This article is based on this Dutch article of Martijn Benders
I Celebrate the Empty Feast of Poetry
Samando, divine remains. With the undersigned on the Omnisphere, falsetto, and mastering. The name “Saman” has Persian origins and means “calm” or “repose,” and is also linked to prosperity and well-being. “Samando” could be a poetic extension of this, evoking themes of peace, tranquility, or abundance.
Take note of that buttery, moving bass line, which I put effort into. And of course, the percussion too. It’s a raw sound, which I love; I don’t want to create overly polished tracks. Singing in falsetto comes quite naturally to me.
(Edit: the sound was a bit too raw due to overly sharp overheads. I have corrected this with three adjustments: lower pre-gain, slightly higher setting in the Api Vision channel strip, followed by a 2 LUFS increase in the clipper, and then a Fairchild over it in ‘dreamy drum bus’ mode. By softening in the pre-gain but making the clarity slightly louder and then dampening the overall slightly, the drum bus becomes more fitting and not too raw.)
The idea for the first poem came to me in my dreams, the second is a translation which continues on the next page:
The lack of curiosity of modern humans, a result of brains that have been compromised, with defective dopamine circuits that place excessive importance on ‘checkboxes.’ The safe box of a color, the news without difficult words. The recognizable box of like-minded people, where there is no longer room for the brilliant chaos of the unexpected, for the adventures of the mind that once dared to venture beyond the horizon. The modern human, in their anxious search for comfort and simplicity, has lost the ability to get lost. Like a machine, ticking on autopilot, they march through a world full of stimuli that no longer touch them.
The brain, once a parade float full of sparks and thunderstorms, has degenerated into a monotonous clockwork that only sees the boundaries of its box and is afraid of what lurks outside.
With brain shrinkage also comes an increasingly racist world, unfortunately.