My Spoken Word Poetry Readings
My recordings (some with my uploaded original background music) of samples from my Unsung Heroes longest free-verse poem covering the lives of my grandparents, parents and father-in-law.
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4 songs
2:48
Respectful, sad, intimate, emotive background music, folk Galician (Spain), acoustic guitars, cello, no percussion, low volume, behing prominent voice
8:29
Spoken word narration over a cinematic folk-classical arrangement, A baritone actual male delivers a steady, rhythmic monologue, The primary accompaniment is a fingerpicked acoustic guitar playing arpeggiated patterns in 4/4 time, A cello provides sustained, low-register countermelodies and legato swells, A subtle, high-register violin or viola enters with melodic accents, The tempo is approximately 75 BPM, The production is clean with natural room reverb on the strings and a dry, intimate vocal capture, The arrangement is minimalist, focusing on the interplay between the spoken narrative and the acoustic string textures
13:59
Spoken word piece with cinematic orchestral accompaniment, A baritone male voice delivers a narrative over a slow, rubato arrangement, The instrumentation consists of a string section providing sustained legato pads and melodic counterpoint, a concert harp playing arpeggiated flourishes, and a solo piano performing melancholic, sparse chords, The arrangement features frequent dynamic swells and shifts in density to emphasize the narrative arc, The tempo is approximately 65 BPM, though it fluctuates with the speech rhythm, The key is C minor, The production is clean with a wide stereo field for the strings and a natural room reverb on the vocals and piano
29:45
This spoken word presentation was created by uploading the author's recording of his poem along with his original piamo melody combined in a single WAV file, The original melody was separately previously loaded as a WAV solo piano audio file and produced from the author's MIDI file, SUNO was then used to create several variations on the author's uploaded melody that were downloaded and sticked together with the original melody as accompaniment for this 30-minute spoken word presentation