For many summers, I have spent time at the computer writing articles and books. However, this summer, I just didn’t feel like it at all. I had a whole bunch of short poems that I had intended to turn into brief songs for years. Unfortunately, I lack the musical talent to play an instrument and sing along. Plus, my pension is nowhere near enough to cover the high fees that would be charged to do it for me.
AI has now given me the opportunity… actually, it was the only option left for me. So, I played around with it, and it resulted in 30 songs.
What I didn’t expect was that I would have so much fun at the computer after such a long time!
I know it’s not a musical craft, which is one of the reasons I decided to release them under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND – you can easily find the meaning of that online. And if anyone wants to cover my songs, that’s perfectly fine; they are royalty-free as far as I’m concerned.
Of course, I hope that some people will find a nice song among them, but to be honest… that wasn’t my focus while creating them; I just went with my own taste.
I had all 30 poems in three languages: Dutch, German, and English. So, in total, there are 90 songs, each with its own melody. For the songs in English, just use above the menu item ‘Songs’, where you can hear them, read the lyrics, and download them. For the songs in German or Dutch, first change in the menu the language.
You can also find them on YouTube, organized by language in playlists:
https://www.youtube.com/@boudiccasbard/playlists
