In Search of Summer - VIDEO

It's the first day of May. The first official summer month has begun, but summer is taking its time to arrive.

In the mornings, the once empty and silent forest is now filled with sound. The birds sing so beautifully that it moves me deeply. In winter, you don’t even realize how completely silent the forest is. Everything slumbers.

Now, it's impossible not to notice as the forest fills with sound. Forest birds, chaffinches, tits, woodpeckers, and the early sparrows all call out their melodies without hesitation, overlapping and crisscrossing each other. From the river, the swans add their own trumpet-like song to the soundscape, complementing the forest’s music. The wind—still so cold and harsh in its tone—hums in the background.

Somehow, all together, they sound so harmonious. Like a perfectly tuned orchestra at its peak.

I felt inspired in the early morning hours, listening to the forest’s own symphony. I lost myself in the forest for the morning, walking barefoot on the frost-chilled ground, searching for small patches warmed by the sun where I dared to take off my boots and wool socks.

Music started playing in my head alongside the sounds of nature. As the morning sun rolled to the other side of the sky, I sat down at the piano, playing and singing a mostly improvised song, which I added as the background track to the video. In the piece, I became a part of nature’s orchestra.

Together, I, the birds, the wind, the forest, and the still wintery spring morning created music.

❤ Sanna