tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post4393561831093606394..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Music tells us stories - Roz MorrisKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-31898818730210205502012-10-24T08:58:14.567+01:002012-10-24T08:58:14.567+01:00nice writtingnice writtingEnlightenmenthttp://www.enlightenmentcity.com/index.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-1693079129718652232012-10-22T13:40:05.229+01:002012-10-22T13:40:05.229+01:00Hi guys! Been away so I wasn't able to reply i...Hi guys! Been away so I wasn't able to reply immediately....<br /><br />Madwhippitt, I've never heard of writers using TV as background, but as Cole Porter would sayL anything goes!<br /><br />Dan, the character CD is a nice idea, especially with multiple narrators. Funny how music can be such an instant mental switch.<br /><br />John - yes, Jennie was indeed using S&G. I remember becoming hooked on it when I was a teen as well - there were some terrific story songs around. <br />And that's funny what you say about music structure and narrative. There must be so many parallels between the two artforms - repetition, expectations, themes and textures. When I was researching for My Memories of a Future Life I remember coming across an explanation of the various musical forms, which might have themes, developments, expositions, recapitulations .... all with recognisable counterparts in prose stories. Definitely looking forward to your Soundtrack...<br /><br />Hi Catherine - you've changed musical personality completely for your Ice Hockey book! What a difference - and I wonder how such a change of pace and mood might have gone down in the old days when publishers liked authors to bring out similar books every time. If you'd like to come back for another Undercover Soundtrack piece you're most welcome.Roz Morris aka @Roz_Morris . Blog: Nail Your Novelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088813423467048081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-34324609547538656092012-10-20T16:29:10.381+01:002012-10-20T16:29:10.381+01:00Fascinating to read about all these different expe...Fascinating to read about all these different experiences - and how music influences us all! Ice Dancing has had a completely different 'soundtrack' and I've been obsessively playing 'Hockey Songs' (We Will Rock You, Who Let the Dogs Out, Cotton Eye Joe, Nothing's Gonna Stop Us...) but especially in the car while I drove and did a lot of thinking. Lord knows what fellow drivers have made of this music emanating from my little blue Polo.Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-71283591880616192042012-10-20T13:21:28.920+01:002012-10-20T13:21:28.920+01:00I heard a famous short story writer interviewed on...I heard a famous short story writer interviewed on TV once, explaining why he couldn't write a novel, despite trying. Finally, he said that all his author friends who did write novels had a love of music (which he didn't have), and he wondered whether there might be a structure in a long narrative that is somehow analagous to musical structure.<br />I hope THE BOXER mentioned there as inspiration is Simon & Garfunkel's song...if so, I loved that song when I was 15, used to play it over and over...but it was as much the story told in the lyrics that fascinated me as the music.<br />Folk music has those old stories, which Simon & Garfunkel often tapped into...<br />But I remember being fascinated by those albums, like BAT OUT OF HELL,which came with the lyrics printed on the album sleeve...that fusion again of story and sound...<br />DIRK WEARS WHITE SOX by Adam and the Ants too (!)...had great little stories buried in each song...and printed on the album sleeve to read...<br />But then I think films should be brought in too...like Kubrick saying he found the music for BARRY LYNDON first...and then built the film up from there...sometimes each movement of an elbow or finger in that film is synchronised with the music...even down to a glance or pen signature on a cheque...orchestrated to beautiful music by Bach, Vivaldi, Paisiello, Mozart, Schubert...<br />Don't worry Roz...my UNDIE SOUNDTRACK won't be TOO pants...and is still a-percolatin' in da rhythmic pipeline! John A. A. Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613779477853664598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-1503825946755709772012-10-20T11:14:24.079+01:002012-10-20T11:14:24.079+01:00One of the things I've done for the one or man...One of the things I've done for the one or many question is use different soundtracks for different characters. I find, especially when I'm writing alternate chapters in different voices, that having a CD I always listen to for each character helps me get straight back into voiceDan Hollowayhttp://danholloway.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-13629649704018581802012-10-20T11:05:57.163+01:002012-10-20T11:05:57.163+01:00Being a tone-deaf philistine I settle for any back...Being a tone-deaf philistine I settle for any background noise as company - usually the TV! At the moment it's Time Team repeats.<br />Writing marvellous prose to evocative music sounds wonderful but is possibly beyond me ...madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com