Book playlists
A couple days ago, a reader posted a playlist for a series of my books, called "Glory/Damnation. The images are large, so I did the link instead of bringing it over.
It's so interesting to see what music people listen to while reading. Being a visual reader and writer, I've always used music as sound tracks. Back in the sixties, you had no control over what the radio would play; if you could afford it, you bought a record, and got up and put the needle over and over at the track you wanted. I remember once I was really sick, and this story spilled out of me while I curled up in a chair next to my dad's stereo, which we were not allowed to play. But as long as he was at work I played it anyone. I must have gotten up and down fifty times as I played certain tracks over and over while scribbling my pages over two days. I remember the black things kind of swirling at the edges of my vision--and wrote them into the story.
Some music inspired stories, some fitted themselves into soundtracks for writing or for reading. Like, I was reading Gone with the Wind, and Holst's St. Paul's Suite became its soundtrack. For Mary Stewart's Madam Will You Talk, Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain. Certain rock songs went with certain characters.
Over the years, I'd talk about this, and of course no piece of music that I fit together with a book matched with anyone else's. But that's fine--it's interesting to hear what others match with a text.
What music, if any, do you have permanently matched with a work?
It's so interesting to see what music people listen to while reading. Being a visual reader and writer, I've always used music as sound tracks. Back in the sixties, you had no control over what the radio would play; if you could afford it, you bought a record, and got up and put the needle over and over at the track you wanted. I remember once I was really sick, and this story spilled out of me while I curled up in a chair next to my dad's stereo, which we were not allowed to play. But as long as he was at work I played it anyone. I must have gotten up and down fifty times as I played certain tracks over and over while scribbling my pages over two days. I remember the black things kind of swirling at the edges of my vision--and wrote them into the story.
Some music inspired stories, some fitted themselves into soundtracks for writing or for reading. Like, I was reading Gone with the Wind, and Holst's St. Paul's Suite became its soundtrack. For Mary Stewart's Madam Will You Talk, Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain. Certain rock songs went with certain characters.
Over the years, I'd talk about this, and of course no piece of music that I fit together with a book matched with anyone else's. But that's fine--it's interesting to hear what others match with a text.
What music, if any, do you have permanently matched with a work?