional production standard.

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.

I

Peaceful &
Meditative

Lo IntempestivoNeither Time, Nor Eternity

9 min

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

Grounded &
Free

Wind Sings the Trees

7 min

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

Inspired &
Wondrous

Tocando las Estrellas

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.
IV

Energized &
Vital

Rhythm of the Jungle

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.
V

Emotive &
Deep

Lluvia AzulBlue Rain

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.
VI

Fresh &
Hopeful

Between Earth and Sky

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.

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.

The constraint came from a live television performance with two and a half minutes to make an impact. I planned how every loop layer would build and rehearsed it in my mind, and I loved the freedom of not needing to attempt anything more complex than can be put together live in less than three minutes. Limitations foster creativity, and freedom within them.

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.

Listen on Bandcamp Watch all fourteen Sheet music The story behind the album On closing open loops

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.

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Mastodon album cover by Samuel Wexler and Cualli.

03 Mastodon with Cualli, 2023 Collaboration, studio

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

Cualli and I sat down together for every part of the process. Both of us generating musical ideas, both of us playing live instruments, each of us leaning into our own strengths and sharing the middle. Instrumental and electronic fusion, with parts that sound recognizably Cualli, parts that sound clearly like me, and parts neither of us can untangle.

Bandcamp Spotify Apple Music The official video

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

04 Rain of Melody with Jocan Deka Collaboration, label release

Released through Buddha Bar. Currently my most streamed track.

A collaboration with Jocan Deka, released through Buddha Bar, with currently over 300,000 streams. It went out as the single preceding the Buddha Bar Beach ten year anniversary compilation, then again on the compilation itself, and it has held the top spot on my Spotify ever since.

Listen on Spotify

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

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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.

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Current series

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.

Booking and contact

Let's harmonize.

Available for performances, collaborations, recording sessions and licensing enquiries.

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

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

A 105 minute journey, in six movements.

Lo IntempestivoNeither Time, Nor Eternity

Wind Sings the Trees

Tocando las Estrellas

Rhythm of the Jungle

Lluvia AzulBlue Rain

Between Earth and Sky