Dreamy Music

 

 

As a continuation of the "Containers of Music" idea, I'm revisiting recorded music's intimate connection with cinema, and in context with my current album, photography as well.

The editing of film is very similar to recording and mixing--so it is logical that they would have similar effects on memory and emotion--in which sound and place are encoded: Music can remind you of specific places and events (even places in books), and specific places can remind you of certain pieces of music. Internalized music ("ear worms") play as "soundtracks", similar to hearing music in dreams.

I've written many pieces of music based on ideas I've gotten in the dream state, and all have required confabulation: Remembering a dream requires making a storyboard and script, and for dreams that have sound, a score as well. They never sound like they do in dreams once you get it into a production.

In my view, films by David Lynch are very close to the fragmentary nature of dreams, and his non-linear style accurately depicts their cinematic quality, including the sounds within them.

I've recently finished a track titled Bronson Tropics, a place in Southern California, in which I used a clip of David Lynch in the character of a DJ doing his daily weather report as a cameo.

In terms of "containers", guitars serve that function: They contain the breezy sound of this particular dream/movie taking place on Bronson Street in L.A.

My blabs on this topic:

https://anchor.fm/lee-barry/episodes/Containers-of-Music-e13da56

https://anchor.fm/lee-barry/episodes/Containers-of-Music-Continued-e13iano