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🎵 Compose from the novel The Hammock and the Hummingbirds

A song coming to you? Compose it.

What you compose stays yours, and your name goes with it everywhere.

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Compose the music for a chapter

Pick a chapter you loved and set it to music. Any style, any instrument.

The author — The Shaft soundtrack: its dance tunes tell you who the character is before he even opens his mouth. Music is a universal language, everyone understands it, it’s magic. I’d love readers to draw on the novel to create their own music, we’d make an album with one track per chapter!

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Album “one track per chapter”

47 chapters, 47 tracks.
Each song belongs to its creator.
Every chapter welcomes different versions, have fun.

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Create a soundscape

The wind of the Nord Ultima, the sea off the Presqu’île du Sel, the silence of the bunker, the hammock in the sun.

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Read a chapter aloud

Record it. The audiobook will be made with one voice or several.

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Rearrange it your way

The author — Do a Jacob Collier: take inspiration from whatever inspires you, and rearrange it your way.

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Show yourself

Are you a Sunday musician, a shower singer?
It’s free, and nobody judges. Here, the gems are imperfect.

Are you a composer, a musician, a voice actor?
It’s free too, and it’s there to show what you can do, your style, what you love. Your name appears next to your track, your profile goes into the directory.

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Keep going

You can also create in other ways, or go and listen to what’s already there.

← Back to Create Music from the book Creators’ charter

Draw on these before composing

Share your creation See what others have made The book’s playlist Inspirations Funny lines Running threads “The dictionary of the novel’s words that nobody but me ever invented” Characters, places and map We didn’t invent a thing Creators’ charter

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