Avigail
period: 2008 -> the future
website: http://www.avigail.tk
e-mail: info@eevonext.com
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Avigail
Avigail is a twenty-something female Dutch citizen, who has made music
for as long as she knows. She's been mainly influenced by the music she
hears. Like the music her parents listened to when she was young
(though she cannot recall what it was), and maybe also in the music she
studied during her early age piano lessons (including East-European
composers like Bela Bartók).
What she sounds like? As she puts it herself: "my music sounds like me.
It does." However, some people prefer a description of something they
can relate to (already). For those people here are gathered a few
artists who might be considered to sound like her: Radiohead, Björk,
Tori Amos, Enya...
Avigail started composing stuff at the age of ten; short pieces for the
piano written down by her piano teacher. As she grew older, she started
to write "songs". She wrote many of them, one song called "Frozen" even
participated in a Dutch national contest when she was fifteen, and
what's more, she made it into the finals. Unlucky for her it remained
unselected for a final lineup; it was found to be unmatchable with the
other songs (and it didn't even sound like the Madonna song, mind you!).
Serious stuff started to happen when Avigail turned sixteen; she got a
synthesizer for her birthday and was finally able to record and mix her
own music. Avigail has been doing this for over five years now, and you
can listen to the results on this website and her myspace. Making music
has recently become a rewarding business. Last fall her song The Other
Side won the audience award in the 100% AF-contest and thus provided
her with Digidesign's Mbox2Pro, Protools LE and the Music Production
Toolkit.
Avigail's songs are about life as she sees it. She will never explain
her thoughts by using just the proper words to name things. She paints
her view on things with metaphores consisting of words and sounds,
creating, as she puts it, 'a landscape of meaning for those who are
willing to listen to this melancholic with a huge smile on their face'.
Nowadays Avigail spends her days studying musicology at the university
of Utrecht, making music and trying to expand her music business.
