My Heart is The Tempest Q&A Session 8

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Has music an important role in the story, or is it a source of inspiration for your writing anyway?

Absolutely. Music, especially dark wave, dark ambient and experimental electronics, is a constant source of inspiration for me, often turning my writing into trance-like sessions. Also, being magic the equivalent of music on the written page, I included many “musical” parts in the novella, which in turn are a tribute to Shakespeare’s idea of The Tempest’s island as a place “full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not”. Though being a tree, the character of Aurora and the voices she sends out to Sycorax, together with the whispers Sycorax feels in her veins, embody this idea of music as magic (and the other way round) working their spell towards the ultimate revelation.