Porridge.
Porridge is forever.

'n how did you manage t' burn water?

Eek.  You have my admiration.  Heh.

Matt Rhodes wrote:

I personally enjoy some good old fashioned Enya. That's what I listened to at least. To me she's always had an otherworldy sound, gothic and mystical with an overlay of peace. That's just my two cents :)

Except for an odd aberration now and again, Enya and Loreena McKennitt are my choices for fantasy reading.

Mm.  I love Tool and Perfect Circle, but I always seem to get on Steve Vai and Kevin Gilbert kicks.  I listen to so many different things, but it always comes back to those two guys, one of whom is *sniff* dead.

If you're looking for Celtic stuff, I picked up a CD on a whim by a group/guy called Llewellyn that turned out to be pretty good.

You know what makes really good background music for almost anything you're doing, though?  Pat Metheny.  I used to play Alpha Centauri for hours on end with Imaginary Days in the background, and now I can't listen to it without imagining little men exploring a red fungi-covered landscape...


Jaime

I totally agree with ya Matt. I love Enya's sound, and it especially helps to keep me focused when I'm drawing. I've never tried it while I've been reading before, but I'll definitely have to now. (c:
I also enjoy listening to another female singer, but I have *no* idea what her name is at the moment. She's got a gorgeous voice. Blah, when I think of it I'll post her name.

[ June 04, 2001: Message edited by: Mousie ]

I think one of the exciting things about the medium that shadowmarch is taking advantage of is how much just hasn't been thought of for it yet - music with reading is a great thing, made greater because it can actually be written specifically for the story. normally that doesn't happen unless the media has some form of video / film. what else could be introduced to this?

We would also be happy to have people do music (in addition to art and writing) for the site once we get the legal rigamarole dealt with.

In other words, we can't let people post stuff like that until we can make sure we won't get sued over it.  Because, unfortunately, that's the way it works these days.

when you say "do music," do you mean perform and record or do you mean write and have recorded?
i write music, and occasionally when reading i get ideas.

I have just read episodes one and two and they are really cool, but on the topic of music there are a lot of really talented artists out there writing module music (which you may or may not have heard of, lots of information on it at Modplug Homepage)
One artist who rights stuff I reckon could go really well with Shadowmarch is Warder (Vesa Norilo ) at Dreamhaven , He has some celtic stuff that suits the mood nicely.

Just an idea

Sliva

Ps Another artist with some in my opinion well suited music is
Gargoyle

[ June 15, 2001: Message edited by: Sliva ]

Dogface, very cool signature.

As for soundtracks, they are of course perfect for reading with as they are written specifically to go with some sort of story. I feel that soundtracks tend to be the closest thing to modern "classical" music.

The only problem with soundtracks normally is, is that they are intrinsically tied with the movie that it was written for. Unless of course you're James Horner, whose music sounds more or less the same for each soundtrack he's done, which wasn't a really bad thing, as he has a great sense of giving an epic scale to the music, until Titanic, which due to Celine Dion, I can never listen to!

Oooh, yes please! "Doable" recipies, no point in giving me a recipe for venison! Good venison is so hard to find these days, don't ya know! ;-P

No, but seriously, really cool. I'd love some doable recipies!

*Vildar grins at Paragon*

Our dream of a true VR experience of Shadowmarch can yet become a reality!
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