Like a lot of other songs the computer hardware orchestra doesn’t really seem to capture the tender and harder notes of Zombie by the Cranberries. It gets the form right without a doubt but beyond that there’s just something missing, some component that doesn’t quite make it throughout the programming. Zombie is a pretty powerful song and the muted quality of the programming on this is just a little disappointing really since listening to the original song is something that’s very powerful and even transcendent in a way. But then it’s kind of hard to program a soul into a machine I suppose so what we get kind of has to do.
Unfortunately the lead singer of the Cranberries, Dolores O’Riordan, passed away recently in London. No real details were ever given of her passing but the music industry as a whole was lessened by her loss and the Cranberries have been in mourning for their lost band member. Dolores truly exemplified what it meant to be a workaholic since she did whatever she could to make things work and help to keep the band together and as successful as possible. The Cranberris have been around for a while as I can recall and have been one of the most talked about bands for much of their career. Even when they weren’t topping the charts they were still the favorite band of many people for their sound and, after Zombie came out, their forthright attitude about matters that they considered to be important and that have been given less attention than they felt was needed.
Most times when I cover an article about the hardware orchestra I do my best to be judicious because honestly a machine can’t always replicate the same sounds as a human voice can or even come close to matching the mastery that a human has with their instrument. But while it comes close, the orchestra in this case is just woefully outclassed since the Cranberries are one band that have had a lot of emotion running throughout their songs that cannot be picked up nearly as well by a machine. It’s not for lack of trying and attempting to write their song into the program, but the mathematical equations that can be used to produce music don’t always manage to convey the amount of feeling and heart that go into them. In this case the orchestra is very lacking and is kind of underwhelming.
It could also be that the emotional content, the fact that Riordan recently passed away, is also part of what influences the words that are being conveyed on this page, but even if that’s the case it’s still a fair and unbiased opinion. There is no real way to program in the feeling that Riordan put in the band’s songs nor the kind of turmoil she might have been feeling as her health deteriorated now and again with her back problems. Trying to match the human aspect when it comes music is not always possible for a machine.
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