I've enjoyed becoming a member of The Writer's Community on Google+. There, I've found a wonderful group of people in various stages of writing careers. One of them (Gabriela Gotay) shared a great post about the playlist she used for inspiration when writing her book, "The Forever Maybe." This got me thinking about the influence of sound and music on one's writing and I thought I'd begin a series of posts titled, "Sound Advice" that essentially aims to make musical recommendations around a subject or genre of writing. The posts will provide links to the music on Amazon and brief commentary on what imagery or concepts the music conjures in my mind. Hopefully there's something that sparks the imagination along the way.
Today's Sound Advice is going to tackle "The Future." Whether this is a utopian, dystopian, near, far, alternate or projected future may influence certain aspects of the following list but all tracks evoke (at least for me) a sense of what lies ahead of us.
Without further ado: Sound Advice - The Future:
Today's Sound Advice is going to tackle "The Future." Whether this is a utopian, dystopian, near, far, alternate or projected future may influence certain aspects of the following list but all tracks evoke (at least for me) a sense of what lies ahead of us.
Without further ado: Sound Advice - The Future:
Track Title | Artist | Imagery / Concepts Conjured |
Holla Mears | Made in Heights | Augmented/Synthetic Characters, Searching, New Consciousness |
Song | Kidstreet | Hacking, Creating, Urgency, Specialized |
Deep Garden | Darshan Ambient | Desert, Flying, Post-Apocalyptic, Caravans, Overgrown Abandoned Cities |
Event Horizon | Jens Buchert | High Tech, Spaceships, Autonomous Equipment, Shiny, Stealth, Espionage, Heist |
Milan to Alessio Top Down | Patrick O'Hearn | Space Travel, Zero G Movement, Swimming, Utopian Hallways, Looking through a portal onto a new realm |
The Furniture of Time | Darshan Ambient | Moving Forward, Invention, High Tech Laboratory, Rapid Transport, Leaving the City of the Future for a Bright Countryside |
Light Through The Veins | Jon Hopkins | Traveling Through Space, Creating Artificial Intelligence, Tomorrowland, Time Passing Quickly into the a Utopian Future |
Think Tank | m-seven-activate | Newborn Consciousness, Synthetic Discovering Something New, Post Apocalyptic Journey |
Sedona | Erik Wøllo | Lone Wanderer in a Future Without Technology |
Paral.lel | Near the Parenthesis | A Transportation Hub, Digital Transactions, Communication, A Creator's Eureka Moment |
Melissa Juice | Boards of Canada | TRON, Virtual Space, Simulation, Biosphere |
Beautiful Feeling Feat. Taz | Sounds from the Ground | First Encounter, An Awakening, Breaking Free of Preconceived Notions, The World Reborn |
Triangle (retriangulated) | Bluetech | Dystopean Society, Shopping in the Bazzar or Found Tech, Jungle Planet, Laboratory Experiments |
Phoenix Rising | Bluetech | Synthetics Performing their Duties, Assembly Lines, Night Club for Synths & Humans, Giant Storage Facility--seed bank, data archive, or cryo-preserved people |
There are many more than just 15 tracks to be shared but figured this sampling would be a decent way of gauging interest. As always, if you have comments, suggestions or praise, please use the comments area of this post.
Comments
Post a Comment