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" I am honored to be part of the Yellowstone Wild through Time Docu-Music video currently in production by Carol J. Amore, Executive Producer & Filmmaker of Ancient Lands and Lives Film Productions. The VIPER, seven-string election violin invented by Mark Wood, will be used along with amazing wildlife( grizzly bears, grey wolves, mountain lions, etc), natural sounds and night skies to expand the dramatic story revealed in this film. Together, we expect to creatively collaborate to produce an award-winning film to inspire international and domestic audiences to immerse themselves in the natural world, especially America's National Parks."

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"Amazing and Awesome, Ancient Lands and Lives-Above the Grand Canyon Rims, is an original Docu-Music video that integrates dramatic music and images to tell the story of the Grand Canyon lands, Arizona's unique wildlife interactions and their young (including mountain lions and other predators/prey), its extreme weather conditions (monsoon thunderstorms/lightning) and the sacred indigenous tribal presence.

Improvisational music was composed and performed by me

with my award-winning seven-string viper violin which has the range of a full orchestra experience.  Each film chapter of this Docu-Music video has a powerful impact on a wide range of audiences and a compelling imprint to draw them to visit the Grand Canyon to see it for themselves."

 

Mark Wood, original member of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Emmy-Award winning Composer/Electric Violin Performer/Producer and 

founder/owner of ElectrifyYourSymphony.com

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Ancient Lands & Lives - Above The Grand Canyon Rims 

is a high impact and fast-paced short Docu-music video that embraces Arizona’s Grand Canyon wildlife experience through versatile animal habitats and its resilient pinyon-juniper evergreen trees on the Canyon's Rims.  Its vast colorful canyon rock formations reveal layers in geological time, dramatic thunderstorms with rising cloud formations, dark night skies (Milky Way Galaxy visible) and sacred tribal lands.

 

The emmy-award-winning composer-electric violin performer for this music video, Mark Wood, original member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, played his unique seven-stringed viper electric violin like a series of high-powered symphonic movements interpreting the Grand Canyon, portraying wildlife behaviors and reaching up into its ever-changing skies. His music inspires one's spirit.

 

Elusive Grand Canyon predator families includes mountain lions, bobcats, wolves, coyotes, gray foxes and even birds of prey

( American eagle, Golden eagles, Red-tailed hawks, Peregrine falcons).  Resident desert Bighorn sheep, mule deer and other wildlife are also part of the Canyon’s eco-system. These wildlife are often portrayed in Hopi stone wall petroglyphs thousands of years old.

In the Hopi culture, the animal Kachinas (Ka means "respect", china means "spirit") have been used as the introduction to

Film Chapters within this Docu-music video to create an interpretative window into their world.  

The Hopi craftsman carves each animal to represent its unique physical characteristics.  Just like a compass each animal

is viewed as a guardian to the North, South, East and West.

Mountain Lions- Guardians of the North

(intuitive, resourcefulness, fearless protector) 

American Badgers- Guardians of the South 

(fierce, tenacious, tough to fight off larger predators) 

Wolves- Guardians of the East 

(cunning protectors and alpha leaders in a social pack)

Black Bears-Guardians of the West

(strength, power and wisdom).

Sky Bird Kachinas of the American Eagle

Learn about Mark Wood's Foundation

ElectrifyYourSymphony.com

Electrify Your Symphony (EYS) is a music education phenomenon that FIRES UP students, teachers, and local communities by injecting a high voltage dose of energy and much-needed funding into a school’s music education program. This intensive experience boosts student self-esteem and motivation, increases school-wide, family and community engagement, and helps raise money for participating schools.

 

Created by international recording artist, electric violinist, and music education advocate Mark Wood, EYS accomplishes this by having our team of teaching artists work with orchestra, choir, and band students to put on real life, real world rock concerts at their schools, local theaters, or arenas; with ticket sales directly benefiting the participating music departments.