Browncoatone
Mongoose
You remember the music from the premier episode of DS-9 in Quark's bar? I'm looking for something like that. If you were going to use a piece of music to set the "feel" of a spacer bar, what would you use?
Music suggestions?
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lastbesthope
Mongoose
Cantina Band, but I am a massive SW geek 
LBH
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alex_greene
Guest
Anyone remember the Doctor Who episode when the Doctor and Rose arrived in time to see the end of the Earth, and Cassandra brought in a jukebox?
"I believe they used to call this an iPod," she boasted.
Then she put on a piece of "classical music" - Britney Spears' Toxic.
Mix it up a little. Have someone go on about a song they heard called "Nag ot Dag," only to discover that it's Cole Porter's "Night and Day" in Norwegian or something like that.
Have some aliens playing music with what sounds like a Glockenspiel, only to discover that the "musical instrument" they're playing is actually made up of the skulls of conquered enemies of the neighbouring species.
Pretty much all music can be counted upon to come from one of four sources: wind (wood or brass, depending on whether the instrument is metal or non-metal), percussion, stringed (which includes keyboard instruments such as pianos) or synth. Even musical speculation must give way to physics: there are only so many ways to generate sound, and all require the production of a coherent sound based on the physical vibration of some sort of membrane, string or the passage of air through some narrow space.
Furthermore, music tends to follow certain kinds of rules, such as harmonics. Music must sound euphonious to the listener (sound pleasant) or be dismissed as noise.
But what does an alien consider euphonious?
Also, ask yourself what an alien that never evolved hearing consider music? If the alien species has eyes with an enhanced visual spectrum, perhaps music for that species involves rapid flickering colours, in much the same way as cephalopods communicate through rapidly changing skin colours.
I hope this gives you some ideas.
"I believe they used to call this an iPod," she boasted.
Then she put on a piece of "classical music" - Britney Spears' Toxic.
Mix it up a little. Have someone go on about a song they heard called "Nag ot Dag," only to discover that it's Cole Porter's "Night and Day" in Norwegian or something like that.
Have some aliens playing music with what sounds like a Glockenspiel, only to discover that the "musical instrument" they're playing is actually made up of the skulls of conquered enemies of the neighbouring species.
Pretty much all music can be counted upon to come from one of four sources: wind (wood or brass, depending on whether the instrument is metal or non-metal), percussion, stringed (which includes keyboard instruments such as pianos) or synth. Even musical speculation must give way to physics: there are only so many ways to generate sound, and all require the production of a coherent sound based on the physical vibration of some sort of membrane, string or the passage of air through some narrow space.
Furthermore, music tends to follow certain kinds of rules, such as harmonics. Music must sound euphonious to the listener (sound pleasant) or be dismissed as noise.
But what does an alien consider euphonious?
Also, ask yourself what an alien that never evolved hearing consider music? If the alien species has eyes with an enhanced visual spectrum, perhaps music for that species involves rapid flickering colours, in much the same way as cephalopods communicate through rapidly changing skin colours.
I hope this gives you some ideas.
