Three years ago, I watched a student film ‘Sun Dog’ on ISFVF(International Student Film and Video Festival). It’s my first time to see such wonderful natural view, and I was deeply fascinated. Last winter vocation, I traveled to Stockholm, Sweden for one month, which is the earliest recorded place in history where a sun dog has appeared. Fortunately, this rare natural phenomenon was really happening just on the second day I arrived there, and I couldn’t never forget how shocked it is.

Inspired by these experience, I want to create a sound piece, same name as the film ‘Sun Dog’. My story in the piece is about a snow mountaineer trying to show his devotion to the gods by pushing the limit of himself. As he was almost dying, the sun dog appeared, the sky was illuminated, and finally he was answered and baptised by the gods. I will also sample some melody of Swedish Folk Song, using as a childhood memories recall that echoed in his mind as he was dying.

From Wikipedia:

Aristotle (Meteorology III.2, 372a14) notes that “two mock suns rose with the sun and followed it all through the day until sunset.” He says that “mock suns” are always to the side, never above or below, most commonly at sunrise or sunset, more rarely in the middle of the day. The poet Aratus (Phaenomena, lines 880–891) mentions parhelia as part of his catalogue of Weather Signs; according to him, they can indicate rain, wind, or an approaching storm. Artemidorus in his Oneirocritica (‘On the Interpretation of Dreams’) included the mock suns amongst a list of celestial deities.

While mostly known and often quoted for being the oldest color depiction of the city of Stockholm, Vädersolstavlan (Swedish; “The Sundog Painting”, literally “The Weather Sun Painting”) is arguably^{[citation needed]} also one of the oldest known depictions of a halo display, including a pair of sun dogs. For two hours in the morning of 20 April 1535, the skies over the city were filled with white circles and arcs crossing the sky, while additional suns (i.e., sun dogs) appeared around the sun.