|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:20 pm
You should look up Yuki Kajiura. Lots of pretty music in .Hack//Sign, Mai Hime, and Elemental Gelade, among others.
Berz.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:02 am
I've seen .Hack//Sign being played before and it wasn't my kind of RPG to tell you the truth. I'm an epic fantasy fan, and through the years Nobuo Uematsu earned my respect through his fantastic Final Fantasy scores. Lost Odyssey's music is great, but it doesn't really compare to his other works.
Karl Jenkins is a very good classical artist for fantasy imagery. His style isn't to everyone's taste, and even I find some of it a bit too weird but there's a lot of his stuff that's really ME and works brilliantly with my imagination.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:49 am
DM_Melkhar I've seen .Hack//Sign being played before and it wasn't my kind of RPG to tell you the truth. Actually, I meant the anime. I'm not sure that Yuki Kajiura did the music for the games. Berz.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:34 am
Oh right. Not seen the anime. I'm not sure if it's my type of anime, but I can't tell unless I see it at least once. Don't know when that'll be though.
I find that I gather inspiration from: metal, classical, relaxation & new age, game & film soundtracks and sometimes the odd artist with one particular track from elsewhere. For example, Dread Rock from Oakenfold, and Reload by Rob Zombie - both of which were made for the Matrix Reloaded. There we go, I repeated myself. I already said game and film soundtracks...heh... wink
How about we talk more about what visions we get from the music we listen to. The topic doesn't seem to be going very far at the moment and there's no debate. Need a debate dammit!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:06 pm
I find that I'm a pretty cinematic thinker. Most of the stuff I imagine, I envision as what it would look like to a viewer if it was a TV show or a movie. I've even gone so far as to do rough storyboard sketches of things a few times, though that's pretty rare.
It may actually be a bit of a hangup in my writing, since I almost want to describe what my mind's eye is seeing rather than what the characters can see. It also probably accounts for why the music I listen to while I write has a bit of a soundtrack-ish feel, a lot of times.
Berz.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:07 am
I know exactly what you mean Berz. I'm exactly the same. I imagine things as though they're in a film or the cinematic fmvs of a videogame. I even put songs to certain characters and see a kind of montage with them.
There's a song by Kamelot (metal) called "Center of the Universe", which makes me think of fast action combat. However, there's a piece in the middler where it really slows down and a woman's voice is heard briefly.
At that part of the song, I imagine the entire battlefield still raging, but focusing one of the heroines (in-fact, the one my username is named after). Everything around her seems to slow down, the wind blows and carries her shoulder-length copper-auburn hair back. She's just cut down an enemy. She wears extravagant looking lightweight armour, but the entire landscape is full of death, blood and fire. That's a kind of montage-type image. A lot of anime fans do it. They put lots of clips together with a particular song, the same as the intros to most cartoons and the likes.
You can listen to it here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eI5f4YMArs
I don't know what the video is for. It's something called Eve and it's a science fiction thing. However, it's just the song I want you to hear.
Anyway, that's the sort of imagery I get from powerful music.
The lyrics - http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Center-of-the-Universe-lyrics-Kamelot/9A84B51997DD551C48256CE100134C1F
It's the last four lines where the woman's voice is heard, but it's abour 2 minutes and 50 seconds where it comes in.
---------------------------------------------
On the other note, I also like to see what the characters see. Heck, I've even had dreams where I've seen through their eyes before. One of them was really....umm...very uhh, kinky. redface
I tend to feel what my characters feel sometimes as well. Not full blown agony when they've been injured, but more the aftermath kind of sensation. I imagine what it'd be like and I sink into that sort of feeling. Despite it making me feel quite crap while I am thinking like that, it actually helps me to get inside their heads more and therefore makes it easier to write about them.
Should this be in the Writer's Circle do you think?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:42 pm
I might just take you up on that Berz. Yuki Kajiura, hmm? I hope I can find something on the playlist project so I can add it to my list if I like it.
Wow! This thread has sure gotten attention, huh? mrgreen
Now, should this be in the writer's circle, I'm not sure. Maybe... rolleyes
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:28 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:22 am
It's one of those topics that could go in either place, I guess.
Berz.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:56 am
Yeah, I suppose.
I've just been introduced to Enigma's BEST music. My uncle has a lot of their music and just transferred a load of it from his Archos device to my computer. Oooohh so much inspiration.
Voyageur, Temple of Love and Water (Creativity) are fantastic tracks for imagery.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:36 pm
I put some Yuki Kajiura stuff in the playlist on my profile for anyone who's interested in hearing it. Scroll to the bottom of the list. It starts with "Siren Song."
Berz.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:08 pm
I got the Final Fantasy AC soundtrack (something like 5 CDs!) for Easter (our parents know they have odd children, what can I say...) and I'm finding it very easy to write to that. Lots of good adrenaline music in there, I must say.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:56 am
I'm the same as Mel really.
Most of the music I listen to is the same as her tastes, but sometimes I get feelings from things that I have done.
But I suppose that music plays a big part in anyone lives, if you are writing or just listening to it for fun.
I'll post more with some songs I like when I get the lyrics and such.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:11 pm
I suppose that's why you and Mel are buddies, right Arcadia? mrgreen
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:40 pm
So I had something a little weird happen the other day while I was at choir practice. Usually, I'm really focused on the mechanics of the song and getting it right technically and how the director wants it for whatever performance is coming up. But I actually started to zone out on the music last week (we were singing a really pretty ecclesiastical song from the renaissance) and started getting story images in my head. I zoned out so completely that the director actually noticed and had to put me back on task a little (he's my Laurel, he's allowed).
I've never zoned out while actually making music before.
Berz.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
