Haunting yet beautiful, dramatic yet relaxing, wonderful stuff

Magnifique création, superbe voyage musical!

Haunting and delicate at the same time. beautiful.

hearing the sirens sing in here... distance is becoming smaller...

close to the edge... a trip deep inside...

Like the horizon, far away and mysterious...

Where's Neko?

(Post Ambient Acousmatic and Live Music inspired by Nature) 
part of the project and release:  In Nomine Cetus
Music /vocals/ mixing/ mastering : Annemarie Borg Antara
Whale songs recorded in Australia by iWhales
This track will be the focus of my talk and performance 28 June 2014 at the Ambient Music Conference in Helsinki 
www.ambientmusicconference.com/
@ambient-music-conference
http://annemarieborg.com/
http://songlinesofthewhales.org/
http://antara-project.com/

Closer in the Distance

Tracklist

01. Sachi Kobayashi -  I Love You
02. Marine Eyes - Cloud Collecting
03. Ai Yamamoto - Silent Night
04. Poemme - Lacustrine
05. Dalot - May-mess
06. Sound Awakener - Monochrome
07. Caminauta - Escape
08. Emily A. Sprague - Star Gazing
09. Lucy Gooch - Ash and Orange
10. Bethan Kellough - Black-East From The Crow
11. Cat Tyson Hughes - Goldfields
12. Ana Roxanne - Nocturne
13. Nadia Khan - In Gleam
14. Kate Carr - Cold Trains
15. Moskitoo - Mint Mitosis
16. Christina Vantzou - Doorway
17.  Daniela Orvin - Wide Ocean
18. Sawako - Wind Shower Particle
19. Sonia Levy - Kaldfjord
20. France Jobin -  m
21.  Aimée Sofia Brown - Twilight And Evening Bell
22. Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks - That Lake Inside My Bedroom
23. Patricia Wolf - The House By The Pond
24. Christina Giannone - Synergy
25. Melissa Pons -  Interarboration Xiguiri

Women In Ambient 2 hour Mix

The legendary band's first album in 13 years, available on Joyful Noise Recordings.

Pre-order now on ITunes    http://bit.ly/1suFFjj
or from Joyful Noise   http://bit.ly/1mx0SrG

One of the most influential bands in rock history, Half Japanese was founded in the bedroom of brothers Jad and David Fair in 1974. Ignoring musical conventions like chords, rhythms, melody, and song structure, the brothers pioneered DIY and Lo-Fi punk aesthetics simply by being themselves. Passionate, fearless, and relentlessly unique, they self-recorded and self-released by mailing out cassettes with handmade packaging, pressing their own vinyl, and brazenly marketing their music with bizarre magazine ads. This unbridled enthusiasm for the act of creating rock music led them to record dozens of amazing records (including the classic albums "1/2 Gentleman/Not Beasts" and "Charmed Life"), and to inevitably influence countless artists such as Sonic Youth, Neutral Milk Hotel, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Cobain, and many many more.

Their first album in 13 years, "Overjoyed", shows the band's aggressiveness as well as its friendly charisma. Produced by John Dieterich of Deerhoof, the 12 songs on "Overjoyed" are unlike anything in the bands catalog, each unapologetically positive and surprisingly accessible. "Overjoyed" contains a deep purity, exceptionally rare amongst "reunion albums". They neither attempt to recreate their old sound, nor are they aware of current musical trends and conventions.  As a result they sidestep common pitfalls and create something new, interesting, and needed.

The first single and opening track is "In Its Pull". The song struts with confidence and exemplifies the magical in-the-moment glee that Half Japanese exudes. It pumps out a straightforward yet enticingly erratic rock pulse that paves the way for the rest of the album.   


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Half Japanese - In Its Pull

The meditative, calm second movement of my Second Piano Concerto, "Confluence," is a reconstruction of a Hakka folk tune.
Yiu Kwong Chung conducts the Taoyuan Chinese Orchestra, Piano Soloist: Fan-Chiang Yi

Piano Concerto No. 2 "Confluence" 2nd Movement

You would be excused for thinking, listening to my stuff on here, that I'm some kind go manic depressive, I'm really not though. It's just that everything I do sounds sad. Whenever I play piano, it sounds sad, my orchestral stuff, sounds sad, etc.

Sunday

Something I've been messing about with for a week or so now. It will hopefully be my final PhD portfolio piece. It's meant for an ensemble and will feature lots of improvisation.

An updated version of this piece that I've been working on for the last week or so.

Composing for this kind of ensemble is a new thing for me. This is hopefully one of the final pieces for my PhD portfolio. I just need to find a group of musicians to perform and record it for me.

Ensemble #1

Music, Poem, Composition: Andrew Janik 
Voice: Oddrun Eikli
Photo by Michael Ryan, Vancouver

Thank you Andrew, for music, and for this deep JOY.
Andrew`s https://soundcloud.com/soundpainter words about this composition:
"This track is literally about all things, Emotional, Human, Animal, Environmental and interactions between all".

Andrew is also under Bury The Jar on bandcamp and Spotify- Bury The Jar is his latest project for more experimental as well as meditative slow world type music...
burythejar.bandcamp.com/track/all-thi…ended-version

Feel. Free
Heaven.Earth
Moon.Light
Fire.Inspire

Love.Hate
Hurt.Heal
Star. Sun
Stillness. Beauty

All things. All things
Touch. Me
All things. All things
Touch. You

Bird. Flower
Creature. Spirit
Time. Space
Soul. Whole

All Things. Music: Soundpainter. Voice: Oddrun Eikli

Quite fitting for International Women's Day (the track was first uploaded on soundcloud (08/03), the speech is from Amelia Earhart, a great pilot from in between the two world wars. She talks about the benefits from technological advances, especially for women - fitting in the (overly?) positive view on progress of mankind of those times. Only a couple of years later, mankind would show that technology could be used for far less innocent purposes... 

You can read a transcript of her speech here : https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/amelia-earhart/

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Dew Falling

Finishing my bowl of "morning gruel", sipping coffee, grabbing the Godin and getting it started...Godin=GI-20=Guitar rack(Lexicon MXP200, tc electronics G-major)=Boss VF-1 (custom patch by me, thanks to Mark Sottilaro for that inspiration!)Boss GigaDelay DD-20 #01=Mixer=TASCAM DR-100=your ears ...&nbsp;single live take to disc, 20-sec single loop of arpeggiated harmonics and an ebow...my friend John Duval complained about a recent track, that he wanted to just hear the "exquisite licks" of the guitar, so here ya go, John! Enjoy...



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Moonlight Sonata

©Annemarie Borg Antara (part of a live Mass for choir and electronic music)
Album AMB In Nomine Cetus 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-4jCG-Z-6U

Miserere

a not terribly old collage of tracks that needed to see the light of day!

Blow.up

Antara Annemarie Borg Composer/Singer/Writer/Tutor/Visual Artist and environmentalist
Style: Post Ambient Acousmatic and Live Music inspired by Nature. Acoustic/lyrical/visual Ecology.
http://www.ambientmusicconference.com/annemarieborg.html
https://soundcloud.com/ambient-music-conference
Antara means from the heart...
London Antara Festival of Music and Art, Creativity a tool for change...
2013...2015...2016...2017
Festival video is now on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4fcTNUI_6Y
ResonanceFM London 104.4
Diana Mavroleon in conversation with Annemarie Borg 12 May 
"Annemarie Borg's work is eclectic in that it traverses both mixed media and the individual/separate forms of music, words, poetry, sounds and the visual arts. As Founder of the ‘Antara Project’ Borg uses art forms as tools to deal with her main concerns: the fundamental changes in social and cultural environments and how these affect the present day and generations to come. “In today's world we have created our own challenge, are we now up to the task of facing it? In this task what is the part Artists can assume?” (AMB). Antara aims to build a louder voice through Art and will result in a compilation album and a day conference/performance later this year. Borg’s ‘live’ shows range from classical repertoire to experimental music with organic sound-scapes, electronica, improvisation, often in collaboration with other musicians...
Resurgence Magazine Dec 2012 Jan 2013: review by Lorna Howarth
"Antara is a fresh and innovative project that curates Art as if the future matters. "For a future worth living, we must invest in creativity now" says Annemarie. (the full interview and review is available on my website and at Resurgence.org)
 
Her current projects include: “Still Motion” "Cameos" "perceptions" "Kantele" and "Antara/YWhales"-a mix of  live performances started in Spring 2012 in London (Classical meets Ambient, Jazz and Electronic with improvisations on canvases of atmospheric tones and moods) and recording projects. Two new album released in July 2013. Born in Paris, with a French/Swedish background, Borg was a child musician who went on to study Business and International Law in Paris, and Music, Opera, Performance and Acting in London. www.annemarieborg.com  http://antara-project.com/ www.informal4u.com  

Antara Project (founded by Annemarie Borg in 2010) The first meeting of the Antara group of artists took place on 15 of February 2011 in London West End. It is brought together professional artists, musicians, performers, directors, film makers, journalists, writers, poets and any one involved in a professional way with Art or artists, and education.
It is in 3 phases: 
phase 1 release of an album of various artists Music and visual Art "Breaking Through" in March 2013...for sale now.
phase 2: Festival day in London on the 8 June 2013 http://antara-project.com/festival/ see video and reviews
Phase 3: 2015/16/17 Annemarie will take the project abroad as well as contribute to facilitating similar ventures increasing the impact Creativity has in our world today, setting up a series of lectures about Creativity and our education system.

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