Fic: (HnG) Teaser gift for Tininess
tininess, this is just a teaser gift - something to tide you over while I finish writing for the holiday exchanges. Feel free to make suggestions in where you want to see this go! *g*
Title: Three-Part Invention in F Minor
Author: corbeaun
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Three-Part Invention in F Minor
teaser
He sighed and pressed his fingers to his eyes. It was no use; there was nothing in him, his mind feeling as stark and barren as the Ansel Adams landscape hanging in the foyer. In the darkness, he remembered the sound of the waves breaking upon rocks, the high keening of the gulls, and the stranger's voice rising - oh, rising so rapturously - above all that.
Slowly, he lowered his hands from his face and placed them back on the ivory keys of the piano. Eyes still closed, he fingered the first discordant notes of that remembered melody. It came slowly at first, then picked up the pace as he remembered more and his fingers seemed to fly across the ivory as if they knew beforehand what notes was to be played - and abruptly ended, a jarring clang as his fingers smashed into the keys when he came to the end of the memory. His eyes flew open, his breath heavy in his ears, before he remembered he was in the safe confines of his practice room.
His hands slipped away from the piano to fall resignedly into his lap; it was the usual end to this exercise in futility.
That was as far as he'd ever gotten. He couldn't find a right way to end it; everything that he'd written himself to that stranger's half-sung song had only ended in disappointment and frustration. It was the only music he heard these days, driving all others from his mind.
The deadline for his next album was looming, but he was unable - unwilling - to shake this strange obsession. He played and wrote and re-wrote like a man possessed, but nothing met his satisfaction. When he tried to compose, that melody would slip unintended into the notes, driving a recurring theme that was so familiar and yet infuriatingly inferior to the original. Everything he heard seemed to him deficient when compared to the memory of that voice, that song. Sometimes he was so distracted, he couldn't even bear his own voice.
Not too long ago, he'd been so infuriated that he'd trashed all his music sheets, burned it all in an effigy of destruction, before the fire alarm turned on and the smoke drove him out of the apartment. It had taken him awhile before the mess was cleaned up by the service he'd called and he could return. He'd gone back to Innoshima then, wandered throughout the island, walked down the coast, over and over again, remembering the stranger's wide, startled eyes when he'd called out to him, remembering how the ocean mists had rolled over and hidden him from sight. He searched in the hopes of finding that man, and that song. But he had found nothing, only an ancient, untended grave. He'd stayed a week more on Innoshima, even though by then he'd known he would find nothing.
Now, once more back in his penthouse apartment, at a loss of what else to do, he raised his hands to the piano and started again at the beginning.
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Preview of the next installment:
Ashiwara: "Akira, I know the band's not your usual fare, but you should still come and see us. There's been some changes since Ogata left, but we have a new songwriter now - I think you'll like him."
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Title from the piece by J.S. Bach. From a harmonic point of view, it's quite puzzling. The listener must constantly choose between hearing the independent chords, or the subordinate, non-chord tones. This intentional uncertainty applies as far back as the first measure, where though there are only two voices, the listener still does not know which is supposed to be a neighboring tone, a suspension, the resolution. As the listener goes through the piece, she must constantly change her interpretation.
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Hope you enjoyed the teaser, tininess! It's a bandAU, with Akira as a classical composer/pianist and a suave, citizen of the world. And of course, you can guess who the mysterious new songwriter is. ;)
Also, give me a little time to write the separate Yongha/Shindo pr0n you requested - I promise it'll be extremely pr0ny, though some elements of a plot may creep in, kinda like that Ogata/Akira pr0n I wrote. There will also be karaoke and alcohol. *g*
Title: Three-Part Invention in F Minor
Author: corbeaun
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Three-Part Invention in F Minor
teaser
He sighed and pressed his fingers to his eyes. It was no use; there was nothing in him, his mind feeling as stark and barren as the Ansel Adams landscape hanging in the foyer. In the darkness, he remembered the sound of the waves breaking upon rocks, the high keening of the gulls, and the stranger's voice rising - oh, rising so rapturously - above all that.
Slowly, he lowered his hands from his face and placed them back on the ivory keys of the piano. Eyes still closed, he fingered the first discordant notes of that remembered melody. It came slowly at first, then picked up the pace as he remembered more and his fingers seemed to fly across the ivory as if they knew beforehand what notes was to be played - and abruptly ended, a jarring clang as his fingers smashed into the keys when he came to the end of the memory. His eyes flew open, his breath heavy in his ears, before he remembered he was in the safe confines of his practice room.
His hands slipped away from the piano to fall resignedly into his lap; it was the usual end to this exercise in futility.
That was as far as he'd ever gotten. He couldn't find a right way to end it; everything that he'd written himself to that stranger's half-sung song had only ended in disappointment and frustration. It was the only music he heard these days, driving all others from his mind.
The deadline for his next album was looming, but he was unable - unwilling - to shake this strange obsession. He played and wrote and re-wrote like a man possessed, but nothing met his satisfaction. When he tried to compose, that melody would slip unintended into the notes, driving a recurring theme that was so familiar and yet infuriatingly inferior to the original. Everything he heard seemed to him deficient when compared to the memory of that voice, that song. Sometimes he was so distracted, he couldn't even bear his own voice.
Not too long ago, he'd been so infuriated that he'd trashed all his music sheets, burned it all in an effigy of destruction, before the fire alarm turned on and the smoke drove him out of the apartment. It had taken him awhile before the mess was cleaned up by the service he'd called and he could return. He'd gone back to Innoshima then, wandered throughout the island, walked down the coast, over and over again, remembering the stranger's wide, startled eyes when he'd called out to him, remembering how the ocean mists had rolled over and hidden him from sight. He searched in the hopes of finding that man, and that song. But he had found nothing, only an ancient, untended grave. He'd stayed a week more on Innoshima, even though by then he'd known he would find nothing.
Now, once more back in his penthouse apartment, at a loss of what else to do, he raised his hands to the piano and started again at the beginning.
* * *
Preview of the next installment:
Ashiwara: "Akira, I know the band's not your usual fare, but you should still come and see us. There's been some changes since Ogata left, but we have a new songwriter now - I think you'll like him."
* * *
Title from the piece by J.S. Bach. From a harmonic point of view, it's quite puzzling. The listener must constantly choose between hearing the independent chords, or the subordinate, non-chord tones. This intentional uncertainty applies as far back as the first measure, where though there are only two voices, the listener still does not know which is supposed to be a neighboring tone, a suspension, the resolution. As the listener goes through the piece, she must constantly change her interpretation.
* * *
Hope you enjoyed the teaser, tininess! It's a bandAU, with Akira as a classical composer/pianist and a suave, citizen of the world. And of course, you can guess who the mysterious new songwriter is. ;)
Also, give me a little time to write the separate Yongha/Shindo pr0n you requested - I promise it'll be extremely pr0ny, though some elements of a plot may creep in, kinda like that Ogata/Akira pr0n I wrote. There will also be karaoke and alcohol. *g*