Orphic Endeavors is Bonnie Gardiner, a thirty nine year old mother of three, the youngest of which is non-verbal autistic. She has been recording music since late 2000. She began with just a microphone, a tape recorder and her computer, but over the years she has collected equipment and now has a decent but small recording studio set up in her home. She still records all of her own sounds with a tape recorder and transfers them to the computer for use in the music.