Oh, love that guitarviol Thomas!  Love the fade from the waltz into what seems to be a chasm of mystery...My interest is now piqued and I must read the story!

Very nice, Thomas.The quiet playfulness is very appealing. Celesta in the background is very effective.

The waltz tempo with the strings - divine.

This is a concept piece.  I know.  Dirty word.  It's about dreaming of someone when you're a child then meeting them and everything's amazing but then something's a little unsettling and then, of course, everything gets whacky.  

Literary vampires are very much a Dublin invention and this composition is based on my fellow Dub Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's take on costly immortality - Carmilla.   You can read it here for free as it's 154 years old http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10007 

It's guitarviol mainly with some treatments applied to dose up the weird  as required.  I used some ribbon microphones in the room to make the main lines at the start more earthy and homely as though you're in the room with the performance.  Lots of audible breathing, chair squeaks, and even seagulls if you listen closely.


Carmilla

∎ Composer & Performer based in Dublin, Ireland 
 ∎ Guitarist, guitarviolist 
 ∎ Blues to baroque to whatever inbetween!
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How wonderfully malleable is music? I grew up and live in a country drowning in music of so many sounds. 

I dabble with all sorts of styles and genres but I like to think that it all still sounds like me. 

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I'm always open to suggestions for collaboration and other adventures.

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Instruments:

Guitars, guitarviol and guitar like things. I use virtual instruments sparingly and keep the focus on real sounds so to speak.

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