A due South song: "Shattered Light"

[luzula]

A while ago, kill_claudio wrote a set of post-CotW haikus, Shattered Light, which really stayed with me. They are so wistful and longing, and Fraser's willingness to settle for what he can get just breaks my heart. The images in them are gorgeous, and there's an entire story in just these few words.

So I set the poem to music, and kill_claudio gave me permission to post it here. I sing the melody, and my sister plays guitar and sings harmony. I'm actually pretty happy with this recording, unlike the last song I posted (The Unquiet Grave, for the Genre Challenge at ds_flashfiction) where I had to rush to make a recording before the challenge ended.

Download at Sendspace.
Running time: 1.37 minutes
Format: 16 MB, WAV (sorry about not making it an MP3, but something strange happened with the quality when I tried that)

ETA: Now also up at jinjurly's podfic archive: right click and download.

Comments

[kill-claudio.livejournal.com]

*flail* Have I mentioned how flattered I am that you did this? It's amazing, and I've made all my flatmates listen to it and squeed about it. Because it is just WONDERFUL. \o/

[luzula]

I am just so happy that you like it. The thing is, I've done this all my life (set texts to music), and it's always just been for my private satisfaction. This is the first time the author of the text has ever heard what I did with it. *g*

[tanisafan.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's absolutely gorgeous stuff!
♥

[luzula]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[leafy22.livejournal.com]

The music is lovely and fits with the words so naturally. Lovely!

[luzula]

Thank you! Actually, making the melody was a bit of a challenge, since I wanted to show both the line breaks and the sentence breaks. This means that every verse is not the same, but they're all variations on kind of the same theme. I had lots of fun making it.

[2-4-joy.livejournal.com]

I loved this! You did a wonderful job with the variations of each verse. The music is sad and haunting, and I know it will stick in my head for days. The words were beautiful to begin with, and you have made them more so. Also, as an ex choir nerd, your harmonies kick ass!

[luzula]

Thank you so much for your comment! And I love making harmonies, it's a lot of fun.

[ride_4ever]

Not able to download from the links here. Help?

[luzula]

Here you go!
https://app.box.com/s/psniu4bdhwn89dpmz0ejy06muqt21qey

Sorry for the delay. I do mean to put it up at AO3 eventually, but the podfic uploading there is going glacially slow.

[ride_4ever]

TYK! That completes my collection of what filk you have made up to this point for dS -- and just about at the time of the Glorious Eleventh of March! *g*