A collection of diverse American violin music I recorded with pianist Pei-Yao Wang. I’ve brought together such diverse musical works as the concert version of Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, William Bolcom’s nostalgic Graceful Ghost Rag, Jennifer Higdon’s Legacy, and Aaron Jay Kernis’ Air. Also includes the soaringly lyrical Aria by Kevin Puts, Lev Zhurbin’s lovely Sicilienne. My hope was that  these pieces could offer a vibrant portrait of contemporary violin repertoire.

River of Light

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Short introduction to Four Nobel Truth and Refuge Practice

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Music by Tim Fain
from "You Are Seen" (dir. Wesley Wang)

You Are Seen

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Love For Everyone

20th Goddess Tara Mantra

Written and performed by Tim Fain and Jacob Marshall
Produced by Jon Seale and Tim Fain
Recorded and Mixed by Jon Seale at Mason Jar Music

EMBC (pronounced embassy) is Emergent Moments of Beauty and Connection

We're a creative studio lab focused on artistic contemplative experiences that promote healing and renewal.
By harnessing the power of interdisciplinary creativity we combine music, art and emerging technologies to create multisensory aesthetic experiences of wonder. 
Our aim is for people to have an embodied experience where one is held in deep presence and feels connection between their mind, body, spirit, and environment.

One of our core tenets is Art is Medicine. 

Since March of 2020 we have been partnering with Mirelle Phillips of Elsewhere and Mount Sinai’s Abilities Research Center led by Dr. David Putrino to create an initiative called Frontline Strong Relief.  

Our mission for this initiative is to bring psychosocial relief to NYC frontline workers during the pandemic. 

Starting at Mount Sinai we began deploying employee Recharge Rooms — multisensory interactive environments that Mirelle and Dr. Putrino had worked on prior to the surge. These rooms are grounded in neuroscience and optimized for addressing trauma and stress recovery. 

For these rooms EMBC created custom music/sound experiences synced to different nature settings with custom lighting and aromatherapy. Our goal for the rooms are to create a feeling of immersion where each participant is held in an environment of safety, peace, and agency to choose their own healing experience from a curated list that we offer. 

To date, we have seen over 35,000 frontline doctors, nurses, and staff in now 6 hospitals in the NYC area. We now have over 10 Recharge Rooms where frontline workers participated in a study that was recently published in a top-tier peer-reviewed scientific journal.  

In a 10-15 minute session in the Recharge Room stress levels were reduced by 60%.

With our overwhelmingly positive feedback we are rapidly trying to expand rooms in several new states with hopes to have these Recharge Rooms nationwide. 

It is with great joy that we are now offering the music we created for the rooms to be shared publicly. 

The video above is a link to one of our songs called “Greenwood Butterflies”  

We hope this song helps you to find peace, rest and comfort during these challenging times. 

With gratitude and hope,

EMBC

Greenwood Butterflies

With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts, violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing new presence on the music scene.  The “charismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile, strong musical instincts, and first rate chops” (Boston Globe) was most recently seen on screen and heard on the soundtrack of the new hit film Black Swan, and heard as the sound of Richard Gere’s violin in Fox Searchlight’s feature film Bee Season. Selected as one of Symphony and Strad magazines’ “Up-and-Coming Musicians,” Fain captured the Avery Fisher Career Grant  and a Young Concert Artists International Award.  As The Washington Post recently raved, “Fain has everything he needs for a first-rate career.”

He electrified audiences at debuts with the Baltimore Symphony with conductor Marin Alsop, at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.  He has also appeared with the Mexico City and Oxford (UK) Symphonies, Cincinnati Chamber Symphony, Brooklyn and Hague Philharmonics, and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in a special performance at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center.  In addition, he was the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach and continues to tour the US and Europe in a duo-recital program with Phillip Glass.

Fain appeared in recital at the Ravinia Festival, Amsterdam’s venerable Concertgebouw, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Kennedy Center Mexico’s Festival de Musica de Camara in San Miguel de Allende, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, California’s Carmel Mozart Society, University of Georgia, Boston’s Ives and Ringling International Festivals, San Diego Art Institute, University of California at Davis, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd St Y, and elsewhere across the globe. His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York, Los Angeles and at its midwestern premiere at Omaha’s KANEKO. The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for solo violin, a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass, and also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied, Leonard Cohen, film maker Kate Hackett, and with radio personality Fred Child and pianist Nicholas Brittel appearing on screen.  

A dynamic and compelling performer in traditional works, he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers, with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano; as the Los Angeles Times recently noted, his career “is based, in part, on new music and new ways of thinking about classical music.“  His provocative debut CD Arches, music for solo violin, reflects Fain’s inquisitive passion and intellect, combining old and new solo works by J.S. Bach, Fritz Kreisler, Kevin Puts, Mark O’Connor, Daniel Ott, and Randy Woolf. His new disc, River of Light (Naxos), brings the tradition of the virtuosic short piece into the present, with short works by living American composers.

He has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman, Richard Goode, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jonathan Biss, has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Seán Curran Company, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and appeared onstage with the New York City Ballet, performing alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepied’s “Double Aria." He has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus), guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes), and appeared at Jazz at Lincoln Center with singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20). 

A sought-after chamber musician, Fain has performed at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York’s Bargemusic, Chamber Music Northwest, and the Spoleto (Italy), Bridgehampton, Santa Fe, Caramoor, Bard, Lucerne (Switzerland), “Bravo” Vail Valley, Moab, and Martha’s Vineyard Festivals. He has toured nationally with Musicians from Marlboro, and was first violinist of the Rossetti String Quartet. 

A native of Santa Monica, California, Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, in Philadelphia, where he studied with Victor Danchenko, and The Juilliard School, where he worked with Robert Mann.  He performs on a violin made by Franceso Gobetti, Venice 1717, the “Moller,” on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

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