The Farfield Curse Music

If you are one of the many people who have read the first few chapters of The Farfield Curse in advance, you’ll enjoy this; and even if you haven’t (email me to remedy that), this new song will give you a taste of how I imagine the prologue. If you haven’t read it, think of a woman driving through the misty night, trying to escape with her child, while at the same time knowing inside she will not survive the person who is following her:

A bit darker than my other tracks, with synths this time and sharper violins. This is still the first draft so everything may not be mixed as it should.

Sometime a while back, I realized something very interesting about music and stories. I had just downloaded nearly half of the Pan’s Labyrinth movie soundtrack and was writing away to it, when I realized that I had just bought music to a movie I had not even seen before. Most of the soundtracks I had gotten before came from films I had enjoyed. This soundtrack, however, was so striking I could imagine any story I wanted to it.

I realized then that music and stories are intertwined enormously. Great stories always have great soundtracks. The two seem to accompany each other, both when writing a book and when reading it.

What started out as ‘seeing if I could do it’ has very rapidly turned into a new hobby. I just finished that one this morning and already I have another track I’m working on. I am literally having enormous amounts of fun with these just as entertainment for myself.

If you’re new to the site, I have a few more on the music page.