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 The Floating World's Profile |
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One far moon, one frozen lake |
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| Location: | Ontario |
| Country: |  Canada |
| Last Login: | May 23, 2008 (588 days back) |
About Me |
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| The surface of the water mirrors many things ~Matsumi Kato _____________________ I know where my longing resides. Longing is like a river. No part of the river is the river. For a river flows. The river yesterday is no longer the river today, yet the river is there eternally. We can beckon but not describe it. ~Yukio Mishima _______________ Though Ive been writing music for over 10 years now, The Floating Worldas a fully realized conceptis relatively new. Its purpose is to act as an expression of that which cannot be spoken, of that which is unknowable through ordinary perception and indescribable in ordinary language. It looks beyond the seen into the unseen; it dwells beyond the illusion, existing in the ephemeral. The Floating World was a term used to describe a certain type of Japanese art popular in the Edo period (1616-1868), which arose as part of the emergence and increase of a merchant class in Japan. In Japanese, the term is rendered ukiyo-e, or Pictures of the Floating World, with uki meaning floating, yo - world and the final e denoting picture. The term ukiyo can suggest transitory as well, giving another connotation to this phrase. Besides this more common rendering, according to John Fiorillo, There was another character used to write 'uki', which means sorrow, grief, distress, or melancholy. When that alternate character was used in the compound ukiyo it meant sorrowful world and thus had Buddhist or religious connotations. As with the earlier term for 'ukiyo', it also implied a transitory world, but with the implication that the present reality was ephemeral, or an illusion, a preparatory stage before a more meaningful afterlife. Many writers have linked the two ways of writing 'ukiyo' as two opposites of the same perception of transitory reality, the religious emphasis being on the sorrow of daily life, the merchant emphasis on temporary escape and enjoyment. Neither view denied the pessimism experienced in an ephemeral world. The Floating World simply is. Imperfect and seeking. And thus, it will continue to be. ________________________ |
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My Interests |
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Music:Member Since: 7/14/2005Band Website: freyasbraids.net/thefloatingworld Band Members: Amanda Votta - flute/everything Influences: Night, Autumn, Spring, Winter, Summer, Fog, Clouds, Sky, Flowers, Rivers, the Sea, old graveyards and abandoned churches, Forests, Black Flowers, Symbolism, Decadence, Tea, Rain, Void, early early Morning, Dream, cats, the Moon, Surrealism, everything that does not exist Type of Label: None |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Ambient / Experimental / Other) |
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My Blog |
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Far Black Furlong/New Risen Throne News |
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| First, FBF
From Richard Moult's Gazetree site:
FBF now have a myspace site here.
We have contributed two tracks to 'Reynardine: The Visits of Mr Fox', an album compiled by Phil Legard and relea... Posted by The Floating World on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:14:00 PST |
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Two new songs |
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| Both with accompanying poems by my sister, Nicole.
Rose
Your lips are a rose
And petals for your
Skin
I followed you through
Dusk and watched you mov... Posted by The Floating World on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:34:00 PST |
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Lacus Somniorum (Gustaf Hildebrand and The Floating World) |
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| Lacus Somniorum is a new project I've been working on with Gustaf Hildebrand. We currently have four of our songs up on the Lacus MySpace page for you to listen to. I'm very proud of these s... Posted by The Floating World on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:46:00 PST |
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Dandelion |
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| "Blowing on the seed heads was once a way that revealed the time of day; as many times as it takes to blow all the seeds away is also the time of day. In other words, if one blows on the seed head th... Posted by The Floating World on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:47:00 PST |
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Secrets to the Sea news |
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| Secrets to the Sea is a project I have with Neddal Ayad from the does-------------------------From Neddal:Our song "Below" has been released on a cassette compilation called "Yellow Gold" by the fine ... Posted by The Floating World on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:41:00 PST |
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Review of River of Flowers (Foxglove/Digitalis) from Womblife |
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| Definitely one brige to the infinite, but perhaps more comfortably numbing is The Floating World, which features the sculpted flute and electronics if one Amanda Votta. "River of Flowers" is haunted a... Posted by The Floating World on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:52:00 PST |
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Review of Unda from The Unbroken Circle |
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| Amanda Votta is The Floating World an artist I first heard on Tim Renner's great 'Folklore of the Moon' CD series. Simon of label Barl Fire heard her music there too and commissioned an album of her h... Posted by The Floating World on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 03:08:00 PST |
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Review of Unda from DJ Astro at The Psychotropic Zone |
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| This is the first full-length CD-R release by Amanda Votto from Canada under The Floating World moniker. She has been making music for ten years now, though. The main (and often sole) instrument on th... Posted by The Floating World on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:44:00 PST |
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Review from Aquarius |
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| http://www.aquariusrecords.org/
Floating World, The - Unda (Barl Fire)From the same label that brought us The Lamp Of The Universe, James Blackshaw, Robert Horton and Rameses III comes the equally ama... Posted by The Floating World on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:24:00 PST |
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"Unda" now available from Barl Fire Recordings |
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| Released today on Barl Fire Recordings:It's with much pleasure Barl Fire Recordings announces the release of The Floating World - UndaTracklist: Rainfall, Beneath The Waves, River, Mirror Sea, Underto... Posted by The Floating World on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:42:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Lacus Somniorum, Gustaf Hildebrand, tara vanflower, Stone Breath, Far Black Furlong, Secrets to the Sea, the does, New Risen Throne, Sub Luna, Lycia, HypnosGirl, Nicole, NOPSE, nemeton, Sarah Ingraham, Kopka Obscura, Lua Nigra, amamania, Reichardt van Grieken, Atomic Neon, Stellar Auditorium, Aiwass Prophet, TANGERINE DREAM FANS ZONE, Alexian, 2-RD, The Crystal Unicorn, vedastus, FunerART - The Experimental/Ultra-Modern Label, Collapsar, Freya, onm, Lord oPEN, Lesmentor, Capt. Jas. Hook, IREZUMI, Dixa, imago meccano, nusuth, Jukijaimais, Opaque Lucidity, The Shangs, Deaf Marilyn Manson, ~Lost Gloaming~, ANARKIA / LOOKING FOR A LABEL, Ia Bjärgö, audioMER., TheQuB, Harmonics of Frequency Modulation, ~S’s Music Projects, stark, Lilith 480, Diskreetse Mango Trio, Astarte Syriaca
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