You sort of know (when you live with someone, and have lived with them for many years) everything, well, not absolutely everything - that sounds a bit surveillance system-esque - about them. But often you forget to admire the unique qualities of that person; too busy just wading through the stuff that makes up the average day, good and less good.
Working more closely with Mark on our audiobook project over the last year has revealed anew just what an extraordinarily creative individual he is; not just the bread and cake maker, piano/cello/accordion player, academic, composer and teacher . . . It's his library of musical and artistic knowledge tucked away in the high, somewhat wrinkled forehead of his; the personal library that enabled him to come up with the pieces of music, and created/found sounds that he dropped into the story at just the right points, and in just the right amounts. I did put the odd bit of editing in, or suggestion of a different creaking door/bird call/whatever from time to time, but the conception and creation was all his from the atmospheric Londonia theme to the most subtle of nods to great historical composers.
Mark's Londonia suite of piano pieces are a beautiful hotchpotch of ragtime, honky tonk bar, wistful, resonant melodies, and upbeat romps. When we get a film deal . . . come on! we can dream! I do hope the persons responsible for creating the soundtrack will take an audio trip into the non AI and completely original world of Dr Lockett's music.
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