Tell Me Something Good: Eclipse Music
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — A year ago, Eric Sturr was really in the dark when he heard from a buddy who grew up with him in Oswego. It was an offer to write some music for a total eclipse that Eric hadn’t even heard about yet.
Eric’s buddy, Nick Gunn, works at The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, which was just rated America’s number-one science museum by USA Today. One of the center’s highlights is “Forest Music,” a quarter-mile loop through old scotch pines that already features Eric’s touch.
So, Eric headed to the Adirondacks for some inspiration… his wife and kids in tow.
The last piece of music that I wrote for the Wild Center, I was able to get them involved with hand claps in the background. So they were super-excited to get them up to Forest Music and be able to hear their own contributions to the album. Every morning I would wake up in the cabin and try to write some ideas and try to think about what things would look like in a total eclipse. I wanted to try to have a soundtrack of something bigger than yourself, but also having the synthesizer be this eerie unnatural feeling, because the Eclipse itself is such a weird thing for people to experience.
Eric Sturr, composer
The result is a 15-minute soundtrack you can synch up with the eclipse itself. To share the passion for music and wonderment Eric has carried, in totality, for a lifetime.
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You can find Eric Sturr’s “Totality” soundtrack, along with instructions on how to synch it up with your own eclipse experience, at https://whateverpenny.bandcamp.com/album/totality.
