Wednesday, August 5, 2015

A Quiet Evening With A Few Friends

Yes, I'm going to finally update this monster.  Two or three years behind.  I've been busy.  Changing careers, ect.  Now looking for gigs, ect.  On with the show!
Overall theme is a dinner party with an assortment of characters from literary works.

Arrival. Short piece, (4:31).  Distorted guitar.  I was going for the feeling Popul Vuh got in "Nosferatu" when the carriage arrives at the castle.

Ayesha.  (15:36). Guitar loop, describing the young woman in "The Satanic Verses."

Conger. (7:42). A character from Phillip K. Dick's story "The Skull".  I consider this to be the best time travel story ever written.  A very laid back piece.

Zira. (23:04). The ape scientist in "The Planet of the Apes." Performed on bass guitar.

Billy Pilgrim. (49:32). The main character in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five".  A lovely theme for a wonderful book.

Rheya. (7:12). More bass guitar.  The wife that appears in "Solaris".

Bartleby. (38:17). Herman Melville's short story " Bartleby, the Scrivener".  Withdrawn and isolated.

Margaret Walton Saville.  (54:11). The sister of Robert Walton, of course.  From "Frankenstein".  As close to the emotions of the letters I could come.

Moon-Watcher.  (42:53). The ape in " 2001:  A Space Odyssey".  More on the Zira-based bass theme.

The Round Table. (1:20:15). A very long, quite circle of fifths.  The dinner music for this precarious group.  I hope to redo this theme sometime in the future.

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