So I thought this deserved a bit of an explanation.
In the music section, there’s a part titled ‘Project:Alice’, which includes 4 songs at the time of writing.
These songs are titled after the first 4 chapters of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The aim of Project:Alice is to write a song for each chapter in the story, which conveys a message that can be drawn from the chapter. This is done either by interpreting the chapter (semi)literally, as in ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’, which essentially retells that part of the story by way of song; by metaphor or allegory, or by parallelling real world events. An example of the latter is found in ‘The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill’, which draws a comparison between Alice’s confinement inside the rabbit’s house to the confinement of a human within his own mind by a condition known as locked in syndrome. ‘The song of the dead man’ is a reference to Sylvia Plath’s ‘Berck-Plage’, a poem set in a French hospital, which reads: “This is the tongue of the dead man: remember, remember. How far he is now, his action/Around him like livingroom furniture, like a décor.”
A striking parallel to the story of Jean Dominique Bauby, a sufferer of locked in syndrome.
Over the coming months, I hope to complete more and more of Project:Alice, with the eventual goal of completing a full CD’s worth of music and releasing it through this website.
I hope you enjoy the music.
