Released: In Music Beats a Heart

Today I proudly present the result of hundreds of hours of work; “In Music Beats a Heart” – A musical study of timbre

The development of this piece has been documented extensively on this blog which has been a journey in of itself, fitting for a piece of music that is a journey in it’s own right, creating soundscapes of wild descriptions that allow your imagination to flow. This piece could easily be defined into sections, each of which with it’s own set of inspirations and creations of imagination that influenced and informed the music. I hope that in some way people find their own narrative and meaning in this piece of music and I’d love to know what those are.

For myself this piece was envisioned to be a set of wildly different images and moods portrayed with sound on which I’d find a unified meaning for the piece, and as writing, recording and producing it has progressed, so has that meaning for me.

The Scenes I imagined for this piece were first ones of moving from a dark and damp cove into a bright and shimmering scene of moon and starlight.

I also envisioned battle, failure and success, somewhat represented by the repeated musical sections around the 5:30 mark and the ending having different resolutions.

The very atmospheric section was inspired by the idea of clockwork and steampunk aesthetic machinery controlling time and space.

The section between such and the returning theme is rather widely representative of either a physical or metaphorical entity gaining momentum and becoming out of control.

The very ending on the fiddle is meant largely as a quirk but also a different spin on the theme, and with a both uplifting tone but quite dark melody and harmony, in one form or another represents a bittersweet ending to the narrative of the piece, how ever that is to be interpreted.