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Memories recreated

Robert Watcher

Robert Watcher

Well-known member
I know this isn’t a photo specific topic, but music and photography go hand in hand for me, as appears to be the case with many photographers.

In my teen years I was in a band that played popular music for weddings and events. Since I was 12 I have been a song writer, although I don’t do it often any more.

A song that I wrote years ago in 2002, I recently found the written lyrics to, and loved the feelings that the words invoked in me. It was written while reflecting on the beautiful relationship that I have with my wife, and the special moments we have shared and been conscious of realizing - now through almost 50 years. In the spring, our kids are having a get together for our 50’th and have asked what song we would like to dance to. Anne and I both agree this one, because it has such symbolic meaning to us.

Unfortunately I have forgotten the chord structure and beat that it was written with. So I took a deep dive into AI to see what inspiration it could come up with by providing the lyrics and the style that I wanted the melody to be —— and boy oh boy was this result inspiring. I absolutely get emotional with this recreation. Wish I could sing this well. On the other hand I am just looking at it as if I had the privilege of a well known singer recording my song and putting out there.





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Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Robert,

So perfect a melody and sincere a voice for your heartfelt words.

What AI did you use and what instructions or prompts did you employ to guide this stratospheric achievement?

Asher
 
Jerome Marot

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
Why did you choose a female voice for the song? We can of course be modern, but the last verse would usually imply that the singer is a man.
 
Robert Watcher

Robert Watcher

Well-known member
I used Suno.com

It is a male voice, in a higher register from my perspective. I didn’t put any specific detailed string prompts in other than a CSV list of piano, male voice, easily listening, intense, not country —— just a few settings like that and pasted the lyrics in. I am just playing with these ai tools right now out of curiosity, and may see some value not as a means of creating a finished song, but to give me ideas of where I can go with a song lyric that I write.


Memories

2002 written by Rob Watcher

A floating gentle memory
Rustled through the trees
Looking for a place to land
Find someone to please

Time again there'd be a place
To settle as its home
Turbulence would blow it off
To wander on its own

Its trusting hope was withering
Time would pass it by
It mustered up the strength to give
An empassioned one last try

I came upon this quiet place
To settle all my thoughts
When I reached up in the air
This memory I caught

(chorus)
Our first love
Knowing it would last forever
Our first hug
The warmth inside could not be better
Holding hands
A sign you'd entered my life
Kissed your lips
I knew right then you'd be my wife

I went to leave a gust of wind
Forced it from my hand
The hopeless thoughts I'd felt before
Was more than I could stand

I couldn't let this memory
Fade into the past
I found it and I gripped it tight
The life it has must last

(chorus).
 
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