Ana Schurmann

Songs written: her own count, as a member of the Recording Academy. Streaming figures on request.

A wearable seven-string multi-instrument in gold and diamonds, tuned to the Schumann resonance at 7.83 Hz — the electromagnetic frequency of the cavity between the Earth’s surface and its ionosphere. It is played on the body, and it is the lead voice on Peacemakers. It exists because the music needed a sound that did not exist yet. Forbes Brasil covered it in March 2026 as the first scientific instrument made as haute jewellery.

Forbes Brasil on the Neck LyreThe Neck Lyre on the site

Most “space music” is a mood. This is a method. In The Harmonic Universe the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA catalogue — every confident detection of the first three observing runs — determines the pitch material and the order of the movements. Nothing is tuned by hand: the data writes the score, and anyone with the catalogue can check it. That makes the work reproducible in a way music almost never is, and it gives a label a story that is true, verifiable and first.

It was built in formal collaboration with researchers at Brazil’s Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, presented live at the IXI EFITA, certified by ITA and by Italy’s Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, with the support of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Collaboration. Observatories, universities, planetariums and science festivals are a concert circuit no pop artist has; the press — Forbes, Vogue, BBC, Corriere — has already followed it.

And it is not a side project. The same ear made Whitkeys a No. 1 on Deezer Italy and Tell Me a BBC record. One artist, two catalogues, one method: take something invisible and physical, and give it a form a human body can receive.

The goal

Ongoing scientific-music album, one movement per field, each decoded with a PhD scientist from that field — a nucleus with a nuclear physicist, a symmetry group with a mathematician, the zeros of the zeta function with a number theorist, the gravitational-wave catalogue with an astrophysicist — every dataset carried through the same published pipeline, so that what stays the same and what changes between systems is itself the composition.

Beside the album, an open database of the systems sonified: the spectrum, the mapping, the audio and the code for each one, versioned, so any result can be reproduced by anyone and any new system added by anyone. That database is the instrument.

And out of it, explaining the remodeled music theory. Not scales inherited from one tradition, but the pitch structures already present in the patterns that predate us — the level spacings of matter, the ringing of black holes, the distribution of the primes. Scientific music is the music of everything that came before us. The aim is to write it down, systematically, scientifically, for the first time — and to release it as records people play.

The method and the results, on the siteEvery detection as a movement

1. 2025The Harmonic Universe · Chirp SymphonyOrchestral work from LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA detection data. Full orchestral score published.
2. 2025Riemann’s Closure — Femina ImpromptuAlbum, 17 tracks. Piano works built on the zeros of the Riemann zeta function.
3. —The Star’s Symphony (Sunlight Star)Orchestral piece in partnership with the European Southern Observatory. Score published.
4. 2022Philosophari Numeris IIIAlbum, 7 tracks — Flume XI, Ferdoff LXXIII, Puxi III, Avium II, Dux Noctua XVII. Flume XI and Ferdoff LXXIII broadcast on BBC Radio; both scores published.
5. —Clé Du Jongleur LIXAlbum.
6. 2021Max Mara Spring/Summer 2022Original score for the runway show, Milan (Ian Griffiths).

Published scores

The Harmonic Universe (Chirp Symphony) OrchestralThe Star's Symphony (Orchestral)Stuhi VIIFerdoff LXXIIIPuxi IIIFlume XI

1. 2026PeacemakersSingle, self-produced. Ten instruments, Neck Lyre lead. Clash Magazine.
2. 2026Heaven · ForeverSingles; Heaven with an official video in two parts.
3. 2024PondusEP — eleven tracks, below.
4. 2024Love ForeverOne song, two records: sung in nine languages, and in English alone — her range as a writer across languages, and the same song standing on its own.
5. 2022SacrárioSingle, with Daniel Galvão.
6. 2021WhitkeysLong-running No. 1 on Deezer Italy.
7. 2020Tell MeSingle, produced by Riccardo Onori. BBC Radio. Remix with Ely Yabu.

2024. Love Forever is sung in eight languages; My Dear, Word and Tell Me appear in orchestral versions.

1. Love Forever - 8 Languages
2. My Dear, Word - Orchestral Version
3. Tell Me - Orchestral Version
4. Your Voice
5. Tempus Loss
6. The Word to Rhyme with Love
7. Writer’s Block
8. Room (Hear Me Now)
9. Darling, Is Fear
10. Libertà
11. Poésie du dimanche

2026. Peacemakers, On Us, Heaven, Forever, and the London Live Sessions of Wonder and Rapanui.

1. Peacemakers
2. On Us
3. Wonder (Live in London)
4. Rapanui (Live in London)
5. Heaven
6. Forever

Thirteen official videos, Ana as lead performer and, on several, as director.

On Us, Camerata FlorianópolisHeavenYour VoiceTempus LossThe World Of BluesHeaven is Coming. 🎵Ana Schurmann "Wonder"Curi VEly YabuMy Dear, WordROOM, Official Music videoVerdi XLIIIWHITKEYSMax Mara | Spring Summer 2022SACRÁRIO , Daniel GalvãoCATWALKTRUTHALIDADELibertàPoésie du Dimanche - Remix

The Isaac Theatre Royal (Christchurch), Cagliari with Ensemble Reunis, London Live Sessions, the 100 Years of the Hercílio Luz Bridge concert in Florianópolis, and the method presented live at ITA.

Ana Schurmann "Wonder"On Us Live From Florianópolis - 100 Years of Hercílio Luz BridgeAna Schurmann "Rapanui"My Dear, WordCuri VAvium IIHercílio Luz — 100 years, FlorianópolisLive from EFITA at the Institute of Technology and Aeronautics (ITA)

Piano, guitar, flute, drums — and the Neck Lyre, below. Composing on camera.

How fashion changed to music that changed to art and to couture and to…Stepping away from my own music to honor some of the greatest In full www.anaschurmannart.comPlaying my song…Making new music.. fazendo música nova… flute flutemusicWhen David Bowie’s drummer and writer of “let’s dance” teaches a first-timer the drums …Wrote this last week. Hope the world listensDid you know? MusicHistoryInstruments

Portuguese native; English, Spanish, French and Italian fluent; German, Japanese and Mandarin conversational — she interviews in ten and sang Love Forever in eight. For an Asian market: she can speak to an audience in Japanese and Mandarin herself. Vogue Brasil covered the nine-language video when it went viral in Europe.

The Origins of MusicAna Schurmann shares her interview in 9 languagesAna Schurmann Interview in 10 languages

Beyond the symphony, two published computational studies sit on the site under Science. Audible Cartography runs one analytical pipeline across an atomic nucleus, a symmetry group and the zeros of the Riemann zeta function, and turns each spectrum into sound. Shells, Ladders and Noise (Phase 1, September 2026) puts nuclear shell spectra through the same statistics as harmonic ladders, billiard eigenvalues, stellar oscillations and random matrices — with null results published beside the positive ones and every plate drawn from the data. A listening experiment lets anyone test their own ear against the mathematics.

Audible CartographyShells, Ladders and NoiseCan you hear the difference?

Forbes Brazil 30 Under 30, 2023. BBC Radio. Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, L’Officiel, Marie Claire, Clash, Corriere della Sera.

Direct — no management filter. Based in Europe, travelling freely. Available for signing, licensing, sync, commissions and concerts, the Neck Lyre live included.

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