I set some classic poetry to music, that is, I combined them, without actually playing or reading myself. I just thought they fit and combined them instinctively. I thought it turned out surprisingly well.

I made another one of these jazz videos with poetry. I wanted to see if was able to make something more upbeat, and with an attitude. This is the naughtiest poet of Antiquity, but in a nineteenth century toned down translation. Set to a funk jazz rhythm that I looped with a bridge. I had no human vocals, so I used an AI reading, which I then cut up into segments and spread across the timeline. The intonation will not be as good as a human voice. But at least it worked without autotune!

I made this series in order to provide a new angle on old classics. It will lower the threshold, and more people will then know who these poets were.