9 Songs, Endless Music
This is my poetic “opera” — a collection of songs about life, dreams, love, beauty, mistakes, betrayal, lies, consequences and hope…
The song itself is music, but “abstract”. For some of us, we “hear” the “music” while reading. I love to imagine the rhythm and melody… Can “see” a lot of things in our mind this way…
Song without melody, for some, is not a song. So I made and published here “real” songs from my written words. Try to hear how it sounds. I plan to add more versions and styles in future, to see how my words will resonate in different scenarios…
Finally, here I plan to upload the whole “opera”, because the book itself is something like “short opera” — 9 songs, 9 sneak-peaks from the protagonist’s life. Should be fun…
Here is the whole opera, as youtube playlists
(If you don’t like “electronic dance music”, “techno” or the likes — scroll down for other variations)
(Note the title: “eclectic” means various different and unrelated styles and genres)
Who: Call me Vlad, that should be enough, because in this avatar of mine, I am a poet, and for a poet only the text — and nothing else — matters. You either like the poems, or not. Not working for money or glory here. Just for the pure eudaemonistic pleasure of a wordsmith making stories
What: Obviously, that’s just a bunch of written songs. They tell the story of a boy that became man, met a girl, fell in love, lived happily ever after, until they lost the love and had to find the dragon
Why: Because I’ve always wanted to put to a test an old “theory” of mine — about the essence of a song. Is the lyrics the song, or the music, or both, or neither? If I take a song, and remove the text, is it still a song? If I change the melody, is it still the same text? Work in progress… But time and technology now gives me a chance to play with this idea. Hence — the multiple “versions” of the same “opera” above
Where: You can listen the songs on my YouTube or TikTok channels (see above or below) and on this site. The text is under each song (in the descriptions on youtube, and on the titles in tiktok). Also, if you are curious how I see the story in my head — get the book from amazon (that will have the added benefit that you’ll make me rich and famous as every other poet!)
When: this project was executed in the last week of January and the first week of February 2024, ’cause I was out of work with some nasty flu that made me want to sing songs. Something beautiful can come from the ugly life, can’t it?