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     Matteus (Matteus) Username: Matteus Registered: 10-2014 Posted From: 93.34.67.155 |
Maybe I should introduce myself properly with a new thread. Hello to all from Italy. I'm a musician and a lover of the Uncanny in all its forms. I have to thank you all for this board: it has been (and is) a wonderful resource for many of my lurid obsessions. Please excuse my poor English (as I said, the caliber of writing here is quite intimidating...) Now I need your thoughts and suggestions. Is there a particular piece of music (classical or otherwise) that strikes you as campbellian? I already asked Ramsey about this a few months ago. He was kind enough to mention Leóš Janácek. Here's what I'd say. Naked City - Absinthe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTEOd2VQmlk). Nurse With Wound - A Sucked Orange (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siToQNODrhM) and Lumb's Sister (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9bSokitKfI); Egisto Macchi - Quintetto seriale from Sei composizioni (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQZh32gV-yk). | ||
| Christopher Overend (Chris_overend) Username: Chris_overend Registered: 03-2012 Posted From: 217.33.165.66 |
Hi Matteus, That Absinthe album is horrifying... | ||
| Matteus (Matteus) Username: Matteus Registered: 10-2014 Posted From: 93.35.101.91 |
Indeed, Cristopher! John Zorn paying a nightmarish tribute to Rimbaud, Baudelaire and Verlaine: a disturbing affair. Uncomfortable and yet beautiful music - just like Ramsey's haunting prose. | ||
| David Lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 176.27.15.12 |
That Naked City album is pretty good. I'm not sure what I'd class as Campbellian music, my first instinct would be to go with something that seems "ordinary" but has subversive and creepy elements that gradually dominate, but I'm not quite sure what would fit the bill. I do like spooky dark ambient music in general, though I tend to listen to this station when I'm in the mood for it rather than particular artists: http://www.darkambientradio.de/news.php | ||
| Matteus (Matteus) Username: Matteus Registered: 10-2014 Posted From: 93.34.66.189 |
Thanks for the link, David. Alfred Schnittke and Arvo Pärt may fit your idea better - though perhaps a bit too overtly. Schnittke, Musica Nostalgica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbc_koRgN1Q (K)ein Sommernachtstraum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OaE_Esx8VA Pärt, Collage über BACH - Sarabande: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH8oLn5Avp8 | ||
| David Lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 2.121.223.255 |
I'll have a listen to those, thanks. Kirlian Camera are worth checking out as well. I have an album of theirs, Black Summer Choirs, which is punctuated by these wonderful, almost Ligottian, spoken word pieces. https://soundcloud.com/kirliancamera | ||
| David Lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 176.248.62.188 |
This band's albums are all going for free right now (or Pay What You Want if you feel generous). It's pretty good spooky, ambient stuff. Muro e parete and 1989 were my favourites. https://disparition.bandcamp.com/ | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.98.109.209 |
Well, I've just heard a piece that unnerved me very much as I hope my stuff affects some folk - Luc Ferrari's Presque Rien no. 4. It starts as a sound sketch of small-town street activity and then keeps going subtly wrong. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.29.137.115 |
Just listened to this, Ramsey. It put me in mind of a Ballardian landscape. The Unlimited Dream Company come to town. |