Sturm und Drang Frieden und Ruhe
Without over-explaining it, which is the death-knell of any interesting creative work, “Sturm und Drang Frieden und Ruhe” is meant to be representative of contrasting emotional states. “Sturm und Drang” is taken from the late 18th century German music and literary movement of which Goethe was a part of. That being said the music isn’t necessarily meant to reflect what the movement stood for so much as the literal translation of “Storm and Stress.” “Frieden und Ruhe” were the results of Google translate searches. So i’m hoping that I found the correct noun forms of what I was looking for. The title is probably nonsensical in the language that it’s taken from. Nonetheless, the title, at least when translated into literal English, sums up the whole point of the piece. It was put together during a time of great stress, which is why my mind somehow extracted a phrase I…
Fever Dream
While working on music for a different project, I inadvertently created a sound not unlike a siren. A sound, which while inappropriate for the project I was working on, seemed like it would be useful for something, and over the course of an evening that something became “Fever Dream.” This is an entirely unsponsored plug, but I used Audacity, a free, downloadable sound mixer to create every sound in Fever Dream, aside from whatever I originally recorded, which honestly I’ve distorted to the point where I have no idea what the original sound was anymore. I think I took it from some spoken dialogue. It seemed like there should be some video to go along with the music, so we threw that in too. Enjoy!