”She sits on a hilltop, staring off at the snowy peaks of a place that might as well have be anywhere to her. The way the sun shimmers on the land’s white coating may be the closest thing she’s ever had to peace.
Her legs ache, as if tired from a long journey, but no memory remains to inform how she’s arrived here. She looks back at her life and only sees the shimmering snow.
The light blinds her eyes as she struggles to map out the terrain. She quickly admits defeat.
Unused to the climate, she shakes violently to stay warm. The sensation is nothing new to her. She’s always saught warmth wherever she could find it, even in violence.
The grey in her hair tells of a life she can hardly remember.”
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This was supposed to be saved as a draft, I don’t know why it was posted but since it was I might as well explain it.
I’m working on a new project of stories and songs. I’ve written both stories and songs before but I’ve never written them as a set, though it’s something I’ve always thought about.
Out of the 200+ demos I have recorded, there are many I want to develop into full songs and I wanted a theme to start with.
The overall theme is something I will keep a secret now, but the way I am putting this together I can share.
When a song inspires an image that fits within the theme, I will write a short story outline about it.
This was the first half of an outline for one story, inspired by one of the demos.
After the story is written, I will develop it in two directions.
I will write lyrics based on that story. And from there I’ll rewrite the song.
I’ll also flesh out the story to share later in a collection of stories.
Once I have a few of these stories/songs, I’ll release them as an EP or even an album if there are enough of them and an acompanying zine.
As I expand the styles I work with, it feels more and more important to try and bind these songs together to tell a wider story or to create a collection with a specific purpose.
Of course I could release an album of songs barely related to each other as many people do but I have always been more interested in work that hits on multiple levels.
I’ve never really seen the point of sticking to the typical format of an “album” but if it develops into something more powerful than just a collection of songs it makes sense.
I was cery into prog rock my last year of high school and I loved the way so many albums had stories they were trying to tell. Some of them were a bit too obscure to understand logically (Mars Volta, I am looking at you) but the music itselfcould express the flow of events in a way that made sense even if it was completely up to interpretation.
I’ll share more about this project soon, I wanted to gather more before I shared anything about it so I’ve gotta get back to work!
