I started a new project, making 80s-inspired synth pop using old poems, and this is the first one.
(And you German speakers, sorry for any accidental language-crimes, I'm using my high-school German which is from the 80s too )
This is a song with lyrics based on the poem "Abend" (1904)by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Produced with Reason Studios, Bitleys sound libraries heavily used, mastered through Emastered.com
The poem can be found here: www.deutschelyrik.de/abend-1453.html
ChatGPT was happy to help with translation to English:
Re & Bitley patch list:The evening dons its robes so slow and still,
With edges fringed by ancient trees so tall;
You gaze, and lands from you begin to spill,
One heavenward and one, a downward fall.
You stand, a part of neither, full and whole,
Not quite as dark as the hushed house beside,
Not quite as firm in evoking soul,
Like stars that rise each night and glorify.
And life, so tangled and so hard to sort,
Is left to you, vast, ripening, and fraught,
It shifts from stone to star, from small to large,
In ways that make it both constricting, sought.
Patches from Bitleys sound libraries:
- Polysynthmagoria
- LA Jupiter 8
- PPG choir
- Crazy lead
- Synclawave II
- 1982 bass
- Aggro bass
- Dirty funk bass
- Analogvetu3
- Danke choir
- Linn drum 1
- 707 kit 1
- Glocken ist zu Speil
- Drop a voice
- Attack pad1
- Mallets with spacious delay
- Chenille BBD Chorus
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RE:
- Viking Synthesizer - Bright Unison
- Steerpike BBD Delay
- RP-verb
- Selig Gain
- Selig Leveler
- Selig de-esser
- Onyx 430 limiter
- Synapse GQ-7 EQ