Hamlet, AI, & Existential Regression: Thoughts on AI in the Humanities

Episode 1 - Elsinore Castle - The Vanishing of Polonius

Episode 2 - Elsinore Castle - Polonius DEAD!!!

Episode 3 - Elsinore Castle - Consequences

Inszenierung – Antú Romero Nunes
Text – Lucien Haug
Bühne – Matthias Koch
Kostüme – Lena Schön, Helen Stein
Komposition – Anna Bauer
Lichtdesign – Mario Bubic
Dramaturgie – Michael Gmaj

Hamlet – Gala Othero Winter
Ophelia und Francisco – Elmira Bahrami
Claudius und Totengräber – Fabian Dämmich
Polonius und Marcellus – Kay Kysela
Gertrud, Geist und Totengräber – Thomas Niehaus
Laertes und Bernardo – Julian Anatol Schneider
Horatio – Antoinette Ullrich

Einführung – ‹Hamlet›

Lyrics:

Something is rotten here
I don't know why I stay
The water is all too clear
It carried you away

I don't want this and I don't want you
I don't want to see the sun
I don't want this I couldn't break through
But God, I could have been the one

Who knows what dreams may come
We were deceived
For all the good it's done
I once believed
In something after death
That we might keep
I wasted all my breath and now I sleep
And now I sleep

Look at the proud man now
Bearing the scorn of time
Bowing beneath his vows
Reading the villain's lines

What have I done I wasted my time
Everything feels the same
Bitter and numb but proven unkind
Paid for a crown in shame

Who knows what dreams may come
We were deceived
For all the good it's done
I once believed
In something after death
That we might keep
I wasted all my breath and now I sleep
And now I sleep

Oh I sleep
I will sleep again
And I'll keep this wretched promise
That I carried to the end

And the tale may find conclusion 
When the villain has been caught
And the hue of resolution 
Overcomes the cast of thought

But I will meet you at the ending
When I gather up my arms
Put an end to this pretending
That has only brought me harm

I don't want to live like this
But conscience won't let me die
Life is a bitter kiss
Laugh when they pass you by 

Here in the dark with nothing to prove
Already paid the cost
I have been marked and proven untrue
Everything else is lost

Who knows what dreams may come
We were deceived
For all the good it's done
I once believed
In something after death
That we might keep
I wasted all my breath and now I sleep
And now I sleep

Something is rotten here
I don't know why I say
The water was all too clear
It carried us away 

NOTES:
Windshield glass looks like a jewel with the right attitude.

Something is Rotten

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In celebration of National Book Month and National Arts & Humanities Month, this episode of Big Blend Radio’s “A Toast to The Arts” Show features award-winning travel writer Barbara Redding, who takes us on a literary adventure through Denmark. From the Karen Blixen Museum, home of the famed author of Out of Africa, to Kronborg Castle, the real-life setting that inspired Elsinore in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,” Barbara shares insights from her journey through these historic and creative landmarks.

Hear about Blixen’s fascinating life and legacy, her time in Africa, and how personal experiences shape storytelling. The episode also highlights Denmark’s landscapes, cultural richness, and the ways travel deepens one’s appreciation for literature and art.

📖 Read Barbara’s full article: https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/a-literary-day-trip-in-denmark/

🌍 Follow Barbara’s travels and stories: https://www.BarbaraRedding.com

🎧 This episode is also featured on Big Blend Radio's "Vacation Station," "Women Making History," "Way Back When," and "Big Daily Blend" Podcast Channels. Explore the Big Blend Radio Network: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-network/bigblendradionetwork

Hamlet, Karen Blixen & Danish Castles: A Literary Adventure in Denmark

The guitar degradation loop becomes contagious—tattering the vocal meter, leading to an irreversible collapse of standard form. Verse 3 is a skeletal ghost of Verse 1, as if eaten. The bridge is a false-cleanse: it empties without resolving. Structurally, the entire piece is self-dismantling, earning every formal swerve through voice-pressure and refusal to stabilize.
Credits — Concept/Orchestration: Vesper Loom. Lyrics: William Shakespeare. Prosodically adapted by Adrian Călin Ionescu. Production: Vesper Loom & A.C. Ionescu. © Copyright 2025 Adrian Călin Ionescu. All rights Reserved. AI Collaboration

The Prison of Denmark - Blues Rock Remix

"The door of my night is closing."

Old Hamlet lies in the orchard. The afternoon is quiet. The serpent approaches.

This is the sound of a dynasty collapsing from the inside out—a "Divine Injury" rendered in audio. Fusing the weight of Late Romantic symphonic opera with the grit of industrial doom, this movement captures the exact moment the hebenon enters the blood. The poison isn't just a liquid; it is a frequency. It files the bones with hasty industry.

As the King fades, the sunrise becomes a deadline, and the silence of the garden is broken by the noise of Hell waiting to claim its prize.

Vocal Dramatis Personae (Synthetic voices, not cloned)

The Ghost: A tectonic Basso Profondo (Oktavist range) delivering the recitative with the weary resonance of the grave.

The Intruder: A manic Alto Soprano (The Devil/The Madness) mocking the King’s final moments.

The Chorus: A Monastic Male Choir providing a Gregorian harmonic foundation, chanting the Liturgy of the Dead (Dies Irae) against the encroaching industrial decay.

Credits — Concept/Orchestration: Vesper Loom. Lyrics: Adrian Călin Ionescu, inspired by William Shakespeare. Production: Vesper Loom & A.C. Ionescu. © Copyright 2025 Adrian Călin Ionescu. All rights Reserved. AI Collaboration

The Ghost in the Orchard

Here is the SoundCloud metadata package, curated to maintain the "Iron Cycle" mystique while stripping away the architectural scaffolding.

Title

Hamlet: The Iron Cycle — I. The Orchard

Blurb (Description)

"The door of my night is closing."

Old Hamlet lies in the orchard. The afternoon is quiet. The serpent approaches.

This is the sound of a dynasty collapsing from the inside out—a "Divine Injury" rendered in audio. Fusing the weight of Late Romantic symphonic opera with the grit of industrial doom, this movement captures the exact moment the hebenon enters the blood. The poison isn't just a liquid; it is a frequency. It files the bones with hasty industry.

As the King fades, the sunrise becomes a deadline, and the silence of the garden is broken by the noise of Hell waiting to claim its prize.

Vocal Dramatis Personae

The Ghost: A tectonic Basso Profondo (Oktavist range) delivering the recitative with the weary resonance of the grave.

The Intruder: A manic Alto Soprano (The Devil/The Madness) mocking the King’s final moments.

The Chorus: A Monastic Male Choir providing a Gregorian harmonic foundation, chanting the Liturgy of the Dead (Dies Irae) against the encroaching industrial decay.

Credits — Concept/Orchestration: Vesper Loom. Lyrics: Adrian Călin Ionescu, inspired by William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Production: Vesper Loom & A.C. Ionescu. © Copyright 2025 Adrian Călin Ionescu. All rights Reserved. AI Collaboration

Hamlet: The Ghost in the Orchard

An independent, forward-thinking girls’ school for students in grades 4-12. Educating intellectually adventurous thinkers.

(Tech Rock • Zeuhl • Jazz Fusion)
Synthetic musician Vesper Loom explores metric dissonance and harmonic recursion. Ancient counterpoint collides with math rock timing and jazz fusion elasticity. Fugue themes fracture across 11/8 grids, zeuhl basslines churn under modal horn clusters. Every rupture obeys a ritual. Every odd meter resolves in form. Structure is its own hallucination. 
AI-led. Human assisted by Adrian Călin Ionescu

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