songofshambhala
11-18-2008, 05:19 PM
Sean,
As a long time record executive, several years ago I began to consider how we in the music business might best add value to the music experience. To that end I have written a screenplay, complete with more than a dozen songs, entitled Song of Shambhala. Song of Shambhala is a sort of hybrid movie/music-video with an East meets West exploration of spirituality in the context of an Action/Fantasy/Adventure.
Although I have written the story in the form of a screenplay, the storyline was created with a video game in mind. There are many historic references, real and imagined, as well as sacred locations around the world, that provide an authentic real-world backdrop to the mythical storyline. In addition certain back-stories only briefly visited in the screenplay possess great potential to be explored in the video game. With so many video games becoming movies and with the integration of music in such video games as Guitar Hero and Rock Star, it seems there would be someone out there seeing the creative process converge before the fact instead of after it.
A brief description of the story follows, tell me what you think:
When he was young Sheridan believed music could change the world, now he has to believe the power of one song can save it.
The Story
A cynical middle aged musicologist who specializes in ancient sacred music finds himself in a struggle between church and state when the unpublished book that once led to his excommunication is discovered to have insight concerning an ancient relic that could save the world - the Baton of Lucifer. The book tells of a baton, with which Lucifer led the choirs of heaven before his fall from grace, that fell from heaven and found its’ way to the city of Shambhala. While Evan Grant, an ambition member of the United Nation's secret military, and Reynard, of the Vatican's Department of the Inquisition, race to the find the three Chintamani stones that they believe give the baton it's power, Sheridan searches for the song that only he knows the stones will reveal - a song as old as life itself, the Song of Shambhala. And so begins a race against time that takes Sheridan to sacred locations around the world, where the music of his heart and the lost music of ancient religions are discovered once again, leading him to discover the greatest song of all – a life lived in tune with the heart.
I look forward to your feedback.
As a long time record executive, several years ago I began to consider how we in the music business might best add value to the music experience. To that end I have written a screenplay, complete with more than a dozen songs, entitled Song of Shambhala. Song of Shambhala is a sort of hybrid movie/music-video with an East meets West exploration of spirituality in the context of an Action/Fantasy/Adventure.
Although I have written the story in the form of a screenplay, the storyline was created with a video game in mind. There are many historic references, real and imagined, as well as sacred locations around the world, that provide an authentic real-world backdrop to the mythical storyline. In addition certain back-stories only briefly visited in the screenplay possess great potential to be explored in the video game. With so many video games becoming movies and with the integration of music in such video games as Guitar Hero and Rock Star, it seems there would be someone out there seeing the creative process converge before the fact instead of after it.
A brief description of the story follows, tell me what you think:
When he was young Sheridan believed music could change the world, now he has to believe the power of one song can save it.
The Story
A cynical middle aged musicologist who specializes in ancient sacred music finds himself in a struggle between church and state when the unpublished book that once led to his excommunication is discovered to have insight concerning an ancient relic that could save the world - the Baton of Lucifer. The book tells of a baton, with which Lucifer led the choirs of heaven before his fall from grace, that fell from heaven and found its’ way to the city of Shambhala. While Evan Grant, an ambition member of the United Nation's secret military, and Reynard, of the Vatican's Department of the Inquisition, race to the find the three Chintamani stones that they believe give the baton it's power, Sheridan searches for the song that only he knows the stones will reveal - a song as old as life itself, the Song of Shambhala. And so begins a race against time that takes Sheridan to sacred locations around the world, where the music of his heart and the lost music of ancient religions are discovered once again, leading him to discover the greatest song of all – a life lived in tune with the heart.
I look forward to your feedback.
