The Moon, It Read To Me, And It Was Bright

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021924 500203N continued vocal evolution (spellsinger)
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012124 000028j first public version (still available here amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/the-moon-it-read-to-me-and-it-was-bright-original-electronic-version )



Extended orchestral vocal version of a song whose name woke me from a dream to make me write it down; there's a movie scene out there waiting for this one:



The first vocals you hear are built and modified from a collection called Gaelic Voices by the BBC called LABS, played using Spitfire Audio (they also have several versions of the BBC Discover Symphony Orchestra; I only have the most basic one). I played these in with MIDI notes to get full vocalizations from the library, then cut them up and adjusted pitches and volumes for the segments I wanted until they fit in the mix. Because of the way they designed the library, these sound pretty good the way they are, since it's intended to be played like this.

But the operatic vocals are built and modified from a free sample collection by MusicRadar that includes a few bits from each of several of their full collections. This required manually importing each sound I wanted to use, then cutting them up into separate vocalizations and adjusting volume envelopes and pitches manually for many hours until they sounded something like what I wanted. In the mix, it's pretty good--by themselves they sound terrible, very unnatural.

The orchestral percussion was going to be from the BBC DSO but I ran into trouble with the virtual audio cable used to connect it to SONAR crashing repeatedly (after working perfectly for days to do the Gaelic Voices stuff), so I ended up using some BigFishAudio free sample collection pieces to build things like the Taiko crescendos, kettle drum bits, etc from. Like the operatic vocals, these were much more tedious since I couldn't just play it in, and instead had to import the wave files and manually set them up and modify them for each sound used in the song.

Additional backing vocal effects from Spellsinger (a vocal sampler kit by Hunter Rogerson), using DecentSampler.

Almost all the rest of the sounds come from synths built into SONAR 8.5.3 from close to two decades ago, as with the effects used to process them, mostly Dimension and Z3TA+2.

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released January 22, 2024

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Music: it's not just a part of me...

Though I am many things, music plays in my mind always.

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