Songs from My Room

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.