What do you want to know about fic soundtracks? I would love to make a post about them, if I knew where to start.
Just remember, you asked.
What I Want To Know About Fic Soundtraks
What are some fic soundtracks you have made? (lists, please) What parts of those soundtracks match up to which parts of the fics? Why did you choose each song? Do you consciously set about to make a soundtrack for a particular fic you've read? If it's conscious, what sort of fic merits a soundtrack? If it's unconscious, do you notice any commonalities between the fics you've made soundtracks for? 7) How do you choose the songs? 7a) For instance, do you hear a song and then know it needs to go on such and such soundtrack? 7b) Or do you say, "I need a song about a roguish hero!" and then search for songs about roguish heroes? 7c) If 7b) is true, how do you think of songs about roguish heroes? 7ci) do you just wait until you're listening one day and say, "ah! This song is about a roguish hero!" 7cii) Or are you just able to come up with songs about roguish heroes off the top of your head? Do you assign songs to a soundtrack by subject or by theme (or sometimes one and sometimes the other and sometimes both)? Do you arrange songs in your playlist by theme? Do you ever have notes about a song, such as "to be used when a roguish hero is encountered"? Where do you keep your playlists? What do you do with them? Do you ever share them with the authors? (Well, I suppose you are, for me.) Do you listen to the soundtracks while reading the fic? Do you make soundtracks for fic you write? Do you listen while writing the fic? Do themes from the songs work your way into your fic? . . .
I am extremely interested in this because I have a difficult time listening to music. I am a very single-minded person. I can really only do one thing at once. This means if I am listening to music, I can do very few other things. I can't read; I can't study; I can't talk; I can't cook; sometimes I can't walk. (Actually, I can do these things, but I stop hearing the music when I do them.) Thus, listening to music is a big time commitment.
Secondly, I find myself disassociated and lost inside music. When I was in highschool, mostly I listened to movie soundtracks and musicals. I have since realized I was most attracted to those because they were the most like stories to me. Now I like some albums which I realize really are stories; you just have to read into them to realize what the stories are. I have difficulty making myself do this. Perhaps I am creative enough, but I am also lazy. I just don't have the patience to construct stories around some songs that have very interesting narratives hidden inside. I feel this decreases my quality of life. Music is important and tickles parts of your brain other things don't.
This is why Stoney's "Connor" soundtrack means so much to me. It's a story I know and love. It also has some really cool music, which I just totally would have been too lazy to parse had it not come to me in this form. What I really really want is to have character soundtracks for the stories of many characters. (I did a post about it here.) But for some reason my brain doesn't work backwards like that. There are some cool songs that I know and like, but I can't make them fit to stories I know already. I could construct cool stories from them, if I took the time, but I can't bring them to stories which already exist. This frustrates me, because if I could do that, I think it would give me a way to listen to music in ways that would enrich me.
Anywho. You don't have to answer all these questions. But I am very interested in this, and I wanted to let you know why. Perhaps in case you thought I was just being perverse with all my questions ;o)
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Just remember, you asked.
What I Want To Know About Fic Soundtraks
What are some fic soundtracks you have made? (lists, please)
What parts of those soundtracks match up to which parts of the fics?
Why did you choose each song?
Do you consciously set about to make a soundtrack for a particular fic you've read?
If it's conscious, what sort of fic merits a soundtrack?
If it's unconscious, do you notice any commonalities between the fics you've made soundtracks for?
7) How do you choose the songs?
7a) For instance, do you hear a song and then know it needs to go on such and such soundtrack?
7b) Or do you say, "I need a song about a roguish hero!" and then search for songs about roguish heroes?
7c) If 7b) is true, how do you think of songs about roguish heroes?
7ci) do you just wait until you're listening one day and say, "ah! This song is about a roguish hero!"
7cii) Or are you just able to come up with songs about roguish heroes off the top of your head?
Do you assign songs to a soundtrack by subject or by theme (or sometimes one and sometimes the other and sometimes both)?
Do you arrange songs in your playlist by theme?
Do you ever have notes about a song, such as "to be used when a roguish hero is encountered"?
Where do you keep your playlists?
What do you do with them?
Do you ever share them with the authors? (Well, I suppose you are, for me.)
Do you listen to the soundtracks while reading the fic?
Do you make soundtracks for fic you write?
Do you listen while writing the fic?
Do themes from the songs work your way into your fic?
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I am extremely interested in this because I have a difficult time listening to music. I am a very single-minded person. I can really only do one thing at once. This means if I am listening to music, I can do very few other things. I can't read; I can't study; I can't talk; I can't cook; sometimes I can't walk. (Actually, I can do these things, but I stop hearing the music when I do them.) Thus, listening to music is a big time commitment.
Secondly, I find myself disassociated and lost inside music. When I was in highschool, mostly I listened to movie soundtracks and musicals. I have since realized I was most attracted to those because they were the most like stories to me. Now I like some albums which I realize really are stories; you just have to read into them to realize what the stories are. I have difficulty making myself do this. Perhaps I am creative enough, but I am also lazy. I just don't have the patience to construct stories around some songs that have very interesting narratives hidden inside. I feel this decreases my quality of life. Music is important and tickles parts of your brain other things don't.
This is why Stoney's "Connor" soundtrack means so much to me. It's a story I know and love. It also has some really cool music, which I just totally would have been too lazy to parse had it not come to me in this form. What I really really want is to have character soundtracks for the stories of many characters. (I did a post about it here.) But for some reason my brain doesn't work backwards like that. There are some cool songs that I know and like, but I can't make them fit to stories I know already. I could construct cool stories from them, if I took the time, but I can't bring them to stories which already exist. This frustrates me, because if I could do that, I think it would give me a way to listen to music in ways that would enrich me.
Anywho. You don't have to answer all these questions. But I am very interested in this, and I wanted to let you know why. Perhaps in case you thought I was just being perverse with all my questions ;o)