Very creative but dynamic range feels low. And mix can be better. Nice work after all.

The challenge for this track was set a poem to music. I searched for public domain poems and ended with Epithalamium by Hattie Howard (1860-1920), because I like the title and rhymes and the pronounciation of the Google Wavenet text-to-speach (TTS) system.

It uses:
Vitalium*4, Fabla*3 (w/ samples from the AirWindows drumkits), Google WaveNet TTS via GeSpeaker-git, Geonkick*1 and some riser samples from freesound.org:
CC0: doug914 - RiserCorpus .wav
https://freesound.org/people/doug914/sounds/424086/
CC0: neezen. -  riser 3.wav https://freesound.org/people/neezen./sounds/503818/
CC-BY: miksmusic - Suspense Tension Build Up Sound Effect 5
https://freesound.org/people/miksmusic/sounds/506842/
This last one is just epic!

Lotsa Airwindows and LSP plugins. B.Angr (on the voice)!! Tal-Dub-3 (on the high hats)!!

TTS Nerd - Epithalamium

Passage

Creation

The breeding of good thoughts

This symphonic poem was composed in 2001 as a hommage to Wagner and Buckner. It employs as cantus firmus quotation of Polish religious song: "Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy and Immortal, have mercy on us." The piece was revised in 2021.

Pawel Strzelecki: "Supplication" for Orchestra (2001, rev. 2021).

Dream Sequencer

Sesame Street

“Le Joli Cœur” is a re-issue of an album released by Webbed Hand Records in 2008
webbedhandrecords.com/wh115-oes-le-joli-coeur/

The music - commissioned for an exhibition of works by Jean Cocteau - is entirely based on the final piano cadenza of "Now nothing" by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

It features contributions by Simon Jeffes, Marco Lucchi, Roberto Corsini, Mario Nobile, Dario Derek Lucchi, Lucio Bosi, Giampaolo Violi, Giza (Bram de Jonge), Alejo Nobili, _ , Umiomiomiomio (Umio Miyazaki), Hidekazu Wakabayashi, Christian Vasseur, Jimmy Lolek, Rainier Lericolais, Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel (Scott Burland) and Louise Bronx.

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A project by Marco Lucchi
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/album/le-joli-c-ur

Le Joli Coeur [1]

Gloucestershire, UK based artist Andrew Heath returns to Whitelabrecs, following up on his album ‘Quiet Noise’ (2022) and collaborations with Simon McCorry ‘A Is For Autumn’ (2022) and Anne Chris Bakker ‘How To Breathe Like A Stone’ (2021). Andrew has also released music on labels including Fluid Audio, Disco Gecko, Audiobulb, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and more, through his solo output and collaborations with other artists.

Charting a lighter more open sound than recent albums, The Cloud Machine returns to and explores one of Andrew’s constant themes - his continuing fascination with and the depiction of, the simple innocence of his own childhood. In this case, a sound painting of light, radiance and naive joy through the metaphor of clouds and of a gaze drawn to the skies. From the ethereal beauty of The Cloud Machines and The Age of Enlightenment, to the memories of racing the shadows of clouds blown by the wind across fields as a young boy in Chasing Clouds, there is the ever present feel of blissful, innocence and wonderment at the beauty of the natural world around and above us.

The album explores these themes through Andrew’s use of his much loved piano and guitar and balancing them against constantly shifting, delicate and fragile electronic tones and textures. Using a lighter, more transparent tonal palette, The Cloud Machine has a gentle, blissful tone as though touching the drifting clouds overhead.

Written, Produced and Mastered by Andrew Heath
Artwork (Ghost Mills) by Zoë Heath
Art and Design by Andrew Heath

TTS Nerd - Epithalamium

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