I’ve been doing a lot of creative type writing lately – thank dog – and music is an integral part of my writing process, so I’ve been actively hunting for tracks that ‘talk to me’. This is the latest one I discovered on SoundCloud:
This music defies easy description. The closest I can come is to call it ‘atmospheric’, but more in an emotional sense than in a ‘world’ sense. It kindles emotions…in me, emotions that fit the characters I’m writing about.
The Vokh and iVokh know pleasure and pain, hatred and fear, honour and betrayal, and some even feel intense loyalty and protectiveness towards each other, but none of them feel the softer, tender emotions we humans take for granted.
To write the character of an iVokh, I need to feel the dark emotions it experiences, and for that I need dark, haunting music, like this.
Hope you like,
Meeks
March 27th, 2021 at 7:20 am
I like this one too, Andrea. I almost had to flip to my WIP and start writing!
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March 27th, 2021 at 7:34 am
Mwahahaha! My work is done. π
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March 27th, 2021 at 7:37 am
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March 26th, 2021 at 10:59 pm
Very moody! I like the way the layers build up as the track goes on.
I love it when I find music that matches my characters. It quite often happens by accident – I’ll be listening to music while I’m writing and I realise the track that’s playing goes perfectly with the scene I’m describing. Synchronicity!
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March 26th, 2021 at 11:11 pm
Yes! That’s exactly how I ‘found’ The Silent Place and The Grinning Man. Then I went looking for more and found this one. High Five! π π
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March 26th, 2021 at 8:38 pm
Good writing music.
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March 26th, 2021 at 11:12 pm
Thanks, Mick. π
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March 26th, 2021 at 6:15 pm
This track is nice and relaxing! I often look for music I can work to (although sometimes a bit more upbeat to drown out my office-mate/husband’s international calls π ). Atmospheric describes this well, and I can see how it would be a good backdrop to write characters with deep emotions. I quite like Soundcloud — it’s definitely a better source for this kind of ‘Indie’ stuff than Spotify.
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March 26th, 2021 at 11:18 pm
lmao – you need your own office! And I’m glad you liked it. SoundCloud has become my favourite place for music because there are so many brilliant artists who are just starting out. Most are superb musicians and composers, although possibly not ‘commercial’, which is a pity.
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