SUMERIAN WEDDING

Inspiration

What if the “monster” from the Epic of Gilgamesh decided to vlog a human wedding — and we slowly realised he might not be the real monster?

SUMERIAN WEDDING is an 8th, “hidden” track born from my 7-piece album on the Gilgamesh epic. Here, Humbaba himself chooses to step into ancient Uruk, phone in hand, “filming” the city with selfies and commentary. Everything is told from his perspective as he intends to preach to us, using the shock of a Sumerian wedding to question who is actually monstrous: him, or the humans.

What it does

This song is an excerpt from a 56-minute hybrid film built around the Gilgamesh album. Within the film, SUMERIAN WEDDING is a ritual interlude and POV sequence: we hear the ceremony as Humbaba experiences it, like a mystical video-blog. Human celebration, music and vows become his evidence that humans can turn fear into dance and survival into meaning.

How I built it

• I composed the core musical material, rhythmic cells and harmonic language, drawing on “Sumerian-flavoured” colours and modern film scoring.
• I then used Suno to generate additional musical textures and variations, carefully selecting, editing and re-orchestrating them so they melt into my original writing.
• My goal was to create an osmosis between human-composed music and Suno-generated layers, where authorship feels like a continuum rather than a cut.
• Finally, I placed the finished track inside the 56-minute film, alongside the other seven (fully human-composed) pieces, narrative voice-over and AI-assisted visuals that follow Humbaba’s “self-shot” journey.

Challenges I ran into

• Making AI-generated material feel like an authentic extension of my compositional voice instead of a stylistic collage.
• Keeping Humbaba’s contested status — monster, guardian, ironic preacher? — clear in sound alone, without relying on long explanations on screen.
• Balancing ancient flavour (Sumerian inspiration) with modern production, Suno’s stylistic tendencies and the “selfie / vlog” narrative concept.

Accomplishments that I’m proud of

• This is the only track in the entire project where the music itself is co-created with AI; the other seven are fully written and produced by me. That makes SUMERIAN WEDDING the clearest “laboratory” for human–AI musical osmosis in the film.
• I turned a side moment — a wedding in Uruk — into a self-contained emotional scene that still advances the larger Gilgamesh narrative and deepens Humbaba’s character as a doubtful, almost human commentator.
• The track helped define the aesthetic rulebook of the whole 56-minute film: epic not just as loud and grandiose, but as intimate, ritual and slightly uncanny.

What I learned

• AI music tools like Suno are most interesting when treated as performers inside a score, not as ghost-composers.
• Strong narrative constraints — Humbaba’s POV, his “preacher with a camera” attitude, his doubts about who the “real monster” is — were essential to deciding what AI material to keep or discard.
• Human authorship shifts toward designing the frame, curating outputs and shaping the final meaning, rather than writing every single note from scratch.

What’s next for SUMERIAN WEDDING

• The full 56-minute film has already been submitted to multiple international festivals and has gathered over ten awards and nominations so far.
• After the festival run, it will be released publicly, so the wider audience can experience the complete Gilgamesh journey and this Sumerian wedding episode in context.
• If the opportunity arises, I plan a live staged version: ensemble, narrator as Humbaba, multichannel sound and selected AI-generated elements (music and visuals) interacting with performers in real time.

Built With

• astra
• bloom
• chatgpt
• dzine
• elevenlabs
• enhancor
• freepik
• gemini
• heygen
• higgsfield
• kling
• openart
• perplexity
• suno