"we're waiting on your supernova / because that's who you are / and you've only begun to shine"

[larryhammer]

During last week's extended chest cold, I spent a lot of time listening to George Winston's Winter into Spring on repeat loop. Not the most profound music in the world, or even in Windham Hill's catalog, but somehow deeply comforting to me, especially "Venice Dreamer." The programmatic progression of the season is ... quietly hopeful. Comforting. As I needed.

What do you listen to in times of healing?

---L.

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[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Running water, if I can get it. I have a small waterfall in my bedroom for the purpose, but unfortunately the sound of the motors drowns it out!

[larryhammer]

The motor issue strikes me as completely negating the effect ...

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

You're not wrong.

[ersatz-read.livejournal.com]

I used to listen to Low, but I think I'm too keyed up these days to appreciate them.

A few years ago I experimented with creating mood-setting Pandora stations for specific writing projects; the story that went with "Bone Path sndtrk" has a heroine who wanders alone in the wilderness far longer than is healthy (for writer, story, or character). As a writing aid, the soundtrack experiment was inconclusive, but I got a good music station out of the deal. A lot of Matt Pond PA, The Shins, Iron & Wine, The Wallflowers..."Skyswimmer" by Enter the Haggis, "Spring Flight to the Land of Fire" by The Cape May, "We Will Become Silhouettes" by The Postal Service.... When under the weather, I like something that keeps my brain distracted with story ideas or interesting lyrics. But I'm more likely to read, or watch season X of a favorite show, than I am to listen to music.

"And here we are, saints and sightseers / A light bulb phosphorescent flash and then we're gone / And there we were, all full of fevers / A million shakes until the leaves have drifted on"

[larryhammer]

*nod*

I was thinking of a different emotional space than project playlists, but that has a similar goal, doesn't it.

Given I like Iron & Wine and The Wallflowers, I should check out Matt Pond and The Shins.

---L.