#2: Music is for Seeing

Free Talk:

How many of you out there love music?  I do. All types of music.  A friend of mine, goldknight00, mentioned once to me, while we were talking about storyboarding for movies, that he felt like a sequence of images connected together is like music.  That's the best way he could think to understand it.  Sequences flowing visually.  That is music.

Perhaps that is so.  When I think of music, my head fills with pictures and movement - sometimes people, sometimes backgrounds, but always visual flow.  In some cases, I get glimpses of stories or actions that I have no idea what to do with. Sometimes, that very music is the inspiration for a scene or an idea.

I like to mix vocal songs with soundscape ones to create playlists for the stories running around in my head.  The monstrous ones (Shoki, Rainshadow, Telomere) have their very own playlists, each with a unique sound.  Shoki is fun and energetic and with an inevitable Japanese flare.  Rainshadow has more monotone vocals with "emptier" songs (more treble, less bass sound).  Telomere is...odd. Mechanical and desperate and maybe a bit electronic and experimental in places. Or sometimes, I just add songs that scream out a certain character.

I love collecting unusual sounds.  When I start making a paycheck again, remind me to peruse the less-loved areas in the music store.  The cultural, the classical, the international, the just plain quirky. Different languages are awesome, too. Please recommend something to me if you're thinking of it right now. I might eventually post some songs I have on my playlists, and tell you about why it relates to a certain story. But alas, my Internet runs slow like cold syrup right now.

--Erin


Doodle of the Moment:

Scraps of notebook paper, indeed. Drew this one in class, probably history, because my history teacher used to be awful. (My new one is cool, though - I can listen and get story ideas from him, thank God.)  This is Seria (SAY-LEE-AH) from Rainsahdow. She's a central character in the second part, but I like drawing her now because her design has a lot of impish movement. It's fun. Plus, she's small, so she fits well in the margins of notes.

--Taylor