Vertigo

Working Title: Vertigo

Inspired by a forwarded email, saying, For you - hadn’t forgotten!:

Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:33 PM
Subject: Your View Experience Confirmation

Experience: Bungee Jumping Manchester

Number of Vouchers: 1
Voucher Expires: 16 October 2009

I don’t like heights. I don’t make use of aeroplanes. I really don’t like the idea of falling.

This musical track is my first full track created in Propellerhead Reason, and is fairly raw form at the moment: effects chains are incomplete, equalisers aren’t set properly, generally the mix is in need of “tarting up”. After buying some Jean Michel Jarre vinyl while in London, I think I can hear his influence in the choice of synth at the start. From there things go a little crazy. The tonality vaguely hovers around G-rooted aeolian and G-rooted melodic minor, though there are a lot of chromaticisms sprinkled into the textures that get layered up.

I hope the soundscape evokes the vertiginous nausea that I’m likely to feel as I look down, considering whether the only way I’ll “jump” will be if I were to be pushed…