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Father of twins and novelist/filmmaker/musician
in New York on the
Upper Upper Upper Upper
Upper West Side.
People complain about musicals.
Nobody just stops in the street
I say you know the wrong people.
They say:
and breaks into song.
Story playlists
I finished my writing for the night, which really means I researched Cadillac DeVilles and Ruger Super Blackhawk revolvers, which really means I looked at pictures of cars and guns on the web. So I went blog-surfing.
Today at his new blog, Paul Guyot wrote:
When I was writing THE NIGHT MEN, I made a bunch of dark, ambient soundscape pieces because I couldn't find the right music for writing the night scenes. (The day scenes clearly needed no music.) More recently, I put together a playlist called MR. BURKE for a story called DEAD GRAY (which I just finished for the second time, and I hope there's no third). Mr. Burke is a somber type, and it's not a happy story, so the playlist was:
Ballade for Trombone and Orchestra—Frank Martin
The entire Fascinoma album—Jon Hassell
Subterranean Sky—Scott Gibbons
Legs Sequence and Swan Variations—Scott Gibbons/Soc Raffaello Sanzio
The Hassell and Martin are from CDs, and iTunes doesn't have them, so you can't hear them online. However, there's a bunch of Scott Gibbons' MP3s available for free at www.red-noise.com/downloads.html. If your idea of music is a beat and a rap, or a hook and a solo, this won't work for you. However, if you're looking for somber, or melancholy, or hypnotic, and you don't assume all avant-garde music must be yanking your chain, check it out.
I really like it.
It's not good workout music.
Any other writers feel like sharing their story-specific playlists? Not just the music you like to write to, but the music you chose specifically for a certain story.
And where did it stop working?
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Today at his new blog, Paul Guyot wrote:
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Anyway, I had the music for it. Perfect fit for my lead character, whose eyes the story is told through. Right tone, theme, everything. Then an interesting thing happened. As the script unfolds, the character changes. And when I got to a certain point in the script the music no longer worked. I couldn't write. Not on this script, anyway. So iTunes went to work and eventually (by accident, actually) I found the new perfect music and got right back into the script. This had never happened to me before but I thought it was kind of cool. |
When I was writing THE NIGHT MEN, I made a bunch of dark, ambient soundscape pieces because I couldn't find the right music for writing the night scenes. (The day scenes clearly needed no music.) More recently, I put together a playlist called MR. BURKE for a story called DEAD GRAY (which I just finished for the second time, and I hope there's no third). Mr. Burke is a somber type, and it's not a happy story, so the playlist was:
Ballade for Trombone and Orchestra—Frank Martin
The entire Fascinoma album—Jon Hassell
Subterranean Sky—Scott Gibbons
Legs Sequence and Swan Variations—Scott Gibbons/Soc Raffaello Sanzio
The Hassell and Martin are from CDs, and iTunes doesn't have them, so you can't hear them online. However, there's a bunch of Scott Gibbons' MP3s available for free at www.red-noise.com/downloads.html. If your idea of music is a beat and a rap, or a hook and a solo, this won't work for you. However, if you're looking for somber, or melancholy, or hypnotic, and you don't assume all avant-garde music must be yanking your chain, check it out.
I really like it.
It's not good workout music.
Any other writers feel like sharing their story-specific playlists? Not just the music you like to write to, but the music you chose specifically for a certain story.
And where did it stop working?
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