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My first animation!

Cover by @xielexalt and @yuugenvinny on Twitter!

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NEW RELEASE: Atlantis Boy / Aurora

I'll make a reblog add-on when it's on streaming, you can presave it on Spotify and everywhere else here~ Presaves help a lot!!

Leading this mini release is a remix of "Atlantis Boy" by Yuugen Vinny, with vocals by Kai✮, Vinny, and backing vocals by me!

As a homage to the original Atlantis Boy, and as a celebration of GUMI AI, the second track is a version of Atlantis Boy with her updated vocals.

Final track and the "B-Side" is Aurora ft ZETHIEL!

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Xiel's Atelier Log #1 (April 2024)

I decided to start this blog detailing my creative endeavors and progress every so often, discussing the process and thoughts regarding recent releases and current WIPs!

1: "Buffer" ft. ZETHIEL ZERO (DiffSinger)

I commissioned Annoying Hyena to create this DiffSinger voicebank of ZETHIEL ZERO, based on 20 minutes of his Japanese singing data! He's obviously not the best quality DS, but I really like his vocal quality and how it differs from his RVC. I have some ideas for the future of creating an update of his DS that includes his English data, even more singing data created with RVC, and parallel training to help his vocal range, but that'd be for 2025 at the absolute earliest.

Regarding "Buffer," it's the first song Empty old City created as part of Kamitsubaki, and I fell in love with it instantly. I think I'm the first cover of it, and I really enjoyed tuning him as well to reflect some of the stylistic choices of Kahoca's singing. It's such an excellent song and I'm just. OBSESSED.

2: "Tera Tera" - Alcheglow SIDE B

I worked with Kezo, Pigeon, and Kori to make this chorus of Tera Tera for A Sekai Tour! I actually had two groups under "Alcheglow" entered in this event, but SIDE A had to be delayed a bit due to some circumstances. It's a super fun song that the rest of the team really liked, so I'm glad we made a fun final result.

In any case, I'm really proud of this mix and how it all came together. I did all the art and as well, and the simple video. I tuned Rikka and Pigeon tuned Chis-A, and one thing that's really fun about 2 tuners for a cover like this is that the vocalsynths blend into each other more "authentically" like they're actually two people singing, instead of their voices overlapping into one new resonance. Rikka is my darling favorite so I'm glad to use her. I also discovered ZETHIEL, arcdia, and Rikka's blend is pretty insane. I do have a ZETHIEL x Rikka duet planned at some point...

3: "Karen's Cleanup" - arcdia

arcdia's first solo cover coming back as a "revived" vocalist. The process to create her voice is to first sing normally as myself, then convert my voice with RVC into her voice. Although she and ZETHIEL ZERO share a voice essentially, it boils down to the song choice and expression that strongly differentiates them. arcdia leans into the sweeter charm and covers beautiful or sinister songs, while ZETHIEL ZERO leans into a "cooler" charm and covers melancholic and electronic songs? Additionally, ZETHIEL ZERO is strictly a vocalsynth, while arcdia is more of a "real" singer, especially because more "real" singing goes into her presentation than synthesized singing.

I really really love this song, and the comments I got on it during February Youtaite Rewind said her voice suits the song so well and could be the original. I'm glad arcdia's voice has a similar distinctive charm to SEKAI/Isekaijoucho in that case. It's a bit strange that I love listening to arcdia meanwhile ZETHIEL ZERO is a bit of a mixed bag due to dysphoria feelings.

4: "Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery" - ZETHIEL x arcdia

For this cover, arcdia isn't revived through RVC, these are genuinely just vocals I recorded way back in early 2019 in the real. And then I rerecorded for the other part in late 2023 (4 years on T) to create this duet. This song has such a chokehold on my psyche and I'm obsessed with this song so much... I feel like it defines a part of my inner soul or essence so to speak, so I feel like by making an arcdia x ZETHIEL cover of this song, it's like I've created the perfect Ga1ahad and the perfect Witch.

It's because of this song, I decided to take arcdia's persona in the direction of a "witch" style. Incidentally, ZETHIEL with his emphasis on alchemy and technology suits the "scientific" side of this song. ZETHIEL and arcdia are my perfect duo.

5: "Kannagi" - ZETHIEL

I will not stop covering Hiiragi Magnetite songs. I have more in store.

I'm obsessed with this song in particular, and wanted to create an utaite/VSinger version I could listen to a lot, so I made this shortly after my trip overseas to attend an honor choir. I felt like that trip really awakened a new side of my voice and I think I showcased it here well. I think I listened to myself in this cover so much that it showed up in my YT Recap stats as a top song.

Although I can't belt super high like a lot of other tenor vocalists, I feel like my falsetto has its own appeal. When this was played at a Youtaite Showcase end-of-year stream, a lot of people commented on how insane my vibrato and falsetto is, which I was really happy about, as well as the unique youthful quality of my voice combined with the beauty and technique of the cover. I'm really, really glad people love ZETHIEL like this.

Kannagi is a super captivating song that I'm just really really obsessed with. I feel like it encompasses such a beautiful side of Hiiragi Magnetite. Yes, it's an electronic song, but it really just feels so similar to the beauty evoked by classical or orchestral songs -- which I love a lot too.

Speaking of which, Kannagi, Ga1ahad, and Buffer are all part of a new playlist I created called "Essence of ZETHIEL" -- which I think are the "key songs" for ZETHIEL's overall image and vibe. I think I worked really hard planning on ZETHIEL's image as a character, and I'm satisfied with where we're going with this now.

6: "Pale & Deep" - ZETHIEL (WIP)

This is the next "big" cover for ZETHIEL to define his character image, incidentally it's the same composer as his debut song Hana to Nare.

I carefully considered a lot of artists and decided to go with this artist for the music video. They captured ZETHIEL's vibe so exceptionally well, and it'll be the first music video featuring ZETHIEL's new design. I wanted him to have more of an "alchemist" vibe!

Regarding the song choice of "Pale & Deep," I was really excited Awairo became a proper musical duo (Yunosuke + WaMi) and under Sinsekai at that! Their visuals are so pretty and their music as well, I listened to Pale & Deep on loop for so long!!! The music video evoking "blue" and the lyrics too, makes it even more suitable for ZETHIEL.

I arranged the harmonies here myself, I kind of want to adjust things to make it more "proper" Yunosuke style. But it might be OK by itself, we'll see.

Trying to make an MV myself is difficult, but that's what I'm gonna try to test myself on this for this cover. I hope to release this by June or July. I downloaded a lot of assets for this cover in particular, inspired by my video editing class and the original MV of "Pale & Deep."

7: Various original song/arrangement works

Been unable to publish a lot of them just yet, but there's a lot of original song works I've been doing in the past half year or so. Keep in mind some of these are still WIPs and unmixed.

#1 is client work. #2 I hope to release as a single this year. #3 and #4 will be part of a collaboration album. #5 is also client work!

Also, I published "Aurora" onto Soundcloud, it's just been sitting around finished for at least a year so I decided to post it. It's a fansong for Tobias from Dragalia Lost.

I think I'll be able to release it onto streaming as a B-Side to another collaboration track.

Anyways, that's the atelier log for today!! See you in a bit more!

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ZETHIEL ZERO's DiffSinger vocal has been released!!

Download him here!

A bright and energetic Japanese vocalist in the mezzo-soprano range! Suitable for upbeat songs.

Name: ZETHIEL ZERO Age: teenager (16-18, roughly) Gender: trans male

This is the younger form of ZETHIEL as a teenager. Here, he's expressing a bold style that brings out the performer in him. In the past, ZETHIEL was summoned to a mysterious world where music becomes magic. He was chosen, among a few others, to save the world using his singing voice. However, he wasn't strong enough to save anyone.

ZETHIEL ZERO represents the revival of my pre-testosterone/HRT/transition voice. I hope you'll like him!

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Loveit? ENG COVER by arcdia

take a listen!!!

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I sang Zaijian Romanesque by Hiiragi Magnetite/VALIS!!!

(go listen cause YT is being mean to me and removing my views for some reason 😔)

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Tsugai Kogarashi - ZETHIEL × arcdia cover

Sang a duet of "Tsugai Kogarashi" by hinayukki!!

I sang both parts -- for arcdia's part, I sang and changed the audio through a voice changer based on my pre-T voice. :>

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ZETHIEL Synthesized Voices Showcase!!

Consisting of 6 UTAUs and 2 RVCs across different vocal ranges, you can download ZETHIEL's synthesized voices here! I hope you like him ^_^

(all credits in the description!)

This video is unlisted for now, but I'll make it public at a later date (I'm so active this month for whatever reason??? So I wanna space out things)

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Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery (COVER) - arcdia × ZETHIEL

by the way, this is a pre-T + 4 years on T self duet! 🏳️‍⚧️

i'm unable to say that fully on other platforms but on tumblr i can elaborate. 👍👍👍

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we sang a collab cover of Matryoshka!!!

CHECK IT OUT!!! :D

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I sang "Dimension" by Isekaijoucho!!

So excited to finally put this out (although very delayed, LOL.)

Check it out on YT here!! Likes & comments over there help a lot!!

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it's out now!! please listen!!!!!

Rainbow of my Final Breath (ft ZETHIEL)

I made a Touhou vocal remix, which premieres on 14 Oct 2023 for my birthday!

Original Theme: Where Is That Bustling Marketplace Now ~ Immemorial Marketeers ~

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and now some personal reminiscence about this song, my birthday, new beginnings, and the feelings behind it.

It's my birthday!

Ever since I was younger, I've always loved VOCALOID and wanted to become a VOCALOID producer, so I did exactly that for a bit, in tandem with writing original songs and becoming a better and better music producer.

In 2015 I began my music journey on the Internet, and in 2021 I started this new channel and began going to school for music production. My birthday coincides with the general time frame I began my first channel as well. It's also the season in which I first came to a beloved game community that I still vow my heart to – Dragalia Lost.

VOCALOID has changed a lot over the years, and something that stood out to me is that I am quite unlike other producers in the community and I even dislike the community in some aspects. I feel like it is hostile to a person such as myself, or that I am fundamentally incompatible with the English VOCALOID producer community.

Despite my feelings that I cannot fit into the community, I am eternally thankful and lucky for my new channel to show my VOCALOID music to many new people. To the people that listen to my VOCALOID and SynthV works, thank you so much! I see your playlists and comments, it's genuinely touching to me and I start tearing up internally sometimes knowing people out there genuinely listen to and like my music.

Now, onto Touhou. It's like a sibling community to VOCALOID, and I've always had musical influence from it but never properly got into it until this year. When I started making Touhou fan music and interacting with the community I knew immediately this is the next destination I want to go forward in my music. I felt so welcomed and chill in the community, it's amazing. I really wondered why I didn't get into this sooner!!

I started with Touhou 18, and Chimata's story somehow resonated with me in some ways. She longs for a time that is now obsolete – clings onto it or else she will die, which is how I feel with VOCALOID. There used to be a time when the fandom would majorly be excited for any new voicebank or character and be fans of them. Even if some voicebanks were more niche, you could find a good amount of fans of them who expressed nothing but love and fun.

But now, things have changed. A vast majority of people only look at the most popular "official" content of VOCALOID. At least in terms of English fans, the attention that new voicebanks get is often very mixed between hatred and love. That commonplace hatred is something that puts me off severely, where is the ubiquitous love and genuine hype people have for these new voices and characters?

I tried surviving in this kind of environment for a few years, but I couldn't find a substantial "fandom" who thinks like me – who thinks "VOCALOID should be this certain way." A community and music I loved for all my life became scattered and hostile, it had changed so much and it broke my heart.

So I took all those feelings and connected to Chimata in this song. But just as Chimata finds a new beginning in Gensokyo, I'll find a new beginning in Gensokyo too. My singing voice has also improved enough to where I think I can feature myself singing more on my original songs. I love Touhou, I want to make more Touhou songs, the music and community is amazing, the characters as well; it's just something I really REALLY wish I could've gotten into sooner and I sure am going to do my best now.

I had a total blast working on this remix, too. I can't believe how flawlessly ZUN's music matches with my production style, it seriously fits in with the rest of my music so well and I am definitely making more Touhou fan music (and Dragalia fan music as well!)

Since my music style suits with videogames and I want to be a videogame composer, it only makes sense that I make remixes and music based on videogames themselves. So that's going to be my focus now. (I even want to make some videogames myself, but that'll be a long ways out.)

From here on out, I am going to bring in ZETHIEL and other live vocalist features a bit more, but I'll still also do vocalsynth works. Within the little audience I've gained from my vocalsynth songs, I believe there is some unique spark within there for my own personal ideal of what vocalsynth can be, and we can share in that potential together.

I want to enter a new future and see where this path goes. Dragalia's ended (a huge impact on my life and one of the major defining things of me) and yet the community lives on; I'm making music in videogames, I'm discovering Touhou and absolutely LOVING it, I'm halfway through my BFA program, my singing voice is improving by leaps and bounds; I'm moving away from promoting to/associating with the "vocalsynth community" and focusing on what vocalsynth is for me and my listeners personally. I'm excited to see where this new beginning takes me. I'm still super young after all!

Rainbow of my Final Breath (ft ZETHIEL)

I made a Touhou vocal remix, which premieres on 14 Oct 2023 for my birthday!

Original Theme: Where Is That Bustling Marketplace Now ~ Immemorial Marketeers ~

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Rainbow of my Final Breath (ft ZETHIEL)

I made a Touhou vocal remix, which premieres on 14 Oct 2023 for my birthday!

Original Theme: Where Is That Bustling Marketplace Now ~ Immemorial Marketeers ~

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Happy anniversary to Dragalia Lost

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