it's fascinating to me how music boxes invoke that nostalgic and/or haunting atmosphere... perhaps it's because they contain songs that can be played at will, and often old songs from movies, nursery rhymes, etc. they are a perfectly preserved memory in themselves. i love that
nostalgia is something i always come back to in writing as a core theme. i like the sense of longing for something you've lost, or something you've never known but are inexplicably drawn to. like a waking dream, you imagine yourself in that place again
citypop music does this, too. ive never been to any of the places where it was made and popularized in the 80s, yet the Feeling of the space contained within the music makes me feel like somehow, once upon a time, i was in that place. a city crystallized in the notes
music is so core to my writing style and conception of narratives/premises/ideas, anything really. describing sound is easier, it comes naturally. other things are more difficult to explain
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