Writing music helps me process my depression.
Doesn’t make it go away but it helps me process it and translate it into something else.
Latest project finished.
I call it “Impossible Panic”.
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Here’s a screencap of page seven, just for the fun of it.
There are fifteen pages total.
Also a screencap of the impossible piano part that happens twice.
Yes, those are 32nd notes mixed with 16th notes.
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Instrumentation:
Choir (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)
Piano
Trumpet
French Horn
Tuba
Cello
Double Bass
25 comments
How long have you been writing music for? You have a real talent,- and what’s even better- you say it Helps you. Thats pretty awesome.
I remember writing music when I was a teenager, and now I am 46.
It’s cool that you still enjoy it. I have such a short attention span (sadly). I like to be creative draw/paint/take photos, but only if I’m in the mood. I often have lots of unfinished projects scattered about
I’m often the same. I have plenty of music (and other art) projects I’ve left unfinished, for a variety of reasons.
very nice! i enjoy listening to your compositions. that’s why i like writing stories, but i write happy stories, i laugh while i write, however it doesn’t take talent to do what i do? hey! that’s not fair! 🙂
Enjoying the process is what’s important I think 🙂
I bet you are a talented writer. If you enjoy it, it shows through your work. Also “talent” is subjective (I think?)
I LIKE YOU!!! 🙂
Any art form that makes things feel “not-so-bad” is a good thing.
Writing music doesn’t make me less depressed; it just helps translate it into some other form.
If storytelling does that for you, then keep writing.
🙂
@rocketman: d’aww thanks, nice of you to say that. You seem pretty awesome yourself.
Cordless: Rocketman I feel depressed! I just can’t make jiggle bells sound fun for some reason?
Rocketman: Try taking off those mittens it might help? 🙂
@rocketman: I only understand you about 50% of the time. 🙂 It’s sort of like you are a human casino where I get to gamble with communicating. (*flips a coin*) Will I understand rocketman today? Or will I just have to nod and smile and be glad he has no idea where I live?
Thank you for contributing to my Friday. You help make SP fun, even when I have no idea what you’re saying.
Challenge: Write a 20 word story that includes the words “plastic”, “tylenol”, and “horseshoe”.
Cordless, Let me rephrase what i’m saying, the bird may make his nest in the tree’s but it’s the ox that pulls the cart up the hill! Is that better? 🙂
It’s the warthog that sharpens his tusks on the trees but it’s the ostrich that refuses to deliver pizza to your door at 3:00 in the morning.
Also, it’s the turtle that finds safety in his fortress but it’s the lobster that goes well with butter and rice pilaf.
Actually i’m a very serious person, that’s silly, people bust up all the time because they just don’t get it, you heard of Abbott and Costello? one’s a strait man the other’s a clown, i play both parts at one time. From one minute to the next you don’t know what i’m going to be! if you lived next to me you would have nothing but fun!! 🙂
i’ll give you an example true story, i had a girlfriends mother die in my arms she was very old, heart just gave out! the ambulance took her to the hospital, i drove the girlfriend, i had to hold myself together and be calm, once at the hospital and she was pronounced dead , and thought about what i had just been though walking away from her death bed, i fainted! cracked my head! and was bleeding, they rush me on a gurney to the doctor! they put those little sticky pads all over my chest taking my vitals, then the doctor started moving my head to see if i had any neck damage, i started screaming AWWWWW!! AWWWWW! EVERYONE’S EYE’S GOT BIG AS SAUCERS!!! And i started laughing!!! The doctor started laughing! and so did everyone else! Then he said that was pretty funny!!! then preceded to rip the sticky pads off my chest!!! pulling my hair out!!! AWWWW!!! AWWWW!! I SAID YOUR FUNNY TOO!! 🙂 EVERYONE LAUGHED.
HA HA! 🙂
I bet living next to you WOULD be an experience.
Do you have a pool?
Can I come over and swim at 3:00 in the morning instead of crying myself to sleep like usual?
I promise to bring my own towel.
Nope no pool, backyard could hold one though! year’s ago i had a pool, it was big, Jacuzzi attached, diving board and a slide, i took care of it, cleaning it, added chemicals, for about eight year’s, nobody went swimming!
But! i have a huge bath tub! designer shit! you’d be welcome to use it and if you wanted i’d fix you a triple thick Rock’in chocolate shake! 🙂
I Like the music. I like the voices and the deep overtone. Its kind of creepy. But its a good creepy. I am glad that you are posting again.
YES!!!
“Good Creepy”.
LOL.
That’s me, I guess. 🙂
It sounds like music that could accompany a film, commercial, or stand alone as in flight mood music.
I have a cousin who’s a musician, and he used to sell instrumental tracks (that sound like your song) to airlines. They would play his songs on international, pan-Pacific flights. (You know, imagine flying across the ocean, you wanna fall asleep, and you need some relaxing sounds coming through the headphones. He composed music that lulled sleepy fliers to sleep). I’m not saying that you compose “elevator music” or “dentist’s chair music”, I’m just saying there’s a market for your brand of music. You could monetize your hobby if you found the right niche market.
Interesting!
If I can’t find the right niche market, I can always hang out in dark alleys wearing a trenchcoat, approaching random strangers and muttering “Pssst. Hey, baby. Wanna buy a song?”
Haha. So that’s your version of exposing yourself, huh? Ok, kewel.
I should’ve added in my earlier comment that I do believe you’re talented. You have a gift when it comes to expressing yourself (both verbally and musically) in my humble opinion.
Everyone compliments every one else on this site, so it’s difficult to ascertain when praise is sincere.
Get a second opinion from people who don’t frequent suicide sites. Shop your songs around, I’d be willing to bet you can sell your original compositions. Who knows, maybe you can write the next Meow Mix theme, or something equally iconic like ‘The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island’ and launch yourself into the stratosphere.
There are many unconventional paths musicians can take to earn a living. You’ve got the talent, now you need to find the right market. (Someone who’ll pay for your music).
Thank you for the praise.
I know you don’t offer praise to just anyone, so that was meaningful to me.
Maybe in a twist of irony, I can compose music for use in antidepressant commercials.
Sounds like it would make a good soundtrack to a mystery movie. Like something from Hitchcook movie or something. Like a psychological thriller maybe.