This is not the post I’d planned, but I’m utterly taken with this music and just had to share. It’s another one of Lucas King’s piano compositions, and it’s called The Silent Place. It also happens to be perfect for a scene I just wrote about Death [Vokhtah 2].
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That’s beautiful. More sad than dark, in my mind. Maybe because I can’t not hear the moonlight sonata “in” this one. They are so similar in the way the are using the composition and the technique. I know the melody isn’t equally similar, but, still, that’s the way it “speaks” to me 😆
OMG…yes! I noticed the similarity to the Moonlight as well. It’s as if he used the Moonlight as inspiration and then went off on his own. lol
Much as I love The Silent Place, I’ve grown to love The Grinning Man more. Things hinted at in some of the earlier compositions really explode in The Grinning Man.
😁 Glad I’m not alone 😘😘
I love your choices in music more often than not (okay, to be honest, you’ve never suggested a piece I didn’t like, but just to be safe in case I forgot such a case 😇). I also don’t “live with a soundtrack, as some friends of mine describe their tendency to either have or imagine a music in every moment of their daily life, and, maybe, because of this I rarely search for new songs, so you are a very good source of them for me 😁
Thank you!!! 😘😘💖
[…] you can work out for yourselves because now I want to talk about this music! Widds commented in the last post about the bass notes of The Silent Place, and how it made us feel ‘wibbly-wobbly’. 😀 […]
I did think about it when I first published Innerscape. As part of my ‘marketing’ -hollow laughter- I gave away some of the music that had been most important to the story. That was when I discovered that most people don’t like the kind of music that makes my heart sing. They don’t /dislike/ it, but it doesn’t resonate with them so the effect is lost. Now I just post about the music that really grabs me as I write.
Yes, music is certainly a matter of personal taste. It’s not worth trying to convert someone if they don’t share your preferences. Mentions of music have found their way into my works, as you may recall. 🙂
March 23rd, 2021 at 9:16 am
That’s beautiful. More sad than dark, in my mind. Maybe because I can’t not hear the moonlight sonata “in” this one. They are so similar in the way the are using the composition and the technique. I know the melody isn’t equally similar, but, still, that’s the way it “speaks” to me 😆
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March 23rd, 2021 at 10:34 am
OMG…yes! I noticed the similarity to the Moonlight as well. It’s as if he used the Moonlight as inspiration and then went off on his own. lol
Much as I love The Silent Place, I’ve grown to love The Grinning Man more. Things hinted at in some of the earlier compositions really explode in The Grinning Man.
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March 26th, 2021 at 7:34 am
😁 Glad I’m not alone 😘😘
I love your choices in music more often than not (okay, to be honest, you’ve never suggested a piece I didn’t like, but just to be safe in case I forgot such a case 😇). I also don’t “live with a soundtrack, as some friends of mine describe their tendency to either have or imagine a music in every moment of their daily life, and, maybe, because of this I rarely search for new songs, so you are a very good source of them for me 😁
Thank you!!! 😘😘💖
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March 26th, 2021 at 7:42 am
-grin- you’re very welcome! I love it when something I love resonates with someone else. 😀
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March 26th, 2021 at 7:57 am
😘😘😘
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March 15th, 2021 at 6:59 am
That was lovely, Andrea. So deep and dark.
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March 15th, 2021 at 8:47 am
Every since I stumbled across Lucas King I’ve been itching to have the piano tuned so I can sit and play, just a bit.
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March 15th, 2021 at 10:09 am
Great writing music. Yes, play! I always wanted to learn to play the piano. 🙂
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March 15th, 2021 at 11:11 pm
lol – the poor piano hasn’t been tuned in years. But I am really really thinking about it. 🙂
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March 16th, 2021 at 1:19 am
I hope you do!
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March 14th, 2021 at 10:01 pm
[…] A dark song for a dark scene […]
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March 14th, 2021 at 2:51 pm
[…] you can work out for yourselves because now I want to talk about this music! Widds commented in the last post about the bass notes of The Silent Place, and how it made us feel ‘wibbly-wobbly’. 😀 […]
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March 14th, 2021 at 11:02 am
I wonder what it is about those bass notes that give us humans the wibbly-wobblys? … probably something to do with the low frequencies I suspect. 🙂
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March 14th, 2021 at 1:48 pm
Yes, they /resonate/ at the level of our stomachs. I’ll have another one for you in a sec. 😀
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March 14th, 2021 at 8:04 pm
Cool 😀
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March 13th, 2021 at 5:07 pm
Hmm. Dark indeed. Makes me wonder about that scene…
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March 13th, 2021 at 10:22 pm
-cough- it’s, um…dark. All I’ll say is that there’s blood and sharp objects.
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March 14th, 2021 at 3:15 am
Have you thought about including a playlist for readers, recommending music for specific scenes?
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March 14th, 2021 at 10:25 am
I did think about it when I first published Innerscape. As part of my ‘marketing’ -hollow laughter- I gave away some of the music that had been most important to the story. That was when I discovered that most people don’t like the kind of music that makes my heart sing. They don’t /dislike/ it, but it doesn’t resonate with them so the effect is lost. Now I just post about the music that really grabs me as I write.
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March 14th, 2021 at 10:44 am
Yes, music is certainly a matter of personal taste. It’s not worth trying to convert someone if they don’t share your preferences. Mentions of music have found their way into my works, as you may recall. 🙂
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March 14th, 2021 at 2:52 pm
Yes. It’s one of the many things I really enjoyed. Apart from the murder and mayhem, of course. 😉
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March 12th, 2021 at 7:38 pm
This music is gloriously dark and dramatic, perfect for writing drama…
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March 12th, 2021 at 7:54 pm
Isn’t it just? -dance-
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March 12th, 2021 at 3:49 pm
This is a very powerful piece of music, Meeks.
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March 12th, 2021 at 7:57 pm
It is. I’ve had it on repeat for hours today.
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