With hundreds of photos and a couple of videos that I made during my hike I soon decided to make a video including my own music and share it on YouTube and Bandcamp.
The idea for the video was to capture the pure nature experience and to give time and space for the viewers and listeners to immerse in the beauty of the Colorado Rockies.
Well, the project got a bit out of control… I had to learn Premiere Pro, select and edit my photos with Affinity Photo 2. Also I put together some data for each day of the hike, searched for plant and animal names using iNaturalist, checked places and names of creeks, mountains, passes and more.
Soon after starting I decided not to make one super long video, but instead split it up into seven videos. The title for the whole series is:
Path of solitude
The first video is a dedication to some dear people that were and are important for my hike and the trail in general. The other ones telling a story in six stages, each stage reflecting a certain experience or energy I encountered during my through hike.
Since I am creating music for haikus for some time (joining the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge) I also decided to write a haiku for each stage.
Well, and finally each video should have a soundtrack that I created with my iPad and software tools (Cubase, Native Instruments plugins, Slate + Ash plugins, Arturia Pigments and many more).
So yeah – it took me months to get the first videos ready, and it is still an ongoing process.
Anyway – knowing that the photos, videos of the hike and my final videos are not perfect, I have finally finished the first two videos. I will write a little more about them in a separate post, but here’s the YouTube playlist and the Bandcamp link for the soundtrack.
More videos/tracks will be added when available (by the way – all videos are ready, but soundtracks are still missing for stage 2 – 6. Stage 2 soundtrack is about halfway done…)
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