This was made for my Music Production course at the academy as an exercise to practice getting more familiar with MIDI sequencing in the Logic Pro X (used the loop library). I am not fully happy with this but the intention is to be more forgiving to myself, and daring so I can evolve and get better at making music, therefore it is made public. 
I've had an interest in oriental music for a while so this is one of the first attempts at creating such a piece. I've tried composing for shakuhachi and koto before but this particular exercise made feel really inspired to get to know more about traditional music of the East, so I got the book "Composing for Japanese Instruments" by Minoru Miki which will be a great assistance for further works, as well as educating. Feeling excited to get back to my academic music studies, therefore I hope that more succesful pieces will arise (!!!) in the near future.
About the name - The term "Orient" derives from the Latin word oriens meaning "east" (lit. "rising" < orior " rise"). The use of the word for "rising" to refer to the east (where the sun rises. Also, many ancient temples, including pagan temples and the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, were built with their main entrances facing the East. This tradition was carried on in Christian churches. To situate them in such a manner was to "orient" them in the proper direction. When something was facing the correct direction, it was said to be in the proper orientation.

Orior

nature in art, and nature as art

“Music is sounds, sounds heard around us whether we are in or out of concert halls” -Henry David Thoreau, Walden.

“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.”  - Alan Watts

“Now as I’ve begun to learn the landforms, the light, the weather, the plants, and the birds of the desert, I’ve begun to dream of music that resonates with these extraordinary landscapes.” - John Luther Adams

The recordings took place in Pollok Country Park, Rouken Glen Park, and the forests of Arrochar and Ardgartan (Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park), Scotland.

Wild

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