From csouza@stanford.edu Sat Apr 23 22:33:48 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!csouza From: csouza@stanford.edu (Camila Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr23.223348.7851@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 22:33:48 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Camila Souza *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From rschneider@inria.fr Mon Apr 25 19:52:48 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!rschneider From: rschneider@inria.fr (Rodrigo Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr25.195248.7203@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 19:52:48 GMT References: <1994Apr23.223348.7851@stanford.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Apr23.223348.7851@stanford.edu>, csouza@stanford.edu (Camila Souza) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Rodrigo Schneider Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From bkim@pacbell.net Wed Apr 27 10:48:48 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!pacbell!bkim From: bkim@pacbell.net (Brian Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr27.104848.4542@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 10:48:48 GMT References: <1994Apr23.223348.7851@stanford.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1994Apr23.223348.7851@stanford.edu>, csouza@stanford.edu (Camila Souza) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Brian Kim Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Pacific Bell Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------