Music I'll never quite hear again....

[brooksmoses]

I was just looking through my MP3 collection, figuring out what to listen to next, and pondering aimlessly that I didn't really know what I wanted, although something vaguely theatrical might be nice.

And then a train went by, off in the distance, the whistle sounding like a breathy wooden flute, and then again with a lower note from a different Doppler shift. A plane overhead put in a harmonious low organ note, adding up to a bit of slightly mournful melody, my imagination filling in and following it. A worker outside bumped a bucket of spackling compound, sounding like the beginning of a gentle drum rhythm to layer on top of the melody. It all had a sort of echoes-of-nature feel to it, sort of like some of the Myst soundtrack. And it was exactly what I wanted to listen to.

But then the train was gone on its way, no longer a wooden flute; the plane on its way, no longer a pipe organ, and the spackling compound bucket no longer a goatskin drum, and the music no longer ever existed at all.

And I don't think I really have anything at all like it, either.

Comments

[larksdream]

You are either a totally awesome guy, or I want some of whatever you're smoking. Maybe both. :-)

[oldsma.livejournal.com]

::appreciating aural imagery::

On a practical note, you might want to check out the album Trä by Hedningarna, available from Northside Records. It might suit you in your next similar music emergency.

MAO

[leback.livejournal.com]

And then a train went by, off in the distance, the whistle sounding like a breathy wooden flute, and then again with a lower note from a different Doppler shift. A plane overhead put in a harmonious low organ note, adding up to a bit of slightly mournful melody, my imagination filling in and following it. A worker outside bumped a bucket of spackling compound, sounding like the beginning of a gentle drum rhythm to layer on top of the melody.

*swoon*

(I think I'm swooning more at the writer than at the image itself here, but there's a bit of both in there.)

[kiya]

Well, he is indeed eminently swoonable, so.

[kiya]

Is this the part where I look smug?