This image left a deep impression on me. I feel it encapsulates the spirit of
the painting 'The Isle of the Dead' by Arnold Böcklin (one of several versions):
Or perhaps even more of the music of Edvard Grieg -- that very bleak photo could almost be an album cover for the Peer Gynt Suite (it just seems to shout 'Scandinavia!' to me -- not the modern healthy, happy welfare states known for efficiently simple design, bland cuisine and no sexual hangups, but the old mythic Scandinavia of grim, dour peasantry, frost giants and pagan mysteries). I think it would make a nice visual counterpart to the 'Death of Åse' section from the suite -- whenever I hear it I think of a screen that starts out pitch black,
then through the first half of the music as the pitch slowly rises the screen gradually brightens to reveal a stark hillscape with heavy snow falling;
both the music and the imagery continue the climb until they simultaneously climax at full height and brilliance,
then as the music slowly descends back to the base note, the screen also gradually sinks back into blackness.
Here is The Death of Åse -- picture the scene I just described as you listen:
EDIT: For the original 'Night Sun' post, click here
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