Theme Music

Ian McDonald does a nice thing in the back pages of River of Gods -- he has a 'soundtrack' page, listing the music that (I presume) he was listening to when he wrote it. I thought I'd post something similar for Crossover.

The opening scene was written to the first track of the Vangelis album 'The City', called 'Dawn'. If you know it, you might recognise the mood. The final scene was written to 'Malibu', by Hole, from 'Celebrity Skin'. The rest of it, I can't really remember... except that Tool's 'Anima' probably featured for some of the combat scenes. Tool is awesome for darkly futuristic visuals. In fact, Tool are awesome fullstop.

Writing fantasy at the moment as I am, I'm finding classical works better. I usually don't write with the music on, I just have it running around in my head... but lately, I'm finding that I can actually write with classical music playing. It's not so intrusive as rock. Rachmaninoff is terrific for mustering the kind of emotion that might inspire someone to charge headlong into an army of sword-wielding fanatics. I like jazz, too, but haven't quite found the literary sub-genre for a jazz-soundtrack in my head. Crime, maybe? I can't ever see myself writing crime, though it's likely I'll borrow some elements for an upcoming science-fiction idea that's still a few years off. Maybe then I'll be able to start crediting Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk...