From tweber@cern.ch Mon Mar 13 00:48:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!tweber From: tweber@cern.ch (Tomas Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar13.004832.1398@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 00:48:32 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. -- Tomas Weber | tweber@cern.ch PGP Key fingerprint: F66A 0C73 5645 AA0B "Keep the channels open." From mvasiliev@uu.net Tue Mar 14 15:56:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uu!mvasiliev From: mvasiliev@uu.net (Mateo Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar14.155632.3931@uu.net> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 15:56:32 GMT References: <1995Mar13.004832.1398@cern.ch> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Mar13.004832.1398@cern.ch>, tweber@cern.ch (Tomas Weber) 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. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Mateo Vasiliev | mvasiliev@uu.net PGP Key fingerprint: 3501 1D5D B478 9AE7 "Keep the channels open." From ahughes@unam.mx Thu Mar 16 10:41:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!unam!ahughes From: ahughes@unam.mx (Andrei Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar16.104132.9353@unam.mx> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 10:41:32 GMT References: <1995Mar13.004832.1398@cern.ch> <1995Mar14.155632.3931@uu.net> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Mar14.155632.3931@uu.net>, mvasiliev@uu.net (Mateo Vasiliev) 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Andrei Hughes Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From kcampbell@cern.ch Fri Mar 17 10:32:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cern!kcampbell From: kcampbell@cern.ch (Kirsty Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar17.103232.6889@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 10:32:32 GMT References: <1995Mar13.004832.1398@cern.ch> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar13.004832.1398@cern.ch>, tweber@cern.ch (Tomas Weber) 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. -- Kirsty Campbell "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / NEXTSTEP 3.3