With this improvisation, I had a rhythmic pattern in mind and I wanted to start in a minor key. The idea was to keep the rhythmic pattern throughout the improvisation but to move to a different key signature and play around with the tempo. The tarot card I picked was the high priestess. This is the fourth of a series of improvisational works that I’ll be uploading to Soundcloud. 

My goal as a composer is to create musical works that fluctuates between order and chaos. I have yet to accomplish this balance in my work. 

To push my boundaries as a composer, I developed a daily piano practice that involves focused improvisation. Each improvisation starts with a simple rhythmic and harmonic pattern. As the pattern progresses, I change the structure and harmony gradually with focus and intuition. The aim is to play the piano in unconventional ways to break through my own barriers and fears as a performer. 

I decided to name these works “impressions” as they are like musical imprints conceived in the moment without a predetermined concept or idea. To make these impressions even more obscure, I decided to pick a tarot card to represent each piece.

Impression #4

Oboe: 
Yi-an Huang 黃以安

Composer:
Wuan-ching Li 李婉菁
Yi-an Huang 黃以安
Cheng-yen Yang 楊政諺

River - live recording from 2016 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival: NYCEMF

Return Of The King - Epic Music

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Inspiration

made by 黃奇斌 Ng KiPin
傾巢而出的事實 全都是自私
是無謂的假如 包裝自己的無辜
追殺人性的日子 自詡成戰士 
用整個愛情去賭 那我們都會輸 

如果那時候我能多想一想
那我們就不會變成這樣

曾經遺忘的年份 是悲傷的門 
裡面住著天使 記得每次的紀念日
以為未來非常遠 硬著不聽勸
現在依然還幼稚 講著童話故事 

如果那時候我能多想一想
那我們就不會變成這樣

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0114 （demo）

A wonderfully immersive suite of five stunning new tracks, ‘Shifts’ expands upon Swedish-Iranian pianist / composer Shida Shahabi’s debut album and confirms her as a genuine new force in contemporary piano music.  

A year on from her debut, ‘Shifts’ sees Shida continue to mine her beloved old JG Malmsjö upright piano as a source of warmth and character. Without radically departing from the ‘Homes’ blueprint, this time around her palette is expanded, with the opening three tracks seeing the prominent addition of cello, provided by Linnea Olsson. The timbre and tone of Olsson’s cello perfectly complements and adds emotional resonance to Shida’s own playing, with the two interlocking beautifully.  

From the opening bars of first track ‘Futō’, the mechanics of the piano are again clearly audible, with a wonderfully visceral recording revealing intimate acoustic details and imperfections - the hiss / fuzz of tape machinery, the creaking and clanking of the piano’s pedals, hammers and keys. Recorded by Shida and Elias Krantz in various Stockholm locations, the record was mixed by Hampus Norén and mastered at Calyx by Francesco Donadello (Jóhann Jóhannsson, Modeselektor & Tom Yorke, A winged Victory for the Sullen, Dustin O'Halloran, Lubomyr Melnyk, Hauchka, etc). 

'Shifts' is released on 130701 on 8th November on vinyl and digital formats. The EP will be released in Scandinavia via the Sing A Song Fighter label.

Shifts

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Shida Shahabi - Futō

Berlin based cellist and composer Anne Müller, announces the release of her long awaited debut solo album 'Heliopause'. 

Heliopause follows several Erased Tapes releases featuring Anne, including her celebrated collaboration with Nils Frahm titled 7fingers, appearances on Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm’s Collaborative Works, Nils Frahm’s All Melody and his acclaimed soundtrack for the film Victoria, Lubomyr Melnyk’s Fallen Trees, as well as the two bespoke solo pieces Walzer für Robert and Bel Tono for the label’s 5th and 10th anniversary box sets. In fact, a glance at  Müller’s Discogs boasts credits on over 60 releases since she began recording in 2007.

Classically trained at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts under the renowned cellist and conductor Michael Sanderling, Anne Müller performed as a cellist in many of Berlin’s symphonies for some time before choosing a different path with her music and focussing on novel approaches to classical instrumentation. A profound believer in the power of artistic collaboration, Anne’s skilled cello playing and instinctive composition became extremely sought after.

Following her work with Nils Frahm, an enduring partnership with singer-songwriter-composer Agnes Obel ensued, touring for five years together and featuring on two albums (Philharmonics and Aventine) and most recently, working with multi-instrumentalist Markus Sieber (aka Aukai) on his 2019 album Reminiscence. In between all this, Müller also co-founded the progressive live project Solo Collective along with violinist/singer Alex Stolze and pianist/conceptual artist Sebastian Reynolds, releasing Solo Collective Part One in 2017.

A solo record in every sense of the word, Müller wrote, recorded, arranged and produced Heliopause. The album is named after the boundary where the sun’s wind ceases to have influence. It is ultimately, the border of our solar system. The name struck a chord with Müller since the two voyagers sent on an exploratory mission 42 years ago, recently crossed the Heliopause, entering into interstellar space and losing power from our own sun. Müller recognised herself in this moment, not only approaching the same age, but also breaking new ground; having relied on collaborating with so many other stars and now venturing into the unknown with her first solo statement; “Heliopause marks the end of a long journey but also the start of voyages to explore strange new worlds”

Both as the closing title track and album as a whole, Heliopause crosses these physical and invisible borders throughout, sending the cello as a typically classical instrument to exciting new and uncharted territory.

· pre-order 'Heliopause' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/Heliopause

Heliopause

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Anne Müller - Nummer 2

「我看見身上的糖粉與糖霜好像會轉動，驚訝得說不出話來，那種既立體又平面的感覺，讓我好像走進某種結構裡，看著奶油在我身旁漂浮，時間好像停止了......。」
_姦姦 wacky-wackos

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