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Ant Dakini

About Me

I am an Italian composer-producer-sound-engineer, classically trained pianist, punk guitarist and also a shark biologist.
Music and Science are the Yin and Yang of my essence.
I am the founder member of the electronic band AntiQuark.
In the 90ies I started and was the guitarist of the noise-punk hardcore band HEX (Italy).
I also compose music for film and work as a freelance audio engineer.
I am always looking for more work, movie scores, freelance engineering gigs (studio, live and lighting) and music collaborations.
I have more than 20 years of experience in the music-recording field.
Please feel free to send me your film or your gig offer and I'll be happy to look into it if it could be interesting for me.
My education includes a Master of Science in Marine Biology-Ecology, a Degree in Recording Arts and a Degree in Music Technology.
The best movies I scored include:
Litorra by Marc Sokolowski - 2006 - political sci-fi
Eclectic Shorts (Autumn) by Eric Leiser (audio editing) - 2006
La vita e' stupenda by Luca Pasolini - 2006 - horror
The Second Movement by Tarik Polansky - 2005 - horror
The Wetlands by Kenneth Jacobs - 2004 - documentary
In the Dark by Esma Toros -2004 - dark comedy
I am listed on the Internet Movie Database - IMDB
AWARDS:
Ant Dakini won the first prize in the 2005 Media Arts Award Competition - Audio Category (composer, engineer and producer) for the album Neon H.The award was sponsored by the Multimedia and Entertainment Initiative of the California Colleges' Economic and Workforce Development Program.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/24/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/antiquark
Influences: Ennio Morricone, Handel, the 70ies, the 80ies. All the beautiful music of all times. The Ocean and Nature.

One thing that really interests me is BioEnergetics.

I am really into experimenting with anything that comes in my hands and work with my empirical observations.

Sounds Like: The most beautiful soundscapes of the Universe!

Being also a shark biologist something that is very dear to me is what I call
"THE SHARK CAUSE":

Sharks are endangered all over the world.

They reproduce slowly and have a hard time recuperating their population levels after each year of relentless overfishing.

Image courtesy of WildAid www.wildaid.org

Also I wrote this book with Alessandro De Maddalena and Robert Smith.
Available in stores in the USA, at Krieger Publisher website and Amazon.com

Also coming out in April 2007 on Harbour Publishing "Sharks of the Pacific Northwest" the new book written by Ant.

Record Label: Balistika Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

ANTIQUARK INTERVIEW SAN DIEGO READER

It's at page 90 on the San Diego reader paper versionor you can get it at this link:San Diego Reader
Posted by on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:51:00 GMT

NEW ANTIQUARK INTERVIEW

There is a new fun AntiQuark interview for Raven Entertainment Promotions MagazineThanks so much to Heather Burke!!!
Posted by on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:12:00 GMT

SEMPLICEMENTE FANTASTICA!


Posted by on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:31:00 GMT

PREMIERE FILM IMAGINATION FRIDAY 13TH

This coming Friday the 13th, there is the premiere of the feature film Imagination by long time Ant's friend - director Eric Leiser. Ant has been working with Eric in the past and he and his composer ...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:36:00 GMT

ANT DAKINI ON A CANADIAN RADIO

Tomorrow morning, July 9th, 10:30 am Pacific Time, I'll be talking about sharks at CBC Radio - Public Broadcast - in British Columbia, Canada.If you are in the area please turn on your radio, it's goi...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:54:00 GMT

NEW SHARK BOOK WRITTEN BY ANT DAKINI

Coming out in April 2007 on Harbour Publishing "Sharks of the Pacific Northwest" the new book written by Ant.
Posted by on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:53:00 GMT

LITORRA NEW WEBSITE

Litorra the sci-fi movie with Ant Dakini's score has a new websitehttp://www.permanentvision.com/litorra.html
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:33:00 GMT

PIX - ANT - LITORRA - BEVERLY HILLS EVENT

Here we are at the Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills at the Film Fest for the screening of Litorra the sci-fi movie by Marc Sokolowski with Ant Dakini's music.It was a great event thanks to all of yo...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:43:00 GMT

ANT DAKINI NEW WEBSITE

http://www.geocities.com/ant_dakini
Posted by on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:07:00 GMT

LITORRA MADE IT TO THE BEVERLY HILLS HI-DEF FILM FEST

Litorra the movie with Ant Dakini's music got accepted at the Beverly Hills Hi-Def Film FestScreenings will be December 22-31, 2006 in Beverly Hills, California at the Fine Arts TheatreGo to the websi...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:59:00 GMT