5.4 Book Vision, More Silence, and Finnish Woods

Recording conditions — A topic — Filming — Bridge — Last summer — Perfect shot — Land of Youth & Beauty: Early Poems video — The vision of the book — Updated YouTube video descriptions — Illusion or mirage — What caused it? — Long winter wait — Andrew Mellor’s book The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music & Culture — Serialised discussion — First two paragraphs — Special, even sacred things — Light in Finnish forests — Immersing oneself — The time problem — Attempts to gain more for creative work — Burning the candle — Weird one — Quoting permission — The sounds of a Finnish lake — People swimming — Finnish architect Alvar Aalto — Quote from musicologist, folklorist, and educationalist Pekka Hako — Buoys — Cushioned recorder — Ambience — Jean Sibelius — Tapiola — Spirit of the forest — “Forest winds and creaking trees” — Disorienting — Structure — Only key shift — Evocation — Silence — Minor to major — Single key — Music I grew up with — Film music — Game music — Background music — The X-Files example — From suspenseful to major — The Shangri-Las: “Leader of the Pack” — A whole story in a few minutes — Amazing composer and arranger (“Shadow” Morton with two co-writers) — The tragic moment — Upward shift — Ecstatic moment of release — Discussions with Pierre Estève — Silence, pauses, negative space — “The natural state” — Rocks — Editing or not — Sleep aid — Bringing light and lightness — Intention — Gull message — Talked out — Being alive — Beauties of the lake — Back to shore