What's your favorite genre of music?
Popular music: Soundtracks.
When I listen to music, I let my imagination take charge and visualize some kind of drama that fits in with the music (in effect, I take the music I'm listening to and base a narrative scene off of it, making the piece into a soundtrack piece).
This makes pre-existing soundtracks easier for me as I have often seen the film or played the game they're from (or know of them sufficiently) to connect memories with that music. For example, the theme pieces of The Legend of Zelda series bring out the emotions I felt toward and the memory of playing those games, sitting in front of the TV and feeling the excitement of playing Link's adventures.
I'm rarely able to simply listen to music; in my mind, I must do something with it, it must accompany something.
1 comment:
I always liked the music for movies because film soundtracks were the last place that actual, real classical music was still composed in a place where anyone still cares.
I love film sountracks! My favorite had to be Star Trek: the Motion Picture. Terrible movie, but great and incredible music by Jerry Goldsmith.
Second only to Goldsmith would be John Williams. How can one man write the themes to Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park? It seems so unjust that one man can be so accomplished.
It's actually easier for me to identify the film soundtracks that I DON'T like. "Gladiator," for instance, had a very crushing, loud soundtrack that was always dialed up to eleven.
I actually can't stand video game music. It always sounds to me like trucks backing up. I must say, though, that the Legend of Zelda and Kid Icarus themes had really memorable hooks.
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