Inspiration: Musical Stories
I will be the first to admit I have little musical talent. My parents and my brother all play various instruments - and have rather nice voices - but I've been left out of the gene pool on that side of music. However, classical music or film scores have been a passion of mine since I was young; I had more John Williams or Hans Zimmer on my iPod than whoever was popular during my middle school days (I'm hopeless in the contemporary genres). Around high school, I discovered online radio sites, like Pandora, which could offer lots of music I enjoyed while introducing me to new music. However, I also discovered that Pandora and Spotify are kind of annoying.
Then I discovered 8tracks. In a world of irritating online radio sites, here was one I actually had some control over. Here, I could create a real playlist that would then act as a radio: the actual songs aren't publicly listed, nor can you skip through more than three tracks at a time. I created the Creativity Mix first, which was shortly followed by now 81 playlists. At least 19 of those playlists are specifically for writing. I have a lot of fun developing playlists that tell stories, using instrumental tracks and scores. One of my most popular, Story in the Music: Book II, is below:
I have always needed background noise when I write and I find the most helpful noise to be storied music, which is what film scores and instrumentals are. All of these pieces were created to accompany stories; it seems only right that they help to create stories, too. Check out more of my lists here, and many others on 8tracks.
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| I. Just. Want. Decent. Music. |
Then I discovered 8tracks. In a world of irritating online radio sites, here was one I actually had some control over. Here, I could create a real playlist that would then act as a radio: the actual songs aren't publicly listed, nor can you skip through more than three tracks at a time. I created the Creativity Mix first, which was shortly followed by now 81 playlists. At least 19 of those playlists are specifically for writing. I have a lot of fun developing playlists that tell stories, using instrumental tracks and scores. One of my most popular, Story in the Music: Book II, is below:
I have always needed background noise when I write and I find the most helpful noise to be storied music, which is what film scores and instrumentals are. All of these pieces were created to accompany stories; it seems only right that they help to create stories, too. Check out more of my lists here, and many others on 8tracks.
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