Music and memory
Questions for the music of your life.
A song can take you somewhere before you have decided to go. These questions start from the music and end up at the people, the rooms and the years it was playing in.
How to use them
- Pick one. Not the best one. The one that made you pause.
- Say it out loud for two minutes, or write until you run out.
- Give it a rough time: an age, a house, a season. Guessing is fine.
- Leave it there. Come back tomorrow for another.
Start from a song
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What song takes you somewhere the moment it starts, and where does it take you?
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What music filled your childhood home? Who chose it, and what was happening while it played?
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Which song belongs to a person? Write about them, not the song.
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Is there a song you can no longer listen to? What did it get attached to?
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What was playing during a first: first love, first job, first time far from home?
Read the longer version.
Every answer lands in its place.
Say it, and Lapriland writes it down in your words and puts it on the line of your life, whether it happened today or when you were about nine.