within my garden rides a bird

Within my garden, rides a bird

Romantic voices from the past bloom through synths and strings, dissolving time beneath the leaves.

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(Released in 2023 – 9 songs)

The first official album of The Machine in the Botanical Garden, this work marks a symbolic entry point into the project’s universe.
The lyrics are drawn from the words of three extraordinary poets from the past: Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, and Mary Shelley. Through their voices—brought into the present and gently projected toward a possible future—an atemporal dialogue emerges, one of the garden’s defining traits.

Like marble figures placed across the garden’s paths, their presence evokes a space where romanticism, melody and intimacy coexist with synthesis and technology.

The album merges synthesizers with classical orchestral arrangements, primarily for strings, in search of a romantic authenticity that dissolves boundaries between past and future.

Tell me

A poem by Emily Brontë, set to music using the Elektron Syntakt.
It reflects on the past, present, and future through the eyes of a child, slowly dissolving into quiet melancholy.
The introspective tone is carried by soft, breath-like sequences from the synth, with distant piano chords shaping the tempo and subtle string arrangements enhancing the emotional atmosphere.

Machines used:
– Elektron Syntakt (Synthesizer and Sequencer)

Oh listen while I sing to thee

A musical setting of a poem by Mary Shelley, built around the Medusa synthesizer as the main accompaniment and compositional starting point, supported by a string arrangement.
An intimate declaration of love, written as if the voice could not exist without the other.
Medusa’s organic, breathing texture forms the musical foundation, while the strings heighten the emotional intensity.

Machines used: 
– Polyend/Dreadbox Medusa (Synthesizer and Sequencer)

A cloud withdrew from the sky

A poem by Emily Dickinson, set to music using a compact Eurorack modular system, with the Graphic VCO (Erica Synths) and the Behringer 182 sequencer as the core elements.
Over a base of sustained electronic pulses, an acoustic guitar delivers a solo with a country/blues feel, creating a vivid contrast between mechanical repetition and expressive phrasing — between restraint and longing.

Machines used:
– Eurorack modular system (notably Graphic VCO, Behringer 182, Bastle Ikarie)

Credits

Music, recording, mixing and production: Juan Ramos

Lyrics: Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson and Mary Shelley 

AI-generated vocals:
The voices do not take part in the creative process. They simply reproduce the melody and lyrics composed by the artist, and are manually tuned, edited and shaped to fit the project’s aesthetic.
They are integrated as symbolic elements within the fictional universe of the work. No pre-existing vocal material has been used.

Main instrumentation:
– Elektron Syntakt (sequencing and synthesis)
– Orchestral section written by the artist and played back in StaffPad using Orchestral Tools libraries
– Acoustic Guitar
– Piano

Machines used:
– Elektron Syntakt
– Polyend/Dreadbox Medusa
– Small modular synthesizer systems


Project: The Machine in the Botanical Garden
Year: 2023

All pieces in this project were composed, produced and mixed by the artist as part of a narrative and handcrafted process.

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