From skuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Nov 02 07:10:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!skuznetsov From: skuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Sun-mi Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Nov02.071012.6622@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 07:10:12 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Sun-mi Kuznetsov | skuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: 7B56 C6C2 301B D0A6 "Keep the channels open." From stanaka@cern.ch Wed Nov 02 17:43:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!stanaka From: stanaka@cern.ch (Seo-yeon Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Nov02.174312.7616@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 17:43:12 GMT References: <1994Nov02.071012.6622@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Nov02.071012.6622@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, skuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Sun-mi Kuznetsov) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Seo-yeon Tanaka -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From nsuzuki@kth.se Thu Nov 03 18:24:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kth!nsuzuki From: nsuzuki@kth.se (Nadia Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Nov03.182412.5866@kth.se> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 1994 18:24:12 GMT References: <1994Nov02.071012.6622@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Nov02.071012.6622@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, skuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Sun-mi Kuznetsov) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Nadia Suzuki *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0