I love the Symphony of Alive and aspire to make music that inspires deeper listening with Nature.

The way this deep listening tunes us in, awakening the senses to emerge into our evolving potential as sentient beings, is subtle.

It is said that a movie soundtrack is 50% of the experience. When we perceive the difference between living in the sphere of Nature's sounds or living in an industrial zone, and wonder about the effect on the human individual? Well, things start to open up in terms of collating shared advocacy in caring for our Earth. We can become more emotionally intelligent in our activism.

I’ve learnt that when I record frogs, they will go silent if I arrive with excited or focused energy—wise, as perhaps I’m hunting. So I regulate my vibration and enter their world gently, almost nonchalantly - responsible for self and aware of the ripple effect of my presence.

A state I call Love Walking—not excited, nor in fear, but simply in joy and wonder at being alive and caring about responsibly co-creating well in this existence. The frogs respond in kind and within a short amount of time we are happily being ourselves in each other's presence. They continue to sing. 

By reverently embodying my intention we can co-create.

When I’m mixing the music - arranging, layering, playing with effects - I feel Nature’s endorsement in the way the birds, frogs, insects, and other critters outside my walls, begin chiming in. It was exciting when I first noticed this sing-along and soon learnt that if I paused my track to record them they would all stop. The moment was a recognition of togetherness.

Everything is an instrument in this beautiful sing-along - I consider the technology that I work with, learn the device or software parameters, and acknowledge their influence on the sound wave. I participate in the reality that Music is a collaboration, an expression bigger than any of the parts. 
Copyright is about attributed ownership and recompense, a gentler perspective is that it is about credits and rewarded authorship.

To me, owning original thought is an antiquated concept, in denial of the in-between through fear or hubris. It’s like giving permission for colonisation rather than praising willing presence where the participation in forever is collectively acknowledged. 

Rewarding the active collaboration of cooperation is a given when the health of the whole is the motivation.

This way of thinking removes the middle man taking cash for adhering to manmade rules of branding, marketing, and distribution. Systemic whirlpools keep humanity stuck in the destruction of clean air and fresh water. Clutching cash, stealing creativity, rather than revelling in, giving back, and contributing to shared abundance. 
Nature is not something outside of us.
We are Nature—one expression among many co-creating in the great unfolding of life. When we recognise this, we shift from dominance to participation, from human-centric extraction or exploitation to the mutuality of interrelationship.
Frog species attrition rates and the horrific statistics around water pollution are frightening.

It is in this hypersensitive space that all our actions matter. I hope that by fostering the emergence of heightened individual senses our relationship to the outer world may become infused with the kind of intelligence that actively, passionately, tirelessly, works towards a harmonious existence. This also means holding up the mirror and looking after our corporeal selves. Balance. Remembering the space of rest and reflect, dignity and elegance - chewing and caring. 

Co-composing with Nature and the otherworldly Muse - that space in between often known as the Zone, where time and space expand into engagement with the Flow - gives me a sense of joy and grace that I’m beyond grateful for.
The perseverance, patience, and persistence required to learn these skills, are congruent with my individual need for gentle wise evolution.

All these qualities that horses taught me as a young person for the healing of interspecies trauma.
Trust fostered by enthusiastic and willing Love.
The space of Intuitive Interspecies Communication.

 

Frogs are known to science as 'canaries' of the water’, they are environmental indicators that signal the health of our coexistence.