The Paint With Sound album came about as an audio painting of a trip through the beautiful Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National parks. Many hundreds of moments were enjoyed through a week of time wandering some of nature's most beautiful accessible lands.
The mountainside condominium in which I was staying was home to a large community of western sparrow birds. These small birds had lovely cheerful songs, and were delicate and light. Interestingly enough, even though condominium management had placed barriers to prevent the birds from nesting under the eaves of the rooftops, the little birds adapted themselves and used the barriers as a means to build stronger, warmer, more expansive nests. Nature always seems to find a way.
The Rooftop Sparrows tune is an impression of sitting out in the clean cool mountain air (on the condo's mountain vista porch) - and watching the sparrows come and go as they live their lives. Truly beautiful sounds and sights shared with them: gorgeous Rocky Mountain ranges, blue skies, and the sweet chirping of little winged wonders.
Rooftop Sparrows was recorded with the single setup of a Shure SM57 dynamic microphone combined with the built-in piezo bridge pickup of a beautiful red Applause Ovation. The Applause was used to record both the "color" sound in the left channel in the left channel and the song-melody in the right channel. The bass part was played with a wonderfully simple and easy-to-own Squier (built by Fender) Jazz electric bass. All parts were recorded via my old M-Audio MobilePre USB computer interface. I used GarageBand on my Macintosh desktop to capture and edit the music as I made it.
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