Addiction to Music is catching

 

 

 

 

 

I saw this and thought of you, Don.

 

 

 

 

 

 

You’re good, Don! Raccoon Family is the answer to the riddle. I love the picture! My daughter occasionally deals with bears in her neighborhood, but so far, none have strayed this far into our town.

I understand about music. Music is a must in my life. I have different types of genres of music for the various activities I am engaged in. I’m not quite as into exploring different sounds as Don is -I prefer instrumental, piano is a favorite. Guess that could be because I played piano for many years. I even accompanied our kids as they competed through high school – our daughter was on the bassoon, and our son was on cello. We did okay until their talents exceeded mine as their music became more complicated. Our daughter did a double major in college – music and education. Our son has continued his musical interests and found a guitar far more portable than the cello. He started a “Rock Band” at the school he teaches. They’re not ready for prime time but they seem to enjoy playing. Me? I play a CD multi – stack player pretty well and have managed to put together some decent playlists on my iPod. I keep thinking I’ll get back to the keyboard someday, but for now, I’ll leave that to my husband.

Like everything else, music is changed a lot over the years, especially how to buy it.  I’m one of those people who likes to see the cover of the CD before I buy it. How an artist puts together their images and uses color on their cover influences me.  I loved going out and listening to music in the different stores – it was an outing and an adventure. I know that iTunes is available and I can buy individual songs, but the sense of adventure is missing, that sense of discovery is gone. And I admit I don’t know enough about new artists anymore to even know where to begin to get new beats to listen to. I guess I’m still old-fashioned in that respect. I imagine that techno to me is comparable to rock ‘n roll to my folks.

One of my favorite past times is imagining what kind of soundtrack I would put behind the stories I’m editing. Scott Searles book, ONE, one of the first stories we published, needs a full orchestra, deep booming sounds,brass and drums; Bone Mechanic by Jeph Keir is flutes and bowls with crashing ocean in the background. I haven’t quite gotten the right sounds together for Ariel’s books yet, and for my own, I haven’t thought of the sounds. To be truthful, I was relieved to just get the writing done. But I admit that sound is in the back of my head as I pen my latest Tracker story – guess I’d best speed up the tempo as the rough draft is due in a couple months.

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