Music is service and awareness.
The Cloud Forest Symphony Project was born out of a personal experience. While traveling to Singapore, I went with my family to the Cloud Forest Biosphere. It was a magnificent installation, however I found myself being incredibly disturbed-it was too silent, except for the man made sounds of the reproduced Cloud Forest. At the end of the installation there was a flat wall of what a Cloud Forest was and why it was endangered. I felt no emotional connection to the Cloud Forests, globally, that are endangered. I returned to Delhi and discussed my experience with my strings students. I then asked them, “what if you could be the voices of endangered animals, trees, people or more in these Cloud Forests?”
For more information on the Cloud Forest Symphony Project, please visit our wordpress site at cloudforestsymphonyproject.wordpress.com, or our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLadlnFaNGsr29sn8pRpnMA and Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/cloudforestsymphony. The video you are about to see is our debut of the first movement of the Cloud Forest Symphony Project. All melodic motives and rhythms were created from research of specific indigenous and endangered species from Cloud Forests Globally. The audio recording is an excerpt from their piece.