Resonant Landscapes

Lisnaholic · 04-25-2011, 08:28 AM

This is an invitation, or excuse, to look at and talk about landscapes.

From Fingall`s Cave to Strawberry Fields, composers have acknowledged a link between landscape and music, and as listeners we are also free to associate music with any place we choose to.

I`d be interested to know what places have a special, personal significance to MB members, and what music it makes you think of.

For example,this is an area of West London that I`ve walked through hundreds of times I should think:

It`s an award-winning developement of social housing built in the sixties which invariably reminds me of the John Cooper Clarke song, The Valley of the Lost Women :

Quote:

... the valley of the long-lost women,
dreaming under their driers,
eating and sleeping and slimming
according to what is required...

Telephones ring in the distance.
There are lifts getting stuck between floors...

In a painless panorama
of perpendicular might,
the women are going bananas
and disappearing from sight.

How about you ? Any photos or associations to share ?

jackhammer · 04-26-2011, 05:40 PM

I should imagine that a subject like this is highly subjective due to people getting more of a n emotional experience attachment to certain pieces of music than others and their landscape resonance much different to others.

I do appreciate the thread though and I find certain pieces of music attract to me to a certain place or fit thematically in my head with certain landscapes.

This track just makes me feel like I am floating over a neon lit New York City whilst sipping on a nice whiskey and tooting on a fat cigar:

This reminds me (probably more lyrically so) of urban tower blocks and looking to find something to relieve the boredom:

Lisnaholic · 04-26-2011, 10:21 PM

^ Yes, I`m sure people`s associations vary a lot. Either that, or they`re really obvious - like Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, which rather obliges you to be flying around the Solar System.

I liked your songs and the places. There`s a really fed-up feeling to the Clash one, though the John Martyn took me to some elegant late-night jazz club, instead of floating over NYC !

This one is probably rather obvious : I`m in a bar on some wind-swept road like this ...

... whenever I hear a song by The Young Tradition :

04-26-2011, 05:40 PM	#2 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	I should imagine that a subject like this is highly subjective due to people getting more of a n emotional experience attachment to certain pieces of music than others and their landscape resonance much different to others. I do appreciate the thread though and I find certain pieces of music attract to me to a certain place or fit thematically in my head with certain landscapes. This track just makes me feel like I am floating over a neon lit New York City whilst sipping on a nice whiskey and tooting on a fat cigar: This reminds me (probably more lyrically so) of urban tower blocks and looking to find something to relieve the boredom: __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

04-26-2011, 10:21 PM	#3 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	^ Yes, I`m sure people`s associations vary a lot. Either that, or they`re really obvious - like Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, which rather obliges you to be flying around the Solar System. I liked your songs and the places. There`s a really fed-up feeling to the Clash one, though the John Martyn took me to some elegant late-night jazz club, instead of floating over NYC ! This one is probably rather obvious : I`m in a bar on some wind-swept road like this ... ... whenever I hear a song by The Young Tradition :