'I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him'.
Music: John Cage, Sonata XI, Works of Calder: II, Bacchanale, In the Name of the Holocaust, And the Earth Shall Bear Again, Three Easy Pieces: Round (all performed by Giancarlo Simonacci)
Sound FX: freesound.org
'The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes'.
Music: Andrew Rudin, Tragoedia; Donald Erb, Music for Instruments and Electronic Sounds; Frédéric Chopin, Étude Op. 10, No. 5 (performed by Hans Wurman); W.A. Mozart, 'Rondo: Allegro' from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (performed by Hans Wurman); Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vocalise (performed by Hans Wurman); Camille Saint-Saëns, 'Introduction' from Carnival of the Animals (performed by Gazdatronik); Richard Chartier, Interreference.4; a-ha, 'Soft Rains of April'
Sound FX: from freesound.org
'There is a description in a child's science book of the act of love that makes it all quite clear and helps when one begins to forget'.
Music: Ivor Slaney, 'Window Gazing'
'Dear Sir, I am writing to you to object to the word cremains, which was used by your representative when he met with my mother and me two days after my father's death'.
Music: Kevin MacLeod, Music for Funeral Home
A minor mystery, or a tiny tragedy.
Music: Christopher O'Hare, Novelty Hurry; Mayhew Lake, 'Minor Love Motif' and 'Major Love Motif' from Synchronizing Suite No. 1 (performed by The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)
'She changes this thing in the house to annoy the other...'
Music: Adolf Minot, Pizzicato Misterioso No. 30 (performed by The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)
Distracted moments of being.
Music: Gabriel Prokofiev and Peter Gregson, Float Dance (Subnaught Remix)
Sound FX: from freesound.org
A dialogue between head and heart.
Music: J.S. Bach, 'Sarabande' from Cello Suite No. 5 (performed by Pieter Wispelwey)
'The fact that his landlady appeared to be slightly off her rocker didn't worry Billy in the least'.
Music: Bernard Herrmann, from The Twilight Zone
Sound FX: from freesound.org
An evening goes awry for a husband and wife.
Music: The Ink Spots, 'I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire' & 'You're Breaking My Heart'; Bernard Herrmann, excerpts from Psycho and Vertigo
Sound FX: from freesound.org
A priest's death causes an upset for those who mourn him.
Music: David Maslanka, excerpts from Quintet No. 4 (performed by Musical Arts Woowind Quartet) and Quintet No. 3 (performed by Pentaèdre); W.A. Mozart, Ave Verum Corpus
Sound FX: from freesound.org
'With the fear of damnation in my soul I went in, and the confessional door closed of itself behind me. It was pitch-dark and I couldn't see priest or anything else. Then I really began to be frightened'.
Music: Cirque Plume, 'Mais l'ange', 'L'épouvantail', 'Le recalitron', & 'Diogenio'; extract from Igor Stravinsky, Petrushka (arranged and performed by Ryan Corbett and Djordje Gajic)
Sound FX: from freesound.org
'A vast mass of matter it was, bulky, heavy, rushing without warning out of the black mystery of the sky into the radiance of the sun'.
Music: Philip Glass, Symphony No. 2 (performed by Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra) & 'Truman Sleeps' (performed by GlassDuo)
Sound FX: from freesound.org
A man, lost in grief, finds solace in fiction.
Music: Excerpts from Folded Landscapes, by Erland Cooper (performed by Scottish Ensemble); 'Forever' and '21st March (Variation)' from Eight Winds by Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet
Sound FX: from freesound.org
'I know always that I am an outsider, a stranger...' Music: Hildur Ingveldardóttir, BJ Nilsen, and Stilluppsteypa, 'How to Catch the Night Thought' and 'It's about the Size of a House'' (from Second Childhood); Jem Finer, Longplayer; SISU Percussion Ensemble and Rolf Wallin, Purge; Clannad, incidental music from Robin of Sherwood (series 3); Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kontakte (performed by Ensemble Musikfabrik); Krzysztof Penderecki, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima; Michael Jackson, Thriller (short film) Sound FX: from freesound.org
