ORPHIC ENDEAVORS

Thunder and Sparrow ::: New tune!

It took a long time, but I finally finished it. I've been working on it for a while. I kept going away and going back to it and today, I finally got it finished. It's inspired by Japanese traditional music. I'm not a traditional musician in any sense, but I love that style of music very much. The title actually came to me less than an hour ago. Today is the first time I thought of using a store bought sound in the mix, so I used one, a Chinese gong, that I bought a long time ago before I made my own sounds. I think it was just what the tune needed to sound right. It gave the sound a power it didn't have. Mostly it's a kind of string plucking with keyboard "orchestra/strings". I also added tiny bells, mostly to symbolize the sound of the sparrow. Of course, the gong is thunder. I think of "Thunder and Sparrow" as a story about a sparrow getting caught in a storm and being blown around in the branches of a tree. Now, if I just knew someone Japanese who could sing a few lines of a poem I would have a nice lyric, but alas, I don't, so, oh well. I hope you like it anyway.

Here it is: Thunder and Sparrow

Thanks for listening!
-Bonnie