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Paradise Lost Language Analysis

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Commentary on Paradise Lost album
Duration: 77 Minutes
2016-2017

Introduction
Paradise Lost is an album formed of eighteen compositions of varying stylistic qualities that coheres around a story. It is a work aiming to evoke a cinematic sensation and an immersive experience by bringing storytelling, artwork, lyrics, and the music for the listener to trace out the underlying meaning and the world that I have created. With the amount of detail went in to the production of the album, I seek to challenge the common perception of a music album, that of a mere collection of songs, and present it as a new contemporary art form in which storytelling and other art forms are blended to make larger statements. This concern informs the majority of my …show more content…

Take away the visual element of any film and we realise that a remarkable amount of information still communicates to us through sound. Apart from the dialogues and other familiar sounds, we can identify through spatial panning, the position of the sound source; we can assess the whereabouts of the scene by listening the background noises, and if it is a room, we can even vaguely make out the size and nature of the room through its reverberation. In light of this, I have employed a similar thinking at parts of the album to make use of the intrinsic audio-visual relationship of the brain. These parts will be referred to as ‘audio scenes’ and are aiming to conjure visual imagery, or a …show more content…

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