Scene Music

[petrel]

I need some recomendations for scene music - I have a reasonable selection of stuff by enigma and Andreas Vollenweider on the list but I am trying to getsome opera or classical recomendaitons, or heavier rock etc.

particularly would appreciate recomendations for albums - we need to be able to put the CD on and forget about it not have to chop and change or preprgogramme specific tracks!

 

[Ysandre]

On a mild session of something simple.. .spanking, candlewaxing, iceplay. I like to put in pure moods 3 Or a gregorian album.. and forget about it....
On a flogging, leather play, bondage, humiliation steps.. I would go with something a little more upbeat and playful... David Arkenstone's Quest of a Dream warrior.. Maybe Moddy blues best of.. (showing my age *sighI)..
On harsh cage, intricate bondage, crop, caning, violet wand harsh stuff... I move more into the London After midnight. Any of the albums, *smile* Or Sisters of Mercy. I like . ~Any~ of the albums but if you can find best of it's the coolest.
It's just me, but hope it helps.

 

[Merelan]

I love, absolutely go wild, when I play Yngwie Malmsteen's classical stuff. He makes love to his guitar as they play.
Wild crazy, incredible, an orchestra in the background. Then soft and gentle, lightly caressing.
Then lifts me to the heights again.

Pardon me while i go put some on.

 

[Ysandre]

Merelan you are soo right...
and You must check out Kitaro, and Yanni as well!
*smile* Most are good for ~any~ session

 

[Merelan]

And Slash, yes, from Guns and Roses. He has a bit of classical stuff out there too. He is also an incredible player. But it is harder to find his then the others.

I see a trend here with me. I love a guitar. Have you ever heard Nigel Kennedy's version of "My Guitar softly weeps"?

Ohhhhhhhhhh........ a melting song.

 

[monster666]

Pink Floyd's Darkside of the Moon or Wish You Were Here

 

[Quint]

I am eagerly anticipating a nice long painful session with Tool's CD Lateralus playing. Hard, good beats, long songs, unintelligable lyrics so they aren't distracting.

 

[MissTaken]

I like Yanni.

His music wanders from soothing and romantic to a mad rush of sensual stimulation.

For those, like myself, who still get goosebumps or tears from pieces of music, Yanni does it for me.

 

[DustyWolfe]

Geez.. I really wish I had a cd burner. There are so many songs that I would put onto a cd.

A few of my top picts for the background music, beat and tone...

Alive, Boom and Satellite by POD.

Beautiful Day by U2

 

[DustyWolfe]

I soooooooo want this cd called
"Ordo Equilibrio"

 

[Unity]

You had to mention Opera or classical music. This is my forte.

Finding cd's of opera and classical are fairly hard, for a someone who lives in the US, but you should have more luck. If I were in a scene there are some tenor arias that I couldn't help but grind to. I have a few cd's by Placido Domingo and the like. I'm not exactly specialized in orchestral music, but I always wondered what It would be like to put in Vivaldi's four seasons and go at it.

This is a good question. I'm on it. I'm gonna do some research and get back to you!

T.

 

[petrel]

thanks everyone for the suggestions - keep them coming.
How about you Blue - I'm sure you must have a few ideas?

 

[Daddyslilpet]

I don't have any ideas, just a question to add.

How many use music while in scene? I haven't tried this yet. Does it really add to the moment for the sub and Dom? I'd love to hear more about this.

Hadn't thought of adding music....<jots down, check on cd player>


dixi

 

[Quint]

Towards the end of spring, Hunny and I played a really creative board game called Monogamy. I set the evening up very elaborately, with drinks and munchies, and I downloaded about three and a half hours of mood music onto his laptop that I played during the game. Of course, that was all ooshy love music (and you can quote me on that!), probably not exactly conducive to the particular mood we're going for here. Then again, going by some of the names people are tossing here...

I find this intriguing because I never thought of using happy music for BDSM events. This of course largely depends on the agenda, and my instinctive thoughts are usually too violent for Vivaldi. o) That would be almost surrealistic, wouldn't you think? (Almost like Beethoven's 9th playing in a scene of a movie where a 14-year-old girl is getting mind-raped by a monster...oh, the glorious world of Neon Genesis Evangelion.) (Kay, sorry for the obscure reference. Suffice it to say that good music can forever lose its happy connotations under properly brutal circumstances.)

 

[Cirrus]

I'm not much into opera or classical, but just about anything by Recoil or KMFDM usually sets a raw, almost primal mood for me.

 

[NemoAlia]

Yeah, I know what you mean about the Beethoven, Quint! However, that sort of anomaly is getting rather generally popular. The Barber "Adagio for Strings" in a battle scene from "Glory," and the incongruous jazz during the grand apocalypse scene at the end of "Metropolis," for example.

As for opera and classical music that's good for BDSM scenes, let me think. I agree wholeheartedly with Ysandre's suggestion about Gregorian chant. Probably this appreciation of pre-functional harmony is because I find most stuff from the Baroque period through the Romantics to be too tonal for my tastes; my brain gets too caught up in analyzing, predicting, and interpreting the harmonic construction of the music for it to focus on the sex at hand. If I were to choose opera, I'd probably aim for something along the lines of Philip Glass' "Einstein on the Beach" or "Nixon in China." That sort of weirdness lends itself to focus, I think. However, opera isn't so much my thing as instrumental music is.

Stuff by Korngold can be good, if you're looking for instrumental stuff. He was a composer of movie scores, back in the day, and he has a flair for the dramatic. I think his violin concerto is neat, but I could just be biased.

What about ( to jump back a few centuries) some organ stuff by Buxtehude? Organ tends to be inherently dramatic.

Hmm... maybe more suggestions when I've had more time to think of them.

 

[NemoAlia]

Oooh, and Orff's "Carmina Burana!"

 

[WriterDom]

Gregorian chant? is that the Monk stuff? That's my favorite. Gives things a medieval feel

 

[joi]

You had to mention Opera or classical music. This is my forte.

Finding cd's of opera and classical are fairly hard, for a someone who lives in the US, but you should have more luck. If I were in a scene there are some tenor arias that I couldn't help but grind to. I have a few cd's by Placido Domingo and the like. I'm not exactly specialized in orchestral music, but I always wondered what It would be like to put in Vivaldi's four seasons and go at it.

This is a good question. I'm on it. I'm gonna do some research and get back to you!

T.

Get Vivaldi.....it's great.....and the music from the Broadway show BLAST!....(of course, it does help it one's Master is an ex-drum and bugle corp participant!)......and then there's Phantom of the Opera......mmmmmmmmm getting psyched just thinking about that one! (and it can be played at work to send "subtle" signals while appearing totally 'nilla~)

 

[Unity]

Oooh, and Orff's "Carmina Burana!"

Yeah you've got to watch out.. that's the most overused movie music of all time. I actually sang the baritone solos for that with my school. just stay away from the soprano solos.. and the one chorus where all the little girls sing.. unless you like hearing the little girls ask to be de-virginized in latin!

Oh and I fully agree about barber's adagio being taken out of place!

Oh i had a thought.. there are some Rachmaninoff (sp) cycles that are just so damn harsh and morose if you can get into that type of music.

T.

 

[boz]

If you, or anyone else is interested, petrel, my main hobby is music, of many varied sorts.

I'm posting a couple of samples. They are short, AM radio quality snips because of the file size limitation for the board.

If anyone likes them, I can e-mail the full versions, but the full mp3 versions are over 5 megs each.

 

[boz]

Music #1

mp3 file within a zip file (because the board doesn't take mp3 files)

 

[boz]

Music #2; even more electronic than the first, and more frenetic. Maybe too much so for scene music.

 

[boz]

You could also try the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky. It has some very primal moments. But then you might have to choreograph the whole scene with the music changes.

Or try the minimalists. Steve Riech's Drumming for something complex, his Tehillim if you want it to be a relgious experience. Philip Glass as well. His music is hypnotic, like Bolero but with no melody. Some of his kalidescopic things are a bit frenetic; maybe too much so. Maybe try his music for the movie Koyaaniskatsi. It includes some chanting of the tiitle over the music.

The aformentioned Gregorian chant would be good too. Or, there are some Tibetan monks that train is some very, very deep reverberant chanting.

 

[Daddyslilpet]

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