From omoreau@earthlink.net Sat Jul 01 04:18:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!omoreau From: omoreau@earthlink.net (Olga Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul01.041807.6750@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1995 04:18:07 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Olga Moreau -- EarthLink Network "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From emoreau@ox.ac.uk Sat Jul 01 14:23:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!ox!emoreau From: emoreau@ox.ac.uk (Élodie Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul01.142307.3923@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1995 14:23:07 GMT References: <1995Jul01.041807.6750@earthlink.net> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul01.041807.6750@earthlink.net>, omoreau@earthlink.net (Olga Moreau) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Élodie Moreau Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From bsokolov@delphi.com Sun Jul 02 15:11:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!delphi!bsokolov From: bsokolov@delphi.com (Brian Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul02.151107.4986@delphi.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 1995 15:11:07 GMT References: <1995Jul01.041807.6750@earthlink.net> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul01.041807.6750@earthlink.net>, omoreau@earthlink.net (Olga Moreau) 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- === Brian Sokolov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Delphi Internet Services "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From mnovak@uu.net Tue Jul 04 06:15:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uu!mnovak From: mnovak@uu.net (Mei Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul04.061507.2535@uu.net> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 06:15:07 GMT References: <1995Jul01.041807.6750@earthlink.net> <1995Jul01.142307.3923@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul01.142307.3923@ox.ac.uk>, emoreau@ox.ac.uk (Élodie Moreau) writes: > That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Mei Novak "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / SunOS 4.1.4 From rpetrov@inria.fr Tue Jul 04 11:14:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!rpetrov From: rpetrov@inria.fr (Raj Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul04.111407.2367@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 11:14:07 GMT References: <1995Jul01.041807.6750@earthlink.net> <1995Jul02.151107.4986@delphi.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul02.151107.4986@delphi.com>, bsokolov@delphi.com (Brian Sokolov) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Raj Petrov "They will send a copy in my place." Sun SparcStation 20 / NEXTSTEP 3.3