More Songwriting Inspirations

I was gabbing with Ang on MSN about photography, poetry and music. In the course of the discussion I went over to the Vienna Symphonic Library to check out more of their stuff. You can buy their orchestra starter pack (which I most certainly will do) quite reasonably but the full thing weighs in at 10+ grand.

The starter pack is no slouch. Check out this most impressive rendition of Faure's Pavane.



The upside is you can buy the instruments individually. Their flutes rock (they have two soprano flutes, an alto and a bass) and I've long admired how Joni Mitchell had employed the alto flute on the Court and Spark album, so I was making notes as I was listening.

BUT - It was discovering their soprano choir that blew me away. Check out Miserere.



This one voicing got me thinking about how I might approach my hoped for remake of Lord of the Starfields. I started running ideas in my head and on the piano.

I soon realized I needed to write an entirely new song. A working title is "Holy" or "Sacred" at the moment. The basic idea is that we all touch a sense of the divine, regardless of how we describe it. The use of words belittles it, and engages the intellect. Wordless vocalizations might be the way to go. I think it's why chant (and similar folks like Enya) have such a profound emotional impact. Few get the Latin any more but the meditative tone and very slow open feeling evokes a sense of the spiritual.