the release of the single motherless child by anina rubin and lori blum was part of a short film production by nelly corsten. motherless child is an old spiritual folk song from the 19th century us.

it is said that the first version was  performed and brought to wider audiences by the fisk jubilee singers, an african-american acapella ensemble. the band name was taken after the fisk university of nashville, tennesse. the university was founded for freedman and “young men and women irrespective of color.” in 1866 shortly after the american civil war. a few years after the opening the university got into financial troubles. to maintain its educational program, a mixed gender student choir went on tour to earn the money for the university.

they were loved and cherished by their audiences, and even toured through the uk and europe in the 1870s. even though the beginning years were difficult, while new members kept replacing their older generations, the ensemble of the fisk jubilee singers has been lasting till this day with international concerts.

the interpretation of motherless child by anina rubin and lori blum is genred into electronica and downtempo. it was registered and produced at the university of applied arts and design in karlsruhe, germany in 2018.




guitar, vocals, arrangement by anina rubin; synthie, beats, mastering by lori blum


lyrics


sometimes i feel like a motherless child, sometimes i feel like a motherless child
a long way from home
a long way from home

sometimes i feel like a feather in the air, sometimes i feel like a feather in the air
a long way from home
a long way from home


sometimes i feel like i'm almost gone, sometimes i feel like i'm almost gone 
a long way from home
a long way from home

motherless child

excerpt from "to hear the angels sing" by dorothy maclean, 1980, lorian press

training anina's voice

Testing out a new version of my synthesized voice.

cloned voice, test file

audio sketches for a project

synthesized voice design by birds on mars (krach.ai)
sea shanty intermezzos generated with aiva

audio sketches for landalive

Poem of the multi media room installation "A Moment of Silence (everything/nothing)", group exhibition: Artmix9 (Bienfait, Henrich, Rubin, Verdet), Aug 30 - Oct 3 2016 at Saarländische Galerie, Charlottenstr. 3, Berlin.

a moment of silence (everything/nothing)

Binaural mixdown of ambisonic video-music installation "untitled - 180518"
Produced by Anina Rubin / 2018

untitled - 180518 (binaural mixdown for c. headphones)

my music productions are mostly on anina.land or aninaland.bandcamp.com. 🥰 singing, guitar, banjo, piano, white noise, water, waves. 3d audio compositions, sound collages. ❤️🌺🌹

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