Hallowe'en offering
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Moments ago I added an offering to my Beautiful Desolation blog that's a tip o' the hat to All Hallow's Eve and an acknowledgement of the crushing depression I've been experiencing over the past couple of days. Brain chemistry can be a bitch.
I've taken an 18th century poem by Lord Byron and added music I created through Garageband. The end result is a chilling piece that ought to raise the hair on your arms and give you that goose-walking-on-your-grave feeling.
Pop over and give it a listen. As always, I welcome your thoughts and considered opinions...
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Lisa Marie Basile says:
Happy Halloween!
Cliff,
I have to admit having a complete love for this. Not only is Byron wonderful, your work on Garageband is eerie and great. As someone who tries to create little odd works that usually don't end up sounding as nice as I'd imagined, you've really got it down. It really makes me feel like I'm walking dizzy in graveyard, or that someone's playing ghost EVP sounds backwards . . . Good stuff!
Happy Halloween!
Lisa
Cliff J. Burns says:
Your kind remarks
Lisa: I'm tickled you like the Byron piece. It's funny how things happen; I hadn't thought of that poem in 25 years and as soon as I played back the tracks I had recorded, "Darkness" leaped to mind.
Combining words and music is a relatively new approach for me but it has opened up fresh avenues of expression, allowed me to add dramatic highlights, theme music, a soundtrack for my oddball offerings. There will be more to come and I absolutely urge you to continue your own experiments in this area and to be patient, allow for accidents and happy coincidences, strange juxtapositions of sounds.
Write on, gal...
Lisa Marie Basile says:
Surely!
Yes, it was definitely interesting/beautiful/creepy — all the things of Halloween! I will continue reading (and listening.)
Lisa