From gsokolov@earthlink.net Wed Oct 04 05:45:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!earthlink!gsokolov From: gsokolov@earthlink.net (Graham Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct04.054545.1041@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 05:45:45 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Graham Sokolov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From lkarlsson@ox.ac.uk Wed Oct 04 14:25:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!ox!lkarlsson From: lkarlsson@ox.ac.uk (Lars Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct04.142545.7347@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 14:25:45 GMT References: <1995Oct04.054545.1041@earthlink.net> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct04.054545.1041@earthlink.net>, gsokolov@earthlink.net (Graham Sokolov) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Lars Karlsson | lkarlsson@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: E075 EC82 E569 5B42 "Keep the channels open." From gduarte@pacbell.net Thu Oct 05 13:13:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pacbell!gduarte From: gduarte@pacbell.net (Graham Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct05.131345.9827@pacbell.net> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 13:13:45 GMT References: <1995Oct04.054545.1041@earthlink.net> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct04.054545.1041@earthlink.net>, gsokolov@earthlink.net (Graham Sokolov) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Graham Duarte *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0