Apr 19·edited Apr 19Liked by Elle Griffin, FogChaser
I thought you might like to know how your music intertwines with my day.
Heading out my door to walk with my two best friends, my husband and dog. To a wooded trail along a lake. Here in Vermont the birds are busy building and birdsongs echo through the trees and splash in the waters. Thank you for the beginnings of a magical day. Same to you.
Elle, & Matt! This is a beautiful collaboration! And it’s so strange because only last week I started listening to ambient music, and Matt’s compositions are as peaceful, and as beautiful as I’ve ever heard. I usually just listen to jazz without vocals, as I am a singer, songwriter, but lately I’ve been moving toward the ambient genre. Just happened to stumble upon this this morning and I wanted to say how amazing it is that, you are putting music to literature. These are the kind of things that give me hope for the future.
Matt, Elle, I can hear ethereal and melancholy. Thanks for sharing your conversation and your process.
My interpretation would be of being 'untethered'. With our past experiences, there are references/anchors for our identity. In utopia, I'd be floating, free, but also aimless. As someone who's been through seismic pain-joy, I'm acutely aware and aim-full. So, perhaps my utopia is in the tiniest minuscule moment of sweet-joy, always tethered to the bitter-tragedy. A very human paradoxical life.
Thank you 🙏🏼 Your music - simple instrumentals with sounds of water, birds, trees - is my ideal companion for writing/creating. What a blessing for you both, to bounce your visionary molecules together! Your interplay inspires me to carry forth my heart's dream: to co-create an immersive, water-honoring experience with sound, images, and story. Gordon Hempton, my friend and master SoundTracker will record this Singing for Water project. Today, on my daily singing walk with the Salish Sea, I'll listen to your album — lightly thrumming and humming along. 🌊💗
The whole album is really great. I enjoyed the exchange you and Elle shared, I’m glad you posted that! It will be fun to watch the whole project come together.
What incredible talents this music and writing reveals! I was immersed in a beautiful sun soaked landscape full of peace. Thank you guys for calming my day:)
This song is deeply calming. It makes me feel like a kid who just discovered a secret world with all sorts of magical things to explore. The way you bring tension in and out over makes gives it a feeling of importance, like big forces are at play.
Makes me feel like I'm leaving the Shire for the first time but the Shire is a shimmery oceanic forest land.
Elle, what a beautiful atmospheric and captivating sound it is! Since I am a fan of sci-fi myself, this is a perfect soundtrack for writing. While listening to it I have noticed that it has a meditative relaxing qualities and increase your focus at the same time. Keep up the good work.
I thought you might like to know how your music intertwines with my day.
Heading out my door to walk with my two best friends, my husband and dog. To a wooded trail along a lake. Here in Vermont the birds are busy building and birdsongs echo through the trees and splash in the waters. Thank you for the beginnings of a magical day. Same to you.
Elle, & Matt! This is a beautiful collaboration! And it’s so strange because only last week I started listening to ambient music, and Matt’s compositions are as peaceful, and as beautiful as I’ve ever heard. I usually just listen to jazz without vocals, as I am a singer, songwriter, but lately I’ve been moving toward the ambient genre. Just happened to stumble upon this this morning and I wanted to say how amazing it is that, you are putting music to literature. These are the kind of things that give me hope for the future.
I love everything about this! I love that you and Elle are collaborating like this, and I'm excited to listen to this as I work today!
This song is brilliant, bravo! Indeed it’s like a world that blossomed from the ocean. Looking forward to listening to the whole album. ✨
Matt, Elle, I can hear ethereal and melancholy. Thanks for sharing your conversation and your process.
My interpretation would be of being 'untethered'. With our past experiences, there are references/anchors for our identity. In utopia, I'd be floating, free, but also aimless. As someone who's been through seismic pain-joy, I'm acutely aware and aim-full. So, perhaps my utopia is in the tiniest minuscule moment of sweet-joy, always tethered to the bitter-tragedy. A very human paradoxical life.
Make beautiful things together
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Simple dreams
Thank you 🙏🏼 Your music - simple instrumentals with sounds of water, birds, trees - is my ideal companion for writing/creating. What a blessing for you both, to bounce your visionary molecules together! Your interplay inspires me to carry forth my heart's dream: to co-create an immersive, water-honoring experience with sound, images, and story. Gordon Hempton, my friend and master SoundTracker will record this Singing for Water project. Today, on my daily singing walk with the Salish Sea, I'll listen to your album — lightly thrumming and humming along. 🌊💗
Been listening to this album over and over again this week. While writing, in the car. Simply transcendent ✨
This soundtrack has been on repeat for almost week now. Well done, sir. It’s gorgeous.
The whole album is really great. I enjoyed the exchange you and Elle shared, I’m glad you posted that! It will be fun to watch the whole project come together.
What incredible talents this music and writing reveals! I was immersed in a beautiful sun soaked landscape full of peace. Thank you guys for calming my day:)
Congratulations to both of you, this is beautiful, looking forward to the rest of the collaboration! 💚
This song is deeply calming. It makes me feel like a kid who just discovered a secret world with all sorts of magical things to explore. The way you bring tension in and out over makes gives it a feeling of importance, like big forces are at play.
Makes me feel like I'm leaving the Shire for the first time but the Shire is a shimmery oceanic forest land.
Love this! It's very transporting.
Elle, what a beautiful atmospheric and captivating sound it is! Since I am a fan of sci-fi myself, this is a perfect soundtrack for writing. While listening to it I have noticed that it has a meditative relaxing qualities and increase your focus at the same time. Keep up the good work.
I love this idea of a book score. I'm sure it's been done before, but I'm not aware of it. Do you know of any other book/music collabs like this?
Track is gorgeous 👌🏻🔥