Antony Raijekov

Infobox musical artist


Name = Antony Raijekov
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Background = composer
Birth_name = Антони Райжеков
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Origin = Sofia, Bulgaria
Instrument = keyboards Computer Generated
Genre = Lounge
nu jazz
Trip hop
Occupation = musician, actor, programmer
Years_active = 1997 — present
URL = [http://tony.cult.bg/ tony.cult.bg]

Antony Raijekov (Антони Райжеков) is an artist, composer and open culture activist from Bulgaria. Since 1997 he is producing mellow downtempo-style music which he distributes under the creative commons license.

Profile

Antony Raijekov is a young artist who works in the field of theater, music, audio-vision and contemporary interactive art. In 2001 he graduated from ‘Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theater and Film Arts’, subject Drama Acting and after that graduated Drama directing also. He is co-founder and chief editor of open-culture.net web portal, dedicated to Creative Commons, open and free culture in Bulgaria, also he is co-founder and member of executive council of Open Projects Foundation [http://openprojectsfoundation.org/] .

MUSIC

Antony Raijekov has five releases: “Acid is Gone”(2003), “VIEWS” (2003), “Hammondsville” (2004) and “Point of View EP” (2005 @ Stretching-Spaces.net [http://www.stretching-spaces.net/] Bulgarian Creative Commons net label) and “ Sound Fish" [http://disfish.com/index.php?action=show_artist&artist=51] (2005/2006) @ disfish.com [disfish.com] . All his music and works are under Creative Commons licenses. He worked with Ventzislav Dikov [http://dikov.cult.bg/] (guitar, kawal player and painter) on contemporary ethno-jazz album “Sounds Around You”. He is a member of ccMixter [http://ccmixter.org/] Internet communityFor his work he has been awarded the Electronic Music Award in the category ‘Electronic and computer generated music’ on the 16th international competition ComputerSpace 2004, ‘Musician of the month’, July 2004 by the ctgmusic.com music community and the WEB-BG prize for July 2005 for the open-culture.net portal. Since beginning of 2007 he is member of contemporary jazz/regge band ‘Popara’.

THEATRE

2008 A:part:mental art space, Bulgaria - ‘RETURN’ based on Harold Pinter`s ‘Old Times’ - director

2007 Nation Theatre ‘I. Vazov’, Bulgaria - ‘Krapp’ based on Samuel Beckett`s ‘Krapp's Last Tape’ - director and composer of the music-environment for the performance;

2005 Art-space ‘Hambara’, Bulgaria - ‘NightSongs [http://www.night-songs.info/] ’ by Jon Fosse - actor & composer

2003 PCC ‘Slavianska Beseda’, Bulgaria - ‘The fireplace’ by M. Minkov - producer, director and composer of the music for the performance;

NEW MEDIA

2003 / MEDIABOX - interactive audio-visual triptych, awarded in ComputerSpace 2006 digital festival competition, special priz

External links

* [http://tony.cult.bg/ Official homepage]
* [http://myspace.com/raijekov mySpace page]
* [http://ccmixter.org/people/zeos ccMixter page]
* [http://ctgmusic.com CTGMusic page]

ources

http://ccmixter.org/media/people/zeos/profilehttp://www.ctgmusic.com/artist.php?id=1659http://www.last.fm/music/Antony+Raijekov/+wikihttp://night-songs.info/nightsongs-team2.html