Sonos - Sakura Quartet

4 members of Sonos Handbell Ensemble play "Sakura", arr. by Sonos' Artistic Director James Meredith.

"Sakura" is a very famous Japanese folksong and is here combined with a Change Ringing motive.

This is a demo video - Sonos will be working on recording a new DVD this year & this is the first installment of that effort.

Sonos members (l-r):
Michèle Sharik
Jason Tiller
Melissa Vainio
Jukka-Pekka Vainio

filmed at Hakone Gardens in Saratoga, CA

the videographer was Eric Thiermann of The Impact Media Group in Santa Cruz
http://www.theimpactmediagroup.com/

Category:

Music

Tags:

• handbell
• handbells
• sonos
• sakura
• quartet

[ladysun1969]

Thanks! The audio was recorded in a studio earlier that day. For the video shoot, we played along with the previously-recorded track which was played on my little boom-box.

In the last segment, when we are playing on the hillside, you can't see him, but our director is hiding behind the bush with the boombox. (We couldn't hear it from where the camera guy was standing.)

So, we *are* actually playing in the video, but that's not the sound you hear. Make sense?

:-)

[WoundedEgo]

The bridge says "decision" but the ding-a-lings all say "seize the moment" -- an interesting and disTURBING juxtaposition.

Good job!

[WoundedEgo]

Awesome.

[Stevibell]

Beautiful! The handle clicks are totally cool. Love the motion of the ringing/ringers, and the editing is a nice touch while still letting us see the ringers more than the scenery.

[DarcyJayne]

Lovely. How did you manage to get such clean sound on this?