Resonant Landscapes

[Lisnaholic]

This is an invitation, or excuse, to look at and talk about landscapes.

From Fingall`s Cave to Strawberry Fields, composers have acknowledged a link between landscape and music, and as listeners we are also free to associate music with any place we choose to.

I`d be interested to know what places have a special, personal significance to MB members, and what music it makes you think of.

For example,this is an area of West London that I`ve walked through hundreds of times I should think:




It`s an award-winning developement of social housing built in the sixties which invariably reminds me of the John Cooper Clarke song, The Valley of the Lost Women :

... the valley of the long-lost women,
dreaming under their driers,
eating and sleeping and slimming
according to what is required...

Telephones ring in the distance.
There are lifts getting stuck between floors...

In a painless panorama
of perpendicular might,
the women are going bananas
and disappearing from sight.

How about you ? Any photos or associations to share ?