I turned Keats's Ode to a Nightingale into a techno trance anthem

Why? Because poetry lives, and everything that lives must change!

Keats wrote his Ode to a Nightingale in 1819 — a poem about longing to dissolve, to slip out of ...a world of weariness and fever into somewhere ecstatic and oblivious. Two centuries on, that's a feeling every dancefloor knows. So here it is: the complete Ode, spoken and sung over a hypnotic techno trance track, with visuals to match — from an underground river of hemlock to faery lands forlorn, by way of the strobe-lit crowd Keats never quite imagined.

This is one to watch with the lights off and the volume up!

0:00 Opening
0:08 Stanza I — My heart aches
1:11 Stanza II — O, for a draught of vintage!
2:04 Stanza III — Fade far away, dissolve
2:38 Stanza IV — Away! away! for I will fly to thee
4:00 Stanza V — I cannot see what flowers are at my feet
5:02 Stanza VI — Darkling I listen
5:47 Stanza VII — Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
6:18 Stanza VIII — Forlorn! the very word is like a bell

The vocals and some of the images in this video were created with the help of AI tools. The video editing and most of the visual content is my own. The words are entirely John Keats's (1795–1821).

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Keats: Ode to a Nightingale – Experimental Setting to Music (Techno Trance)

I turned Keats's Ode to a Nightingale into a techno trance anthem

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Keats: Ode to a Nightingale – Experimental Setting to Music (Techno Trance)