Riddles

[TheMoonRover]

Life?

[StrandedonEarth]

Life?

Nope

From forests, from swamps, from deep underground,

I can make your emotions go swinging around.

Many enjoy me, and others employ me,

There's always a new form to be found.

I can be made in the moment, or follow a plan;

The best is laid out in code.

By one can be poignant, by many is grand,

I exist in many a mode.

What am I?

[cantab]

Is it music?

[Xannari Ferrows]

Or a book maybe? (Story? Or perhaps, a riddle?)

[Bill Phil]

Metal?

[StrandedonEarth]

Is it music?

Bah! That was too quick, figures cantab would get it. I kind of figured I had a giveaway in there. Anyone need an explanation?

[Red Iron Crown]

Anyone need an explanation?

Please. Not sure how music comes from swamps or deep underground.

[Starwhip]

Please. Not sure how music comes from swamps or deep underground.

Agreed.

[Xannari Ferrows]

I think he's referring to the mood. Or perhaps where artists get inspiration.

[StrandedonEarth]

From forests, from swamps, from deep underground,

---- Wood instruments from the forests, reed instruments from the swamps, brass instruments (and metal guitar strings) from mines. Served well as a misdirection, but apparently cantab wasn't fooled

I can make your emotions go swinging around.---- self explanatory

Many enjoy me, and others employ me, ---- Most people enjoy music, ad agencies use it to sell, movies/TV use it to set mood

There's always a new form to be found. ----- Classical, R&B, jazz, rock, rap, hip-hop.... what's the next new hot sound?

I can be made in the moment, or follow a plan; ----- Improvising and jamming, or played from a music sheet

The best is laid out in code. ----- The best jam sessions end up written down as a musical score

By one can be poignant, by many is grand, ----- Solos can be tear-jerkers, while a full orchestra is quite the rich, grand experience

I exist in many a mode.---- Live, recorded on wax cylinders, phonograph, tape, CD

What am I?

Edited March 7, 2015 by StrandedonEarth

[Starwhip]

Oh. Oh, that's clever.

Well, onwards to the next one, I suppose.

[StrandedonEarth]

Thanks, but apparently not clever enough. I guess I needed to obfuscate one more line

[cantab]

I wondered if the first line was referring to natural musical sounds. And the penultimate I took to be a reference to musical modes, a type of scale.

Anyway, I'm lacking ideas myself, so I'll open the floor.

[GoSlash27]

I've got one.

I am the thing

that makes the light that you can't see

So that the thing

that makes the light you *can* see

will make the light

that you want to see.

I am...?

[Starwhip]

Heat or (electrical) current?

[GoSlash27]

Heat or (electrical) current?

Newp. I'm kinda relieved that you didn't get it on the first guess...

Best,

-Slashy

[Xannari Ferrows]

Electromagnetic pulses?

(Or a battery? Specifically, a Lithium battery?)

Edited March 9, 2015 by Xannari Ferrows

[StrandedonEarth]

X-ray?

[Red Iron Crown]

Is it tritium?

[GoSlash27]

Nope, nope, and nope.

Best,

-Slashy

[Bill Phil]

Power generation?

[Xannari Ferrows]

A fluorescent light bulb?

[vexx32]

Phosphorescence?

[JebNeedsHelp]

An MRI scanner.

[CelticCossack51]

Opportunity?