T4N63R1N3 DR34M wrote:Yes, but IF the music HAD been titled after Stephen King novels, you would therefore be checking out those novels also ?TDludo wrote:I really don't think so... Each album of the Sonic Poem Series has a "specific mood" which is (in my opinion) absolutely linked to the book "pictured in music". Each track is about a specific part of the book and is TD's way of picturing the text.T4N63R1N3 DR34M wrote:I don't really think the book (or the others in the series) has any bearing on the music - it's just a title for the CD.
It may alternatively have been called "Tangerine Dream - The Stephen King Series", and all the CDs being names after SK novels
Everybody knows there could be thousands of musical results with the same books. So what ? Here we have TD's interpretations of THESE books, and not Stephen King's books or other books. Otherwise I think it would be an empty (and not interesting) project.
Dear T4N63R1N3 DR34M,
Sorry, but I have to ask you the following: Edgar, for example, devotes himself since 30 years to the works of Kafka:
Do you think he could have created albums like The Castle from Kafka, The Dante Series, The Five Atomic Seasons, Poe, Joyce, Meyrink etc. if he wouldn't read and focus on this stuff before? The opposite is the case: Literature, fine arts and philosophy are part of his life and he definitely has an inner urge to compose music on these works. The musical result is a very personal and individual interpretation of those works, but the musical content is definitely connected to them.
Of course Edgar or TD would never force somebody to read or think about this stuff and the music functions without reading a story anyhow (with your very own cinema in your head!), but if you like to go deeper, if you like to understand just a little bit of the compositions, the different sound colours etc. - which underline and animate a story like a score - then you always have the possibility to deal with those works of art.
Regards,
EB (ADMIN)