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Originally Posted By: Noel96
Hiroshi,

As others have already observed, this is beautifully haunting. You've done an excellent job creating it. I especially like Sinsy. The electronic vocals really enhance the atmosphere that your melody and your arrangement develop.

Very nice indeed.

All the best,
Noel

Noel,

Thank you for your kind comment. I was encouraged a lot.

Yes, it was a great idea that I had chosen Sinsy-Yoko as the female vocal for this song. It perfectly matched it.

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Originally Posted By: Marty Sorensen
I was very impressed with your sinsy voice.

Marty,

Thank you for your comment. My efforts to get the best result from Sinsy and tune it up further paid off well.

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Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
Loved the music.

On my speakers at least, the vocal was kind of shrill in a few places. Like it was digitally distorting. It lost it's mellow sound in numerous places.

Aside from that, this was cool.

My wife hates...I mean HATES bamboo... the plant.

Thank you for your comment and pointing out the distortion issues.

I have listened to the vocal sound carefully several times using my headphones. When I used the headphone of the headset type, I could notice what you pointed out. When I used the high-grade headphone with reasonable input level, I could not notice it. With the higher input level, however, some distortion may start happening. From these results, I presume the voice might cause "high frequency distortion" or "soprano distortion" on some audio systems. Maybe I should have used some filtering or level control for the high frequency to avoid the issues.

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Hiroshik,

Lovely music!
I agree that you are taking the use of Sinsy to a new level and the production is up to your usual high standard.
It would be nice to see a translation of the poetry ( I`m a bamboo fan).

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I have found that my note includes the wrong information. I would like to correct it. The correction is shown in bold typeface.

"Ta-Ke" (Japanese word meaning Bamboo) is the first song I composed and produced by using BIAB a couple of years ago. Its lyrics is based on the Japanese famous poem "Ta-Ke" by Sakutarou Hagiwara, but I modified the parts that do not fit to the melody because of its irregularity. I uploaded it to Youtube with the video I made then (https://youtu.be/zkKkhWvkqtQ), and it has been played more than 1000 times which is my highest record so far. This time I remixed it and reproduced the new version. The female voice in the song was made by using "Sinsy vocal synthesizer and generator" integrated into BIAB.

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This is simply beautiful! What a wonderful and relaxing listen. We love traditional Asian music with elements of contemporary sounds. So beautiful ... thank you for the listen!

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Originally Posted By: Robertkc
Hiroshik,

Lovely music!
I agree that you are taking the use of Sinsy to a new level and the production is up to your usual high standard.
It would be nice to see a translation of the poetry ( I`m a bamboo fan).

Robert

Robert,

Thank you for your kind comment. I am glad you like the "Ta-Ke" song.

As for the English translation, I have found the web page that includes it (for the original poet, of course).

http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/12/bamboo-two-poems-by-hagiwara-sakutaro/

The following is the excerpt from it.

In the shining earth the bamboo grows,
the blue-green bamboo grows,
underground the roots of bamboo grow,
roots that gradually taper off
with fine hairs sprouting from their tips,
hazy fine hairs faintly growing,
faintly trembling.

In the adversarial earth the bamboo grows,
aboveground the sharp bamboo grows,
perfectly straight bamboo grows,
with its rigid joints going rin, rin,
at the base of the blue sky bamboo grows,
bamboo, bamboo, bamboo grows.

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This is simply beautiful! What a wonderful and relaxing listen. We love traditional Asian music with elements of contemporary sounds. So beautiful ... thank you for the listen!

Alan & Di

Alan & Di,

Thank you for your kind comment. I am very happy that my new song was well accepted by you who are familiar with traditional Asian music with elements of contemporary sounds.

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"The first verse of the poem describes the sensitivity or delicacy of the bamboos underground such as their thin roots and fine hairs, whereas the second verse describes the strength or dynamism of the bamboos over the ground."

We pondered that...delicacy supporting strength. Very nice thoughts.

It's all been said. You put together excellent productions that never disappoint in their sheer power and beauty.

We enjoyed it!

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Originally Posted By: Janice & Bud
"The first verse of the poem describes the sensitivity or delicacy of the bamboos underground such as their thin roots and fine hairs, whereas the second verse describes the strength or dynamism of the bamboos over the ground."

We pondered that...delicacy supporting strength. Very nice thoughts.

It's all been said. You put together excellent productions that never disappoint in their sheer power and beauty.

We enjoyed it!

J&B

J&B,

Thank you for your thoughtful comment. First of all, I am glad you like my song and enjoyed it. As always, I was encouraged a lot.

As for the interpretation of the poem, it seems to be considered that it reflected the mental structure of Sakutarou (the author) himself. That being said, I think your interpretation makes some sense.

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Very nice Hiroshi!! I'm not usually a fan of synthetic vocals but this works very well on this song. Lovely melody and arrangement! Take care. Greg

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Hi Greg,

Thank you for your kind comment. I am glad you like my new song.
Yes, I think the Sinsy vocal (Yoko) suits this song very well.

Hiroshi

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