One night, I dreamt about a lemur. It was an odd-looking greenish creature with a horned nose, nothing like an actual lemur. For I did not know what a lemur looked like, or had even heard of one. But upon awakening, the word "lemur" floated in my mind as if in bold typeface. I investigated and discovered this unique mammal, native only to Madagascar. This is what it sounds like.
A little QuickTime exercise I made in graduate school, borrowing images from elsewhere, filming some of my own, then adding text and effects.
I'm not much of a baseball fan, but I happened into a rowdy Market Street immediately after the Giants won the World Series.
I recorded these frogs while campling in a damp fruit orchard on the Big Island of Hawaii. For many days, I listened to their cries, and believed they were birds. Someone finally corrected me. I now learn they are an invasive species native to Puerto Rico. Many Hawaiians wish to exterminate them. I haven't found a way to incorporate their haunted chirpings into a project yet, but I'd like to.
My good friend Kerri Blackburn sings this song. We inherit this song from Native American ancestors -- given to me, Kerri and six others during a profound vision quest in the Valley of the Sleeping Bear this past summer. We don't know the English translation, but it proved to possess healing powers. The Lighted Bridge tells a story of healing as its main character Charlotte retrieves her memory and sense of self while recovering from an ancient drowning. This song may appear in future episodes.
I used this mournful sound in the "forest of books" scene when Pierre, the nightshift museum janitor complains, "The library is nothing but a felled forest."
I use this anachronistic musical element in Episode 1: The Diamond Key. It represents character Pierre's rebellious, disillusioned attitude.
I designed this brief sound collage for my website www.thelightedbridge.com
It would play when the mouse rolled over an image of a French flag floating in the river. But the flag didn't make the cut. We took the image and sound off the home page, as it seemed to aurally disrupt the viewing experience.
