"Beneath Technicolor Skies" genre: New Age
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	Inside the painting was a world more beautiful than I'd ever envisaged: the ground was constructed of bright, multi-coloured criss-crossing paths of plastic, and the sky... the sky was an awesome Technicolor mesh of pulsating colours... (For source, see the Song Story. This piece is for Su, with love.)
	Story Behind the Song "Technicolor Skies" is a reference to my own novel, currently in the hands of literary agents hopefully considering its imminent publication! The novel is "The Colour of Silence". In one crucial scene, the lead character, fourteen-year-old Joanna, enters the world inside a gaudy painting: "She is floating, her body weightless. Is this what astronauts feel, in zero gravity? She feels as though a firm but gentle gust of wind has swept her up, a gust closing around her like a giant invisible hand, carrying her away, way into the painting. And even with her eyes closed, she knows she is there; inside one of Benjamin’s insane, colourful creations. Floating, gliding. A breeze caresses her cheeks, strokes her hair; she feels an incredible sensation of distance. And then, the sounds... the most incredible sounds, which she simply must enjoy, eyes closed. Tingling, tinkly sounds, an otherworldly symphony of soft bells, chiming, charming, something like a glockenspiel. And beneath it all, sweeping whispers, synthetic portamento sighs, that remind her of leaves brushing skin. Her eyes slowly open. She is staring at the ground - or perhaps the sky, this is unclear - floating down - or up - toward it. If it is sky, it is a Technicolor mesh of subtly-shifting hues, more incredible than any sunsets, experienced or photographed, she has ever seen. A purple, green, orange, golden sky, smooth gradients pulsing like a steady heartbeat." (Extract from "The Colour of Silence" is copyright 2001 by Rob Chilcott, All Rights Reserved.)

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