fantasies and imaginations
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Topic: fantasies and imaginations
Posted By: BaldFriede
Subject: fantasies and imaginations
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 11:22
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We are just listening to Dvorak's "New World Symphony", and I can't help myself, some of the themes evoke an image of "Here comes the cavallery" before my eyes. Which raises the question: Which other (instrumental) music, prog or not, evokes images before your eyes? -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
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Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 11:31
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Tangerine Dream - "Phaedra" certainly has an underwater feeling. I can't help thinking of an ocean, really deep and murky waters, with horrible monsters lurking around.
And Brian Eno - "Music for Airports". The music really reminds of a guy playing a piano at a totally empty airport at a totally empty city. It's actually quite scary too, since it also reminds me of the Stephen King movie "The Langoliers". |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 11:34
| Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe 2, evokes a summer night on the beach for me. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 11:35
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I always associate "Phaedra" with crawling spiders, probably because I saw a tv-movie of animal filmer Horst Stern about spiders that used "Phaedra" as background music. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Logos wrote:Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 11:44
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Both of Änglagård's albums remind me of a huge, dark forest near my
family's cottage where I used to play around as a child.
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Posted By: Hangedman
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 12:07
| for some reason whenever apocalypse in 9/8 comes on (from suppers ready) i always visualize an aerial fight between two hawks. |
Posted By: Keke
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 12:09
Most Ozric Tentacles albums set off several explosions of psychedelic fireworks in my head. 
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 12:16
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And who wins? ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 13:41
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Almost everything I listen to. Music is a huge source of inspiration
for my writing and artwork and is a great way to kick my brain into
gear - one of the first things I look for in music is something that
evokes imagery. A few favourite albums though: Krakatoa - We Are The Rowboats (which helped me script my first short film). Alamaailman Vasarat - Käärmelautakunta (A big source of inspiration for one of my plays - THUNK) Ozric Tentactles - Erpland (My favourite painting album) Robert Wyatt - Shleep (Played almost incessantly whilst working on my short play "Errata") One of my main projects right now is a novella which is using all sorts of music as sources of inspiration and letting the colours flow in my mind. Right now Taal's playful album Skymind is making its presence very known in the manuscript. It's adding a lot of character to the concluding parts. And for those of you who want to know what writing "under the influence" of prog can seem like, feel free to look at my websh*te, sorry - site: www.trouserpressings.co.uk |
Posted By: Dreamer
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 16:03
I'm not really a visual person never see much unless i really try to...
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 16:14
| I'm not synaesthaetic (sp?) but I can often see colours when listening to music - more in orchestral music than anything else though. I can't think of any examples of specific scenes though, except maybe the second half of Empyrium's "Weiland" album, which is mostly instrumental, which really does conjure up woodland for me. That might well be because I'm expecting it to, though. |
Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 17:16
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Nine Inch Nails - Closer to God... this morning about 6am... ------------- THIS IS ELP 
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Posted By: Hangedman
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 18:27
To be honest neither, but in the context of the song it can work. They both loose thier lives (and in the whole mesiah/anti-christ theme the album has i suppose it could work, the good giving its life for the followers). I couldnt tell you the distinction between the good bird and the evil one. Kind of a grey area good and evil are anyways. Another Image comes to mind, With Echoes by Pink Floyd it brings to mind sitting with a loved one at the top of a cliff staring over water. I visualize a lot with music but its often different everytime I listen. |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 19:33
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During the Wurm section of Starship Trooper, I always think of outer space and how empty it is. And then when Steve Howe's solo comes in, I see him playing it and then the song ends. |