Music For Another World
Posted in Fantasy, Science Fiction at 19:19 on 19 October 2010
Last week I attended the Edinburgh launch for the new anthology Music For Another World.
Several authors including Writers’ Bloc‘s very own Gavin Inglis read extracts from their stories. All sounded excellent.
Highlight for me was Neil Williamson. This is the first time that I’ve witnessed an author accompany a reading on the piano.
After these extravaganzas we were treated to further musical performances by the Markee de Saw and Bert Finkle. Another first: witnessing a woman playing a saw in the flesh. (Or a man come to that. There were sometimes saw players on the TV when I was young but there have been none for a long time now I think.) The sound is weird and ethereal; a bit like a theremin but slightly less other worldly.
The Markee can sing well too.
Tags: Bert Finkle, Edinburgh, Fantasy, Gavin Inglis, Markee de Saw, Music For Another World, Neil Williamson, Other fiction, Science Fiction, theremin
ali
19 October 2010 at 20:20
Hi Jack,
You may also be interested in the forthcoming Foreshadows project, which combines ‘speculative fiction’ short stories (authors include Ed Greenwood and Don Bassingthwaite) & original music – there’s some more info and a promotional video here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vua/forging-foreshadows
All the best,
Ali
Jim Steel
20 October 2010 at 22:13
It was great to see you there, Jack. I think Neil was my favourite too, but they were all good after the somewhat weak opening one.
jackdeighton
21 October 2010 at 15:30
“they were all good after the somewhat weak opening one”
I don’t know, Jim. The story was intriguing.