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Original Passage Promotional Video Reel
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tobias tinker is the principal composer for the Broken Saints online series and DVD. He has also produced several live fully improvised solo piano concert CDs, and is an active member of the Berlin music scene... in his own words:
"Music is strongly connected to everything else that is important in my life. Music is my spirituality, or at least it is as close as I can get to expressing what I feel about the world spiritually. I tend to put a lot of emphasis on being 'open' in my playing, and on searching for those elusive moments when time stops and I realize I am playing things I have no idea how to play - the lightning rod effect... At the same time, my compositions tend to concern form and structure - and are thus perhaps less spontaneous, though hopefully not less 'organic'.
"As to 'biographical data', I was born and spent the bulk of my childhood north of Toronto, Ontario, in a tiny hamlet called Victoria Square - not much more than a few houses and a stoplight, really. Nice enough place, but the best thing about it was growing up with a close group of friends, a number of whom were and remain musically inclined and with whom I learned a fair bit of what is really important and powerful in my music today."I studied jazz performance, theory and musicology at McGill University in Montreal. I have lived in various parts of Canada including Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. I have travelled extensively, both on my own and with my partner Athanasia, in Asia and Europe (where I now live, in Berlin).
"I have written and performed music for film, video, dance, theatre and multimedia, and played in bands ranging from jazz, blues, pop and rock to worldbeat, Irish traditional, Balkan, Klezmer, and Egyptian belly-dance music. However, nothing brings me as much pleasure and fulfillment as the music I make for myself, and more importantly, for the sake of the music itself - not to serve any purpose except to bring something to life that wants to live, or that only lives in my mind's ear. That is the music that is showcased here..."
