kaoling cover: Garden of Rain
Source Material
Links
YouTube:
Original Version w/ IA, Reprint from NicoNico
Matsudappoiyo [Matsuda Toki, Reprint from NicoNico]
Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki :
Vocal Design
Voice banks & V5 style presets utilized in this project:
Intro/Outro- Kaito V3 Whisper append at -25, variation on Deep Shimmer
Melody- Kaito V3 Soft append at -25, another variation on Deep Shimmer [exhalation increased]
Harmonies- Kaito V3 Soft append, Full of Sound
A huge amount of tuning was involved in this project. Almost every note contains some sort of attack and/or release effect. All manual breaths and pitch modifications were removed from the original ust conversion. Repeated crescendo was used for the quivering vocal tones and decrescendo for the short stops. Most notes, even going up on the scale, have a downward pitchbend, which adds to the overall quivering effect. Accents and double accents were used freely in the middle section. Vocal fry is scattered throughout; there are a few enka-style attacks and a trill or two, along with a severe upwards pitchbend in three or four phrases. The song runs through a gamut of emotions in four short minutes, and Kaito’s tuning does as well.
Reflections
I considered that I might be over-tuning Kaito’s voice here, but it all sounded so lovely I left it as it was. The lyrics are poetic, restrained but emotional, metaphorical. It’s about the course of love- that first overwhelming feeling of hope and warmth, which gradually gives way to disharmony and anger, before becoming a memory that leaves you with a taste of both bitterness and nostalgia.
Love ‘wanders’ and ‘breaks’ but doesn’t disappear. By the end of the song, it’s clear that the singer still feels it and is more or less stuck in memories of this ‘rain garden’.
Autobiographical note: I received a cut blue hydrangea flower for my birthday, which was nearly two weeks ago, and only today did I find that it had wilted. Apparently they are excellent for rain gardens and tolerate heavy shade extremely well. I discovered that they are associated both with sincere gratitude and changeable emotions and laughed a little at the irony, considering the person who gave it to me.
I suppose I, too, exist in my own little rain garden.
