Maybe a wee bit "non-idm" to suggest this but what of the much lauded Tired
Sounds of The Stars of The Lid album ???
It's listening duration is almost as long as one of our typical Irish
winters (from September to May fact fans) and it has a thoroughly jaded,
lethargic, melancholic and, at times, delirious atmos to it that shouldn't
fail to be enhanced after one has imbibed a bottle (or 2) of cough syrup.
Or what of the Lid lads' solo offerings - The Dead Texan album and Brian
McBride's "When The Detail Lost....... (I'm sorry, but my frickin iPod
won't scroll the albums full title across the screen - gee swizz).
Eluvium also sound similarly seasonally affected, if a little less nuanced
than SoTL.
Even, dare we utter his name aonce more on idm-l, parts of AT's SAW2......
although it could be argued that those pieces of SAW2 are probably more
expressive interpretations of the frigid and scorched "landscape" (of
winter), and sleep deprivation, than of the actual psychological torpor and
gloom associated with that of a SAD-ist.
Goodly luck with the tune Tanya, and do please let us all know how it
develops.
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i don't mind the reference points.
torpor is good too....
tanya pea
On 3/22/06, Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk <Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk>
wrote:
quoted 20 lines Just to pre-empt a mailbox full of 'My Top Ten Tunes To Have SAD To'...>
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> Just to pre-empt a mailbox full of 'My Top Ten Tunes To Have SAD To'...
> Is what's being asked for here not people's *experience* of SAD, and
> not their musical associations for it. Ms Pea will presumably be the
> one who mediates such experience into music through her own semiotic
> associations. I would say that a musician who seeks input to assist in
> writing a piece of music doesn't want to hear about other bits of music
> that people associate with their experience of SAD, but rather aboiut
> the experience itself. Then they do the articulation.
>
> From my (second-hand) understanding of this disorder, what stands out
> is a description of a feeling of stasis, of lowness of spirit - a
> disinclination to move or do anything that requires mental or physical
> energy. Torpor is the word.
>
> alan
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