Pianist-composer An-Ting 安婷 releases her first original piano album, Songs From My Room, which documents, through her compositions, the complex feelings of the pandemic times from her room in London Old Street.

During Lockdown, An-Ting put her feelings into her music in her room in London Old Street. The pieces she created on the piano were like a diary where she kept track of the pandemic time. Starting from ‘London Night’ in March 2020, where it was the first time An-Ting felt about a quiet and calm London. The feeling of being in the ‘Plague Time’ became strong in April. 

In May, An-Ting starts to entertain herself by playing the piano with many ping pong balls inside and thus creating a fun rag-time piece ‘Ping Pong Dance’ (See the video of ping pong balls dancing inside of the piano)

‘Last June’ came out of An-Ting’s fingers when the situation did not get any better after a three-month lockdown, mixing the feelings from BlackLivesMatter. The future of the world is like an enigma, not knowing where to go. In July, first released from the lockdown, An-Ting dances on ‘Hoxton Street’, followed by ‘past time’ when she broke up with her ex-boyfriend in August. 

An-Ting composed Purple Dream in September 2020, when the new lockdown was about to begin. The on/off isolation of the lockdowns was removing the certainties of our old lives and leaving us physically restricted. Yet the retreat from normality allowed space for new dreams and magic to flourish. A space in the quiet, away from the world, and along with it, a new feeling of freedom.

Songs from My Room [Album]

An-Ting's Electronic Compositions [Work in Progress]

By An-Ting and Daniel York Loh, featuring Cheng Yu and Wang Xiao

every dollar is a soldier/ with money you're a dragon

Three parts: 
1. Dawn 
2. Dark beats
3. Awakening

HOME X

New Original Album, Songs from My Room, from pianist-composer An Ting 安婷 brings us her compositions during lockdown between March and September 2020

London Night

New Original Album, Songs from My Room, from pianist-composer An Ting 安婷 brings us her compositions during lockdown between March and September 2020

Single released on 11 May 2022

Purple Dream

During Lockdown, An-Ting put her feelings into her music in her room in London Old Street. The pieces she created on the piano were like a diary where she kept track of the pandemic time. ‘Last June’ came out of An-Ting’s fingers when the situation did not get any better after a three-month lockdown, mixing the feelings from BlackLivesMatter. The future of the world is like an enigma, not knowing where to go.

Last June

During Lockdown, An-Ting put her feelings into her music in her room in London Old Street. The pieces she created on the piano were like a diary where she kept track of the pandemic time. Starting from ‘London Night’ in March 2020, where it was the first time An-Ting felt about a quiet and calm London. The feeling of being in the ‘Plague Time’ became strong in April.

Plague Time

During Lockdown, An-Ting put her feelings into her music in her room in London Old Street. The pieces she created on the piano were like a diary where she kept track of the pandemic time. In July, first released from the lockdown, An-Ting dances on ‘Hoxton Street’ which is one of her favourite street in London.

Hoxton Street

Phoenix was composed for the hybrid in-person and digital gaming theatre, HOME X (https://homexvr.com). I used instrumental and natural recordings and added effects and created the music.

Phoenix 鳳凰

I created five musical loops and put them in different positions in the 3D space. The loops can be randomly combined in any way at any time. It was originally composed for AR in Unity and this track was rendered through Envelop in Ableton. AR app: Augmented Chinatown 2.0 (available in AppStore)

Spatial Loops: Sally's World

I made this music with the recording taken at dawn earlier this month in Savernake Forest, UK, capturing the sound of a Blackcap.  This is an ongoing 'Bird Catalogue' music project I am working on. The track is a work in progress and the finished music will be released in Winter 2023.

Blackcap Bewitched

Galting is composed for the wedding march.

Galting

The music features Chinese instruments pipa and erhu, performed by Cheng Yu and Wang Xiao.

Voyage 迷航

This is a part of my 'Bird Catalogue' project where the music features the sound of Japanese Bush Warbler. The music was created with inspiration from the performance artist Xie Rong  (https://www.echomorgan.com/) and movement artist Masumi Saito (https://www.masumisaito.com/).

鶯 Japanese Bush Warbler

Midnight Whisper

belonging 歸屬

names 無名氏

culture 文化

showtime 登台

dynasty 王朝

voyage 迷航

astor 亞斯德

flight 遷徙

waltz 華爾滋

community 社群

mansion 宅第

"Silver Stream 銀流" is my new single, a captivating electronic composition that fuses Neo-Classical and Avant-Garde styles. Drawing inspiration from the profound emptiness in Buddhism and the scenic beauty of Chinese landscape paintings (山水畫 shānshuǐ huà), this innovative piece invites contemplation on whether it's a tangible exploration or a voyage of the mind. The electronic soundscape, rich with ethereal tones, blurs the lines between reality and the surreal, creating a dreamlike atmosphere.

Sliver Stream 銀流

I recorded the grasshoppers and the monks' chanting in Mongolia and mixed and improvised different sound/effect into the track.

Jamming in Mongolia

I recorded the sound from the Amazon forest in Peru in 2022 and just put my memory there together as a piece of music here.

Peruvian Forest

A Girl On The Island

An-Ting is a pianist, composer and multidisciplinary artist. Originally trained as a concert pianist, she started to explore electronic music since few years ago. She is currently collecting natural sounds wherever she travels and creating music with them to share to people.

An-Ting 安婷

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