Ambient Music Conference 2014

This seems like a great way to start your summer if you are in Scandinavia:

The Ambient Music Conference 2014 will be held in Helsinki & Espoo, Finland from June 27-28, 2014. Live ambient music will be combined with educational speakers in a spectacular venue. 

More than just a concert, it will be a total ambient music immersion, a chance to hear great ambient music but also an opportunity to meet and network with fellow enthusiasts. We have brought together some of the best up-and-coming international ambient talents, along with established local names, together with educational speakers, in an amazing venue. Located in the heart of forests and lakes, part of the front wall of the auditorium can be opened up to give a view of the stunning scenery beyond, providing a spectacular backdrop for musical performance.

More info and tickets: www.ambientmusicconference.com 

New song: The Lightest Touch

Frozen

Frozen from Alf Pilz on Vimeo.

Music by Ed Haydon, vocals by Andrea Krux.

Today I listen to...

... another favorite from Soundcloud, Fabrizio Paterlini.

New Free Download: Sonder

I found this amazing new word on the blog The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig:

sonder

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

Read about more new words you didn't know that you needed on www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com. And a big thank you to John Koenig for kindly letting me use Sonder.

This is a free (PayWhatYouWant) download on Bandcamp: www.imifal.bandcamp.com

The Wing

The swedish actor and writer Kent Andersson died a few years ago. I live and work across the street from his home theatre, Aftonstjärnan (The Evening Star) in Göteborg. Many of us go through difficulties in life, making us feel curtailed or diminished. For several years this poem by Kent Andersson have given me new insights on these feelings.

The Wing 

We all walk around with just one wing
that we can not fly with
which becomes a burden to us
that we have to conceal.
We probably would have been able to fly
if not all self-appointed superintendents,
schoolmasters
and all of the practical, tactical,
zealous, critical,
anemeic, academic
wrongfinders with a lecturing tone
had said:
you surely can not fly!
Stay on the ground, you one-winged bastard!
And if you even dream of daring
with a single wing beat
to test your ability to fly
we will take your wing one day!
We all go around with just one wing,
a dream, a longing, a song.
What if our wings were to
fly together again!

Petroglyph Music: Christmas Album

For the second year in a row Petroglyph Music has released a christmas album, and this time I am one of the contributors. A whopping 156 tracks of ambient music will be a fine way to start the new year! And please check out their other releases too - they have some very fine ambient music there.

"Petroglyph Music is a new Norwegian netlabel (2012) created by Rune Martinsen and Øystein Jørgensen, focusing on Ambient/Experimental music and the subgenres/fusion genres of Ambient Music".

http://petroglyphmusic.com