Sunday, October 29, 2006
Writing Maxwell
Well…writing Maxwell style lines is more exciting then reading Maxwell lines.
However, the difficulties I have faced on my quest to create Maxwell authenticity (in song and script) are:
· Visualising your actors as close to inanimate objects as you write, or even writing naturalistic lines, but remembering that is not how they will end up.
· Accepting the writing of lyrics, which crush any source of artistic licence.
· Repeating and illustrating pointless information, without creating something that seems too detached from the story line.
· Including the ideology of citizenship around the irrelevant blabbering.
On Monday I hope to bring down my guitar and play you guys my masterpiece, a sample of the lyrics are:
Why is it raining today?
Because it often rains on farms
This place here is a farm
Need I say any more? If anyone else has tried to or wants to write some music feel free to get in touch and we can make a mini-orchestral supermaxwellesqueuberband. Writing this kind of music is quite fun, you can set a mood and tempo for the song and then write the lyrics separately. As long as you have enough syllables it seems to work, and if you don’t you can just squash or stretch words to fit. As far as rhyme goes, the more basic the pattern the better! Rhyming farm with farm is pretty original…..
Simon
