Timothy Cooper

Timothy Cooper is trying to construct a better world. His tools are his music, art and films as well as his job as the Executive Director of Worldrights, the human rights advocacy organization -- a career that has involved extensive travel, especially throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim. He titled his second solo piano recording East Wind because it was influenced by the people, culture, art and scenery of the Far East as well as the ancient mystery and compelling power of the Orient.

"I want to help our global society become more peaceful and harmonious, and one way to do that is to release gentle and positive music into the world," explains Cooper.

"I used the title East Wind as a poetic metaphor for the winds of change blowing from the Far East, bringing with them new sensibilities, an influx of trade and seismic global power shifts. The Far East is on the rise today and is of consequence. But on a simpler level, I also wanted to infuse the sound of an Asian wind into my piano playing – how that mercurial wind sounds blowing through bamboo forests at night, whispering across green seas at dawn, howling over the Great Wall in winter, tangling with the open fires of the Orient to make them burn brighter, and moaning with people's sorrow and pain."