Quite so as musician Jocelyn Pook (above) makes clear in the composition below, which is assembled by gathering together article headlines from women's magazines. This act of bricolage fits perfectly with the rubbish assembling theme of this blog:
I also love her composition "Hellfire and Damnation", which was used to provide a musical backdrop to the orgy scene and trial in Eyes Wide Shut. Although it is very dark music, it has fantastic vibes and the effect is how I imagine an incantation should be. Incidentally, as my friend Reuben Grima once observed, the word "enchant" points precisely to this power of musical chanting to trap the hearer in a separate world, suspending ordinary space-time. I believe Pook (her surname means fairy in Celtic) succeeds in doing this in the clip below:
Finally another of my favourites is her soundtrack for the "Naval Officer" theme in Eyes Wide Shut. The music really conveys a strong sense of the tense dangerous allure of betrayal and seduction. I can almost imagine it playing in the background of the Garden of Eden as Eve approached the fatal apple tree:
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