DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Music and story by Luke R Davies.
So with the help of the University of YouTube my new music adventure began.
So with the help of the University of YouTube my new music adventure began.
Our classical music collection is in a small, curious corner of the Stereo Stories library.
As a teenager, I harboured completely delusional fantasies about becoming a classical musician. I mean. Completely. Delusional
The keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757), and a poem I wrote about them, have a close connection to my favourite rental place, an historic mansion in Newtown, Geelong.
Three years ago, John Malins flipped the Stereo Stories concept a little by writing about a song he had never heard: The Sun God, written by William G James and Aubrey De Vere.
The great writer would have been impressed. He was the subject of all discussion, around which everything circled.
I have a vivid memory from that time of watching this wonderful film near the end of its run in Mid-City’s main cinema, which seated close to a thousand people, with only a couple of others in attendance.
Staring at nothing/But sleep’s petulant absence./Most nights were like this/Toward the end.
It’s like seeing a tapestry in the dark – there’s beauty, but there’s also a great deal of uncertainty. And I didn’t know which thread I was supposed to embody.
The music conjures images of a new person. A person who can smile, laugh, interact.