Elemental Soundscapes: feeltone Company ARIA Video (and behind the scenes of filming with the feeltone team in Germany)

We Play Well Together's Creative & Community Director Joule L'Adara traveled to Germany to work directly with our instrument builder the feeltone, helping to create a series of videos for our Elemental Soundscapes instrument collections. Here is our latest video for: ARIA (The Air Collection in A-minor tuning.)

It's hard to believe, but it's been nearly two years since this video project series was shot, with raw footage captured for all four Elemental Soundscapes Elements within a couple weeks' time. But we've been slowly working on the video edits and have been sharing them one by one over a period of many months. 

We're happy to now present you with the ARIA Video for our AIR COLLECTION just in time for the warm Spring and Summer months! You can watch how a group of people may co-create sonic storytelling by weaving the different timbres of sounds in and out of each other building up to a dynamic interplay when all the instruments are sounded together - followed by a release back into stillness. With our matched intuitive instrument collections, any group of musicians (or non-musicians!) can create profound sound journeys by playing with one another (and solo practitioners may also weave these sounds together as all the instruments are "made to match"). Watch now! 

A Collaboration between feeltone and WE PLAY WELL TOGETHER, this video is the third of a series of four videos featuring the elements (Watch also: AQUA and TERRA with IGNIS coming soon...) 

Here for your enjoyment are some behind-the-scenes photos of the video shoot day that started with with the hillside of a windy meadow in the Mecklenburg region of Northern Germany: 

The cast and crew schlepped instruments and recording equipment up a hill - including WE PLAY WELL TOGETHER's Joule L'Adara (who traveled to Germany from the US for this project) and feeltone founder Ingo Böhme was not above carrying gear.

               

Katharina Vadersen scouted out this location and created the set decoration concept with flags blowing in the wind. Flags first had to be strategically placed throughout the field: 

Audio Engineer Mo brought up the Audio gear in a wheelbarrow, to set up a remote audio engineering booth powered up by solar panels: 

The team in Germany playing instruments in this video are: Martina Gläser-Böhme (creator of the feeltone Monochord Training) on the feeltone Monolina A, Daniel Schuh (Director of Marketing for feeltone) on the Hokema Sansula in A-minor, Joule L'Adara (We Play Well Together's Creative Director and US feeltone trainer) on Zenko Drum Aria, Ingo Böhme (founder of feeltone) on the feeltone Monolini, and Katharina Vadersen (feeltone Marketing team at the time of this video shoot) on feeltone Tinka Tong Aria. 

Maik Riobort directed the video as well as worked the camera (providing much creative inspiration and keeping us laughing with his fun flair.)

and his daughter Anouk (Martina's granddaughter!) danced in the wind with all her grace: 

As this was the last film shot of the 4 "Elemental Soundscapes" videos, there was much rejoicing when the film day finally "wrapped" (bringing to an end a week of daily video shooting!) 

After all the shooting was done, the team put out yummy food and had a picnic nestled in the tall grasses:

 

...and enjoyed rest bathing in the light of the summer sun. 

A DIY video project, this video series was a labor of love that took a lot to plan, shoot, edit, and finalize. We hope this video inspires you to play well together with others and to know what is possible when all the instruments in our Elemental Soundscapes collections are played together. 

Connect to your winds within through our Elemental Soundscapes ARIA Collection.  Shop "Air" instruments below...