Like most of my music, this piece was named after it was completed. The serenity of the melody reminded me of a beautiful beach on my favourite island. A place where a beautiful grove of pines is separated by the deep blue Ionian Sea by two stripes of sand and colourful pebbles.
The melody and the sound seem to be outwordly to me. Like it's coming from another, beautiful world. A quarter of Eden.
The actual inspiration for the name of this piece is much less inspiring. When I finished it in my DAW, I happened to see on my distributor's website that the first two releases (Allegory of the Cave and Pines by the Sea) had reached an revenue of $0.25, i.e. a quarter of a dollar.
Despite this mundane story of the release, I hope you can enjoy the the various melodies that combine to make this music piece. After all, money is as real as Eden; i.e. it is highly dependent on each person's perspective.
Welcome to my music blog
I enjoy creating music on a combination of hardware synthesizers and computer software, which has evolved out of my original passion for classical and electronic music.
This post is not about inspiration, which is the most important aspect of music creation. It is about the equipment and tools that I use in order to create and finish a piece of music. The technical part of our creative process is integral to the inspiration we have when making music. As I read once on a wall:
"As an artist I aspire to become a craftsman. As a craftsman I aspire to become an artist."