one day when i was in high school there was a total solar eclipse. i wrote a poem about it at the time, since back then i was always writing poems or something.

a little later on, i put the poem to music, and it became this song.

• download “luna ate the sun” [mp3, 1.3 MB]

the lyrics:

luna ate the sun today
bite by bite she gnawed away
leaving only the core behind
to be thrown on the compost pile

luna ate the sun today
“now you know what it’s like” she’d say
“to be phased and wax and wane
as i get in your way for a while”

luna ate the sun today
bit by bit she chewed away
digesting him in whatever sort
of digestive system luna had

luna had her day today
as she ate her sun flambé
“and i gotta tell you” luna says
“he really didn’t taste half bad”

this illustration was actually created to accompany this song, based on a sketch from one of my early massart sketchbooks: “a fleeting glimspe” 1995-1996.

i’m the same way with music as i am with art: i “sketch” a lot but rarely bring anything to a state of polish. i’ve jotted down lots of little melodies or chord progressions that i’ve never really fleshed out into full songs.

recently i’ve been playing around with Reason, a pretty awesome sequencing program, and i actually took one of my little melodies and made a track out of it.

i think the result sounds like something out of a super nintendo RPG soundtrack; the “melancholy theme” maybe. but that’s probably just because i’m a nerd. it doesn’t have an official name, but i’ve always referred to this melody as “the crystaline one”. So that’s where the filename comes from.

i enjoyed the process of putting this together with Reason, so i’ll probably do it again with some more of my musical sketches.

• download this track [mp3, 3.8 MB]