My Son Krsna Nathan

My Son Krsna Nathan was born on October 4, 2015 by waterbirth at 2:10pm.

https://www.facebook.com/angelikvelayo/videos/10207942172901997/?theater

Today it's his 2nd month here in this planet and it's our first time to collaborate a painting which is mostly painted by his feet.

knitey 2 months old photos: photographed by me. :)

Being Close to Bobby Balingit of The Wuds - Punk Icon of the Philippines

The first close connection I had with my Idol Bobby Balingit front man of the band "The Wuds"  was on August 2014 when he invited me to attend their spiritual kiirtan in Laguna, Chaitanya Mission, which also has an outreach program NGO - Haribol Fiesta. I respect their music because it was spiritual punk, and FYI= before krishna-core got into europe they are already doing such kind of music here in Philippines so they are known in the underground scene also internationally for it.

Photo above is the picture of the Kiirtan / spiritual music chanting, I see Bobby Balingit as a very family oriented and loving to his kids, He is playing the koto instrument with his daughter Sita, the sweet 4 years old youngest child of Bobby.

During our first chitchat we talked much about philosophy and spirituality I experienced closely how he is a brilliant minded composer/musician/writer. weeks passed by and he invited me to work with him to share ideas in the books that he is writing, also to perform collaborative music with him and his band Planeta ng Ngiti. Then September 2014 He invited me to come with him and his band to baguio to attend kidlat tahimiks event in ILilikha Artist Village for Baguio Day.

Photo above shows upfront artist: diyosa doing fire dance. while I'm at the back of bobby balingit doing improvisation vocals.

Above is my photo while I enjoy chalk drawing on the street floor.

We wrote together some excerpts for the book of Bobby Balingit " Way To Bhutto"  we talked about music collaboration and since his book ibana is under Axis Art Baguio, and there's also a lot of reason about the beauty of such name we decided to use the name for the music band we founded, Ibana is composed of Bobby Balingit, Omni Saroca, Yvette Billy and me-Amiya.  We usually bond and record together in Omni's place and in Garaeh Shelter for Art and Music. We had some gigs in an Art Exhibit, Pre Sunrise Festival Event in Intramuros then also in baguio.

Above is a video, of the pre sunrise event in Intramuros manila on September 2014. The video quality is poor sorry it was just from my cousin joana velayo's phone, I cant hunt the guy who did a good quality hehehe...

Some of the performance videos posted by others are really hard to find for now, some are recorded by film maker Raymond Pangan in this link - https://www.facebook.com/108ram/videos/vob.100003962183194/10204063817774659/?type=2&theater

The most amazing noble artist cause that Sir Bobby Balingit is heading is his music therapy session with special children. He is the 1st one to ever do such in the Philippines and reported to give very good cognitive results to children of ALS. photo below shows one of the session, The Children are not to be exposed so this blurred distant photo is just nice to post.

To Age Like Wine - A poetry i contributed in Espasyo Siningdikato

In every tik tok of mi clock, I no longer question who play dice…

For destiny leads people to the inevitable change..

I saw the Old man who is bitter with life,

I read his trauma and his dark vision glassed by past.

I saw how he fought hard for his material attachment,

why go fearful when heart's heavy?

The coin switched in a split second.

I saw another Old man who looks like a hermit.

I wonder how his fearless charm comes out so gentle?

Every gesture and word is wisdom treats..

His open mind dances with the changes.

He's like a gamer and his humour never dries!

his warmth makes me want to listen more and more..

To every experience he had as an alchemist..

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This precious poetry i composed was offered to the 1st volume of ESPASYOZINE  Published by Espasyo Siningdikato, Inc.

Copyright 2010

Espasyo SIningdikato was founded and headed by Lirio Salvador who is currently in his sleeping physical body condition, incident was reported by GMA News. 

yet his inspiration still lives on with all the artists and people he helped and are all waiting for the time he'll be awaken. 

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Hearing different stories from artists who had a close encounter with him are all telling how great he was not just as an artist who can create great art from transformed recycled materials but also a life alchemist... and yes the world needs more of those who can think of recycling rather than the usual culture of filipinos in throwing garbage anywhere. 

Eco Echo 2013

I remember those times when I was in college (yr2005) where I used to conduct rock events at night which lasts till 4am in the morning so for this year 2013 I wanted to make events again but this time I want it to be for a better cause, So what I did is I created a concept which I named "ECO ECHO" It is to enunciate the need for voicing up by means of art and music the environmental and social need for utilization.

I'm very grateful that Sev's Cafe allowed me to conduct the first event in their place, also for the help of Musiko Imbento c/o Cris Garcimo Co. , Jean Paul Zialcita who had a wonderful drum circle session to open up the event and close it, also for our amazing fire dancer Manashii Sotelo and for all the kind people who was there as I organize this simple event which turned out to be a fund raise for Yolanda Typhoon Victims.

To see more about the events highlights in ECO ECHO you may visit its facebook page here at https://www.facebook.com/pages/ECO-ECHO/1438011043092749?fref=photo If you like its concept please do like and support the cause. Thanks :)

To put highlights on my performances during the event, At the beginning after the drum session by Paul Z, I conducted a zen chanting open jam, where I'm happy my artist friends pagibig and ricardo helped me out with the microphone and chanted close to me and also played instruments. The chant is an Improvisation prayer to ask the spirits to align us close to goodness and may it do the same with the Yolanda Victims.

Here's my Photo during the time I led the improvised chanting...

While some and more of the photos can be viewed here - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1457681357792384.1073741828.1438011043092749&type=3

The next performance I did was with the band I newly formed a month ago, named: Sentient Waves, they helped me revive my very old compositions.

Sentient Waves Members are Eric Dy: Lead Guitars, Ralph Velayo: Bass, Peter Mamayson: rhythm guitars and Patrick Ramajo:Drums..

Here’s the video of the revival of my old song: Honey, this is basically my song of healing before when I felt like having paranoia.

Power of A Prayer : A Mandala and Ambient set by gentle universe and me as the one setting the mandala and doing the prayer for the Yolanda Typhoon Victims.

Typoon Yolanda/Haiyan is one of the terrifying tropical cyclone ever recorded that hit Leyte (Tacloban city) Philippines, It happened in early-November 2013 and horrifically killed a lot of our fellow filipinos. In times like this our greatest armour is a prayer because as how nature is naturally as it is and God is the only one in control I will always have faith in being spiritually prayerful in every circumstance...

This was the 2nd time that Cris frontman of Gentle Universe invited me to lead a prayer and set up the mandala with his instructions regarding the flowers and candles he prepared for that day :)

I feel honoured to be part of such event and happy to be remembered by such kind family oriented band to be part of their performance :)

Here's a video recorded by my brother ralph, as I conduct the prayer and mandala session. ( Sorry for the poor video quality for I was only using my iphone and theres not enough light as well..)

Before the mandala session, we also played a song collaborated by me and stanley (gentle universe musician) it's entitled Baby Bear, It was a song he once shared to me while I was chatting with him in FB and I reverted it back with my voice recording and some improvised lyrics I inputed, It's a story of a Big baby bear that is exploring the jungle. You can also hear that music via stanley's soundcloud page - https://soundcloud.com/stanley-castelo/baby-bear-voice-and-letters-by

Doodling.

Photos above are few of my doodles which was exhibited many years ago, the one 1st on top entitled: Doodle of my mind was exhibited during our Inwardbound Art Exhibit which happened last year 2010.  The next photo below it is entitled: Staying Still, which was exhibited last year 2011 on our Universe Manifesto Exhibit.

Ever since childhood I already love doodling its a free style approach in understanding my self and communicating to my inner self like " Hi self, what's kept in your subconscious? Is it good for you and others? does it empowers and strengthen you? what's our plan to make things better dear self? "

I have also researched some other techniques in doodling to make it more efficient to the diverse society. this website: http://enchantedmind.com/html/creativity/techniques/art_of_doodling.html is very well detailed in explaining the effectivity of doodling.

I love how it stated few excerpts: (know more as you click on its link)

It is well established that much of our creative expression is birthed in the unconscious mind. To use creative expression and solutions in your everyday life, it is necessary to dip into the unconscious at will. Doodling is one way of doing this.

Doodling allows the unconscious to render in symbolic expression. Symbols have universal as well as personal meaning. When you are stuck for an answer to a problem or looking for creative innovation, the technique of doodling will unleash the hidden symbolic powers of the unconscious mind. Symbols are a universal means of expression. Regardless of culture or geographic location, certain symbols have similar if not exactly the same meaning across the human spectrum. Carl Jung pioneered the investigation of symbols as archetypal attributes of the collective unconscious. He realized that the universe projects itself to our unconscious minds symbolically, utilizing imagery to transmit ideas that language cannot. Symbols are the universal language.

Improvisation Vocals Artist - Amiya...

As a simple girl who loves to explore music of different genre, and for being a child who loves making voices and sings in her own style in different sounds she can hear, autistic as it may look, I found a way to really experiment, vocalize and be creative in the path of honing my style. My influence in meditation made me sensitive and intuitive in expressing my vocals during an improvisation jam without any preparation, rehearsal or school education in music I can jive with mostly any sound specially electronic and synth sounds. Though I've been Independent in composing my songs with my minimal music knowledge and materials, I can also Improvise my self each time I do underground folk indie performances which started after My college ska post punk/experimental rock (Rainy Lullaby) - college band disbanded.
Back to Improvisation vocals, I'm grateful for some improvisation collaboration jam with bands such as Gentle Universe, Cosmopolitan Smoke Stabs and Firefly logic.

The Videos below are some of my early takes in vocals improvisation collaboration jam.