Oolite Bulletins

I do have a small admission to make; I have bad taste in music. That said I find it much easier to write to bad music.

Whilst writing my half of Rise of the Kirin (1,3,5,7,8,10) I'll leave you to guess the rest.

I found these tracks especially helpful.

Especially the space battle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqvV7L0R ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsShRmkR7BU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhAmug6Ts6o

There are others but, do you use music as a conduit for your creative muse?

ClymAngus wrote:

do you use music as a conduit for your creative muse?

Absolutely... Bach's piano music works best for me, but some Indian sitar music does it as well.
It has to be instrumental... anything with lyrics tends to distract me.

I like to write generally in near silence, but if I need distracting, "Classic Rock", Strauss Waltzes, Holst The Planets, JM Jarre (Oxygene mainly), Vangelis (either side of and including Chariots of Fire era).

Strings and Synth basically.

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Holst The Planets

I've loved this since I was a child of eight or nine... I can listen to Neptune, the Mystic on repeat, ad infinitum... ethereal beauty.

In a way, I'm pleased that Pluto recently got downgraded to a dwarf planet... the planetary Solar System now fits The Planets suite again.
The recent addition of a newly-composed Pluto to the suite was sacrilege, in my view.

I generally prefer complete silence to be honest. But instrumental stuff at a push, definitely no lyrics.

Cheers,

Drew.

I guess it depends on what Im in the mood for, I've done some very action-esque pieces to instrumentals from various movies. (Like the Transformers 2 soundtrack) I used to write ALOT for various roleplay forums, and was putting pages of stuff on the internet for a timelimit so that the story could continue with the other authors. This sort of co-writing while relaxed, could really wear on you, so I tended to listen to music just to keep me from burning out and such. After losing interest in such things, I tend to fall back on the pieces what I wrote my first story to.

Moonlight Sonata - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck



Goldberg Variations - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCuALWK6ZNg (The full song is like an hour long, I have it on my ipod.)

But yeah, classical works well for juicing the brain and whatnot.

Mostly I'm a metal head (decent stuff, not winey, faux epic, emo toss) but pretty much anything and everything.
Have to have a bit of metal on when writing an action scene.

Being a musician too, I find that I end up timing some keyboard hits to accents in the music what ever I'm listening too.

Opeth are pretty much my go to band for awesomeness at the moment, especially the album Damnation.

As for soundtracks, I love the main theme to The Black Hole.

!m!

I find that the soundtrack albums to Babylon 5 are the best music to write to. All of the Tarklin stories (first and second iterations) were written whilst listening to those.

If I'm writing a reflective piece then I find Vangelis' Oceanic is calming enough to get me "in synch" with what I'm trying to write. Unfortunately, it tends to send me to sleep...

Selezen wrote:

I find that the soundtrack albums to Babylon 5 are the best music to write to.

I tried looking for them on YouTube once to see if they were any good. Unfortunately I couldn't find any...

right now I'm listening to SolarFields Movement. Amazing Album. (search it on Itunes). This sort of music always bring me in a spacemood.

http://youtu.be/9EKYVNp_rgk