ORPHIC ENDEAVORS

Recently I've been posting Orphic Endeavors' music everywhere I can think of. The demise of first Mp3.com over a year ago, and now Besonic (and apparently IUMA as well), and Amazon.com kicking off everyone not willing to pay to give away their music for free, has forced me to look around for other places to bring traffic to the Orphic Endeavors' site. So, I put music up wherever I can for free with links back to here in the hopes that folks will download more of the tunes. In the process I'm having to write and rewrite over and over the history of Orphic Endeavors. So, I decided maybe I should have a little more detailed history here for people to read if they're interested.

I began Orphic Endeavors in late 2000. What I wanted was cool spooky music to listen to while I wrote the story "Fortress" which, at the time, was so much scarier than the kind of tame version I have up on the site now. I was in pursuit of creepy, eerie sounds that would help me to stay focused and in the mood to write the story. At the time I found very little. The truth is I really didn't know where to look. I hadn't been using the internet very much yet at the time and hadn't discovered all of the independent musicians that I now know are everywhere. Meanwhile, my husband had bought a program to use to create some fun techno music (he is a guitarist and keyboardist and has been in several bands over the years) and I decided to try it out and take a crack at creating the music I wanted to listen to while writing "Fortress". So, Orphic Endeavors was born. Only a few months later did I upload my first tune to Mp3.com and from there other places all over the internet. What started as a simple rearranging of prepackaged loops and sound samples has become a monster of composing and creating synth sounds and recording my own samples of everyday life. I no longer use any bought loops. All the sounds you hear are created by me for Orphic Endeavors. I've used everything from my husband's guitar to a metal lamp I bought at a thrift store. Sounds you hear in the tunes come from boat rides, rain storms, waiting at my kids' schools in the parking lot, plastic bottles, wind chimes hanging both in the house and on the front porch, etc. I carry my tape recorder (and my camera) everywhere.

So far I have created four "albums" for Orphic Endeavors, the first three being MP3.com albums and the last one was at Cafepress. (There is currently a new one in progess, "The Midnight Girl".) I've sold exactly one to a guy in Germany about three years ago. I guess it's because I usually give away my music for free, so why would anyone take the time to order one? But I continue to put these things out because I've always had hopes someone would buy a t-shirt or something to help promote Orphic E. (A link is good too.) For now though, I am happy to give the music away. I'm happy people seem to enjoy it and I hope something big will come out if it all someday. In the meantime I'm still cranking it up everytime I settle down to write something spooky. Try listening to some of it while reading "The Rabbit Hole". See? Yeah... That's the feeling. :D

Thanks for downloading and listening and leaving me feedback.
-Bonnie

By the way, if you want to link back to Orphic Endeavors' page, please do! I would be thrilled! Also, if you like banners I have two banners I created, one static and one flash.

Static Banner

Click to see flash banner