“Sometimes you start to understand the world by asking a question, but you start to understand yourself by the connections you make along the way.”
Mark Winters is a singer songwriter and aerospace engineer based in Texas with a very unusual mix of scientific curiosity and heartfelt songwriting. His album ‘The Science In Me’ (out 23rd October 2026) is a ten track record where the science of motion, gravity, light and rhythm are used as a way of exploring love, family, loss, personal growth and the connections that we all have with each other. His style is very much his own and he describes it as ‘rock with a positive vibe’ which is a very accessible sound that still allows you to get to the heart of the subject matter.
The prime example of this is the album’s ‘focus’ track ‘Triangulation’. In science triangulation is the process of using multiple points to determine a position. Winters takes that concept and gives it a very human twist. Two people see each other in a room full of people, and then they go about trying to find each other through a series of whispered conversations and the general confusion of the situation. It’s a very simple idea really, a very human idea of connection and communication and the bit of bravery it takes to actually go and make contact with someone. Rather than just leave the concept in the realm of science, he’s turned it into something that we can all relate to from our own experience. The song is essentially saying that we often have to go through a lot of noise and find the signals that we’re actually looking for in order to find our way to someone. Family and personal history is another major component of the albums emotional fabric. ‘Can I Rise’ is co-written by Winters and his son Chris Winters and is a song about the influence of the patterns we inherit from our families and previous generations. It’s a very pertinent question to ask, how much of who we are is determined by what came before us and how much of it is actually up to us? That theme is even more personal on ‘What Does It Mean To Be Human?’ which started life as a letter to Winters’ late grandmother Dean C. Winters. She was his lifelong poetry companion and muse so the song is very much a song about memory, love and loss. In a world increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence the song is about the very human things that make relationships work.
The Science In Me is all about the little things. ‘All In The Rhythm’ came about during a hike in Zion National Park when Winters found himself walking ahead of his wife. That simple observation led to a much bigger realisation about the need to slow down, share the moment, share the view and make space for the people around you. ‘Let It Rain’ is about grief, forgiveness and healing. ‘Into The Flow’ (co-written with Steven McClintock) is about the special moment when a performer and an audience are in the same place through the rhythm. It’s a case of taking a very personal observation and then expanding out from there into something that people can relate to in their own lives. The musical variety is what enables the songs to find their own voices. Eight of the tracks (including ‘Triangulation’) were co-produced by John Edward Ross and Michael Shanks. Nash Overstreet produced ‘Fake Gravity’ and Ross produced the final bonus track ‘Speed of Light’. The album is a mixture of rock, folk-pop and acoustic warmth, with each song finding its own arrangement. Winters’ background in poetry is also very much in evidence in his writing. He likes to use forms like the haiku to explore a thought or feeling in the initial stages, giving a sense of structure and clarity to ideas which might otherwise be very difficult to get your head around. His scientific training and his creative instinct work in tandem to allow him to take an abstract concept and turn it into a story that is personal and accessible. With The Science In Me Mark Winters is offering far more than a bunch of songs about science. He’s using the language of science as a portal into the experiences that we all share. Whether it’s about attraction in Triangulation, family in Can I Rise or the value of just slowing down in All In The Rhythm the focus is always on the people. On the Good Vibes Highway Tour which is currently rolling across the US and Canada the album is really an invitation to pay attention, to be curious and to just appreciate the connections that are already there. For anyone who likes their songwriting with a bit of thought and a good dollop of warmth and positivity there’s loads to get from The Science In Me.
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