Post by Hildor on Dec 4, 2008 17:24:15 GMT
This is a part of music that I like very much. The fact that music recalls memories from a certain time, period, place, person, event or everything else where or when you heard that music. It can be a single tune, a single song, a whole album or even more. Film soundtracks are a very good example of this, because of course, you listened to that music while you watched that movie and vice versa.
I always like to recall memories with music. And now that I'm fully awared of what you really can reach with it, I'm utilising it more and more to gain an even better effect from it. But I will explain that later.
Here are a few of my memories connected with certain pieces of music:
When I was about 11 years old I played the game Age of Empires II: Age of Kings a lot. And I always listened to a cd of an unknown Belgian band named Xsession while playing (those who know the band, don't mind it, kids can have very weird music choices ;D). When I happen to hear a song of that cd again now, I always think of Age of Kings and how much I loved (still love) to play it
When me and my dad went to a 24h race in Spa, Belgium I made a lot of small films from the race. Back home I edited those clips into a larger clip with the song Sunday Bloody Sunday from U2 as 'soundtrack'. When I hear that song again, it always makes me think not only of that race, but of the whole Spa-Francorchaps atmosphere.
When I went to America with my dad for the first time I took only two cd's with me: the Red Hot Chili Peppers Best Of and the Foo Fighters' One by One. I always spent the (very) long drives listening to those cd's. And now those two albums simply resemble America to me.
The film Footloose and especially its soundtrack make me think of the summer I spent a lot of very good moments with the girl I was in love with. And yesh, half a year later that girl became my girlfriend. And even more yesh, two years later she still is my girlfriend, booyah!
There was a period I listened a lot to the soundtrack of the film Amadeus and Mozart's 'real' Requiem Aeternam. The Requiem is a part of a funeral ceremony and for a while I thought alot about funerals and death (not that I was looking for a depression ofcourse). When I heard the Requiem Aeternam on my grandfather's funeral it really was some sort of relief for me. I don't know how, but it helped to ease my mind.
There is a lot of music that I turn into 'soundtracks' of my own thoughts, fantasies and stories. A few examples are Patrick Cassidy's Vice Cor Meum (for the main story I'm trying to write), London from the Blood Diamond soundtrack and even a live session from the Prophet (a hardstyle dj, I always think of immense medieval style battles when I hear hardstyle music).
Those soundtracks always reminded of those stories I'm writing and push me to continue them ^^.
While those music-memory connections always happend by accident in the past I am now trying to help the things a hand. When I went to America for the second time this summer I specifically chose a cd that I would listen a lot to during that trip. That cd became Amy MacDonald's This is the Life and it really worked. Amy MacDonald is now forever connected to America too for me
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I always like to recall memories with music. And now that I'm fully awared of what you really can reach with it, I'm utilising it more and more to gain an even better effect from it. But I will explain that later.
Here are a few of my memories connected with certain pieces of music:
When I was about 11 years old I played the game Age of Empires II: Age of Kings a lot. And I always listened to a cd of an unknown Belgian band named Xsession while playing (those who know the band, don't mind it, kids can have very weird music choices ;D). When I happen to hear a song of that cd again now, I always think of Age of Kings and how much I loved (still love) to play it
When me and my dad went to a 24h race in Spa, Belgium I made a lot of small films from the race. Back home I edited those clips into a larger clip with the song Sunday Bloody Sunday from U2 as 'soundtrack'. When I hear that song again, it always makes me think not only of that race, but of the whole Spa-Francorchaps atmosphere.
When I went to America with my dad for the first time I took only two cd's with me: the Red Hot Chili Peppers Best Of and the Foo Fighters' One by One. I always spent the (very) long drives listening to those cd's. And now those two albums simply resemble America to me.
The film Footloose and especially its soundtrack make me think of the summer I spent a lot of very good moments with the girl I was in love with. And yesh, half a year later that girl became my girlfriend. And even more yesh, two years later she still is my girlfriend, booyah!
There was a period I listened a lot to the soundtrack of the film Amadeus and Mozart's 'real' Requiem Aeternam. The Requiem is a part of a funeral ceremony and for a while I thought alot about funerals and death (not that I was looking for a depression ofcourse). When I heard the Requiem Aeternam on my grandfather's funeral it really was some sort of relief for me. I don't know how, but it helped to ease my mind.
There is a lot of music that I turn into 'soundtracks' of my own thoughts, fantasies and stories. A few examples are Patrick Cassidy's Vice Cor Meum (for the main story I'm trying to write), London from the Blood Diamond soundtrack and even a live session from the Prophet (a hardstyle dj, I always think of immense medieval style battles when I hear hardstyle music).
Those soundtracks always reminded of those stories I'm writing and push me to continue them ^^.
While those music-memory connections always happend by accident in the past I am now trying to help the things a hand. When I went to America for the second time this summer I specifically chose a cd that I would listen a lot to during that trip. That cd became Amy MacDonald's This is the Life and it really worked. Amy MacDonald is now forever connected to America too for me
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