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Title: Wopelka - KVR Contest Entry - January 2012
Post by: Wopelka2012 on January 12, 2012, 09:16:37 PM
I'm not sure I should post this. I'd better start from scatch, a brand new track, probably. But too late.
On Baudelaire's poem: Spleen

Enjoy!

Micro: SM58
Ambiance: Toxic Biohazard, Zebra 2, Alchemy
Flute: Ixox Flute
Cymbalon: Sonic Synth 1
Percussions: Kontakt Player, Factory selection, Kroboto-boba-kidi
Effects: T-Rack series, CSR Hall

Spleen

Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux,
Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant très vieux,
Qui, de ses précepteurs méprisant les courbettes,
S'ennuie avec ses chiens comme avec d'autres bêtes.
Rien ne peut l'égayer, ni gibier, ni faucon,
Ni son peuple mourant en face du balcon.
Du bouffon favori la grotesque ballade
Ne distrait plus le front de ce cruel malade;
Son lit fleurdelisé se transforme en tombeau,
Et les dames d'atour, pour qui tout prince est beau,
Ne savent plus trouver d'impudique toilette
Pour tirer un souris de ce jeune squelette.
Le savant qui lui fait de l'or n'a jamais pu
De son être extirper l'élément corrompu,
Et dans ces bains de sang qui des Romains nous viennent,
Et dont sur leurs vieux jours les puissants se souviennent,
II n'a su réchauffer ce cadavre hébété
Où coule au lieu de sang l'eau verte du Léthé

— Charles Baudelaire

Spleen

I am like the king of a rainy land,
Wealthy but powerless, both young and very old,
Who contemns the fawning manners of his tutors
And is bored with his dogs and other animals.
Nothing can cheer him, neither the chase nor falcons,
Nor his people dying before his balcony.
The ludicrous ballads of his favorite clown
No longer smooth the brow of this cruel invalid;
His bed, adorned with fleurs-de-lis, becomes a grave;
The lady's maids, to whom every prince is handsome,
No longer can find gowns shameless enough
To wring a smile from this young skeleton.
The alchemist who makes his gold was never able
To extract from him the tainted element,
And in those baths of blood come down from Roman times,
And which in their old age the powerful recall,
He failed to warm this dazed cadaver in whose veins
Flows the green water of Lethe in place of blood.

— William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)


Source and alternative translations: http://fleursdumal.org/poem/160


Title: Re: Wopelka - KVR Contest Entry - January 2012
Post by: Oren on January 13, 2012, 05:00:27 AM
...I'm not sure I should post this...
Micro: SM58
Ambiance: Toxic Biohazard, Zebra 2, Alchemy
Flute: Ixox Flute
Cymbalon: Sonic Synth 1
Percussions: Kontakt Player, Factory selection, Kroboto-boba-kidi
Effects: T-Rack series, CSR Hall
This is cool! O0
The KVR theme for this month is stimulating some interesting compositions. Congratulations on combining a very old European style with  modern digital instrumentation!


Title: Re: Wopelka - KVR Contest Entry - January 2012
Post by: Azell on January 13, 2012, 05:04:01 PM
Merci de chanter en Français et d'adapter un aussi beau poème. J'aime bien le thème un peu médiéval, enfin , c'est ce à quoi ça me fait penser. Bravo et à très bientôt j'espère pour de nouvelles compos  :- :- :-
Azell


Title: Re: Wopelka - KVR Contest Entry - January 2012
Post by: Wopelka2012 on January 14, 2012, 06:36:17 AM
thank you very much for the nice words   :)


Title: Re: Wopelka - KVR Contest Entry - January 2012
Post by: MarioD on January 14, 2012, 03:24:08 PM
Beautifully fantastic.

This is an outstanding piece of music!

Great vocal with super backing tracks.

Two thumbs up.


Title: Re: Wopelka - KVR Contest Entry - January 2012
Post by: folderol on January 16, 2012, 07:04:58 PM
As I said 'over there' a very well crafted composition.