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The Martian Chronicles

I've been working for a little time on a collaberation project, but coyly keeping things under wraps....but Oophoi recently mentioned the joint effort on his new MySpace page.....

http://www.myspace.com/gianluigioophoigasparetti

The album is called 'Martian Chronicles' and is inspired by the book of the same title by Ray Bradbury. Currently we are swapping sounds/music and seeing how our explorations take us into the uncertain, twisting and parallel story lines of the book.

I read the book after many years before we started and found myself remembering some of the characters and storylines vividly. I especially like the one where the first Earthmen arrive and are treated by the Martians most distantly until they end up in what they realise is an insane asylum - and that the shapeshifting, telepathic martians have a known disease where martians believe they come from Earth.

I'm looking forward to seeing how it ends up.

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Comment by Seren on December 5, 2008 at 4:21am: It's very interesting to work on this - I'm trying to find the way between 'recording the book' and just using the book title for a springboard.....

As well as merging two different, if similar styles of music into the different worlds portrayed in the book.

Comment by Kendall Station on December 4, 2008 at 9:47pm: This sounds like a great idea and one definitely worth exploring. After reading this post and sitting on the bus I found myself thinking of how I would synthesize the sound of the bee-guns the martians use! Good luck!

Comment by Seren on November 25, 2008 at 9:57am: Oophoi was one of the artists I discovered quite quickly when I got back into listening to music, as well as Vidna Obmana, Steve Roach, mathias Grassow etc. I was collecting as many of his CDs as I could before I sent off 'Stellar Nurseries' to him (and other artists) for constructive feedback. He has been very supportive of my work and the collaberation is a real high point for me.