Tue, 06/14/2011 - 17:43
I’m interested in the way your physical environment affects your song writing. I have spent the last seven or eight years writing songs in the northern Nevada desert. Now I’ve moved to the mountains and all I can write about is cold and snow.
Anyhow, if you are 5090ing from an arid or semi-arid region of the world, chime in so I can listen to your songs.
Tue, 06/14/2011 - 20:21
#2
I'm from New Mexico, and all the smoke hanging around lately has given me a few ideas...
Tue, 06/14/2011 - 23:02
#3
Well, I know that FAWM tends to be rather difficult for me, because I have to do it in the humid heat of February. Humid heat tends to sap my will to do much of anything.
Wed, 06/15/2011 - 03:01
#4
Hmmm. ALthough my part time dwelling in deserts is fading as the work opportunities wither up and blow away, there's a lifetime of it built in,and it does affect what I write or create. It also creates a duopoly (?) with a water, and beaches, and rivers, and lakes, and boats fixation all the more intense. Perhaps I should finish the Coopers Creek Suite. But then there's the far older (to me) fixation with hills and snow, rather than plains and heat I grew up in.
[edit] hence this hybrid. http://youtu.be/sFAyI-K-u6s
The song is "Flight", from a FAWM or 5090, don't remember, but it was supposed to be a sequence of the Strzelecki Track through the Strzelecki Desert (South Australia)--that's what was in mind when writing it. As you can see, it isn't!
Sun, 07/03/2011 - 23:11
#5
I grew up in Adelaide, which has a climate that has been described as Mediterranean by others - hot summers up into 40 degrees C and occasionally a little hotter, but then relatively mild winters where it might go below freezing overnight if you're really really lucky - but no snow. I can't say that the weather has ever really affected what I write though. Perhaps I have more of a tendency towards happy songs at FAWM time because it's still summer.
Mon, 07/04/2011 - 04:41
#6
i'm in scotland. we've barely had a summer so far, though this week it's fully kicked in.
I think my enviroment is more about all the stuff i'm doing and how busy i am and being certain places at certain times though, rather than the temperature or humidity. I think in hot weather i'd write fewer songs though.
Tue, 07/05/2011 - 23:03
#7
We just moved to the Southern California desert. We live in a valley surrounded by mountains, so all of those aspects have been very inspiring for sure.
That's a very interesting point. It's clear that the music from Africa and South America is different emotionally from the music of say, Norway or Alaska. What is more interesting is when composers change the way they write when they move environments. Kurt Veil certainly changed when going from Germany to the USA but that may have been for different reasons. Even writing in summer and winter may have an effect. What is different about your songs now you are in the cold?