The process

The process behind the collaboration is quite simple: Mr. Zloteanu records himself reading the poems, he then sends me the recordings and I proceed to carefully listen to them while I familiarize myself with elements such as theme, mood, cadence and rhythm, and I also clean them of any background noise or sibilance. I then choose a poem that I decide to work on and load it into my DAW. I identify key events in the narrative and place time stamps accordingly. I load a few plugins that I think might help underline the mood and theme of it and get to work on my composition. After I’m done I start carving room for the vocal track to make it part of the mix as opposed to just sitting on top of it so to speak. After mastering it the final track gets sent back for feedback to Mr. Zloteanu who has the final word on the matter. If he feels that anything’s missing or there’s too much of something, I get right on it and try to send him the adjusted version back the same day. I’m pleased to say he has yet to complain