The Thief of All Sounds

Video description: Trailer for “The Thief of All Sounds.” 55 seconds. Title card with the words “Podcast Episode” and “Genre: Mythology” is displayed at top. Story tagline is displayed at bottom. Tagline reads, “An unassuming artifact in a small museum might be a powerful mythical object from whence all sound arises.” The title card and tagline fade. Digital drawing.  At center, a disc with a solid border, inside of which is a script that circumscribes the disc, and a figure in left profile from shoulders up, with pointed ears, mouth open, and eyes closed.  A small sliver of the disc has broken off and is missing near top right. Small cracks are visible over the disc’s surface. At the disc’s base sit three snail shells. Flanking the shells are two birds. A duck in right profile sits in a puddle at left. A songbird in left profile is perched on a branch at right. The bird’s head is turned away with beak open. Behind the duck is the funnel of a tornado. The original image is a rectangle. To make it square a border is added at top and bottom, rays of energy emanate from the background of the image and extend into these borders. A watermark of the word “Storyfeather” appears over the image. Subtitles appear in time with music and narration at the bottom: “There was a sound; it was called the ‘keynote.’ And just as a keystone holds all other stones in place in an arch, the keynote held all other sounds in place in the world. The keynote was also the sound from which all other sounds emerged. Even those who cannot hear experience sound in some way. They feel the beat of their own hearts or the rumbling of thunder in their skin and their bones. There is movement in waves of sound, sometimes subtle, sometimes profound. But without the keynote, there would be silence in the world. True silence.” Story title appears at top as the image blurs. Text box appears at center displaying the words, “Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher, and so on. Or listen on my Podcast page at storyfeather.com.”