Nebulani says…

So, I’m embarking on a new journey to push some boundaries with Suno’s AI. Yeah, I know. AI’s been getting a bad rap in the creative spaces, especially from the pros who have the least to worry about in all fairness. But for artists like me, AI can create opportunities that would have otherwise never existed. Take my new project, Mystic Nebula. I have a book FULL of poems that I think are great. But let’s be honest. No one reads them. So I got to thinking…if people won’t read them, would they listen to them? Enter Suno AI. I provide the lyrics and the prompting. AI experiments with the music and vocals. I prompt again…and prompt some more…and some more. and then do the post-production. In short order, I’ve got a song I love to listen to with words I know by heart.

“But what about the talent?!” you say. “All those musicians and vocalists you’ve deprived of paid work?” C’mon. On my salary I couldn’t afford any of them anyways, let alone the studio time it takes to put a reasonable track together. Which means the project would have never been done, which strikes me as tragic when I listen to these on Spotify. This music just brings me joy. And it brings these poems to LIFE!

Halls of Light is an ethereal Shakespearean-style sonnet. Seriously. Get my book and read the poem aloud. This is one of my all-time favorite poems because it speaks to me about the freedom of being living souls in an infinite universe. In my head it’s always a beautiful Celtic woman singing the verses to me as I drift off to sleep, which is exactly what I chose for it when working with Suno. After much prompting, I thought it captured the vibe I was looking for almost perfectly.
Night is My House is a villanelle, a complicated repetitive poetic structure with repeating lines in each stanza…remember “Tiger, Tiger burning bright / In the forests of the night?” from high-school? That’s the style. For me, this poem always had a bit of a vampiric feel to it, like a vampire singing about his lost love. So of course, I told Suno to give me a gothic rock song with a male emo vocal and I think it nailed it in ways I did not expect (That BASS! Listen to that BASS!) This is a song to turn up when you want to chill without hearing all that background noise in your world.
Are you ready for the FUNK?! I must have spent several hundred Suno credits trying to give this sonnet a southern blues feel. In Suno v3.0, I found a great twangy guitar player with a melancholy voice but I couldn’t capture the entire song in the way I wanted (and it got worse in 3.5). Frustrated, I gave up on that prompt thread and decided to go a completely different direction. I prompted Suno to give me funk song and not to spare the thicc. Wow, did the results ever come back swinging. It took some editing in post-production to get everything the way I wanted and I discovered something else: Suno was outstanding about keeping time. I was able to layer several versions of the song over itself to create harmonies that the AI can’t (or won’t) do by itself. Now Queen of We Damned is a groove I can dance to.
I am in LOVE with the bellydancer of this song, which is why I wrote this free-style piece. That’s right, not a single line of this poem (and song) rhymes. But it has a great meter, which Suno picked right up on. I prompted it to give me a Middle-Eastern feel and while it can be finicky, it took the requests I made to put some tabla (drums) and other instruments. There’s a part of me that wants to add some finger cymbals and maybe some shakers post-production but I’m resisting as part of this initial experiment.
We can all groove.

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