Writing Playlist

[rnbrewer]

If you're into I would also check out trailer music (the stuff they play durring previews for movies.) One good artist to check out is Kerry Muzzy (I think that's how you spell it.) It's good stuff for visualization especially if you're like me and like to picture the trailer for your own movies.

[uncle_al]

As to specifics on Charlie Parker, try the Verve sessions, the Dial sessions, and there were the sessions with Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and the sets with Miles.

Oh, yesss...

Al B.

[One Mundane Life]

Hi rn - Music is my office.  Since I haven't been able to make writing my fulltime profession I have to work a 40 hr/week job, a ft husband and a father of two beautiful kids, I don't have the option to escape very often.  So, when I put on the headphones, everyone knows that I'm writing and should allow me a few uninterrupted moments.  Sadly, this only works in theory.  I also daydream from time to time as well, but not about movies I want to write, usually for trailers from things I have written. 

uncle al - I haven't listened to much Charlie Parker, if you have any recommendations please send them my way.

Mike

[uncle_al]

I used to listen to music when I wrote (back in the day, when I kicked back in a recliner, had monster Koss Pro AAAA phones clamped on my ears, my electric typer in my lap, a cig dangling in my mouth, and a cold one on the table next to me... four AM didn't seem so bad, then), but I basically just close my eyes now, run something from the mental MP3 shuffle, and get typing.

Such is the way of things.

Cheers!
Al B.

[rnbrewer]

I don't generally listen to music WHILE I'm writing (I get distracted easily), so instead I'll kick back with the old tunes and focus on just the music. I mostly listen to film scores. Just about anything John Williams, Howard Shore, and Danny Elfmen just to name a couple. Does anyone else like just listening to music and picturing the film you want to write? In fact, I often make playlists based solely for purpose. I just like to daydream about the story I'd like to write. Once I think I have a clear enough picture in my head, the music shuts off, and the fingers hit keyboard.

What sort of writing methods does everyone else use? This is quite interesting indeed.

[uncle_al]

Mine gets fairly eclectic... Coltrane, Gershwin, "Bird", Brubeck, Irving Berlin, Zappa (with and without the Mothers), Led Zeppelin, Monty Python, Bach, Miles Davis, Beethoven, John Williams, Basie, Michael Giacchino (the guy who wrote the soundtrack for The Incredibles), the guy on YouTube who did a mashup of Star Trek and The Simpsons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkTpUxh8Vxc, Gregorian chants, Native American medicine songs, Steely Dan, and interesting static patterns.

It is what it is...

Cheers!
Al B.

[One Mundane Life]

Just wondering what's on everyones "Writing Playlist".  Mine?  Right now, early R.E.M. (pre Monster), early U2 (pre Joshua Tree; although forcing myself to listen to No Line...), and a lot of Jazz, particularly John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Frank Morgan, and George Cables.