So, I have an exciting idea to share with you all...
For the last few months I have been busy planning and writing a choose your own adventure musical titled 'ANEIGMA', taking the programmatic approach of writing music to a text or story (a technique used by composers such as Berlioz and Strauss) to new extremes!
The concept of the choose your own adventure novel was first pioneered by American Novelist, Edward Packard, who wrote a series of these books from 1979-1998. Throughout each book, the reader is presented with a number of multiple choice events, which in turn alters the storyline one way or another.
Since that time, video games such as Vampire the Masquerade (PC) and Heavy Rain (PS3) have adopted this idea into interactive forms. Additionally, many youtube users have also used this concept for their videos on the net.
For my project I have written a storyboard, which I have used as the inspiration for my music (and vice versa) - think of it as a movie soundtrack without the movie!!!! I will be posting the first chapter: The Foreign Room in the subsequent post to this, along with the scene description - once you have decided which way you want to turn, ahead across to the next track as pointed out. Please note: this is still a work in progress and so the next few chapters will be posted as soon as they are completed.
The absolutely amazing artwork for this project has been created by my good friend Damian Schofield, big big thank you to him. I would also like to thank Nigel Rippon for creative guidance, Alex Ball on violin, Dan Weismayr on Bass and Ben Simmonds for advice on production.
Hold tight and enjoy!
S.J.Hazell
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