fantasies and imaginations

BaldFriede wrote: Hangedman wrote: for some reason whenever apocalypse in 9/8 comes on (from suppers ready) i always visualize an aerial fight between two hawks. And who wins?

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.

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.

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

Most Ozric Tentacles albums set off several explosions of psychedelic fireworks in my head.

Edited by Keke

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. 

Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe 2, evokes a summer night on the beach for me.

Edited by Dragon Phoenix

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?