The Soundtrack

Mark Lewin · 10 Apr 2007, 01:28 · from 2007-April.txt.gz

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From: mark.lewin at gmail.com (Mark Lewin)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:28:20 +0100
Subject: (urth) The Soundtrack
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So very, very, interesting.

I've always looked back upon various moments of my life and had the
soundtrack to match.  All my favourite books have been accompanied by a
soundtrack, of sorts.

But I'm a latecomer to GW.  (At the venerable age of 37.)

And, I'll be honest ... I've never encountered an author who didn't
*immediately* give themself to some form of musical accompinment .... until
GW.

I've thought of a few relevant tracks (as aforementioned).  But none with
any conviction.  And there are lots of other authors (Vance, Moorcock,
Leiber, Lovecraft, Ashton-Smith, Avram Davidson, etc) that lend themselves
very well to some form of accompaniment.

But not Wolfe.

On 10/04/07, Recursive Loop <recursive_loop at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings:
>
> For me, it sometimes takes a long time to find music that fits a
> particular author, or a
> particular action. Sometimes it happens by accident and is so perfect it
> is scary.
>
> In particular I think of Steve Roach's album "The Magnificent Void". I put
> a bunch of his stuff on
> mini-discs (remember those?) and brought them observing with my telescope
> once.
>
> What an experience. I thought I was falling into the telescope and merging
> with the globular
> clusters that I was observing. I've rarely experienced such intensity when
> listening to music.
>
> Some music (e.g., King Crimson, Dire Straits) have become "road music" for
> me. My parent's live
> about four hours away, and with my father's rapidly declining health I'm
> on the road to visit a
> lot. I either listen to a Patrick O'Brian book on CD or play "Brothers in
> Arms" (Dire Straits),
> various King Crimson albums, Yes, etc.
>
> (Folks like Roach and Rich and a few others are dangerous on the road.
> They can lead to
> self-hypnosis, especially in wild weather, heavy snow and the like!)
>
> Fred Kiesche
>
>
>
>
>
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