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As previously reported, I was in the radio and talked about electronic manipulations of voice here last week. I went far in asserting that the use of autotune is unproblematic, it almost is to compare the use of makeup before going into a television studio. Live Maria Roggen, which I discussed with the radio, was not quite agree, and compared it either with the use of retouching in connection with photographs. I can well see that comparison too, but while I have not here so many problems. In connection with photographs occurs albeit a distinction between documentary images and artistic images. This distinction can be difficult to maintain one hundred percent, but here's my point just that in connection with art photographs - or photos with artistic aspirations home food preservation - I see no problems if it is manipulated with the image before it is published. It tells so not a unmediated "reality" - and it does well in that respect nor a song with auto tune; while it is the also a mediation we find both in the photograph and audio recording.
But now I've learned about yet another technological home food preservation "marvel" related to voice: Vocaloid. Yamaha has constructed a stemmesynthesizer, or rather software, which makes it possible home food preservation to generate vowel sound (or what they call "authentic-sounding singing") using a computer, where you only enter the text and notes, and then blends pc ' one these two signals so that song (or "song") comes out. According homepage can Vocaloid preliminary generating song in Japanese and English (I have not gotten reading the homepage of the upgraded Vocaloid from Crypton; it exists only in Japanese and I can not read). One of the major Vocaloid-stars are Miku Hatsune. And she must most of all comparable to a singing robot, released in August 2007, while other words, she is the "star." Miku Hatsune voice uses samples from Saki Fujita as a starting point, and can be heard in everything from the Israeli national anthem, via "Fly Me To The Moon, "the Queen of the Night aria from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte:
I must admit that this I get horrible little out of; neither vocally or musically this is interesting. But as one of a number of attempts at technological manipulation of the voice, and here not least in constructs a singing voice with respect to notes and text, well, it has some interesting dimensions by themselves. Another thing, of course, is that references to Japanese anime and manga also has some cultural dimensions beyond the fascination for "the East."
When I was in the radio last week I discussed including use of the voice (and technology usage) on Britney Spears' Blackout. I believe she was there using different voices to stage different persona and that she thus in a way multi tunings on the disc. The plate shows several aspects of Britney, several persons in one. (I'm far from the first to point this out, both Claus Krog Holm and k-punk has written similar things). But that will be known, also Britney has released an animated video in a kind of Japanese home food preservation anime style, her last, "Break the Ice":
Similarly like Madonna in his time tended to be at the height of popular cultural expressions can possibly say the same about Britney here. In each case we see a use of means which communicates to cultural contexts, where East Asian characters culture is an important part. And the use of electronics and technology here is absolutely at the height of the rest of Blackout.
This entry was posted Wed April 3, 2008 at 8:26 am and is filed under Visual Art, Cyberspace, Media, Music, Pop culture, Sound, Voices, Technology, Video. You can follow any responses two this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback home food preservation from your own site. 2 Responses to "Vocaloid" Claus Krog Holm Says: April 3, 2008 at 10:12 am | Reply
It seems to me all so problematic that compare auto tune with retouchering, for what is is the song ækvivalent that of documentary photography? Naturally song documented and it can be demonstrated that a singer capabilities that sing 'clean' - or what criteria they now foretrækker. home food preservation But it is næppe it, there gør a particular voice interesting. Therefore I see neither home food preservation any problem in Brug af autotune because one gør not a singer interesting because one alone with technology adapts a voice to certain criteria. home food preservation It is well also that, Miku Hatsune shows. There are possibly technically perfect, but it bliver not interesting alone af the reason. Erik Steinskog Says: April 3, 2008 at 1:02 pm | Reply
I agree with you that technology in itself makes a voice interesting. And thus we come back well that it is aesthetic - in some sense of the word - justifications that come into connection with the technological manipulation
As previously reported, I was in the radio and talked about electronic manipulations of voice here last week. I went far in asserting that the use of autotune is unproblematic, it almost is to compare the use of makeup before going into a television studio. Live Maria Roggen, which I discussed with the radio, was not quite agree, and compared it either with the use of retouching in connection with photographs. I can well see that comparison too, but while I have not here so many problems. In connection with photographs occurs albeit a distinction between documentary images and artistic images. This distinction can be difficult to maintain one hundred percent, but here's my point just that in connection with art photographs - or photos with artistic aspirations home food preservation - I see no problems if it is manipulated with the image before it is published. It tells so not a unmediated "reality" - and it does well in that respect nor a song with auto tune; while it is the also a mediation we find both in the photograph and audio recording.
But now I've learned about yet another technological home food preservation "marvel" related to voice: Vocaloid. Yamaha has constructed a stemmesynthesizer, or rather software, which makes it possible home food preservation to generate vowel sound (or what they call "authentic-sounding singing") using a computer, where you only enter the text and notes, and then blends pc ' one these two signals so that song (or "song") comes out. According homepage can Vocaloid preliminary generating song in Japanese and English (I have not gotten reading the homepage of the upgraded Vocaloid from Crypton; it exists only in Japanese and I can not read). One of the major Vocaloid-stars are Miku Hatsune. And she must most of all comparable to a singing robot, released in August 2007, while other words, she is the "star." Miku Hatsune voice uses samples from Saki Fujita as a starting point, and can be heard in everything from the Israeli national anthem, via "Fly Me To The Moon, "the Queen of the Night aria from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte:
I must admit that this I get horrible little out of; neither vocally or musically this is interesting. But as one of a number of attempts at technological manipulation of the voice, and here not least in constructs a singing voice with respect to notes and text, well, it has some interesting dimensions by themselves. Another thing, of course, is that references to Japanese anime and manga also has some cultural dimensions beyond the fascination for "the East."
When I was in the radio last week I discussed including use of the voice (and technology usage) on Britney Spears' Blackout. I believe she was there using different voices to stage different persona and that she thus in a way multi tunings on the disc. The plate shows several aspects of Britney, several persons in one. (I'm far from the first to point this out, both Claus Krog Holm and k-punk has written similar things). But that will be known, also Britney has released an animated video in a kind of Japanese home food preservation anime style, her last, "Break the Ice":
Similarly like Madonna in his time tended to be at the height of popular cultural expressions can possibly say the same about Britney here. In each case we see a use of means which communicates to cultural contexts, where East Asian characters culture is an important part. And the use of electronics and technology here is absolutely at the height of the rest of Blackout.
This entry was posted Wed April 3, 2008 at 8:26 am and is filed under Visual Art, Cyberspace, Media, Music, Pop culture, Sound, Voices, Technology, Video. You can follow any responses two this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback home food preservation from your own site. 2 Responses to "Vocaloid" Claus Krog Holm Says: April 3, 2008 at 10:12 am | Reply
It seems to me all so problematic that compare auto tune with retouchering, for what is is the song ækvivalent that of documentary photography? Naturally song documented and it can be demonstrated that a singer capabilities that sing 'clean' - or what criteria they now foretrækker. home food preservation But it is næppe it, there gør a particular voice interesting. Therefore I see neither home food preservation any problem in Brug af autotune because one gør not a singer interesting because one alone with technology adapts a voice to certain criteria. home food preservation It is well also that, Miku Hatsune shows. There are possibly technically perfect, but it bliver not interesting alone af the reason. Erik Steinskog Says: April 3, 2008 at 1:02 pm | Reply
I agree with you that technology in itself makes a voice interesting. And thus we come back well that it is aesthetic - in some sense of the word - justifications that come into connection with the technological manipulation
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